Signtist

It’s just “boymode” written to look old-timey. I haven’t been exposed to much trans lingo, and only know the definitions from context, but I think the MTF “Lord” said she was presenting as a boy but was seen as a girl anyway (male fail[eth]) and was happy.

My dumbass thought her name was Boyemodeth.

Fair, I read the “should die” as “should be fought, and ultimately killed if necessary” rather than “should be rounded up and massacred.” I do think that the notion that people can change is more often used to excuse the bad deeds of unrepentant people than to actually redeem someone. Sure, people can change, and if they do, great, but if you avoid fighting them because you’re always holding out for a change that will never come, then you’re losing the chance you have to make real change.

I do agree, and it’s the only solution for the paradox of tolerance. We tried the “make them stay quiet about their bigotry, and it will fade away” tactic already, and all it did was make the bigotry fester under the surface until it erupted into what we have today.

If we overthrow the system and enact socialized medicine with therapy available to all citizens, maybe we could nip bigotry in the bud before it takes hold in a person’s soul, but once someone has decided to be intolerant, I believe it stays with them until they die.

I was popular in college because I was good at coming up with parody lyrics for songs on the spot. The thing I didn’t tell people is that the “parody” lyrics were just the first thing my brain came up with before it actually processed the words enough to figure out the real lyrics.

It’s still a crime, because corpos and their lap dogs in the government decide what’s a crime. It’s not unethical, however, which is the real metric you should be using to determine what you should and shouldn’t do.

I mean, sure, if someone is a republican and thinks book burning is bad it’d be hypocritical, but I’d be surprised if a significant amount of conservatives actually believe book burning is bad; it’s one of the classic forms of thought suppression, which is what they’re all about. They see the world shifting further and further away from their outdated hateful beliefs, and want nothing more than to force it back. It’s one of the largest drivers for their entire resurgence over the last decade.

Being from one of the green areas, I’ve definitely heard it before, but rarely as the primary way of saying it. When I hear it, it’s usually added for comedic effect along the lines of “I was doing donuts yesterday. Ya know, just whipping shitties.”

Yeah, maybe they were screaming because it was a good shit!

I wasn’t trying to discredit the validity of its use, I was trying to say that it’s valid specifically because it’s used. It doesn’t matter if you want to say “I’m figuratively dying of thirst.” or “I’m literally dying of thirst.” since they convey the same meaning, and are interpreted as such by the listener.

I always felt like this was a weird argument. Language is always in flux. It’s why the definition of “literally” now includes a definition that it’s a synonym of “figuratively” since people used it that was so much.

If enough people think gif should be pronounced like “god”, then it should. If the “jif” pronunciation has enough people who use it, then that’s valid, too. Hell, if a bunch of people started legitimately saying it should be a homonym with the word “plankton,” even that’d be valid.

Words are about conveying meaning; the same meaning is intended with both pronunciations, and understood by the people hearing it. There’s nothing to argue about.

Yeah, I was confused about why a nihilist wouldn’t want to live. I guess some people tie their will to live so strongly to their sense of meaning that they can’t fathom someone still wanting to live if they don’t believe that things exist for a reason.

The new season premiers in the spring.

Everyone thinks they’ll be Neo, when really they’ll be bystander #5 that gets turned into an agent just to shoot at him once and miss.

Yup, 3 years of WoW with no mic did so much more for my typing speed than typing lessons ever did.