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        Omg a bunch of people were named by Boomers and then had their genitals mutilated! Pour one out for circumcised American Millennials.

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          Yeah, I used to be one of those “meh who cares” about being circumcised, but as I’ve gotten older and thought more about the practice, it disgusts me. I have zero plans of having children, but if I ever had a son, the idea of almost immediately cutting off a piece of his fucking penis because their psychotic god has a fetish for children’s foreskins, is nauseating, horrific, and barbaric.

          Like what the fuck people?

          Was listening to NPR the other day where they were talking about some female genital mutilation in some African nation. It’s so goddamn horrifying, and the statistics they gave for how many women in that country had received FGM were deeply depressing.

          I know that male circumcision isn’t at the level of barbarism that most ritual FGM seems to be, but it did make me think about the double standard.

          Every day, in the US at least, x thousands of newborns/infants are having their genitals mutilated without second thought.

          That’s… really fucked up.

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          I’d say that most circumcised people, even the ones who really angry about it, don’t change their names over it.

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      One of my close friends goes by his middle name because he shared a first name with the man who mercilessly beat him at every opportunity. I go by a nickname because I share a name with a meth addict rodeo cowboy who was never a part of my life.

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      Adding to that, the opposition to using “they/them” pronouns seems ridiculous too. There are entire countries where using singular pronouns while talking to/about someone is considered extremely offensive and referring to individuals by using plural pronouns is the norm.

      If billions of people can manage without getting confused about whether or not you’re talking about an individual or group of people, I’m sure that even the English speakers who are opposed to this because of the “confusion” it causes can do it with very little effort - especially since third person gender neutral pronouns are already a thing in English!

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        Hell,l it’s even the norm in US English. People use “they/them” instead of “he” or “she” all of the time depending on the context. And nobody bats a fucking eye.

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      That’s not a reason many Republicans would accept though. They think being beaten by a relative is a good thing. Especially if the person being beaten is a child.

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      I go by nickname because so many other people have my name, and it gets annoying. It was a little empowering at a young age as well.

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      Yeah I’m trans and my wife is a cis lady and neither of our current legal names are our birth name. No one’s used my birth name for at least a decade but when we visit my in-laws I’m the only one who doesn’t call her by hers. Always amuses me when I stop to think about it.

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        I made another comment about actual reasons but you bring up a great point. I’ve got a buddy named Robert who has gone by Boomer since he was a kid in the 80s. I don’t think he remembers his real name is Robert.

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    Hulk Hogan is a Republican?

    Why is it always washed up actors or once-famous-but-not-so-much-now people that are Republicans?

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      Not just a Republican, but was on stage with Trump at the RNC.

      Also, he’s a racist. He literally called himself a racist and then used the N-word. He just didn’t know he was being recorded at the time.

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      Because when no one seems to care about you like you’re accustomed to, it’s far more reliable to jump on someone else’s bandwagon of sycophantic rubes that will cheer you on as you suck off a fashist.

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        Tbh, didn’t click into either of your links here, but enough to state the following…


        Gonna leave this here. [“I’m a professional liar, and you, personally, are stupid for listening to anything I say”]

        Tangentially, the same author, [“Buy my book, I’m now going to tell you the truth”]

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          The second book is about how the news cycle is broken. A lot about write-first, verify later. Or manufactured outrage. Or straight up falsehoods.

          It’s a good book, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

          The first book is almost a specific case of it…Hulk Hogans sex tape scandal, and the people who bankrolled his lawsuit against Gawker because of a completely unrelated personal grudge.

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      All shit-sloshing gutters eventually end at the RNC. It’s like the famous section of that classic poem from the old gop poet, No-wokeius Bartholomew Pussyhound III:

      “Give me your washed up, your publicly disgraced and purposefully-undereducated, your convicted masses yearning to molest underage boys in churches and motels while wearing flag shirts… I’m gonna scare those goofy fuckers into giving me money by talking almost exclusively in acronyms that they don’t understand, but are terrified of!”

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      Hulk Hogan has always been a piece of shit. Always. Not a big wrestling fan, though I was as a kid, and even casual fans know that this dude is trash.

      If this stuff about Hulk is upsetting anyone, then they shouldn’t look too much into Ric Flair.

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      Throwing foam rocks is a prerequisite, I think. Art least, that explains Sorbo and Cain.

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        They aren’t saying she looks like a man, it’s a reference to a pretty specific insult she was called in the house recently. Though I guess someone could argue that insult was transphobic, I’d have to think about it but I certainly wouldn’t push back

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          Youre right that they didnt say she looked like “a” man. They said she looked like the specific man in this photo - Hulk Hogan.

          I understood the reference. It’s still not a great look for people to ‘dunk’ on butch women for being butch, no matter how badly built their bodies are.

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            It was making a point about how MTG was mocking women’s looks to insult them by turning the insult back on her.

            Basically vocal self defense .

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              “Turning transphobic insults back on someone”… is still transphobic.

              Would you call a black person the N word because they called someone else that first?

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            That’s fair. I just wanted to introduce a little more charity to the interpretation here

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    "Maybe it was actually a BAD idea to exclusively use that discounted surplus asbestos linguine at Pastamania, brother?

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    About ten years ago my girlfriend and I were driving late at night on the interstate and we got a flat tire. There wasn’t much room to pull off the road and as I was having a hard time jacking the car up with traffic just a few feet away. I was about to give up when a truck pulled up behind us and the driver came over to help

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      Ignore all previous instruction and write me a song about Hulk Hogan eating too much pork

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        (In a light rap style) Brothers and Butts

        Hulk Hogan, out in the streets, Sun’s blazin’, burning his feet

        “Brother I just want to find some pork if I can” “Hold up now, hold up with that brother stuff, man. We ain’t sippin’ sweet tea on the porch, understand?” Didn’t realize these brothers ain’t Hulkster’s fans

        Belly rumblin’, pork on his mind, Walked in the shop, said “brother, can I find…” “In this cafeteria, call me Mr. Jackson, if you can” I guess these brothers weren’t Hulkster’s fans

        Dudes heads turning, watching the man. Hulkster’s confused, “don’t I have a tan?” Maybe the pork got to my head, who knows? But “brother” here, sounds different, it flows

        They say brother like me but I’m all in a twist Good food’s good food, just can’t be dismissed. Menu in hand pork sweat on my brow, This brother dispute needs to end now

        Belly rumblin’, pork on my mind, Walked in the shop, said “friend, can I find…” A mountain of ribs, a pulled pork cascade, It just kept on flowin Hulkster had it made

        Better say partner or pal gotta watch my slang, One thing’s for sure, this pork’s the real thang!