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Sounds about right to me.

I had sex with a friend who later came out as a lesbian. It was uninspired. We’re still friends but that was a single time and never again.

Sorry…I didn’t answer these parts of your comment.

One tactic that I like is asking them questions that lead them to point out the flaws in their own arguments. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

They have a carefully rehearsed circular logical set of arguments that are self-confirming. I can explain and explain and explain but it doesn’t confirm their bias so they just keep going around in circles. I don’t expect to reach them but I may help someone who isn’t so closed minded to understand.

My daughter goes to pride festivals every year as a vendor in the market. Last year was hopping. This year was dead. My wife and I wondered if all the pushing to force biological males into the places that biological females fought for decades to get wasn’t turning a lot of people off. That would be extremely sad since the LGBTQ+ community has worked so hard to get to where it is now.

Would you be more or less likely to learn from someone that calls you an extremist?

I have Asperger’s so I don’t care what people call me (other than calling me a transphobe or antisemite with the new definitions written by the extremists.) If they’re making a cogent argument I will generally respond in kind.

I have a lot of experience and I am very LGBTQ+ friendly. I only label as extremists those who push beyond the bounds of, “Everyone has rights, gender is a social construct and you can identify as whatever you want” into denying that male and female are things or claiming that identifying as a woman somehow magically makes you female. The whole, “You can’t question what we believe or you’re a transphobe” is EXACTLY the same as, “You can’t question the actions of the state of Israel or you’re an antisemite.” It’s utter nonsense. Those are both examples of extremism.

I meant “female” in the context of biological sex as opposed to the social construct of gender as in, “woman” which may be a person who is either male or female. I am FAR from a transphobe and using the word and the reporting system on Lemmy as a bludgeon to try to silence anyone who doesn’t buy into the extremist group think utterly devalues anything else that the extremists say. One of my oldest friends is a trans woman. She would VERY much disagree that I am a transphobe. My lesbian daughter whose trans and non-binary friends I interact with every day would also very much disagree.

I would like to counter report this as a false report by an extremist pushing a political agenda and trying to silence anyone who has different ideas than them.

I get banned far too often to be any kind of Lemmy ambassador. I appreciate the positive feedback. Please feel free to use a variation of this any time someone does it to you.

The issue isn’t gender. Gender is a social construct. The issue is sex. Female sports were always intended to be for female athletes. Female athletes who choose to play female sports to have a more level playing field and to play against other female athletes find it unfair to be forced to play against male athletes playing female sports. Trans women are women but they aren’t female.

It means that they are the biggest fucking loser on Lemmy. It’s ad hominem manifest. I once had someone go back months and find a comment I wrote about LEGO say, “Go back and play with your LEGOs.” I replied with, “You pathetic fucking loser! It’s LEGO blocks, not LEGOs.”

All joking aside when that happens I tell the user who did it that they are the lowest and most pathetic of all losers to go back and ad hominem based on someone’s comment history and no longer worthy of interaction with me then I tag them and ignore them studiously from that point on.

Impound it until he complies.

Reddit is a fetid shithole populated by toxic assholes, trolls, and bots. I went there today and posted then deleted my post and walked away. It has gotten worse since last July.

She has sausages on her face.

The Diagaloons want to divide North America in half with a line drawn from Alaska to Florida and put all the Liberals on the south side of the line. We get BC and Alberta, Texas, the Pacific northwest, and California and they get ice, snow, and Florida.

You’re well north of the south most point in Canada. You’re practically Canadian. We just don’t have enough housing up here to take in a bunch of refugees. If Americans end up in tent city refugee camps they will die in winter. We could put a few tens of thousands in school gymnasiums and community centers but it would turn into a humanitarian disaster.

Just as the students in Iran were overjoyed when the shah fell right up until the reality of living under a theocratic dictatorship sunk in.

I simply pointed out the reality of the situatuation. Canada can’t take in millions of American refugees fleeing a christofascist authoritarian regime.

Candian here.

Do not come north.

We cannot house and feed you. Most of you will die of exposure the first winter you are here.

If you have thoughts of coming here with guns and taking our homes or food by force know that most of us outside the cities are armed, we’re just not so scared that we constantly show off our guns and feel no need to go prepared for combat to buy donuts or groceries.

So, Mexico is your best bet, if they will take you. I bet you’ll be glad that all the talk of a border wall was just neo-fascist virtue signaling.

As someone who flies more than 100 times in an average year I can tell you that only idiots don’t wear their seatbelts all the time in an airplane. I was traveling with someone who was a new traveler who thought that experienced travellers didn’t wear their seatbelts so he refused to wear his. I asked to be moved to a row where people were wearing their seatbelts. When we landed and he got in me about it I told him that not only might he be injured when he hit the ceiling but that he might injured me on his way down. He wore his seatbelt after that any time we flew together.

Is that the same Saudis who did 9/11?

EDIT: 2 stories down.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/september-11-attacks-saudi-arabia-lawsuit/678430/?gift=juY5pvQRKSydWWNuWPh-5gWgyQ2hXAg8RSYJMXgSrT8