Musk has his own marketing apparatus in China as well, and the government has been looking the other way because this feud will benefit them in the long run.

For whatever reason we are not understanding each other. I don’t think I can restate it any more clearly. I guess we just have to leave it at that.

Let me put it another way. You are wrong in regards to trans participation in sports but not because you are being a contrarian. You are also wrong to use your contrarian stance to justify your opinion. Hopefully that clears things up.

I’m not saying you’re wrong because you’re contrarian, most of the people here fall into the category. What I am saying is that using the fact that an opinion is contrarian is not evidence that it is correct.

It’s frankly disgusting to compare this to people wanting free Netflix. I know that’s not exactly what’s happening here but I think we’re loosing the plot.

Contrarian has a definition, it isn’t relative to what my opinion is but the mainstream. The point is you’re using the fact that your opinions are contrarian as evidence that your opinions are correct. It is funny.

Like I said elsewhere, you’re competing with the internet for the most contrarian take. You revealed that trans athletes is not an issue you support because they are such a small group of the whole. But when you feel insecure or challenged about your “hot take” you do the contrarian line of “it’s impossible for 100% of the people on the group to agree” as if this is a matter of opinion and not facts. As long as it is rooted in opinions, you are free to claim the most contrarian take possible.

T is only one letter of 4+. And trans-women is only half of T. And athlete trans women is a small subset of that. And athlete trans women that want to play in women’s leagues are a subset of that.

Wow that’s revealing more than you probably wanted.

Nah, this is just a contrarian contest.

That is a good point, and I think the difficult part is the initial change. Once you connect to a revolutionary/vanguard community with it’s own cultural riches on the other end then it is as you say, the less exhausting option.

It’s like saying the Republicans are right that you should be scared of immigrants and then being surprised when people vote out of fear for the person who will hurt those immigrants more. They didn’t campaign on mass deportation as one has claimed, but they did justify people’s fears of immigrants.

Revolution sounds exhausting. Blaming voters means I can simply wait for other people to change by learning the right lessons even though they never seem to.

It’s not just protesting though, we use it to train and organize people so later we can respond when the time comes. We need a diversity of tactics which is why I don’t criticize how people protest anymore, as long as you are causing good trouble then you are not the problem.

That was just from Trump’s first term. Fuck.

My daycare closed for a day so they could get their passports “just in case”. This shit is infuriating.

I wonder how much of it is vibe coded at this point…

It’s not like we have taxes to pay for such things (at least anymore thx to Doge)

Last century: whistling tones into the phone to get a free call

This century: faking an accent to get the police to respond

Wait, that sounds like the last century as well…

Oh man I have a story about an unhoused lady who has dementia. I walk my dog and sometimes she recognizes me, other times she has no idea. One of the days I was walking the dog and she forgot who I was and asked to pet my dog. She thought I was unhoused as well for some reason and told me about some good spots to sleep. These people know what it means to survive based on the kindness of others.

PS

Her name is Catalina, and sometimes I see her at church and she donated what little money she has. It sorta painful but then I remember how we treat her. We always have a place for her at our table to eat after the service. She’s our neighbor as far as we’re concerned.

I honestly think how we treat the service industry is how many people end up treating their kids.

I think it was David Graeber that pointed out that the poorer you are the more you need to be able to empathize with your boss and clients in order to survive.

But this notion that the middle class are somehow more empathetic is interesting because I think it is based on the (correct) idea that people need to actually own something in order to be generous. However, I find from personal experience, poor people have an easier time giving what they have because they know they can survive having nothing.