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  • @MunkysUnkEnz0
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    771 month ago

    For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.

    I ran the numbers on sex changes and it’s like .001 of the population. It’s a non-issue.

    The real issues are homelessness, inequality, Internet privacy, poisons in our food and workers’ rights…

    Not fucking pronouns.

    • @Sterile_Technique
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      421 month ago

      For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.

      They don’t. It’s classic divide and conquer tactics to package up the general population into nice bite-sized chunks that they can destroy individually with minimal resistance from the others. Exact same shit is how the Nazis rose to power.

        • @Sterile_Technique
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          181 month ago

          “wE wOulD nEveR LEt tHAt haPpen hEre!” /headsand

          - dipshits in the US who think we’re somehow better than the average German citizen in the 1930s

    • Rozaŭtuno
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      301 month ago

      They don’t care. The tactic is to have a minority that you can blame for all the bad things.

      100 years ago it was the jews secretly running the world, today it’s the evil trans people and immigrants conspiring to destroy The West™.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 month ago

      Got to distract from the real issues somehow. Gotta keep that wealth extraction and concentrating system of exploitation alive. Can’t have the slave rising up to overthrow their masters again…

    • ArchRecord
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      1 month ago

      Two core reasons:

      1. Demonization. They need someone to demonize, that distracts voters and the general populace away from their own misdeeds, and lack of functional policy. If you’re too busy getting angry at the trans people, you won’t strike against the Billionaires.
      2. Insecurity. If the world isn’t actually as simple as you thought, your entire ideology is based on putting people into given labels and boxes to make your life easier, idealizing a nonexistent past, etc, then the world changing in any non-standard way is seen as something to be extremely afraid of. This is also what drives their concerns over immigrants (“replacing” their community’s racial dynamic), homeless people (“not wanting to work” like they did), climate change (this couldn’t possibly happen because then the industries and consumption you had your whole life would have to change), progressive education and scientific growth (learning new things about how what we used to think was wrong), etc. It’s all rooted in just wanting things to stay the same.
    • JackbyDev
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      230 days ago

      They don’t care, they just need an other to blame to get everyone scared of.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      They need an ‘enemy’ to rally people against and all the usual suspects are no longer politically expedient

    • @Fedizen
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      28 days ago

      https://thenewinquiry.com/the-scapegoating-machine/

      Peter Thiel has many times loudly stated his goal since 9/11: Create scapegoats so the public has somebody to blame for their suffering and his fervent belief this will keep billionaires safe. My guess is most billionaires see it this way.

      if you want to see a way to defeat this idea look up Thiel’s interview with Piers Morgan after Luigi Mangione allegedly killed Brian Thompson

    • @[email protected]
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      130 days ago

      Well, eggs are back to $1 a dozen and everyone has housing and excellent healtcare coverage, so you can focus on renaming gulfs and prosecuting minorities…

    • @ynazuma
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      -161 month ago

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