Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread

[WLJ]

How the blazes someone is suppose to keep this all straight (pun!) is beyond me.

[Bogie]

You're not supposed to be able to keep it straight.
 
<gigglesnort>
 
That's how it works. You are ALL guilty, ALL the time.
 
And you're guiltierer if you say that you aren't.

[RoadKingLarry]

Just wait.  One day "deadnaming", or whatever it's called then, will become a criminal offense.

I can't find the link but I have seen stories of schools calling "mis-gendering" someone a sex crime and the local police going along with it.
I'll keep looking for the story.

ETA- Not the one I was looking for but here are a few

https://politicalcorrectness.news/2020-09-08-misgendering-act-of-violence-according-to-the-left.html

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/03/18/canadian-man-jailed-after-misgendering-his-daughter/

https://www.them.us/story/california-court-case-misgendering-law-struck-down

[RoadKingLarry]

I don't know what it is but as soon as someone asks me my preferred pronoun that's the one I am using. :)

bob

Beep/Bop/Boop

[Ben]

Beep/Bop/Boop

Gina was prescient.

[Perd Hapley]

Anyone else notice that denying someone's actual gender is referred to as "affirming" their fake gender?

Also, instead of trans, why not use the term "pregender"? (As in pretender.)

[Ben]

Apparently not a parody:

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/06/30/toronto-police-ask-for-help-locating-missing-woman-and-people-have-questions-photo/

[WLJ]

Along those lines

We're in good hands

It’s official. As of June 19th, I now serve my nation as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the Department of Energy.

https://twitter.com/sbrinton/status/1542288527920185344

[Ben]

Along those lines

We're in good handshttps://twitter.com/sbrinton/status/1542288527920185344

An male or female SESer that was unconfused about being a man or a woman would never get away with dressing so inappropriately and unprofessionally at that level of government.

[WLJ]

*

[Ben]

A couple of anti gun morons (Eric Swalwell is one of them) get in an argument on who hates the NRA more. In the meantime, someone comments this:

Gen X
@WillConard
·
Follow
Replying to @RepSwalwell and @sarahkendzior
We are incredibly frustrated out here, my anxiety is through the roof, I’m actually considering moving overseas! I’m with you, but try to understand why people are angry at Democrats. It seems as though we’re just running in place & not seeing progress, is beating us down!

While I have certainly cussed and ranted over a couple of administrations, this "Oh, my anxiety!" type stuff is just beyond me. Lay down and die already, if that's what you want.

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/07/05/popcorn-eric-swalwell-turns-into-a-babbling-mess-and-whines-were-on-the-same-team-when-sarah-kendzior-drops-him-for-his-awful-nra-take/

[WLJ]

I wish they would leave and go to another country, would make it a heck of a lot easier to start trying to fix the problems they've created. We didn't have a lot of these problems until we started to "fix" things their way.

[WLJ]

Apparently Climate Change only effects women and girls or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl1ovEqNFog

[WLJ]

Apologizing for old shows

Friends creator says show used wrong pronouns for Chandler's trans parent
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62061739

[WLJ]

"Women are a subset of birthing people"

    Alternatively: women are a subset of birthing people. So ask yourself if you'd still be upset about the phrase "women and other birthing people." If the answer is yes, then… what you're upset about isn't the "erasure" of the word women, it's the inclusion of other groups.

    — Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) July 5, 2022

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/07/06/novelist-celeste-ng-has-a-message-for-all-you-transphobes-too-ignorant-to-acknowledge-things-like-women-are-a-subset-of-birthing-people/

[Ben]

I'm not sure that even ten years ago, that anyone would think this is "normal" for a politician:

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/07/07/50-cent-shares-epic-photoshop-of-biden-with-the-twerking-dem-from-rhode-island/

Also, 

[WLJ]

Over a $1.25 charge for extra sauce

WATCH: Customers Trash NYC Restaurant in French Fry Fracas Over Toppings Charge
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-customers-trash-nyc-restaurant-during-tirade-over-french-fries-toppings-charge/3765637/

[MechAg94]

"Women are a subset of birthing people"
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/07/06/novelist-celeste-ng-has-a-message-for-all-you-transphobes-too-ignorant-to-acknowledge-things-like-women-are-a-subset-of-birthing-people/

Should people keep comments to see just how much money she is willing to fork over? 

[Angel Eyes]

Over a $1.25 charge for extra sauce

WATCH: Customers Trash NYC Restaurant in French Fry Fracas Over Toppings Charge
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-customers-trash-nyc-restaurant-during-tirade-over-french-fries-toppings-charge/3765637/

The raw video:  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_7-9QilW1CQ

[Boomhauer]

Over a $1.25 charge for extra sauce

WATCH: Customers Trash NYC Restaurant in French Fry Fracas Over Toppings Charge
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-customers-trash-nyc-restaurant-during-tirade-over-french-fries-toppings-charge/3765637/

Ah yes a city full of culture.





A botulism culture…

[Pb]

Clown world.

[Ben]

One might make comparisons with monkeys flinging feces.

[Perd Hapley]

One might make comparisons with monkeys flinging feces.

Or not:

Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree,
Discussing things as they are said to be
Said one to the others, "Now listen, you two,
There’s a certain rumor that can’t be true,
That man descended from our noble race,
The very idea is a great disgrace!

“No monkey has ever deserted his wife,
Starved her babies, and ruined her life.
And you’ve never known a mother monk,
To leave her babies with others to bunk,
Or pass them on from one to the other ,
Till they scarcely know who is their mother.

“And another thing you'll never see,
A monk build a fence 'round a coconut tree,
And let the coconuts go to waste,
Forbidding all other monks to taste.
Why, if I put a fence around this tree,
Starvation would force you to steal from me.

“Here’s another thing a monkey won’t do -
Go out at night and get in a stew,
Or use a gun or club or knife
To take some other monkey’s life.
Yes, man descended, the ornery cuss,
But brother, he didn’t descend from us!”

[Pb]

Well, Perd... the author of that poem never worked a zoo.  One of our chimps had a baby that she was not taking care of.  To get the baby away from her, the keepers offered to trade her baby for a piece of fruit.  She accepted.

[Jim147]

What kind of fruit?