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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #50 on: May 18, 2021, 11:10:43 AM »
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #51 on: May 19, 2021, 05:58:16 PM »
Now there's two of them

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Today is a day I'm so happy to share more of my life with you all- I am proud to let you know that I identify as non-binary & will officially be changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward 💖

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #52 on: May 19, 2021, 06:52:06 PM »
I don't see what the problem is. I'm still a meat popsicle.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #53 on: May 19, 2021, 08:20:30 PM »
I don't see what the problem is. I'm still a meat popsicle.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #54 on: May 19, 2021, 09:46:50 PM »
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #55 on: May 19, 2021, 10:23:53 PM »
Smoke yooou!

Wrong answer.



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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #56 on: June 15, 2021, 09:58:11 AM »
Really?

Blue-checked Canadian lawyer suggests young people take up ‘#SexWork on the side’ because capitalism will exploit them anyway
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/06/15/blue-checked-canadian-lawyer-suggests-young-people-take-up-sexwork-on-the-side-because-capitalism-will-exploit-them-anyway/
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #57 on: June 15, 2021, 10:24:31 AM »
A few years ago there was an article about a woman in Germany who was told by the unemployment office to consider sex work (which is legal there I believe). 

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #58 on: June 15, 2021, 10:35:48 AM »
Really?

Blue-checked Canadian lawyer suggests young people take up ‘#SexWork on the side’ because capitalism will exploit them anyway
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/06/15/blue-checked-canadian-lawyer-suggests-young-people-take-up-sexwork-on-the-side-because-capitalism-will-exploit-them-anyway/
Thinking about this:  There is little suggestion to reform the oligarchy capitalism we have today.  Now they not only want to exploit young people at work, but also exploit them outside of work.  No mention of strip clubs?  And no mention of doing anything toward the future to get out of the exploited position. 

Better suggestion might be to tell them to look for business/investment opportunities on the side.  Look for ways to build income separate from their primary job.  It wasn't at the forefront of my thinking when I was younger.  Wish it had been.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #59 on: June 15, 2021, 05:16:21 PM »
Thinking about this:  There is little suggestion to reform the oligarchy capitalism we have today.  Now they not only want to exploit young people at work, but also exploit them outside of work.  No mention of strip clubs?  And no mention of doing anything toward the future to get out of the exploited position. 

Better suggestion might be to tell them to look for business/investment opportunities on the side.  Look for ways to build income separate from their primary job.  It wasn't at the forefront of my thinking when I was younger.  Wish it had been.

That would make sense but the left is absolutely obsessed with sex and sexual stuff it’s how they view the world, which explains the utter insanity of the woke crowd.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #60 on: October 05, 2021, 07:41:57 AM »
Meanwhile at a "Gender creative" baby shower
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https://twitter.com/V_its_me888/status/1444122382227103744
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #61 on: October 05, 2021, 08:14:50 AM »
A few years ago there was an article about a woman in Germany who was told by the unemployment office to consider sex work (which is legal there I believe).
I think you're right about what's legal there - I saw a "sex store" tucked in among the other businesses when transiting the Frankfurt airport. Not sure exactly what they were selling - probably porn & toys of some type.

But in any case, it's not 1945 any more - today there ARE things going around that a shot of penicillin won't cure.  :facepalm:
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #62 on: October 05, 2021, 08:56:29 AM »
That would make sense but the left is absolutely obsessed with sex and sexual stuff it’s how they view the world, which explains the utter insanity of the woke crowd.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #63 on: October 07, 2021, 11:07:07 AM »
I think this fits here.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #64 on: October 07, 2021, 03:51:15 PM »
Experts Predict LGBTQ Acronym Could Circle The Earth 3 Times By 2022
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At publishing time, horrified leftists had suddenly realized the acronym would cover every single person on earth, making the 2SLGBTQQIAA++ community not special at all.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #65 on: October 07, 2021, 04:56:36 PM »
Google and Youtube now demonetizing "climate deniers". Soon the only opinions allowed will be the big tech opinions.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/10/07/google-and-youtube-will-prohibit-climate-deniers-from-monetizing-their-content/
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #66 on: October 07, 2021, 05:13:28 PM »
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #69 on: October 12, 2021, 05:51:48 PM »
I posted this somewhere else a while back, but it really belongs here:

https://slate.com/technology/2017/02/counter-lies-with-emotions-not-facts.html
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #70 on: October 12, 2021, 05:59:36 PM »
So he's basically another Al Gore

How dare you? This man is far more honest than Gore.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #71 on: October 12, 2021, 07:44:05 PM »
Google and Youtube now demonetizing "climate deniers". Soon the only opinions allowed will be the big tech opinions.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/10/07/google-and-youtube-will-prohibit-climate-deniers-from-monetizing-their-content/

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #72 on: October 13, 2021, 11:43:19 PM »
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #73 on: October 18, 2021, 08:24:58 PM »
Barking mad
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‘Angry, scared, and confused’: Oberlin student’s anxiety compounded by fact that radiator installers might be cisgendered men
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/10/18/angry-scared-and-confused-oberlin-students-anxiety-compounded-by-fact-that-radiator-installers-might-be-cisgendered-men/
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #74 on: October 18, 2021, 08:31:25 PM »
Barking mad
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‘Angry, scared, and confused’: Oberlin student’s anxiety compounded by fact that radiator installers might be cisgendered men
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/10/18/angry-scared-and-confused-oberlin-students-anxiety-compounded-by-fact-that-radiator-installers-might-be-cisgendered-men/

So men are only allowed in there in the Summer when it's empty? Then I guess when their toilets back up, they'll have to just live with it for the school year. I don't think there is a big population of trans plumbers for them to call on.

I actually like to see stuff like this. They should spread the word to all the lgtbqx2f7sts people - don't call any "cisgendered" men to fix stuff for you.
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