ToastedPlanet

This drama got started over not capitalizing a pronoun. From a perspective of wanting to get people's pronouns correct, the underling reason why a group of people would want pronouns referring to members of that group capitalized doesn't matter. The fact a person asked for the pronouns in question to be capitalized should be reason enough to do so.

There are people who use emojis as pronouns. Like (🙂🎃/💃🕶️) or 🎱. The combinations are unique to every individual and can change. These people's experience with gender is highly individual and cannot be put into words. They are all welcome and accepted by the LGBTQ+ community.

https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Emojiself_Pronouns

I'm recommenting this from another post, about this same topic, in this community that got removed. I'm seeing the same kind of discourse here.

Xenogender is a known part of the LGBTQ+ community.

https://new.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Xenogender

https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Xenogender

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/need-know-xenogender/

https://weareher.com/xenogender/

Godgender, in this case specifically Goddessgender, is a xenogender.

https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Godgender

https://gender.fandom.com/wiki/Godgender

Please don’t engage in pulling up the ladder. These people have a different experience with gender that doesn’t conform to society’s arbitrary constructs of gender. Goddesses and gods are something people made up. Women and men, as gender roles, are things people made up. People are real. When we disregard the experiences of people to legitimize ourselves we are harming real people.

The perceived legitimacy gained by excluding people whose experiences don’t match our own is ephemeral. It’s division for the sake of placating the people whose perceptions and beliefs should be challenged. The christo-fascists who want trans people dead will not be swayed by any amount of legitimacy. No one is good enough for a fascist, let alone someone who isn’t cis and straight.

That someone can just say that they identify as an attack helicopter and you’re transphobic for not respecting them. How did a transphobic joke go all the way into becoming something that queer people use against each other?

Xenogender is a known part of the LGBTQ+ community.

https://new.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Xenogender

https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Xenogender

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/need-know-xenogender/

https://weareher.com/xenogender/

Godgender, in this case specifically Goddessgender, is a xenogender.

https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Godgender

https://gender.fandom.com/wiki/Godgender

Please don't engage in pulling up the ladder. These people have a different experience with gender that doesn't conform to society's arbitrary constructs of gender. Goddesses and gods are something people made up. Women and men, as gender roles, are things people made up. People are real. When we disregard the experiences of people to legitimize ourselves we are harming real people.

The perceived legitimacy gained by excluding people whose experiences don't match our own is ephemeral. It's division for the sake of placating the people whose perceptions and beliefs should be challenged. The christo-fascists who want trans people dead will not be swayed by any amount of legitimacy. No one is good enough for a fascist, let alone someone who isn't cis and straight.

I would be excited to go to bat for Harris.

If people seriously can't be asked to get behind her, then they have little credibility that they want to stop the christo-fascist takeover. She has name recognition, VP experience, gets access to Biden's war chest, is 59 as opposed to 81, and is a woman of color. And she's weird in a memeable way.

The fact that the Democratic Party moved their virtual convention back to the start of August signals that they are serious about discussing if Biden should drop out. Ultimately it is Biden's decision.

I'm waiting for Biden to make a decision to drop out or his nomination in the virtual convention, whichever comes first. I think it's still more likely that he stays in. If Biden is the nominee I'm going to tell people to vote for him. If Harris is the nominee I'm going to tell people to vote for her. I'm going to tell people to vote blue either way.

People have to want things to get better. If people vote blue in November then we will have an opportunity to make things better. If the fascists take power, they will kills millions of people.

It's the universe where enough people didn't vote. If everyone who says stuff like this voted, we wouldn't have had Donald Trump as president the first time.

People are incredibly rational. We can put people on the moon and send rovers to Mars. We are working on fusion reactors and quantum computers. Humanity is really good at rationality. People are really uniformed and lack critical thinking skills. Those things have to be learned.

MAGA supporters think they are acting in their own self-interest. They lack true information and the critical thinking skills to challenge the false information that they've been given. Given that they have been misled they then act in a rational way to their own destruction. Trump's supporters think he's going to make America great again. So they vote for him. They don't check their zip code. They don't check the polls. They are convinced that a second Trump presidency is in their own self-interest. So they do the rational thing of showing up and voting for him.

If all those votes were in already blue states it wouldn’t have changed anything.

That's ridiculously unlikely. Also, what's a blue state now may be a swing state on election day.

They’re not going to, like I did, not vote for the presidential candidate because I keep an eye on the polls and know that it’s going 2:1 to someone but continue to vote down ballot.

Polls gauge approval, which is only an approximation for who people are going to vote for. The polls aren't supposed to be a guide for who to vote for. Vote for democracy and against fascism.

We’d all be well-served to stop thinking of voters as rational people.

It's better to think of people as self-interested. Being self-interested does not imply a person will necessarily act or even know how to act in their own self-interest. If life was a game of perfect of information the vast majority of people would make decisions that were actually in their own self-interest. As opposed to real life where global temperatures and fascism are on the rise. It's not for a lack of rationality that people are sleep walking into fascism. It's a lack of knowledge and critical thinking skills. edit: typo

There's nothing careful about it. There are posts and comments glowing like they're radioactive.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president

The difference in the 2020 election was about 7 million votes. Even with the electoral college, another 40 million votes not impacting the 2024 election would be statistically improbable. Biden would win in an unprecedented landslide.

We know what states have been swing states before. We don't know which states will be swing states in 2024 with 100% accuracy. If enough people didn't vote, any state would become a swing state. If everyone who has said "your vote for president won't matter" or equivalent voted we would see radically different results in US elections.

It's been down for about 10 minutes. The entire canvas will be down until they fix the issue, so there's no way to access it unfortunately.

There is currently an issue. One of the devs is working on it.