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Sen. Ted Cruz has introduced a bill that would limit the use of preferred names by trans people.
The irony, critics point out? The senator, whose legal name is Rafael Edward Cruz, uses a preferred name himself: Ted.

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[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 202 points 11 months ago

conservatives pick the weirdest most inconsequential hills to shit their pants on

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 79 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Step 1: Pick an issue that is divisive*

Step 2: Boost it with stories about how bad the people on the wrong side are: won't someone think of the children?

Step 3: Watch the outrage donations roll on in

It's a playbook as old as time.

*Some people might call it divisive because one side is like "let's all become crabs and live in the ocean" vs the other side that's like "no let's continue using our opposable thumbs". But who am I to label whether one side is right and the other wrong?

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Look, we don't get to choose if we want to be crab people, nature has just forced crab evolution on us

[-] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Oh great, the crab-apologists have showed up

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don't be so crabby

Crabs are the most perfect form in evolution. You will soon join us once you mold and reveal your exoskeleton, then you will know the perfection that are crabs.

chanting crab people crab people chanting

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Crab people! Crab people!

[-] Localhorst86@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago
[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Carcinisation (American English: carcinization)

If you're going to correct someone, do it right.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 11 months ago

You have it wrong, It's Gods will that we become crab people - it was ordained from the start of time

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Look, I don't care what you do in the privacy of your own bathtub, but other people have to use the ocean and I don't want you putting any funny ideas in my kid's head about being a crab. His chitinous exoskeleton and claw are just a phase.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Your kid will be fine once he molts.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Step 3 is missing the part "and ignore actual issues that affect us all but solutions would make rich people less rich so it's better to distract them"

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