Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the so-you-say dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous piece-by-piece reply to another comment about the reporter who was suspended from ExTwitter hours after publishing an article about it:
“In other words, he either bot boosted an article about botting, or else the botting services are giving him a freebie.”
You need to up your reading comprehension, dude.
See: Séamas O’Reilly: I criticised ‘free speech absolutist’ Elon Musk’s X. My account was suspended where your 75% figure comes from.
“Five minutes since I’d posted that article on Twitter, 75% of the replies I’d received had themselves been spam bots trying to sell fake shite to my followers.”
Not something beneficial for O’Reilly, no matter how you spin it. And describing self-interest on the part of the bot runners as “a freebie” is like calling #GamerGate “constructive criticism”.
In second place, it’s Amazing Rando with a comment about ExTwitter and regulatory compliance:
That’s why it’s so important to have a team, maybe call them Trust & Safety or Compliance to keep you out of this sort of trouble!
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got a pair of comments about Wired’s recent fact-deficient attack on Section 230, and attacks on Section 230 in general. First, it’s an anonymous one:
Has anybody else noted that the hinted at subtext of all these anti 230 rants is: ‘The internet should be full of opinions that I like, and those that I dislike should be removed’. or ‘How dare you stop me from harassing people by telling them how wrong they are’.
Next, it’s That One Guy with a similar point:
A most telling absence
And the ‘There are no honest and/or reality-based arguments against 230’ streak remains unbroken since it made it into law.
It’s so strange, if the law really was as terrible as it’s critics want people to believe it is you’d think by now they’d have come up with at least one good argument against it that isn’t based upon misconceptions or flat out lies…
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is MrWilson with a response to our post about the cop who got in a fight with an acorn:
Just more anti-police hate speech from Tim. That acorn was dangerous and after it saw what happened to the back window of the vehicle, it’ll think twice about scarin’ the bajeezus out of that there brave deputy. Bet you wouldn’t be so brave as to unload a clip when a violent acorn comes for you!
Acorns Can Assault Badges!
In second place, it’s smb with a reply to a comment praising Musk and denying reality:
You forgot: “XTwitter is better and more popular than ever!”
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a response from Stephen T. Stone to a comment speculating about the reasons for ExTwitter’s deletion of a reporter’s account:
If Elon wants to ban Twitter accounts that make him (and his run as owner of Twitter) look bad, he should start with his own.
Finally, it’s That One Guy again, replying to a comment that did say “ExTwitter is better than ever”:
Not the brag you think it is
‘Since the local chapter of the KKK started hanging out at the bar I go to it’s been better than ever!’
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
I love that someone thought my comment asserting the sentience and agency of a violent acorn might possibly be sincere. Poe’s Law is whacky.
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Abram Believes Acorns Can Assault Badges.
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We finally know what it means, after all these years.
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Yeah, that slayed me. i think it’s a Poe’s Law corollary, where there is nothing so absurd that someone won’t take it as serious.
Dammit, I missed the original post on XTwitter suspension. I’ve noticed lately that they’ve been suspending accounts of real people, but those belonging to folks selling something (usually x-rated) or bots are being allowed to run wild. When they appeal and ask why everyone has been getting canned responses with no details as to why their account was suspended. At this pace XTwitter will soon have no real people!
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Just like Alphabet, then.
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Wow, surprise – the site owner and his minions celebrate their ongoing campaign of hate speech against police and Mr. Musk. 🙄
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Only someone who’s never experienced actual hate speech in their life would think that.
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Imagine thinking that some of the most privileged abusers of wealth and power need defending against “hate speech” that seeks to hold them accountable for their abuses.
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This is the stupidest “notice me, senpai” act I have ever seen.
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Shut up, wokeywokewoketard.
Your mom never loved you, btw.
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I’m half convinced this comment was written by a 14 year old.
Old enough to know the term woke, but young enough to still be using the same insults as a middle-schooler.
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Accusation = confession bro
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I know, it’s fucking amazing. Finally sexual minorities can know what a safe space actually feels like. Mmmmmm.
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You say that as a nonbinary teenager was beaten to death in an Oklahoma school. You disgust me.
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Firstly, I heard LibsofTikTok made them do it.
Secondly, what race were the attackers? We know the victim wasn’t Black….sooooo?
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oh it’s the racist troll at it again
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Yes, because being trans or non-straight is not a minority identity. OK, back you go onto Elmo’s dick.
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“hate speech against police and Mr. Musk.”
Interesting that you call stating facts ‘hate speech’.
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Bro, if you could get paid to pathetically whine, you’d be rich as Mr Elmo
And here you are getting clowned on by the b-team.
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For sake of my own amusement, I’m now imagining this as a line from a cheesy 80’s/90’s action comedy.
It fits rather well.
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It’s strange how this site and most of the people who comment on it love–and I mean LOVE–to abuse and malign law enforcement, but they never have a bad word to say about disgusting groomer teachers or the politicians who support them in the stuffing of gay/tranny propaganda down the throats of vulnerable schoolchildren.
Hmmm.
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By the looks of your comment, you are full of shit.
hmmmm
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Firstly…
Reporting on the abuses of law enforcement isn’t heaping abuse on them, even if we have no love for them.
Secondly…
Most teachers who abuse their students tend to either get run out of the profession or, in some very select cases, become politicians.
And I don’t think most politicians want to treat LGBTQ+ folk as people and thus deserving the rights listed in the UNHRC.
And teachers usually are forced to do the will of politicians.
Meanwhile, the rest of us have to fight tooth and nail to ensure EVERYONE gets the respect they deserve. Especially against the corrupt powers that be.
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Understatement of the year.
A negro thug murdered two brave police officers and one firefighter yesterday in Minnesota, and yet you and your fellow travelers don’t spare a word for the victims and their families. Yet here you are this morning trumpeting the (detestable) work of an anti-American organization like the U.N.
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hi troll
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Your incompetence is no excuse, cop-hater.
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Yes, yes, you want to condemn all Black people based on the actions of a single Black person, and you want the rest of us to ignore systemic fuck-ups by police and buy into your racist bullshit (which you will deny is racist because “I didn’t say the N-word”). We get it, we’re not buying it, go fuck yourself all the way back to /pol/.
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It is a cardinal sin of the left to report that a criminal is a member of one of their favored victim groups. When someone from one of those favored victim groups commits a crime, that must always be considered a unique occurrence that has nothing to do with the social dysfunctions present in that group. For example, when Missouri’s governor called the Black Kansas City murderers “thugs”, Kansas City’s mayor accused the governor of using a “racial dog whistle”.
On the other hand, when a criminal from those favored victim groups is killed resisting arrest, or is beaten by bullies and later dies, that must always be considered symptomatic of systemic x-ist and x-phobic beliefs of white heteronormative people, never of just individual circumstances.
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Sorry, I meant when a member of those victim groups is beaten by bullies. I did not mean to imply that Nex was a criminal.
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Incompetence is likewise no excuse for not sharing them in the first place.
On a side note, your first one is paywalled. Second was published after my comment. Dating is unclear on third, however.
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Hilarious.
You’re such a nigger-worshipper that you still refuse to denounce the thuggish criminality of a group who love to kill police and brave first responders.
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And there’s the racial slur we all knew you wanted to use. Bravo on being more predictable than a 4chan shitposter.
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Shut-up, autist.
Your mom would’ve aborted you, too, if she’d known what a PITA you’d be for her and your father.
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If you wanted me to feel anything other than pity for the lack of depth and sting in your attacks, you failed. Again: You’re more predictable than the average 4channer—and you’re a lot less clever, too.
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Autists are incapable of feeling normal human emotion anyway, so I don’t really care what you say/think.
I just like saying mean but true things to you, Stone.
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Okay, now I know you’re ableist (to wit, anti-Autistic) and spouting debunked misconceptions about us people on the autistic spectrum. Do you know me? I cry. I get angry. And not just about myself, but about other people. I’ve donated so much in mutual aid this month because I DON’T FUCKING THINK ONLY OF MYSELF!!!
I’m sorry, but neurotypical bigots like yourself piss me off.
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Not necessarily neurotypical, FYI. Whilst it’s true that the majority of anti-autistic people do indeed have severe or profound neurotypical spectrum disorder, milder cases include psychopaths, who also have little to no empathy and, by definition, are not neurotypical.
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And yet, here you are, trying (in vain) to hurt my feelings and get a reply that isn’t snarky as fuck. You’ll keep trying, and you’ll keep failing, and I’ll keep flagging you, and you’ll be ignored from here on out because I have better things to do than waste my time on someone that even 4chan would ignore.
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Lol you wish, Stone.
You’ve been barking for me like a trained seal for weeks and weeks.
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You care deeply of what others think, which is why you’re willing to do anything to get a modicum of attention.
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I literally don’t care what you, Little Sambo, or anyone else here thinks–only that you react…which you keep doing. hehehe
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And yet, you keep returning to hurl more insults.
Even 4channers have a much shorter attention span and more sense of self-worth, and that’s not a very high bar to clear.
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Please just stop. The light of your projection is blinding.
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Then you didn’t look hard enough. Shannon Cortez Gooden is indeed black. That’s still no excuse for racist bullshit like claiming this kind of offence is more common in the black community than others, though.
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Dude, killing someone in the course of self-defense isn’t murder, and since the killer was black (not ‘negro’, you racist piece of shit), we all know what the true fact are likely to be.
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I don’t imagine you will find much support for Mary Kay Letourneau here. Nor would you find great support for the catholic church. I imagine you would find significant words of condemnation for their actions. But somehow, I don’t think you are referring to the actual sexual abuse of children. Something about your words suggests you are more concerned about ensuring you can determine the gentials of children by their clothing than whether or not the children were ever diddled.
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Of course not, because you and your fellow travelers are depraved neo-Marxists.
From Education Week:
“Sexual Abuse by Educators Is Scrutinized” | ‘[T]he physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.’
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Setting aside issues I might take with the article you failed to cite I do not see how the information, even when 100% true, Meaningfully evidences the claim that Techdirt won’t shit on pedophile teachers.
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And more to the point: Teachers sexually abusing children should be (and already is) wholly and forcefully condemned by pretty much anyone with any sense of humanity. Telling a child about the existence of queer people in an age-appropriate manner, however, is not sexual abuse—but the poster above you clearly wants us to believe it is so we’ll join his anti-queer crusade and demand the immediate execution of all queer people (and their allies) by the federal government. Or, y’know, whatever other right-wing shock-jock bullshit they come up with for their trolling campaign.
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It’s literally grooming. Not surprised you’re such a fan, honestly.
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…said nobody literate, ever.
Re: Re: Re:5 'I'm not doing that, YOU'RE doing that!'
Less a lack of literacy, more a massive case of projection.
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Oh? As I see it, you’re doing a bang-up job of attempting to groom us to become anti-queer idiots like yourself. Nice try, arschloch.
Speaking of which…. you really do need to see a proctologist about your condition, it’s continually lowering the collective IQ of this place.
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Heads up, sunshine—I’m giving you an on-the-record statement on the matter.
I have maligned and will continue to malign law enforcement when the people within that sector prove through either gross negligence, utter incompetence, or willful abuse of power that they don’t deserve to be in that sector in any capacity.
I will malign any teacher who abuses their power and authority over children to sexually abuse one or more of those children. The same goes for cops, priests, politicians, doctors, lawyers, or anyone whose career grants them assumed power and authority over children that they can use to sexually abuse children with near-impunity.
I will not malign any person, regardless of profession, who dares to tell a child “queer people exist” in a way that a child can understand. Having that discussion won’t make that child queer; being unable to talk to a child about queer people without making that discussion all about sex is a skill issue.
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I appreciate your taking the time to respond, Sir, and to confirm exactly what I’m saying.
You are a willing (eager?) foot soldier in the battle to push gender ideology into all schools, happily supporting the indoctrination of vulnerable children and young people into a depraved and deluded fantasy that inevitably results in their physical mutilation and chemical sterilization (for profit, at the hands of truly evil & ghoulish doctors).
Again, thank you kindly.
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Except I’m not doing that.
A young child can have the existence of trans people explained to them in a way that doesn’t involve telling the child about sex, genitals, or anything that would be considered “too mature” for a child of a young age to understand/learn about. One doesn’t have to launch into an entire spiel about hormones and genital surgeries to do that; anyone who thinks otherwise has issues.
An adult can have that conversation without pushing any child into “transgenderism” or “a gender ideology” or whatever the hell you want to call it. The conversation itself won’t “turn a child trans” any more than having a conversation about gay people will “turn a child gay”.
A transgender child can have a conversation about their life/living situation with a teacher and not have it turn into your nightmarish fantasy of teachers “transing” children against their will or whatever it is you think happens in that situation but really doesn’t. Any teacher who actually tries doing that should be fired.
A transgender child can have a conversation about their gender with their parents without it turning into a rush to get that child into hormone treatments. If anything, such a rush is rare—I mean, a teenaged cisgender female can typically get breast implants easier/faster than a teenaged transgender child can get hormone therapy.
Acknowledging the existence of queer people is not “indoctrination” into a “lifestyle”. It is acknowledging that people who aren’t cishet exist—and that their lives matter as much as everyone else’s, regardless of your beliefs to the contrary. If you can’t make that acknowledgement without making it all about dicks or anal sex, that’s your skill issue, pal.
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Those children need to be told, in an age-appropriate way, that it’s their bodies that make them either a boy or a girl and that can’t ever change, but that there are some people who really wish they were the opposite of what they are, and some of them wish so hard that they pretend to be that opposite by dressing as if they were.
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you really love revealing that your a low life dumbass troll who has no life
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Your father likely did not love you, and your mother was a whore who slept with Black men.
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You really have no weapons other than projection, don’t you?
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You never seem to talk about the actual known cases of mutilation on children by doctors when it comes to intersex people.
Oh, right. You think their delusional too for daring to acknowledge they don’t solidly fit into the boxes of male or female.
Your argument is rather hypocritical.
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Typo above, *they’re.
Really should have caught that sooner.
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I don’t think anyone here would disagree with you that “intersex people” are defective and it would’ve been better in every case for all involved had they simply not been born.
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That isn’t the point they’re making and I would disagree with that point otherwise. Nobody has the right to unilaterally decide whose lives are worthy of existence.
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Indeed, wasn’t making that point. Yet the counter response dose potentially bring a nuance that wasn’t present before in the form of the abortion-ban laws around the US. Intersex people wouldn’t fall into the narrow exemptions.
With those laws in play, those ideas clash. And the resulting logic is even more hypocritical.
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Women should absolutely be encouraged to abort malformed fetuses including babies likely to be born “intersexed.”
When was that ever in doubt?
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I take it you don’t keep up with current events on that front…
From a legal perspective (in states with abortion-ban laws) that’s extremely in doubt right now, even without the intersex angle.
The laws don’t even account much for the babies not being viable. Much less being born Intersex.
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Genocidal Fascist says what?
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I don’t think any reasonable person here would agree with you that intersex people are defective and it would’ve been better in every case for all involved had they simply not been born. Just sayin’.
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And many teachers have that skill, by both training and experience. Contrast that to every politician who is not required to have any experience or training of any kind, in order to be a legislator or in some other form of power.
I see a problem there, don’t you?
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You’ll note that 100% of that “abuse and malign[ing]” of law enforcement is in response to abuse and maligning by law enforcement. There are no stories simply shitting on cops for the hell of it. Their misdeeds are reported and commented on. You taking offense at that says a lot about you…
Why would we comment on something that is simply not happening?
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That you’re mad we oppose criminals and abusers here means only that you support them, AC.
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Dude, you need to pull yourself out of the dung heap now. You’re too full of shit as it is.
Musk accused of running burner on X again
‘You’re an amazing father, Elon’: Musk accused of running burner on X again—and nuking account who outed him
Users on X believe that platform owner Elon Musk has been secretly operating a burner account in order to lavish praise on himself.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/elon-musk-adrian-dittmann-x-burner-reaction/
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I’m sure Musk would be an amazing father. What a treat it would be to be able to call him “Daddy.”
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You know, except for the people who actually owe half their genetic material to him, want nothing to do with him, and would rather identify as non-binary than commit to a lie that only two genders exist.
So in a sense, thanks for proving once and for all that heterosexuality is toxic as fuck, dumbass!
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FTFY.
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That didn’t fix it at all.
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Actually, it did, and I’ll tell you how: Most people are cisgender and straight. Fine. I can deal with that. The moment some of those people enforce being cisgender and straight on everyone is where the toxicity starts. Not everyone is cis and not everyone is straight!
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“lie that only two genders exist”
Right. It is a spectrum. We have no idea as to how many there are yet. Same for legs and arms. They are on a spectrum. And don’t tell me you have never heard of anyone born with more or less than two arms or legs. We have no idea as to what a human is. Perhaps we will one day.
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By the way, how come trannies only pick 1 of 2?
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First, “pick” isn’t necessarily the right word. “Trannies” definitely isn’t the right word. And some transgender people also identify as non-binary, meaning they literally don’t pick from two traditional gender identities.
Asking this question is just your admission of ignorance despite having an internet full of answers you could research. Your ability to type the question here is the same as the ability to type the question into a search engine.
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How do you transition to non binary?
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TDS has ruined search engines. Why waste a week researching what the very knowledgeable people here can easily answer?
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The same way a cisgender person transitions to the sex stated on their birth certificate, ignoramus.
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Not all transgender people transition.
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While he’s deep-dicking you up the ass.
Re: The ultimate narcissist move
If he wasn’t such an asshole that would be such an incredibly sad thing to read, how amazingly pathetic does a person have to be to create a fake account just to praise themself, all the more so in a way that’s designed to give the impression that it’s praising their parenting skills, something that an actually good parent wouldn’t need to fake?
i would say that heteronormativity, among many, mnay aspects of cultures, is toxic. Although sex that makes babies does result in an inevitably fatal condition we call life, so idk you may have a partial and oblique point there.
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Your posts are like rays of sunlight, warming the soul with each word. Thank you for the constant glow!