Is this whole generalizing and insulting people who disagree with you thing part of another right wing satire?

I wasn’t around when it came out, no. Oldish.

There are so many. The best is when the alien rips out of guys’ chest and he’s like “Oh no! Not again!”

Someone said they didn’t enjoy modern satire. You suggested not enjoying modern satire was equivalent to ignoring the issues entirely.

Weird take, considered they didn’t say it was bad or wrong, just not their cup of tea.

This smacks of “If you’re not with me, you’re against me.”

Fair point about the difference between good satire and bad. There’s always been bad comedy that just points and laughs.

Satire isn’t dead, the problem is finding the new extremes. Looking at what’s going on and teasing out the ridiculous, improbable hypotheticals without being defeatist. Good satire finds the hope, too, what happens after we get over the wall, and how do we get there.

It’s mentally exhausting to keep seeing the hyperbole and not getting the hope.

Mostly, I’m thinking about Spaceballs.

What

wait, you think the trolley problem is from the Good Place?

Saying you’re supportive vs. actually doing the work to listen, understand, and be supportive, are much different things. Your empathy is performative if you don’t back up your words with actions, no matter how you dress up your opinions with empathetic-sounding statements.

Consider this: If you’re truly empathetic and open minded, why do you need to keep pointing it out?

The fact that you present an opinion piece from media owned by special interests to support your argument is enough to see why you believe what you do.

I have a group of friends, some of whom are trans, some of whom have medical degrees, and we have these discussions all the time. However, when someone talks about their right to exist being threatened, in a world where their right to exist is being threatened, is when you’ve decided to come in complaining about how poor you can’t engage in any polite discourse because people downvote you.

A number of people here have told you why this is the case, but you proceed to play the victim.

There are more than two sides, and no, the science on sports isn’t more clear than it is on gender affirming care. Even in the pub med links someone else posted, which they apparently hadn’t read in entirety, go into how controversies around trans identities is sports has become a solution in search of a problem. You should read those links.

I don’t know what about my post made you think I wanted or was willing to extend empathy to your point of view. Was it when I called you a moron or an idiot?

The joke, if you paid attention, is that the trans agenda isn’t a thing. They’re just trying to survive. So yeah, not supporting someone’s right to exist is some psychopathic behavior.

The fact thay you think there’s a trans agenda outside of just trying to survive doesn’t make you a psychopath, but it does make you an idiot.

Wrong place wrong time.

You’re vilified because you’re acting like a villain. People don’t want to debate your neckbeardedly presented well ahcktuallies while they’re fighting for the right to exist.

We don’t have this fight when it comes to other medical matters. Like if kids with cancer should get treatment even though chemo and surgery could have long-lasting repucussions. The alternative is they die. People who don’t get proper medical treatment die. Trans kids die of depression and suicide without treatment. Those are real things, there are real risks to not treating a medical condition. It’s not a matter up for public debate just because some dickwads are trying to distract everyone by making healthcare for a specific group of people political. It’s medical, we have facts and data that say trans people need healthcare to support their transition to live healthier longer lives. There are fucking doctors out there with years of practice who say yes, these kids need medical intervention. And here you are bitching that no one will debate you in a place where, again, people are fighting to exist. And you’re bringing up tired arguments because you gotta be that guy.

We have data on trans performance in sports and there is no clear advantage.

Besides, if you’re a world-class athlete, you already have a way different kind of body than most people. There are plenty of biological advantages that are celebrated in sports rather than weeded out. Want to start making sure everyone is the same height and weight for every sport, too? Same lung capacity? Reaction time? Born in the same country? Live at the same altitude? Same race? If you want to get advantages, there are clearer divisions along racial lines than trans status. No, I don’t advocate for segregation in sports because I’m not a goddamn monster of a person who can’t think for two seconds about why that’s idiotic.

Fuck off. Stop being a moron. Show some goddamn empathy.

Quantifying history by how bloody the battles were is the most American thing I’ve heard in a while.

There were trade wars. The history of the Hudson’s Bay Company and North West Trading is bloody as hell. They shaped the country. No one really knows how many people died in their skirmishes. They built forts that still stand today, and they’re why a lot of towns/areas are called Fort(name.)

Louis Riel is a fascinating figure, like a tricksy, bloody, charming asshole who literally beheaded a diplomatic envoy. He, himself, was beheaded. The whole history of the Metis people is fascinating.

The Acadians and their connection to the Cajuns (a condensed slang of Acadian. Cadian. Cajian…) is pretty neat. It’s a whole other French culture most Canadians don’t even know about.

Not to mention all the whitewashed history of indigenous peoples, their histories and cultures. Indigenous leader’s push for justice reform, based on their cultures and needs, is changing the way the justice system works in Canada, and influencing the world.

In Canada we learned all about the war of 1812.

The capitalism can not spread where the ice flows and the coconuts reign.

Thanks for understanding the irony I was attempting. Guess I’m off on my delivery.

A catholic who hates the vatican. A doctor who hates the hospital they work at. A conservative who hates the republican party.

I bet that’s why poisoning was so big before guns. Like who has the time to learn archery.

The left goes low when you threaten their lives, the right goes low when you question their actions.