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Step 1: someone says trans people are bad and wrong

Step 1.5: live in a world providing plenty of evidence to the contrary. (No action required)

Step 2: attempt diplomacy by saying that statement is probably false and its use will be reacted to with force. (Often a previously stated rule and therefore no action required)

Step 3: use force.

The fact is, saying that anyone has "skipped diplomacy" is also disingenuous. The discussions bigots are trying to have aren't novel, they've been had to the extent that they are solved. No one "decided" they are bigots and have to get kicked out, it's a conclusion.

I'm with you, but understanding someone's view sometimes means acknowledging that it is, in fact, irrational. There are reasons some give as to why they think that cis women need protection from trans women, but those reasons are either not rational since the vast majority of evidence is to the contrary, or they are founded on the extreme minority of evidence that confirms them (meaning the search for evidence was conducted irrationally).

If I try to understand someone's point of view, restate it to them in a way they accept, and present overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and their response is to say the evidence is irrelevant because it's possible some of it was biased, that's irrational.

From my safe space discord servers mostly. And from Lemmy.

It's totally sexual assault.

But that amount of contact is assault whether it's sexual or not. I just meant that it's not like this was just catcalling.

Mods are big for me. I almost just don't play in modded games these days, with few exceptions. Not impossible to do that in multiplayer, but it has a whole new dimension of challenge to it.

I feel this. There's enough toxic masculinity and just toxic people in online spaces before you make everything always a competition.

They already said posts about socialism!

Sometimes it varies by neighborhood.

Do you mean fluoridated? Was the drinking water really chlorinated?

Mostly in schools, so not something a traveller is likely to see

Weird relationship to Socialism

Cold war really messed US up, mentally