Liberal Elite is Fully Geared Up to be Insufferable For 4 More Years of “Resistance” : usauthoritarianism

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the hell is the background and what does it have to do with the text

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People playing music while blindfolded and I'm guessing it's a visual reference to being willfully blind to reality 🤷

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I guess lol

These "text on an image" posts are so goofy to me...they remind me of those Facebook graphic posts

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 1 week ago

CEOs are deciding which first, they are going to both.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We’ll get plenty of “resistance” Dems making excuses for funding all of Trump’s plans, I’m sure.

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

"I disagree with everything the Trump administration represents, but building more walls, putting people in cages, harassing other nations, oppressing trans people, breaking strikes and bombing Palestinians are all little sacrifices we can tolerate in order to fight for what's really important: more electric cars!"

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If there even is one that’s causing controversy. I believe it’s a made up issue intended to distract voters from things that matter.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe it’s a made up issue intended to distract voters from things that matter

You're half right: it IS that, but it's also about fascists scapegoating vulnerable minorities to scare people into thinking that they (the fascist politicians and their supporters) are the only sane ones and have to eradicate the "Others" for the sake of all that's good and decent.

Proof positive that messaging doesn't have to make sense or even allow for the tiniest shred of empathy in order to be effective 😮‍💨🤬

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I mean, natiapnlly-speaking, it’s absolute more a talking point to rile bases than anything. But on the state and local level, very harmful laws are being passed every day.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

as someone who booked a trip to Barcelona to see Bad Religion, my all time favorite band, I feel attacked

[–] Mr_Blott -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you think CEOs are going to places as shitty as that, you've got low standards 😂

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Those places aren't nearly as shitty if you have CEO money

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, they're going to places to get away from the paupers, not get amongst them 😂

[+] intensely_human@lemm.ee -8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quick! Think of a sport in which separating the sexes doesn’t matter!

I would have also accepted “bowling”

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why does it matter exactly?

[–] amon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

tRAdItiON

[+] soloner@lemmy.world -29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Trans people don't belong in cisgender sports though for real... Not saying it to knock them just it's not fair. Blind people also don't belong in sighted sports. Nothing wrong with blind people either.

I know I'm going to get down voted as a transphobe but I'm very much not. I believe it's not fair to cis women to put a trans woman on opposing team.

[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Believing nonsense propaganda about trans people while ignoring all the swaths of evidence disproving the propaganda does make you a transphobe, yes.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our hyper fixation on sports, taking them deathly serious and giving them million dollar performance stakes is the problem.

They are games. Games should be fun and inclusive.

[–] vsg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, sports have always been "unfair", not only because of differences in access to training but also because of "genetic anomalies". Back before Martin Luther King Jr., a lot of Americans would argue that Black athletes shouldn't compete among white athletes because of an "unfair advantage".

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Michael Phelps comes to mind.

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why stop there? Let's restrict based on color and religion too! And when hate crimes follow, they deserve it, right?

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Red heads have different pain tolerance from normal people. That's just basic biology. It's not fair to make them compete with normal people. /s

Edit: nothing wrong with redheads, mind. My best friend is a strawberry blond.

[–] endlessvoid@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The issue itself is nuanced, unfortunately the debate is not.

Transwomen who've only gone through female puberty (i.e. transitioned as minors or went on puberty blockers) are going to be physically on the same level as ciswomen.

Transwomen who've been through both puberties are going to be pretty close to the physical abilities of the average ciswomen after a few years on estrogen, though there are some permanent effects of testosterone that will remain, like build size.

Thats to say nothing of the fact that dividing sports along gender is somewhat arbitrary to begin with, while the average female athlete may be smaller and weaker than the average male athlete, there is still plenty of overlap, and it would really make more sense to divide sports along different criteria, like weight classes or some other more fair metric.

[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

What are your feelings about a trans man playing against cis men?

It sounds like you would think that's unfair too, but would it be unfair to the trans man or the cis men?

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