• Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works
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    Conservatives are not even trying to understand LGBTQ+ people. They lump them all into one group and have labeled them as such. There is no spectrum of attributes for this group. They are simply LGBTQ+ and nothing else.

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      Mental illness doesn’t work that way. You can’t just convince a conservative that all people are inherently the same just different flavors. They 100% need someone to be inferior to them otherwise their entire philosophy is dead on arrival

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    Why the fuck would you want “alpha” versions in the military? It’s just full of bugs and barely usable.

    I have (had) a friend who went full on Jordan Peterson and talked a lot about being an “alpha” male. I told him that I consider myself beta male, as I’ve learned from my mistakes and was upgraded to beta. He went full on bat shit crazy and told me that thinking like this is definitely not alpha material.

    He also can’t hold a job (he’s 38), and blames all his problems on females. He is not willing to work on himself, as he’s the perfect alpha male. Yeah, fuck off you ignorant piece of shit.

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        Want to know what’s even more sad about it? He was my best friend for nearly 30 years 😥 I’ve dropped all contact with him. He also can’t face facts that goes against his personal beliefs, stating that the science must be wrong, because it does not fit into his world view - this is in reference to him stating that “100% of the people how transition regrets it”. I found science papers showing that 1% regrets it, meaning 1 in 100. He said that it should be illegal to transition becuae of this. I ask “So one of one hundred people regret it, then it should be illegal for everyone?” “Yes”…

        He had a girlfriend for some time, around 13 years ago. I met my friend two years ago, and asked him how long they were together. His response “I can’t remember. She was just a placeholder girlfriend until I found someone better. You know how it is for us males” and my jaw fucking dropped. I tried for months to get him out of the psychotic thoughts, but it fell on deaf ears, so I told him that he should only contact me again if he ever sees how his world view is wrong.

        Rant over lol

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          That’s rough. It’s actually even less than 1%, and moreover when you compare this to the population average regret for all surgeries including things like knee or hip replacements which IIRC is around 14% from a study in NA, it’s even more shocking how well transition works for trans people.

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          That’s rough bud.

          Good on you for giving him some chances, but he got himself down that rabbit hole and he is the one that will have to pull himself out by the bootstraps that he loves so much.

  • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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    “When you’re using a drag queen to recruit for the Navy, that’s not the people we want,” Cao said. “What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat ’em, and ask for seconds. Those are young men and women that are going to win wars.”

    Dude, you’re talking about the Navy, lmao. I can’t imagine any place in the Navy outside of the seals where you’d need or even want high-on-testosterone meat heads. Even then though, you severely underestimate a gay man’s (or woman’s) ability to be a 'roided-out meat head.

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    “What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat ’em, and ask for seconds. Those are young men and women that are going to win wars.”

    Hugely reassuring to me that this psychopath was a captain in the Navy.

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    7 hours ago

    Senate needs less bigots. They seem to come mostly from one side. We should focus there.

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    Uh huh. And what other things that you don’t actually believe are you willing to say in exchange for money and power? The only consistent behavior Republicans exhibit is their disingenuous statements and actions.