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MAGA voters couldn’t identify a pronoun in high school. How are they supposed to figure it out now?
They could read the Bible: I am he
Doesn’t go far enough, remove pronouns from the email body too.
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You used it
Someone’s about to get fired…
Don’t think whom is a pronoun, is it?
Small government regulating pronouns in worker’s email signatures.
Regulations For Thee but Not for Me
Does that mean no-one can call him ‘President’ Trump or ‘Mr’ President any more?
Isn’t president just a regular noun?
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Thanks for the hot tip!
Not being a smarmy goit is cool
Go for it
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.
They need an ‘enemy’ to rally people against and all the usual suspects are no longer politically expedient
Two core reasons:
- 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.
- 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.
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™.
Trans are a small portion of the US and few people will care if they are rounded up and sent to camps. Doing so then normalizing that kind of behavior.
100 years ago they were also persecuting trans people. Here’s a photo of them burning books in 1933, some of which were from the Institute of Sexual Science after it was raided by the Nazis. And it only got worse from there. Here’s a whole article about it.
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.
And once again the population isn’t ready…
“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
Despite people perhaps still believing this, I believe it was largely disproven in the 1960s by the Milgram experiment.
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…
The same can be said for all those years wasted shaming people into using gender neutral language and adding pronouns to communications
Maybe we should not waste any time on this
Sorry to all the Blakes, Dylans, Ashleys, Francises, Shannons, Frankies, Charlies, Rorys, Blairs, Leslies, Angels, Billies, Sams, Kellys, Danas, Harleys, Adins, Caseys, and all the other non-binary/gender neutral names that I can’t think of right now.
-signed a person with a non-binary name
Names are nouns not pronouns
Even for gender cishet people a Dylan, Casey or Sam might be a “he/him” or “she/her” and its just not obvious from the name.
So?
Does that mean we all have to waste our time with pronouns?
I can think of only one time I thought a female was a male from their name. It was not a problem. The name was Noel
Seems like the name argument is no argument at all
waste our time with pronouns?
What does this even mean?
Why use pronoun when no pronoun do trick?
Don’t you think it’s more of a waste of time to throw a bitch fit about it?
we, our, and I are all pronouns. Yes, we pretty much need to use pronouns.
Oh you’re not a sane person.
So?
Does that mean all have to waste time with pronouns?
Can think of only one time thought a female was a male from name. Was not a problem. The name was Noel
Seems like the name argument is no argument at all
Sounds good ma’am. Have a great one
Pronouns are optional. Nobody is forcing you to list them.
Finally. Something that will bring down the cost of groceries…
Try stopping eating animals. Huge cut in groceries
Don’t you know that adding your pronouns to an email costs an entire 6-10 bytes? There are children starving in Africa and you’re wasting your bytes on pronouns! Shame on you.
And, the tariffs will bring them up
This is so stupid. I know plenty of cishet people who include their pronouns in their sig because they have a gender neutral name.
Or, in my case, for solidarity and normalizing it.
Yes, this is why they care. It’s part of woke ideology.
That’s why I do it too!
That is why I do it three!
My name tag at work also has my pronouns on it.
Ty for being an ally, king.
Of course it’s daft to mandate what people can and can’t put in their email footers but I don’t get why people put pronouns in footers.
I’m cis male and he/him. Others can call refer to me as it/them or she/her if they wish.
I dislike bananas but I don’t put that in my email footer.
I haven’t seen it in a while anyway. I thought it was a fad from the late 10s
Privilege. Privilege is the reason you don’t understand.
Of course. How else will we prevent future aviation disasters?
And lower the price of eggs
Eggs costing a lot is a good thing. Fossil fuels too. Switch to something better for the climate
I’ve never done this, but this would make me start doing it
I, too, dislike being employed.
But seriously most people will not risk their livelihood for it. It is almost guaranteed to end up in court like so many other of Trump’s bullshit policies.
They’re getting fired eventually anyway, they had pronouns in their sig in the first place.
Got a source for that, or are you making up your own inflamatory “facts” again?
…Trump offered all federal employees 7 months salary to quit. He signed two executive orders today to unilaterally dissolve some federal agencies.
You logically cannot believe hes not in his night of long knives period. Someone with the care to put pronouns in their work communication isn’t loyal to Trump, and thus logically wouldn’t survive the firing and agency shutdowns Trump is currently actively doing.
I get you disliked China and Chinese people but are you really letting that poison your logic to the point you’re ignoring reality. Is your insistence that Chinese people are wrong in all things worth not paying attention to the half dozen executive orders a day which is actively getting the US government?
So no. Just more lies and distortions. Trump is plenty bad without making up lies.
My antipathy is towards those who, like you, consistently advocate for the authoritarian CCP, whilst also trying to incite people against their own governments.
I’ll start requesting people to use thee/thou soon.
Does that include Mr. Mrs. and other gendered titles?
That’s not a pronoun, but it could function as a replacement to skirt this ruling, assuming it doesn’t include gendered honorifics.
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that’s not so much a joke as it is a genuinely good idea
Of course not, those are heteronormative.
And yet again, the Tangerine Palpatine is focusing on stupid shit.
Farmers unable to gather their harvest? The working and middle classes being squeezed into oblivion? Grocery prices skyrocketing? Unknown drones taunting our military bases? Military helicopters colliding with commercial jets?
Nah, none of that stuff matters! Instead we just focus on fucking pronouns in emails!
What an absolute fucking joke.
Edit: fixed a typo.
Nah, none of that stuff matters!
No, not to him, that’s the point.
How much more deliberate in their oppressing and exploiting do those in power need to be before people stop expecting any different?
They’re there to serve themselves, not society
The communist leader of northern Venezuela is mandating how to conduct your business, how to write, how to speak.
Party of small government, rule of law and free markets.
Mexican here. We’re Northern Venezuela. We’ll let you have Northern Cuba.
What about the people who often have DDoD, OCIS, NCIS, CCNA, CCNP, A+, Ph.D, MA, MBA, BA, BS, K12, SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS after their names? Can we get rid of title abuse then never focus on pronouns?
Man, I spent a lot of money and time for my post-nominals, I don’t care if they’re 100% irrelevant to what I do, they’re getting used in every god damn email.
(Helps that I only have one, though. And to be clear, I am happy to vehemently argue this point for months/years to steal focus from pronouns).
snrk A+… i always get a giggle when somebody actually includes that one
App can go except for “SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS”. Because that one is SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS!
Mr,Mrs, Miss, JR, the III is dumb as fuck also.
All fascists need to take dirt naps
