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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1300 on: March 29, 2023, 08:24:24 PM »
Don't laugh

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Teenager Makani Tran detailed his disqualification from a Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament in Charlotte after appearing to laugh after being asked his pronouns by a judge.

According to Tran’s account on social media, he appeared to have made the judge of the sixth round uncomfortable after giving an awkward laugh upon being asked his pronouns.

"On our way over to the stream area the judge asked us for our preferred pronouns. I said ‘Um he or him or uh’ and I paused trying to think of the third pronoun (the third pronoun being his). As I just stood there looking stupid trying to think of the third pronoun I felt embarrassed because I was failing to think of a simple word. Due to the nerves and me being embarrassed I let out a little laugh just a normal nervous laugh. My response together ended up being ‘Um he or him or uhhhh haha his,’" Tran recounted.

Teen Pokémon player booted from tournament after laughing at pronoun question
https://www.foxnews.com/media/teen-pokemon-player-booted-tournament-laughing-pronoun-question
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1301 on: March 30, 2023, 08:49:26 AM »
Remember folks, there's "limited scientific evidence trans women have a physical advantage"

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1303 on: March 30, 2023, 04:49:46 PM »
NHL "evaluating" the future of "Pride Nights."

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If we had a society that had any respect for individual rights and the courage of a man in the face of an immoral and hateful force that could easily destroy his professional career, the NHL would be holding Ivan Provorov Night instead of Pride Night.

https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/03/30/is-the-tide-turning-nhl-mulls-dropping-pride-nights-n1682848


Boy, they'd better set up some grief counselors for people, if the NHL fails to celebrate perversity anymore.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1304 on: March 30, 2023, 04:51:02 PM »
NHL "evaluating" the future of "Pride Nights."

https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/03/30/is-the-tide-turning-nhl-mulls-dropping-pride-nights-n1682848


Boy, they'd better set up some grief counselors for people, if the NHL fails to celebrate perversity anymore.

It's genocide!
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1305 on: March 30, 2023, 04:54:13 PM »
Groomers in the PNW:

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/staggering-everett-boy-scouts-face-more-sexual-abuse-lawsuits/

Can't read the article because  of a pay wall but I don't doubt it, it's long been recognized that those types are attracted to jobs involving young children. 
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1306 on: March 30, 2023, 05:03:13 PM »
You can't call people groomers!
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1307 on: March 30, 2023, 05:04:49 PM »
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1308 on: March 30, 2023, 05:13:33 PM »
Given how the NHL caved to the alphabet crowd the first time, what makes anyone think they won't cave again once the spittle-spraying frothing-at-the-mouth leftists get wound up over this?
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1309 on: March 30, 2023, 06:44:29 PM »
Pretty much reality now

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1311 on: March 30, 2023, 08:17:43 PM »
You can't call people groomers!

Those were Scout leaders.  You can still call them and Catholic Priests groomers, since they are presumed to be far right fascists

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1312 on: March 31, 2023, 01:00:32 AM »
Those were Scout leaders.  You can still call them and Catholic Priests groomers, since they are presumed to be far right fascists

You're right, of course. How silly of me!
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1313 on: March 31, 2023, 08:27:19 AM »
"Why are you laughing at me?!? I have a PhD!!!"

A professor got upset because students laughed at a "fact" he gave them. The fact? That archeologists are unable to differentiate between male and female skeletons because the bone structure is identical. This is "science" at the university level these days. Props to the students who laughed at him.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/audience-laughs-professor-telling-riley-gaines-difference-male-female-bone-structure
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1314 on: March 31, 2023, 09:40:11 AM »
"Why are you laughing at me?!? I have a PhD!!!"

A professor got upset because students laughed at a "fact" he gave them. The fact? That archeologists are unable to differentiate between male and female skeletons because the bone structure is identical. This is "science" at the university level these days. Props to the students who laughed at him.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/audience-laughs-professor-telling-riley-gaines-difference-male-female-bone-structure


Are you really surprised? The left tells us that we MUST follow the science.

Except when the science is against what they want. Then we must NOT follow the science.

The left's mantra -- SCIENCE IS INCONTROVERTIBLE! Until it's inconvenient.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1315 on: March 31, 2023, 12:39:10 PM »
Seven sorority sisters sue University of Wyoming for admitting trans woman, who they allege has 'voyeuristically peeped at them while visibly aroused'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11922915/Female-students-sue-University-Wyoming-admitting-trans-woman-sorority-house.html
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1316 on: March 31, 2023, 01:58:20 PM »
"Why are you laughing at me?!? I have a PhD!!!"

A professor got upset because students laughed at a "fact" he gave them. The fact? That archeologists are unable to differentiate between male and female skeletons because the bone structure is identical. This is "science" at the university level these days. Props to the students who laughed at him.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/audience-laughs-professor-telling-riley-gaines-difference-male-female-bone-structure

Over credentialed buffoon. I am not impressed with his educational background - sounds like something out of Fergle University.  https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-10-01-8703140181-story.html

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1317 on: March 31, 2023, 02:11:37 PM »
Probably one those who's been going around saying it's a scientific fact doctors can't tell if a baby is male or female at birth
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1319 on: March 31, 2023, 02:54:40 PM »
Groomers in the PNW:

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/staggering-everett-boy-scouts-face-more-sexual-abuse-lawsuits/

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The complaints allege the Mount Baker Council knew, or should have known, that leaders Michael Mauch, Garth Snively, Charles Grewe and Allen Ewalt had a history of sexually abusing children in the past, and still allowed them to volunteer.

You lose your suit in general principle if you ever put trust in someone named "Snively."
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1320 on: April 01, 2023, 11:38:26 AM »
Well we don't want to offend anyone. I guess certain groups were showing up in reports far too often more than they would like and they felt the need to "fix" that.
I know that some police departments are hamstrung by similar rules in some cities.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1321 on: April 01, 2023, 11:50:59 AM »
^^^

What if the person is wearing a red hat or a Gadsden t-shirt?
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1322 on: April 01, 2023, 11:52:57 AM »
^^^

What if the person is wearing a red hat or a Gadsden t-shirt?

Call in the Black Helicopters

And the IRS
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #1323 on: April 01, 2023, 11:59:10 AM »
^^^

What if the person is wearing a red hat or a Gadsden t-shirt?

That's OK, because that's not a person.

That's a radical right-wing white supremacist insurrectionist.
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« Reply #1324 on: April 01, 2023, 02:20:53 PM »
That's OK, because that's not a person.

That's a radical right-wing white supremacist insurrectionist.

You left out facist Nazi.  (Yes, I know it's redundant, but that is what some of those idiots say.)
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