[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

The fact that your assessment is accurate deeply saddens and infuriates me.

I want Star Trek humanity.

When the fuck are we going to stop being savages and be a civilization on the verge of faring space.

God we are so depressing.

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How can these people believe in a magical sky daddy who punishes finite sins with infinite torture while somehow being “benevolent”… with no evidence… purely on faith…

Then turn around and deny an internationally documented holocaust with thousands of pictures and weeks of footage…

And think they’re going to be rewarded with eternal bliss after death — not just in spite of these beliefs, but because of them…

I’m embarrassed to even be the same species as these “people”.

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We kill 80 billion land animals per year for factory farming and we’ve caused almost 2 species of animal per year, every year, to go completely extinct over the last 500 years.

We are going to destroy almost all life on this planet.

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

With everything happening in my country (America) I have not really been able to enjoy any media for months.

Especially recently.

I learned that ICE is now deporting foster children.

They’re targeting children.

They’re setting out to take children away from their parents.

It’s kinda hard to give a shit about video games or tv shows while knowing that.

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

Unions didn’t decline.

They’ve been systematically busted for the last 5 and a half decades.

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

That depends who you ask.

“Transsexual” is an antiquated term that’s considered exclusionary by some and thus bigoted in a sense, as it implies that one must experience body dysphoria and seek medical treatment to change their body’s sex traits in order to feel more comfortable with them.

“Transgender” simply refers to someone who identifies as a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth.

“Non-binary” people identify as something other than the two “genders” that are typically assigned at birth, so technically they fall under that same umbrella of transgender.

But also… we consider sex and gender to be different technically speaking. Sex is considered to be a biological thing, and gender is more of a social/cultural thing typically based on sex.

… Which would mean doctors don’t really identify (or “assign”) genders at birth, they assign sex, which kind of contradicts the notion of transgender people, aka someone who identifies as a different gender than their “assignment” at birth.

I personally think transgender is too broad a term and causes a lot of confusion, and that we’d be better served by once again referring to people as either transsexuals, or gender queer/non-binary.

It’s complicated. Some non-binary people do have body dysphoria and do seek medical care to change their body’s sex traits, while not identifying as either a man or a woman.

Unfortunately in LGBT+ spaces, it’s often seen as social suicide to make these distinctions, as when you make distinctions you necessarily make divisions and thus exclusions, which feels bad if you or someone you love is the one being excluded.

Other trans people would probably call me “Tru-scum” for thinking this, because in their minds what I’m saying is equivalent to saying “there’s transsexuals, and there’s people who play with make-up and clothes and expect other people to refer to them differently”…

Except I’m not saying that, and I don’t think gender queer or non-binary people are “playing”, or are less valid in any way.

I just see the ways that people are similar, and different, and I refuse to blind myself or bite my tongue about it.

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 month ago

My girlfriend thinks capitalism is fine and doesn’t care about billionaires existing.

She’s never had a minimum wage job or worked in the service industry 🙄

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Become a rich jacked sociopath.

That’s most manly thing you can do apparently.

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 month ago

She should have been born in a comic book instead of real life.

Classic mistake.

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

Don’t you have to register to vote?…

Illegal immigrants don’t even have social security numbers…

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago

So relevant now lol

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