That sounds like a very strange experience. Thanks for sharing

Story? Don’t feel pressured if you don’t want to but since you brought it up I’m guessing you’re OK with talking about it

For real though, film critics are largely useless these days. It’s like they can’t tell the difference between a film made for Cannes and a film made for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Not everything needs to be deep and meaningful on a personal level. Films shouldn’t be penalized for not being something they were never intended to be.

What are you doing differently?

Just waiting for that “Player 2 has entered the game” notification

I don’t know about the guy you’re responding to but I personally stopped expecting consistency from those kinds of people a long time ago. I’m 100% confident there is at least one white guy doing exactly what you described at this very moment.

This is a really good meme and I hate it.

Get your army guys off my side Kevin. Mom said this half of the room is mine.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

I like that they chose microplastics and credit scores as the indicators of a failing system. I’m not entirely sure why but they seem more fitting than just about anything else despite the fact that they’re probably not the issues one would point to as the biggest problems we face. They feel relatively bland and yet overwhelming at the same time.

Some of you guys are legitimately incapable of seeing yourself as anything other than the righteous victim aren’t you? Good luck with that. It’s really endearing.

Forcing bigots to be reminded of their bigotry is a losing strategy and you know I’m right about that. If you want to shoot the messenger then be my guest.

Jesus Christ it’s like talking to a brick wall. We’re not talking about trans rights we’re talking about healthcare. You keep insisting on conflating the two but no matter how many times you lose the thread they will never stop being separate issues. This conversation is supposed to be about 100% of the population but you just won’t stop trying to make it about 1.5% instead even if it means things get worse for you. That’s psychotic behavior. In this case helping the collective helps you too so for fucks sake get out of your own way.

That top one is the reason I can’t watch soccer. What a lame thing to watch a professional athlete do.

Your opinion of me and my motivations is entirely irrelevant. It doesn’t change the situation we’re in at all. I’m practical enough to understand that playing to your audience is not the same thing as compromising your values. You can keep insisting that it is if it makes you feel better about losing but it’s not going to help you win.

This kind of thing has an impact. Most Republican voters cited trans issues as important to them in the last election and you can bet your ass it wasn’t because they wanted to support trans people. This is despite the fact that Democrats hardly talked about trans people. It is an effective wedge issue whether you like that or not and they will use it against you as often as you give them the opportunity to do so.

“OP posting a meme to Lemmy about supporting trans rights” isn’t “insisting every part of every discussion cater to all of your beliefs at once.”

The left loves purity tests and trans rights is one of the popular ones these days. You know we do this shit all the time. We let Republicans control the narrative by letting focused conversations about Healthcare devolve into a debate about testosterone levels in trans boxers as if that’s a conversation worth having at the national level. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but grandma is never going to fully accept your trans friend. However, she might help you save your trans friend from a lifetime of crippling medical debt if you stop reminding her that Fox News told her she’s supposed to be more mad about trans athletes than she is about her knee surgery costing $20k after insurance.

Stop being a fucking martyr, Jesus. If you can’t understand that sometimes you need to shut your mouth to help yourself then you must be an insufferable prick to be around. Trans people need health care just like everyone else. In fact, one could argue they need it more than the rest of us. Work on that problem while there is momentum to be had. If you want everyone to be accepting of everyone else before you’ll work with them to solve a major problem then you may as well resign yourself to death without any progress because that’s never gonna fucking happen.

We don’t progress by leaving people behind.

That’s exactly what progress entails in politics. It’s called compromise. You fix the problems you can and save the rest for later.

Regardless, health care reform does help trans people you’re just insisting that the people that hate them stop hating them before you’ll work with them to fix a separate problem and that’s your choice to make but it means you’re going to be waiting a long time to get what you want. If some purity test is more important to you than a chance at actual progress then by all means, keep intentionally reminding bigots that they don’t like trans folk. See how that works out for you.

Have you considered that the issue of healthcare might be big enough to cause bigots to put their hate aside and come together with trans folk despite their disapproval?

Nothing is important enough to those people to team up with trans folk and if you don’t know that then you haven’t been paying attention.

I didn’t say abandon trans people, I said focus on the common ground you can find instead of insisting every part of every discussion cater to all of your beliefs at once. Healthcare reform helps us all but it has little chance of helping anyone if you insist on reminding the hateful among us that they have someone besides insurance executives to hate.