Pro-life and anti-abortion, but they’ll kill the kid before it turns five once it’s out of the womb.

Love the hypocrisy.

Is the Michelin star KFC in Alice Springs one of them?

This was a joke.

YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. What if I want us to do things sideways, frontwards, backwards, upside down, 360 degrees, in the living room, in the bedroom, on the ceiling, in the closet, on the fridge, in the car in our Disneyland resort hotel?

Teal?

Show me a right-wing content creator who has claimed games aren’t political. I’ll wait.

They always say that it’s political because a minority is in them, or because they didn’t make a woman eye candy.

I’m not gonna bother anymore.

Don’t think it was, they had a much more cartoon strip art style, and the format of it was made to parody those political comics you’d see in a newspaper.

Edit: It was Yolo Swag Studios I was thinking of.

This reminds me of that cartoonist on Twitter who’d make those absolutely hilarious and deranged comics that parodied conspiracy theories. Wish I remembered the name, just recall they used a certain dog character a lot.

Women in games is not political. Accurate depictions of history are not political. Queer people being happy is not political.

Just because right-wingers say they are doesn’t make that true. By stating that they are because they claim them to be, you give into them and find yourself playing a game in which the rules are dictated by them and what plays into their advantage.

That’s how we got here with trans rights to begin with. They were not political, and they still aren’t, but because some freaks with nothing better to do with their lives than complain about others decided to say that trans rights were political, and because some people decided to follow that up with “debates” rather than outright saying “this is not political”, trans rights have been eroded to the point where “left wing” politicians like Gavin Newsom are now seen in good light despite anti-trans policies.

Also “there’s no politics in sports”. You are right, but if you’re going to work on that same pattern of logic, there’s literally a huge nothing burger over the Super Bowl halftime show right now that people are pretending is political. Like congrats, by following Republicans in saying this is now a political issue, you’re basically just allowing them to say “see, they’re confirming it’s political, therefore let’s get rid of rights for Puerto Ricans” or something along the lines.

Maybe don’t blame the people that follow a healthy amount and decided to do something when the election date came rolling around. Just a reminder, 80 million didn’t care enough to vote, and higher turnout just about always works against Republicans.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” When making the vast majority of a platform political content doesn’t work, you don’t solve that by doing it even more. Wanting to pull away from politics to improve one’s mental health shouldn’t be seen as criminal, but maybe when people see so much of it that it affects their mental well-being, they get turned away from caring entirely (which is not my case for the record).

Okay? I like politics too, but I don’t like it being literally everything I engage with. Sometimes I want a break, I know that’s hard to imagine for people that in order to be a good person and follow on stuff, that your online activity doesn’t have to be over 80% political content.

This may seem wild to people, but maybe I engage with politics in a different manner like through commentators on videos and podcasts. I can curate my feed there to have an equal balance, it’s a lot harder to do here and have things still be worthwhile because it’s a smaller platform, and the majority of the time someone makes a new account and new communities, posts, or comments here, they decide to contribute politics and just about nothing else.

Oh, and bonus points if it’s really low-quality stuff like this where it’s literally months behind with the news just to say “Trump bad”, where nothing of substance is added to the conversation.

Right, the culture of the platform didn’t factor into things at all, when something is bad, there can only ever be one thing bad about it.

Ah yes, the two sides of existence where there’s zero middle ground:

Being someone who follows nothing because I don’t care enough to follow stuff

or

Duct-taping my eyes to the screen as I scroll through every single thing on the internet about every minute little detail that happens in politics to the point where it’s my entire identity.

Clearly no middle ground possible here, no-siree, but let’s just pretend that Lemmy doesn’t have a problem with user growth because people get turned away because it’s 90% political content on the major feeds and nothing else.

“Man, Reddit sucks, you know what Lemmy needs? More politics!”

I’m sick of seeing this guys face and reading his name anywhere and everywhere, but hey, continuing to never shut up about him “spreads awareness” or whatever the hell, therefore I need to have him plastered everywhere 24/7 as if people don’t have anything else to focus on like what makes them enjoy themselves as a brief getaway from this crap.

Also adding I’ve blocked a number of terms, communities, and an entire instance in part for this, and it still gets through like this. It’s not a hard ask to be able to get away from it.

The four genres of music:

Country, Airpod, Forest, Dariacore

The doc diagnosing me with psychopathy after showing up to his office in socks and sandals.

Me, (not) a trans woman, planting a glitter bomb filled with estrogen in the office lunchroom to turn my coworkers trans.

CHICKEN JORKY

For what reason other than arousal would someone wear one?

This doesn’t count baby leashes btw, which are at the back and not the neck and are used to prevent a kid from getting lost or wandering off into danger (when used properly).

Thanks for that.

If I’m sitting on a busy bus for example, and two people, a couple, sit in front of me and start making out with some tongue on tongue action, I’m going to be disturbed. I’m not comfortable with that, and I didn’t consent to seeing that.

People have their kinks and sexually intimate acts that they’re into. Consent on both parties is important, but what’s important as well is the consent of people around you in seeing that. A regular kiss, hug, or other purely romantic or platonic show of affection you don’t need other people’s consent for, so a person claiming “consent” when gay people hold hands or kiss in front of them is just a bigot.

For the same reason I wouldn’t send a picture of kink art I know a friend isn’t into without their consent, I also wouldn’t indulge in my kinks in public where I know most people won’t be into it, as they didn’t consent to, for example, seeing me on a leash in this case (not my thing, hypothetical application of the pic).