Vivian (they/them)

Well, for one there’s the constant love of the MIC (no criticism allowed), then there’s the ever present transphobia and homophobia (exhibit A, exhibit B, exhibit C, exhibit D), then the anti-immigrant/xenophobic stuff (example, you can see a lot of “they’re erasing our identity blablabla” bullshit there). Most threads have some right wing idiots.

No, they’re solidly right wing, perhaps the mods aren’t as much, but the people there definitely are.

*piracy

Yes, that’s one of the restrictions. I also think you can’t see your users’ comments. (perhaps posts too, I am uncertain)

If you’re not interested in following something there or it’s not a topic you’re interested in, it’s alright. You could always create another account somewhere else or browse their instance anonymously.

The good thing about Lemmy is that you can always switch to another instance in the future. I started for a few months on .world and then moved to lemmy.blahaj.zone.

Welcome! I hope you have a great time here and I’m glad people are moving :)

No worries! Thank you!

Seems to be a post that requires signing in, what did they say?

Right, except that’s not politically motivated, and is a useful change for people reading the code, both for women and non-binary people.

Calling pronouns “political” is the dogwhistle they always use

Well it’s 20ish% for Gen Z, so the acceptance likely plays a part there

And you knowing gay people exist when you were 7 didn’t turn you gay? Whoah, that’s soo surprising /s

Somehow knowing gay and straight people exist somehow didn’t turn me anything, I’m ace, it’s almost as if it has nothing to do with it…

Sometimes I wonder with these bigots, like how does their worldview even remotely make sense? (not talking about you ofc to be clear)

Practically nonexistant, it is not possible for children under 16 to access HRT, if anything they are prescribed puberty blockers (so that you know… they can avoid suffering from the changes in their body and not be permanently affected).

The general figure of regret for transgender affirming care is 1%, and 82.5% of these people do not detransition because they are no longer trans, but because of external factors. Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33794108/

By age 17, 0.1% of trans children get HRT. Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2828427

Now let’s calculate some numbers: 1% of these 0.1% will regret it, that’s 0.001%. And 17.5% of these might not be transgender, so that’s 0.000175%

According to that second study, there’s about 300000 trans children, so 0.000175% of that is 0.525 people.

So… less than 1 child in the whole United States would maybe regrets it because they’re not trans. In other words, you can stop fear mongering.

Zero purpose in society since women fill their role now

If people being more equal than before rids you of your purpose there’s quite a problem there, there’s no reason for that.

Don’t get me wrong, the suicides are a problem, obviously, but suicide attempts are actually multiple times more frequent among women (around 3x last I checked), so I don’t think this is a reasonable hypothesis (losing purpose because women are empowered more) as to why the suicide rates are higher.

And yet some kids do know they’re totally straight, or gay, or transgender, before they even turn 12, or 11, etc.

They might not have the vocabulary to express it, and others might not know how it works or how they feel, so that’s just all the more reason to teach them.

Imagine if we treated any other subject like this: “oh the children have no idea how it works, lets not subject them to it”. It doesn’t make sense, of course they don’t understand if they’ve never heard of it.

And what’s bad with furries or linux socks?

This was in November 2022, here’s a link to the original post https://x.com/TaylerUSA/status/1594074742797090820 (ew, I hate linking to Xitter)

Apparently true https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/11/apple-maps-now-uses-gulf-of-america-name-in-us-will-roll-out-globally-soon/

Apple Maps is doing the same: https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/11/apple-maps-now-uses-gulf-of-america-name-in-us-will-roll-out-globally-soon/

:3

No, I tried, they don’t comply, and tell you to make a complaint to your DPA and the Irish DPA or go to court if you have a problem with that.

Celeste

I think it’s something to do with it being or not being the largest discount in the last X days (maybe 90 days? I’m not sure)

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Anyways, so yes, you are a bigot, thanks for confirming

Of course it’s in the eyes of the beholder, like anything is, but from the reaction of others, it seems like most people in this thread agree with me or have a similar viewpoint, so I think it’s worth considering why people had that impression. If it’s not your views coming out or your intention, fix what was pointed out and there’s that.

they are on a mission to impose their views on anyone who disagrees with them. What a sad way to go through life.

Nevertheless, I don’t know about you but this doesn’t look like a joke, nor does your initial comment, as it seems you’re taking what you said quite seriously, I don’t see why you’d say that if you weren’t.

But anyways, bigoted jokes are just that: bigoted. Not that great of a defence. Nobody has a problem against “joking around”, it’s more about what your comment was full of.