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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2225 on: December 04, 2023, 12:07:42 PM »
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2226 on: December 04, 2023, 12:21:36 PM »
I suppose it labels me a nazi, but if someone is so weak that calling them by the wrong pronoun causes them to kill themselves, they were already too weak to live and were just an anchor on the human race and evolution.



Actually, I think they get upset if you DON'T call them by the wrong pronoun.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2227 on: December 04, 2023, 12:23:29 PM »
Actually, I think they get upset if you DON'T call them by the wrong pronoun.

If not that they'll find something, they always do.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2228 on: December 04, 2023, 12:24:51 PM »
Actually, I think they get upset if you DON'T call them by the wrong pronoun.

Likely. They seem to enjoy going everywhere with their phonecams on provoking people into calling them the "wrong" thing.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1731371573289103738
https://twitchy.com/laura-w/2023/12/03/transgender-youtuber-harasses-pizza-shop-owner-n2390445
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2230 on: December 04, 2023, 11:10:28 PM »
Imprisoning people for their own protection in a rubber room for their entire natural lives is also suicide prevention.

As is murder.

Doesn’t automatically make either one a good idea to do to a person you care about.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2231 on: December 05, 2023, 08:30:31 AM »
Men are better women again!

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A pair of transgender women won first and second place in a female race at the Illinois State Cyclocross Championships over the weekend, sparking fury among advocates for women's athletics.

The championships were held on December 3 and were comprised of some one dozen different competitions divided into men, women, and junior athlete categories.

But it was two biological men who placed atop the podium for the Women's Singlespeed category.

And don't you dare complain about it

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According to Reduxx, Chicago CrossCup's website notes that it will disqualify anyone who practices 'discrimination or harassment of any kind on the basis of race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, or any other stupid idea someone comes up with to belittle another racer.'

"Stupid idea"
Does pointing out this stuff is effectively destroying women's sports fall under that?

 Outrage as transgender women take gold AND silver medal at Illinois cycling championships: 'This makes me sick to my stomach!'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12826275/Transgender-cycling-Chicago-Illinois-biological-men-athlete.html

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2232 on: December 05, 2023, 09:53:27 AM »
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New movie about to be released on Daily Wire.  Looks like a throw back to 90's comedies.  If it is funny, it doesn't matter who makes it.

According to The Quartering it appears Rotten Tomatoes is blocking positive reviews of the movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlfWVG6v8bw
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2234 on: December 05, 2023, 03:37:33 PM »
You want Ireland? Because this is how you get Ireland
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2235 on: December 05, 2023, 04:31:12 PM »
I'm starting to get the sense people have had started to have enough of this BS. One side's reaction to the growing potential push back by the other may not be pretty if recent events are anything to go by.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2236 on: December 05, 2023, 06:29:11 PM »
Conform or else

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California retailers that refuse to have a gender-neutral section for children will be fined up to $500 under Gavin Newsom's new bill.
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Retailers would have to do this 'regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or for boys,' the bill said.

The legislation, Assembly Bill No. 10584, will be enacted on January 1, 2024, and if retail department stores choose not to comply, they will have to dish out a civil penalty of $250 or $500.

Department stores that are subject to the new laws will have to have a total of 500 or more employees, be physically located in California and sell 'childcare items or toys'

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My hope is this bill encourages more businesses across California and the U.S. to avoid reinforcing harmful and outdated stereotypes,' Low said.

So boys have penis, girls have vaginas is an "outdated stereotype"

 California retailers that refuse to have gender-neutral toys for children will be FINED up to $500 under new ultra woke Gavin Newsom law - after uproar over LGBT toys sold during Pride week
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12829429/California-retailers-gender-neutral-bill.html
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2237 on: December 05, 2023, 10:19:17 PM »
Imagine a parent's nightmare over this.

11 y.o. girl shares bed with TG boy on school trip
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/04/exclusive-school-assigned-girl-sleep-boy-who-identifies-trans-parental-notification/
https://thepostmillennial.com/school-assigns-11-year-old-girl-to-sleep-in-same-bed-as-boy-who-identifies-as-trans-parents-not-notified-report
Even posted by MSN.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christian-parents-complain-after-11-year-old-daughter-forced-to-share-bed-with-biological-male-on-school-trip/ar-AA1kZXZc
  :facepalm:  [barf]

The other student wasn't even from the same school.  Sounds intentional by someone.
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The Wailes’ 11-year-old daughter, who is identified in the letter as “D.W.,” was assigned to a room with three other students, according to the demand letter. Two of these students were girls from her school, and the third student was a boy who identified as a girl (named in the letter as “K.E.M.”) who went to a different school.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2238 on: December 06, 2023, 06:01:45 PM »
Load up the carts and waltz past store employees who aren't allowed to do *expletive deleted*it about it.
And guess who's paying for this *expletive deleted*it?

LMPD searching for two women surveillance appears to show steal felony amount of detergent from Lowes
https://www.wave3.com/2023/12/06/lmpd-searching-two-women-surveillance-appears-show-steal-felony-amount-detergent-lowes/

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2239 on: December 08, 2023, 11:58:29 AM »
Greatest Road Rage of All Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p3DBERIvFs

This is pretty old, but funny as hell.  Who picks a fight and expects to get their butt kicked by guys in kids costumes. 
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2240 on: December 08, 2023, 04:35:24 PM »
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/06/eric-adams-job-approval-rating-00130454

Clearly, New Yorkers need to throw this guy right out, and elect someone who's less of a right-wing TrumpHitler.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2241 on: December 09, 2023, 08:32:50 AM »
Hell has no fury......

Brazil man dies after shocking video shows 'wife setting him on fire in the middle of a store before watching him run out in flames'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12843417/Brazil-husband-wife-fire-dead.html
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2242 on: December 10, 2023, 06:14:26 PM »


I'm shocked this was not an actual headline. It's the most 2022 headline of 2022. Is that partly because it's fabricated?


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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2243 on: December 10, 2023, 06:16:55 PM »
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2244 on: December 11, 2023, 04:55:40 PM »
Failed for answering correctly

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An activist history teacher failed a Seattle student on a quiz for saying only women can get pregnant and that only men have penises.

A 10th grade Ethnic Studies World History teacher at Chief Sealth International High School in Seattle gave students a quiz titled, 'Understanding Gender vs. Sex.' The quiz provided a series of statements to label true or false, or questions with multiple choices.

The student’s mother wrote to the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH expressing 'frustration and anger.' She says she expressed concerns to the school, but was 'met with silence.'

'I keep trying to wrap my head around how it is legal to teach inaccurate information and force students to answer against their beliefs or receive negative scores,' she said to the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH. She asked for anonymity for fear her son would face retribution.

What the heck do the questions have to with history anyway?
Just wait until you find out what the mother said has been going on.

AYFKM? Seattle School Fails Student on Quiz for Answering That Men Can't Get Pregnant
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2023/12/11/ayfkm-seattle-school-fails-student-on-quiz-for-answering-that-men-cant-get-pregnant-n2390719
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2245 on: December 14, 2023, 11:25:39 AM »
Meanwhile at the While House

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A bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite.
https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1735074586721468855

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2246 on: December 14, 2023, 12:02:24 PM »
Meanwhile at the While House
https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1735074586721468855

Happy Holidays from President Snow.

May the odds be ever in your favor.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2247 on: December 14, 2023, 04:41:47 PM »
And of course the Babylon Bee couldn't let that pass them by without a shot

Jill Biden Shares Charming Christmas Performance By Twins From ‘The Shining’
https://babylonbee.com/news/jill-biden-shares-charming-christmas-performance-by-twins-from-the-shining
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2248 on: December 14, 2023, 04:46:56 PM »
Elon is going to kill us all!

Pedestrians, already dying at record levels, now face Elon Musk’s Cybertruck
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/pedestrians-already-dying-record-levels-now-face-elon-musks-cybertruck-rcna128603

Followed by the Babylon Bee

Cybertruck To Come With Deployable Scoop For Removing Climate Change Protesters From Roadway
https://babylonbee.com/news/cybertruck-to-come-with-deployable-scoop-for-removing-climate-change-protesters-from-roadway





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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #2249 on: December 14, 2023, 06:24:33 PM »
Elon is going to kill us all!

Pedestrians, already dying at record levels, now face Elon Musk’s Cybertruck
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/pedestrians-already-dying-record-levels-now-face-elon-musks-cybertruck-rcna128603

Followed by the Babylon Bee

Cybertruck To Come With Deployable Scoop For Removing Climate Change Protesters From Roadway
https://babylonbee.com/news/cybertruck-to-come-with-deployable-scoop-for-removing-climate-change-protesters-from-roadway

I love how EVs are made out of unicorn wishes and dolphin dreams and will save Earth from certain doom & destruction unless Elon Musk is involved.
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