Didnt they have that one hit “blowing on your stereo”?

Or was it “sun hits the skylight”?

What about “richard the shard”?

(This one might be a stretch but what about) “all-light”

Calling everyone to the left of you an extremist is also highly indicative of a conservative asshole.

As fellow an enlightened centrist myself, I often recommend the compromise of letting gays marry, but taking away their voting right.

Yet, the liberals are outraged by this idea, unwilling to meet in the middle.

So who’s the radical now?

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Ah thanks, I was just confused about OP saying they should shut up. As long as you say everyone should shut up, it’s fine…

You are the problem. The right wing nut jobs are in charge because chucklefucks like you can’t be fucked to give a good goddamn about anything outside of a narrow view in which you’re the goddamned misunderstood oppressed motherfuckers. You’re the “stop making race an issue” crowd. You’re the “women have the same rights as men now and should shut up” crowd.

I hate to break it to you, and I know you’re not going to hear it. You’re the person Martin Luther King was talking about in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. At the time, there was a “call to unity.” There was a perception that black Americans shouldn’t be protesting. That they should wait for the changes they want to just happen naturally. That if they stopped making such a fuss about equality, it’s just happen. Let me give you some quotes, in case it’s been awhile since you’ve studied it.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly … Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

You not only have a shallow understanding - your understanding is deliberately shallow and you revel in it as if it gives you some kind of intellectual validity. It does not.

And the first PC I built myself out of the parts I saved up for was a 286, bitch. The first game I played was on a Bell Labs Vax on an actual teletype using a coupler with a rotary phone.

It’s okay to be a nerd. We make shitloads of money and people are interested in what we say. You don’t need to be a dickweed.

Nobody gives a shit that queer, les, trans, bi, gay people exist.

Jesus Christ, you’re delusional if you actually believe that. Just for starters, queer people care a hell of a lot that they exist. Are they nobody to you? And what about the far right? They care a great deal about making queer people either run away, go into hiding, or die. And before you say it, no, I am absolutely not exaggerating or being dramatic. It is very fucking easy to find right wingers taking openly about their desires, and it’s equally easy to find news stories about queer people fleeing their homes are being murdered for being queer.

I kind of get what you mean and, while I think the way you’ve worded it is a bit cold and dehumanizing, I’m inclined to agree since I’m much more interested in what people do and how they act than what clothes they wear or whatever label they decide to brand themselves with.

At the same time… You don’t have to deeply care about how people see themselves in order to value their right to express themselves or be the person they want to be.

I have friends who transitioned from male to female. I still think of them as the same person and I don’t really care how they dress or what their personal anatomy is like, but I do feel proud and happy for them that they are living their best and working towards being the person they want to be, in the same way that I would feel good about myself if I lost that extra weight or whatever.

In other words, the clothes people wear, what genitalia they have, or what pronouns they label themselves with may be totally superficial and unimportant, but the happiness and authenticity that comes from living freely and being the person who you want to be are real and, I think, really important.

@thantik

I know this might blow your mind, but people can be and do multiple things at once.

I knew an astrophysicist who loved trashy romances. Instead of asserting what you want from the people around you when you interact with them, maybe consider that humans are complex and made up of many stages of evolution that forced us to be interested in the social lives of others. (Sometimes as a preservation instinct; is the friend of my friend going to convince them to withhold food because I’m different? Sometimes as entertainment; is this person I don’t know in a stable romantic raltionship?)

And as a result, take a moment and recognize that the “I’m respectful of other people’s privacy by not wanting to know about them” angle only works if everyone believes in Live and Let Live. Which is very obviously not the case.

If someone’s legal name was Robert, but they told you they go by Rob, would that be the same to you?

Right because people are just a sum of their accomplishments. And you said you don’t want to know anything about anyone. Now you’re pulling back from that to a different shittily explained opinion

Random people? He said ANYONE. Try reading

So yes, a person not caring to know anything about anyone let alone their names is a cubt

You think I vote republican? Those mother fuckers are nuts.

I thought by “gray area” you meant that you are roughly 50-50 on the parties. I apologize if I misunderstood.

I’d be interested to hear who you are voting for who’s not D or R, though I don’t expect you to doxx yourself with local election details. I do vote for third parties and independent candidates in some local elections when that’s viable. Even then, much of the time it’s the same candidate endorsed by one of the major parties. I support the adoption of ranked-choice voting (or something similar) at all levels of elections so that third parties in bigger elections can be more than spoilers. I lived through 2000. I saw how that goes.

Many other countries have a wide variety of parties and more political choice. I believe it’s possible for America to get there as well in the future. When it comes to the presidential election, like I said, I have to vote in the reality I live in and I don’t consider it a gray area. It sounds like we just disagree on what’s “gray” here.

The more local you get, the more subtleties there are.

The unfortunate reality is that some groups don’t have the luxury of just living their lives. They have to speak out to get equal treatment. And then the people who aren’t allowing them that luxury in the first place also speak up against them. If the bigots would just shut the fuck up and go away, we would have no problem

The same way I don’t want to deal with someones obsession or aversion with baking.

Except there are people who want to kill/hurt/make life impossible for anyone who wants to bake. So the people who do want to are understandably protesting for their right to be bakers.

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So if a large group of people started a movement to take the rights away from/kill all hermaphrodites, would you care? Probably not, right?