I get told all the time by my family to quiet down so yeah I think it’s an autism thing

I assume (safe) microscopic animals not filtered for would be perfectly vegan anyway considering you couldn’t just not drink water or not breath air.

The way I view it is that many of those traditional excuses used would be acceptable excuses normally, if not for the very clear and often very poorly hidden real reasons behind them being based in transphobic beliefs.

A person who claims to care about having kids is a reasonable excuse, but then they will go and hook up with people and use condoms and other forms of protection outside of that. Clearly then this excuse isn’t actually truthful.

If they actually showed honesty and practiced their claims, there should be no issue had with them then.

Edit: Also another point, I think that’s a pretty major difference in mindset between “I haven’t been attracted to X yet” and the “I will never be” mindset. This also happens with race discussions. While the first can still have issues with bigotry, it certainly at least is not as heavily based into it as the second one is. Anyone who can claim that they never will be is a person who is not open to it primarily for reasons outside of actual attraction, else they will be willing to concede the possibility that if they did find someone attractive it would be okay.

An underrated problem of capitalism is quality decline for sure. Find a good product be it a tool or food or anything, wait 3-4 years for it to get popular, and then watch everything good about it crumble into cheap low quality BS riding solely off that initial wave of popularity.

While I do 100% believe at least for myself that many parts of dysphoria (including even social) would be the same no matter what, I do agree that the argument in general is rather flawed. At the end of the day it shouldn’t matter why, a free world is one where people can express themselves and the reason doesn’t matter.

It’s the same way I feel with that whole “gay gene” discussion in the early 2000’s, it just wouldn’t matter anyway. Nobody needs to explain why they’re gay/bi/pan/ace/trans/nb/whatever.

Note: this just goes to your signed in reddit account, the joke is that if you have a reddit account you’re a lib

I think this is part of where the whole “you get more conservative as you grow older” idea comes from the older assholes. They had some level of leftistish ideas as youth around “free love” and “let’s do drugs” and “end war” but then later adapted themselves into the libertarian small business tyrants and other shitheads that they are today. Because the hippie movement was more about rebellion and personal satisfaction than communal benefits.

What especially gets me about the capitalist system is that they are so unable to prevent capitalist evil, that even in the world where they try to make shit up they still can’t stop their own capitalists from betraying them.

Remember that thing about tragedy versus statistic? Certainly some of the deaths that occurred like the man who was denied care for heart problems shouldn’t have happened, but the idea that isn’t any way close to the amount of deaths that covid would cause is absolutely fucking insane.

Best tweet of 2021 change my mind