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conservatives pick the weirdest most inconsequential hills to shit their pants on
Step 1: Pick an issue that is divisive*
Step 2: Boost it with stories about how bad the people on the wrong side are: won't someone think of the children?
Step 3: Watch the outrage donations roll on in
It's a playbook as old as time.
*Some people might call it divisive because one side is like "let's all become crabs and live in the ocean" vs the other side that's like "no let's continue using our opposable thumbs". But who am I to label whether one side is right and the other wrong?
Look, we don't get to choose if we want to be crab people, nature has just forced crab evolution on us
Oh great, the crab-apologists have showed up
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Look, I don't care what you do in the privacy of your own bathtub, but other people have to use the ocean and I don't want you putting any funny ideas in my kid's head about being a crab. His chitinous exoskeleton and claw are just a phase.
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So he's going to start going by Rafael now right?
Either that or Fled Cruise. Either way.
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Assigned
Rafael
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Birth
My god...
Everyone should start calling Cruz "she"/"her" and when she complains, tell her she's not allowed to use her preferred pronouns.
This is not a good thing.
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It shows people it's okay to misgender someone you don't like
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It won't feel bad for him. For him it's a joke that doesn't do any harm. For trans people getting misgendered is life and can deeply hurt
It also semi consciously feeds into the misogynistic trope of calling/implying that men are feminine as an insult. It's just a bad look all around
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Better to keep referring to he/him by he/his preferred pronouns, but just hammer in the point that he/him is using pronouns you keep saying both every time.
He/him being reminded of it every time is much worse, and doesn't invalidate trans peoples pronouns.
I think "it" is a better pronoun for Cruz - or maybe "It" given the whole evil clown thing.
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No, call him by his first name at all times.
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Wait until they hear what Nikki Haley's real name is.
Well? Don't leave me hanging.
I'm much too lazy to type her name into Google. But I'm just un-lazy enough to ask you.
Nimrata
Fucking WHAT?! Wow.
Ok. I won't make jokes about someone's name. I'll leave that to Trump and conservatives at large who judge people based on 2nd grader standards.
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Nimarata*, according to Wikipedia
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How could this possibly be ruled as Constitutional? Let alone any remaining shadow of 'party of small government' irony, that shipped sailed into the West a long, long time ago.
The article's title presents this in a misleading way. The bill in question wouldn't prevent people from using their preferred names and pronouns. What it would do is prohibit the government from spending federal funds to implement or enforce any rules or recommendations encouraging its employees and contractors to respect those names and pronouns.
So in other words this is an attempt at protecting hate-speech, not at restricting free-speech. Shitty, but probably not unconstitutional.
No word from Rafael yet on whether he thinks enforcing preferred names if how the Pentagon lost 6 trillion dollars
They never meant that "small government" thing; they were just chapped that the feds interfered with their racist bullshit at the state level.
Having a stacked hyper partisan supreme court makes anything constitutional.
Once again proving that when a conservative is really against something, they're doing it themselves.
Hey Texas, Collin Allred is going up against Rafael Cruz. You don't have to vote for the status quo, you could shake it up and put someone in there who isn't a complete shit-bag.
You don't have to vote for the status quo, you could shake it up and put someone in there who isn't a complete shit-bag.
But that's not how Texas does things. They only make things worse and call it freedom.
Oh my god it's already been 6 years
Rules for thee, not for me?
I’ve always liked Wilhoit’s Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
The irony
This is what's important of course. No need to do anything about the genocide they're funding.
Rafael thinks you peasants should not get the choice, but he does.
Typical.
Weird how Rafael Cruz is so upset over people using different names.
I wonder why Rafael Cruz is so bothered by this?
I am starting to think Mr. Cruz does not have the best interests of the LGBT in mind.
Oh, that's because he's a Christian Nationalist piece of shit.
I say that we embrace the wishes of people like Cruz, Boebert, Greene, etc and not use personal pronouns for them.
Example, "Cruz introduces bill to limit using preferred names, pronouns; critics note it uses a preferred name."
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