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Ilikepurple

(791 posts)
28. I'm trying to understand the point of this?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 01:17 AM
Sep 2025

Local Native Americans would get the MAGA joke that medical science should be responded to with a slur, so we should to? Vote Democrat 2025! Is your point that the democratic party’s needs more trans jokes? I’m guessing it’s that using a person’s preferred pronouns deserves derision if that pronoun doesn’t match the sex assigned at birth. “Two spirits” is an engineered term designed to capture the multifarious gender role nuances found in Indigenous American history. The problem is we are not a monolith, neither by tribe or by individual within a tribe. Some of us don’t like myths imposed on our culture from without. We are also just as likely to punch down as any other human. There are a lot of conversations to be had about transgender issues and the use of the term “two spirits”, but I don’t find set up and punchline “pronouns” funny.

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This is how the MAGA think: [View all] applegrove Sep 2025 OP
Well, they DON'T think. But okay. Aristus Sep 2025 #1
You beat me to it! BigmanPigman Sep 2025 #6
"Most people believe they are thinking soldierant Sep 2025 #17
I used to laugh at Limbaugh popsdenver Sep 2025 #36
Absolutely stupid, and there's no explaining or trying to inform them. Just fawking stupid. a kennedy Sep 2025 #2
They are as deeply committed to maintaining their ignorance as they are to the orange menace. nt Trueblue Texan Sep 2025 #40
And they vote. progressoid Sep 2025 #3
They're allowed to drive and operate heavy machinery. Some of them Maru Kitteh Sep 2025 #13
And breed. n/t dixiegrrrrl Sep 2025 #37
And they reproduce! 3catwoman3 Sep 2025 #51
mythical health class usonian Sep 2025 #4
LOL popsdenver Sep 2025 #41
Yep. I've had similar experiences with them. Always with the dismissive attack comments Solly Mack Sep 2025 #5
I must be lucky since I am not aware of any MAGA BigmanPigman Sep 2025 #7
Very blue area in NY here; this person would get laughed out of dodge and the town next door too. Hellbound Hellhound Sep 2025 #9
I'm trying to understand the point of this? Ilikepurple Sep 2025 #28
Rural red area here. It gets discouraging. Solly Mack Sep 2025 #10
Discouraging is an understatement. BigmanPigman Sep 2025 #12
There is no limit to the intellectual depths the Republican Party will drag us down to, and they like it that way. Karasu Sep 2025 #8
Pronouns? BidenRocks Sep 2025 #11
The GOP are so fucking stupid now that many if not most of them fail to realize that pronouns are a basic element of Karasu Sep 2025 #15
Lymphoma survivor bmichaelh Sep 2025 #14
Never play chess against pigeons sakabatou Sep 2025 #16
When they have no facts azureblue Sep 2025 #18
Here's to those of us... WestMichRad Sep 2025 #19
"Us", "we"; yep. Aristus Sep 2025 #21
I don't hold back of these people ... aggiesal Sep 2025 #20
They're a KKKult of ignorant, racist fuckheads Orrex Sep 2025 #22
this is why people like RFK Jr get the nod Skittles Sep 2025 #23
Dude Mblaze Sep 2025 #24
You'd be surprised (or maybe not, LOL) by the sheer number of conservatives on social media who seem genuinely Karasu Sep 2025 #27
I think I would have told him.... lastlib Sep 2025 #25
I've said it, and said it... Hieronymus Phact Sep 2025 #26
That's how I generally dealt with right-wing asswagons Oeditpus Rex Sep 2025 #29
glad to see i'm not the only one Hieronymus Phact Sep 2025 #31
Hey there, your expertise and schooling DOES NOT TRUMP their science denying stupidity! Brainfodder Sep 2025 #30
Fox News....these people did not come up with this on their own. surfered Sep 2025 #32
Smug in their ignorance dlk Sep 2025 #33
"But (insert shitdiot influencer/tiktok person here) said..." and flvegan Sep 2025 #34
All I got is, Sweet Mother of God!!!! 1WorldHope Sep 2025 #35
Sounds like a person destined to die of raw milk Johonny Sep 2025 #38
With a world full of information at our fingertips EnergizedLib Sep 2025 #39
They have absolutely no critical thinking skills Chicagogrl1 Sep 2025 #42
If breathing required the anility to think intelligently lots of these folks... 3catwoman3 Sep 2025 #53
Pronouns? How about advanced degrees? How about Ilsa Sep 2025 #43
Brainwashed MadScout Sep 2025 #44
That's because they live in their Fox News/magat bubble where nobody will say to them paulrevere2018 Sep 2025 #45
Social media made stupidity contagious. sop Sep 2025 #46
The positive side it has killed more than a few gordianot Sep 2025 #47
Wow, just wow. Un fkn believable the idiocy of the MAGATs. n/t iluvtennis Sep 2025 #48
"You" is a pronoun. Sparkly Sep 2025 #49
The cult of ignorance Beartracks Sep 2025 #50
Ha! You said MAGA think. Good one! Iggo Sep 2025 #52
Using authority is not the best way to explain it, rather use history as is explains where the idea came from andym Sep 2025 #54
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