• enbyecho@lemmy.world
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    5 minutes ago

    Does Mike Johnson have a johnson? How do we even know?

    Let the inspections begin (edit: with “him”)

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    36 minutes ago

    Petty in a very child minded way, like a 10 year old bully. This is the next 4 years. Petty, greedy children ruining everything.

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      If it makes you feel better, everything was already ruined.

      The best case scenario was continued crony capitalist dystopic hellscape with the poor’s lives being burned up in subservient subsistence to our modern pharoah oligarch class… but you know with identity affirming ribbons and pins and stuff.

      Now we get all the oligarch stuff with… concentration camps and death squads and stuff.

      Either way, the owners win, they don’t care. Their mistresses will always have abortion on tap, their nepo children will always have their identities affirmed, elections are simply for the poors to either inflict supplimental cruelty on other poors or not to give us the illusion of choice and keep us hating one another instead of looking up at our owners.

      This country was ruined irreparably in the 1980s, a few Tuesdays ago was just a reminder of that reality.

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        It’s ruined for them too. The stuff they love is also doomed to fall apart; sooner than they think. Sooner than most people are willing to admit. Good luck to whatever life remains.

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    11 hours ago

    This isn’t just ignorant, it’s also a complete waste of taxpayer dollars and good will. Do something that matters, Johnson.

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    I think it should be said. I went to a reading of the names this year, as I have in some form every year since 2015; and I’ve never seen so many children’s names read. For context, the names are of the people murdered in transphobic hate crimes in the past year. It used to be a notable tragedy when a 15 year old was driven to suicide and this year we had multiple 14 year olds dead by others’ hands.

    Speaker Johnson doesn’t care though. I’m sure he’d say his behavior today was in those children’s best interests, but no the transphobia he is promoting is killing children both by emboldening bigots and by driving them to hopelessness.

    I hope someday he has to stand before his victims and a deity and explain himself. I hope he begins acting in a way so as to make it a less unpleasant experience when he gets to that point.

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    11 hours ago

    What a prat. As a member of Gen X, I’m deeply ashamed. We were supposed to be the first generation not to care about people’s gender and sexuality.

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      We were supposed to be the first generation not to care about people’s gender and sexuality.

      Many of us got there.

      Unfortunately there are some in every generation who ate a bit too much glue in their formative years.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    17 hours ago

    So pathetic and petty. What did this person ever do to them? The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait? It gives me a headache to even try to understand it.

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      16 hours ago

      Simple, it’s just an excuse to be hateful. It’s not complicated.

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      The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait?

      One of the big downsides to pretending 100% of Holocaust victims were Jewish is that the 50% who weren’t were sent to the camps for other reasons.

      Like being Trans, or any other kids and of LGBT. The problem was even “the good guys” were anti-lgbt back then, just look at how they treated their war heroes:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Homosexuality_and_indecency_conviction

      And then America, who had taken in all types of Nazis scientists, denied Turing entry just to fucking take a vacation.

      I think this is why so many people are shocked by trump winning, people actually believed Americans were inherently good, and they believed it.

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      13 hours ago

      I was in Europe and they had full unisex bathrooms. There were only stalls and the dividers were floor to near 8 feet. And no gaps you could see through on the doors. It was no big deal, everyone just did their thing and left.

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        As a german I have never seen this but whichever country is doing that has things figured out.

        To be clear we do still have proper stalls, it’s just that bathrooms are always gendered unless it’s a really small place that only has one toilet in the first place.

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          That’s how the states are, but also the stalls tend to have a 1/4 to 1/2 inch (.6-1.25cm) gap at the sides and on the door. So you don’t have much privacy, plus there is often no indicator of weather it’s occupied or not. So you end up awkwardly kinda seeing if someone is in there by checking the gap but also trying not to see what you don’t want to see

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            I knew about the gap but… no indicator either??? Are they at least locked so the worst case scenario is thay awkward moment where you try to open a locked bathroom stall?

            I’m planning on visiting next year so I guess I’ll see the reality of it. Maybe I’ll have to avoid public toilets even more than usual lol

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        11 hours ago

        The only place I’ve experienced this in the US is Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Some of their restrooms are exactly like you describe. Full height stalls (small rooms basically) with a shared sink area. Literally no one I saw has had an issue with it. You just go, wait in line with everyone else, and take a stall when your turn comes. No issue and no confusion. There is no reason this can’t be the norm in the US.

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    16 hours ago

    Petty pathetic and normal for the GOP. Too bad they did not pass a Nazi bathroom ban but I guess to close to home.

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    16 hours ago

    Perhaps I read too many stories where humans are past this kind of bigotry. I hope so much for such a time—some day. But living amidst the constant hate and bigotry… it hurts so much. It’s so very tiring.

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      15 hours ago

      Sorry, but us hairless chimps will forever be scared of the other hairless chimps on the other side of the hill.

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        Some perhaps. Not all. And not all to the same degree. It’s something we can work to move beyond. That ability is also human nature.

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          At some point, you’re fighting evolution and lizard brains. Some people can overcome their prejudices, but expecting the world’s human population to be able to overcome that fight or flight response to strangers is probably not something achievable.