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  • Most Americans are not. However, it’s an easy hot button topic that triggers the fight or flight response in a subset of people which motivates them to go be loud/aggressive in public/online.

    At the end of the day, the same people who go around in public saying things like “if a man ever goes into the girls’ locker room at my daughter’s school, I’ll make sure nobody ever finds the body” are the same people who shrug their shoulders when confronted about how many children die in U.S. schools each year due to gun violence. They’ll contort themselves into a pretzel with excuses – gun violence doesn’t happen at my daughter’s school, you watch too much CNN, enough people around here have guns that if a kid tried that in our schools they’d be shot before they could do any damage, etc without acknowledging that there aren’t even any transitioned/transitioning children attending their tiny rural school.

    In my neck of the woods, I suspect a lot of that “trans” outrage is all tied together with the Christian nationalist tendencies of rural, white America. They hate Muslims. They hate LGBTQ+. They hate anybody that’s not MAGA. Then they go to church a few times a week and even their church leadership is feeding into it all. Then they hang out with their friends and discuss conspiracy theories and literally just make up bullshit stories. Then they get online and have no understanding that all they are viewing is algorithmically curated content from within their own bubble.





  • Yes, you’re right. Depending on the bubble, you’ll get a lot of push back, though.

    There are multiple checkpoints that need to be cleared. First, gotta have the overwhelming blue tsunami. It won’t happen quite like some people suggest. There will be wins, maybe overwhelmingly so, but there will be losses. At the national level, it will take only a strategic win or two by Republicans to undermine almost any chance of progress. Not to mention the THOUSANDS of state and local level elections happening, and I can tell you that the Democrat party is way weaker at those levels, especially in rural areas and red states.

    We’re literally in a situation where everything has to go according to an exact plan or there’s no real hope of success. It’s a tough position to be in.

    All that aside, even if there’s a clear blue tsunami and literally every race goes to Democrat / progressive candidates, the American people are still going to have to hold those elected officials accountable and force them to actually fight back, make progress, and work for the people. Guarantee it. Money from corporations and the ultra wealthy in this country is far more powerful than our votes, our opinions, and our lives.



  • I dunno what to think. I assume Lemmy will either throw the worst at me or blindly give me praise.

    I was talking with a guy today, told me my designs were “awful”. To be fair, at the time he didn’t know the designs he was critiquing were my handiwork and there were extenuating circumstances such that the designs were by committee so I did some things that no man should ever do or see or be told to do … it was only because I had to.

    Long story short, he starts talking about his designs, seemed to be looking for praise. He pulled out his phone to show me and ya’ll … they were AI. I even asked, did you use AI for that, and he was like “Obviously”. Yes, of course, obviously. That’s why I asked.


  • Really odd thing about that. Back in the COVID times when Biden was president, those “I did that” stickers were plastered all over the place. Not just in my town, but everywhere I traveled. They were on gas pumps, on grocery store price tags, on the back of signs, and even on completely random shit.

    Now that it’s Trump literally causing the problem and making it worse … I’ve not seen a single sticker in person. Certainly not like it was several years ago where they were on at least one pump at practically every gas station. Odd indeed.

    Suppose if they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.