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[–]newguy 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

This trans stuff has become extremely boring and repetitive

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I agree, but it's important to pay attention to what they're doing, and to oppose it.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Also, laughter is a powerful weapon. People have a remarkable ability to put up with lots of criticism and abuse, but outright laughter is really difficult to ignore and continue on doing what you’re doing.

Allowing these people enough space to reveal their ridiculous beliefs and then ridiculing them and laughing at them will do more damage to their cause than just screaming abuse at them.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was just thinking that if the gender specials had managed to reign it in and not be so loud, demanding, unreasonable, violent, and/or outlandish until after laws were quietly changed and generations of the populace indoctrinated, it would be so much harder to counter, and it already is an uphill struggle when all the major platforms will silence dissent, including Twitter.

[–]newguy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I know what you mean, but does opposing something that would get no discussion otherwise, actually shut it down, or does it just fan the flames?

These things are made in to public spectacles because of the mindset you espouse, whereas if we just flat out ignored them, the cultural relevance would go away much more quickly.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd wager a large portion of the 20-somethings and younger crowd grew up accepting gender identity ideology as sacrosanct because there was no push back, nobody to say, hey this is rather silly. Instead the ideology was taught as fact, and they are in a position where they need to unlearn their indoctrination.

I mean, when did we ever decide we must pander to the desires of a minority in fear of them killing themselves. At some point that went from being nonsense nobody would consider, to the status quo backed by government and NGOs with attempts of varying success to codify these beliefs into law.

[–]newguy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree, but I think the best way to free them of this ideology is not to battle it to the hilt, because that will only make many of them more entrenched, as it's an emotional position and not a logical one. So by "attacking" them, they feel as victims, which in turn justifies their ideology, which emboldens them.

Some will see the light after a serious discussion, but many will just double down.

So I think the best way to disempower the weight this conversational topic has, is to ignore it entirely. But it is very hard in an environment where propaganda is being continuously fed to the masses regarding the subject.

There is one thing you can rely on the common person for: They get bored of things after so long. The trans fad is becoming very boring to talk about for many many people. Then they'll have to switch to something more emotionally salient. So if we avoid fanning the flames, maybe they'll drop it as a propaganda tool because it's not generating enough divide and conquer power. But it's a long game for sure.