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    1 month ago

    This is so stupid. I know plenty of cishet people who include their pronouns in their sig because they have a gender neutral name.

  • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world
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    For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.

    I ran the numbers on sex changes and it’s like .001 of the population. It’s a non-issue.

    The real issues are homelessness, inequality, Internet privacy, poisons in our food and workers’ rights…

    Not fucking pronouns.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.

      They don’t. It’s classic divide and conquer tactics to package up the general population into nice bite-sized chunks that they can destroy individually with minimal resistance from the others. Exact same shit is how the Nazis rose to power.

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      They don’t care. The tactic is to have a minority that you can blame for all the bad things.

      100 years ago it was the jews secretly running the world, today it’s the evil trans people and immigrants conspiring to destroy The West™.

    • Fluid@aussie.zone
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      Got to distract from the real issues somehow. Gotta keep that wealth extraction and concentrating system of exploitation alive. Can’t have the slave rising up to overthrow their masters again…

    • ArchRecord@lemm.ee
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      Two core reasons:

      1. Demonization. They need someone to demonize, that distracts voters and the general populace away from their own misdeeds, and lack of functional policy. If you’re too busy getting angry at the trans people, you won’t strike against the Billionaires.
      2. Insecurity. If the world isn’t actually as simple as you thought, your entire ideology is based on putting people into given labels and boxes to make your life easier, idealizing a nonexistent past, etc, then the world changing in any non-standard way is seen as something to be extremely afraid of. This is also what drives their concerns over immigrants (“replacing” their community’s racial dynamic), homeless people (“not wanting to work” like they did), climate change (this couldn’t possibly happen because then the industries and consumption you had your whole life would have to change), progressive education and scientific growth (learning new things about how what we used to think was wrong), etc. It’s all rooted in just wanting things to stay the same.
    • Tja@programming.dev
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      Well, eggs are back to $1 a dozen and everyone has housing and excellent healtcare coverage, so you can focus on renaming gulfs and prosecuting minorities…

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      https://thenewinquiry.com/the-scapegoating-machine/

      Peter Thiel has many times loudly stated his goal since 9/11: Create scapegoats so the public has somebody to blame for their suffering and his fervent belief this will keep billionaires safe. My guess is most billionaires see it this way.

      if you want to see a way to defeat this idea look up Thiel’s interview with Piers Morgan after Luigi Mangione allegedly killed Brian Thompson

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      1 month ago

      They need an ‘enemy’ to rally people against and all the usual suspects are no longer politically expedient

    • Probius@sopuli.xyz
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      Don’t you know that adding your pronouns to an email costs an entire 6-10 bytes? There are children starving in Africa and you’re wasting your bytes on pronouns! Shame on you.

  • Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Doesn’t go far enough, remove pronouns from the email body too.

    To it may concern. Notice did not complete task before deadline. Please can provide update? Look forward to reply.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    And yet again, the Tangerine Palpatine is focusing on stupid shit.

    Farmers unable to gather their harvest? The working and middle classes being squeezed into oblivion? Grocery prices skyrocketing? Unknown drones taunting our military bases? Military helicopters colliding with commercial jets?

    Nah, none of that stuff matters! Instead we just focus on fucking pronouns in emails!

    What an absolute fucking joke.

    Edit: fixed a typo.

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Nah, none of that stuff matters!

      No, not to him, that’s the point.

      How much more deliberate in their oppressing and exploiting do those in power need to be before people stop expecting any different?

      They’re there to serve themselves, not society

  • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
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    Sorry to all the Blakes, Dylans, Ashleys, Francises, Shannons, Frankies, Charlies, Rorys, Blairs, Leslies, Angels, Billies, Sams, Kellys, Danas, Harleys, Adins, Caseys, and all the other non-binary/gender neutral names that I can’t think of right now.

    -signed a person with a non-binary name

  • oleorun@real.lemmy.fanOPM
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    What about the people who often have DDoD, OCIS, NCIS, CCNA, CCNP, A+, Ph.D, MA, MBA, BA, BS, K12, SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS after their names? Can we get rid of title abuse then never focus on pronouns?

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      1 month ago

      snrk A+… i always get a giggle when somebody actually includes that one

    • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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      Man, I spent a lot of money and time for my post-nominals, I don’t care if they’re 100% irrelevant to what I do, they’re getting used in every god damn email.

      (Helps that I only have one, though. And to be clear, I am happy to vehemently argue this point for months/years to steal focus from pronouns).

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
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    Small government regulating pronouns in worker’s email signatures.

    Regulations For Thee but Not for Me

  • MiDaBa@lemmy.ml
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    MAGA voters couldn’t identify a pronoun in high school. How are they supposed to figure it out now?

  • H Ramus@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    The communist leader of northern Venezuela is mandating how to conduct your business, how to write, how to speak.

    Party of small government, rule of law and free markets.