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It's time to take Trump seriously, investors say as markets recoil in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's wild how "take seriously" just means "stop pretending that his ramblings are seventh dimensional chess". Sometimes, the emperor really is just wearing no clothes!

Zelensky: Ukraine still 'ready' to sign minerals deal with Trump in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I read his statements as attempts to make it clear he's not the unreasonable "everyone must give Ukraine all the aid we want with no compensation allowed" figure that conservatives in the US now want to paint him as. It makes it clear that Trump isn't upset that Zelenskyy isn't open to negotiating compensation for the US, he's just trying to find an excuse to pivot US foreign policy towards Russia's goals, and Zelenskyy meanwhile is even willing to discuss something as absurd as signing away Ukraine's rare earth minerals.

I think it's a good idea for him to call Trump's bluff. If he railed hard against the deal, it'd become another partisan issue, whether relations with Ukraine broke because of Trump or Zelenskyy being a hardliner. That's why they've been trying to find any excuse at all to say Zelenskyy was somehow rude to Trump while he was sitting there listening to Trump spit out Russian propaganda. Conservatives need some narrative that the US pivot to Russian foreign policy is Ukraine's fault, and Zelenskyy is denying them that.

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[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm willing to bet there are boys that roleplay as humans on mastodon. While we lack concrete data, humans are a fairly popular race in roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons. If there are at least 10 young men on Mastodon that play Dungeons and Dragons, there's a very good chance at least one role plays as a human character.

Is bisexuality possible for me if I only like one gender? in c/bisexual@lemmy.world

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

And now, in one post identifies as straight, maybe bi curious and doesn't care about homophobia because as a bi person she doesn't experience it, and then minutes later in another post is a lesbian who only likes men.

If she's real, she's got some incredibly powerful OCD and should maybe stop thinking so much about labels.

I'm mostly betting they're a troll though.

Is anyone here attracted to men? I like very few women but have been telling people I’m lesbian/bi. in c/lesbians@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

No, I'm only into women. Potentially some enbies, but mostly women.

The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't think I've really seen any literature about web3 that wasn't a crypto scam in a trench coat. Do you have any links or info about the original goals of web3?

Egg prime directive, why it matters and why disagreement with it is problematic in c/trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 5 months ago

Alright, I am officially done talking to you. Please don't try and contact me again on another account.

@trans

Egg prime directive, why it matters and why disagreement with it is problematic in c/trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Glad I could clear that up for you 🙂

Egg prime directive, why it matters and why disagreement with it is problematic in c/trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Why do you think I care lmfao

I called you transphobic because you made a transphobic post and you got really defensive over it. It's not that deep.

Egg prime directive, why it matters and why disagreement with it is problematic in c/trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[+] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone -7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

My problem with defences of the "egg prime directive" is that it's blatantly transphobic, and frames cisness as an inherently natural correct state while transness is something only a select few do. Encouraging someone to question their gender isn't the same as denying them their gender identity, you can at the same time identify ways that someone seems to be having a similar experience as many trans people do before coming out while totally accepting that they are what they are right now.

I'll be honest, it feels like a rebranding of the old homophobic defense of homosexuality, that it's a small percentage of the population that suffers from this condition, so we should be nice to that select few, but oh no don't you go implying morally upstanding people like me or my child could be one of those people.

It didn't have a cutesy name associated with it, but it's similar to why "born this way" was criticized when that framing was used for gay existence and why it played into a conservative framing of queerness: it's a thing the degenerates do over there, but if they try to come into polite society and try to do things like talk to kids about being gay, it's not because they're trying to reach out to gay kids who might be in unsupportive environments where being gay is never presented to them as a thing they might apply to them, it's because they're sickos who are trying to groom kids into becoming like them.

In a time when countries are trying to make trans people legally not exist and forbid people from even being able to talk about them, I could not imagine a worse time to stop talking to people about transness and that people who don't identify as trans might be trans. Our enemies will definitely happily tell anyone experiencing dissatisfaction with their AGAB that they're definitely not trans just shy/not (wo)manly enough/needing conversion therapy/etc, so why let them control the conversation about who can or can't be trans?