Of course, a good chunk of them have been doing so in Britain since Thatcher. (And sometimes making cringey statements, as with our local MP a few years ago.) If under slightly different pretexts.
Them: Binaries like man and woman are wrong, human existence is a lot more diverse than that! There is so much more to who we can be!
Me: YEEEEEEEEES!
Them: We need words for non-binary experiences, we need to describe how we experience unique forms of oppression for existing outside these boundaries.
Me: YEEEEEEEEES!
Them: We need to have clear fixed definitions and boundaries for this third space. You are either inside or outside. You either totally experience this oppression or you totally don’t. You are either one of Us or one of Them and that position is unchanging.
Me: Wait. no. back up. Back to the part where we were creating space for a more complex fluid understanding of the human experience?
Them: Also, let’s divide non-binary experiences into afab and amab as if your birth defines your whole lived experience forever. Let’s get non-binary markers on our passports. Let’s campaign for the state to use they pronouns for non-binary cops and soldiers. Let’s get companies to recognize non-binary consumers. Let’s gets non-binary people into political power …
It’s an extremely popular opinion among middle and upper class white people.
Also, aside from this completely uneducated reasoning as to why minimum wage was created…
I can guarantee that there are tens of thousands of teenagers who have to pay bills and help support their families or are the only financial supporter to their family.
not to mention, if minimum wage was meant solely for high school students how would the business survive when students are in school?? are they only supposed to be open on the weekend? this “unpopular opinion” makes no sense.
FACT CHECK: Are People Adopting Pit Bull Terriers for the Sole Purpose of Euthanizing Them?
The #PitbullDropOff hashtag and related claims of mass dog killing stem from a sophomoric troll attempt with origins in 4chan.
CLAIM:
People are adopting pit bulls with the express goal of euthanizing them,
and then bragging about it on the Internet with the hashtag
#PitbullDropOff.
RATING:
ORIGIN:
In mid-May 2018, the hashtag #PitbullDropOff began to gain traction on
social media. A typical post involves a picture of cute pit bull
terrier-type puppies, and a message that the person who took the picture
adopted them for the express purpose of euthanizing them to get them
off the streets. This post from “muffs-o-matic” is representative of most:
These posts are fabricated; they are part of a juvenile attempt to
provoke anger and outrage on the internet, and are specifically directed
at “naive pitmommies and various other low IQ individuals.” They have
their origins not in reality, but in the callow minds of the festering
racist, misogynistic, and nihilistic world that is 4chan — an anonymous
message board that unites trolls, “incels,” and neo-Nazis together in
their shared contempt for human decency.
A 13 May 2018 anonymous post
found in that website’s most infamous board (/pol/) presents an update
on their campaign, and also how you — assuming, of course, that you are a
troll — can get involved in the game:
Indeed, as many have pointed out on Reddit,
most of the photos shared on Twitter and Facebook with the
#PitBullDropOff hashtag include images that can easily be found on
reverse image search as having nothing to do with #PitbullDropOff, and
which predate the hashtag by years. The image that appears in the post
by “muffs-o-matic,” for example, can be found in a February 2017 list of
cute puppies on The Chive.
This tweet, from a burner account clearly created solely for the #PitbullDropOff troll, contains a picture of a sad dog that is at least as old as December 2011:
Outside the smug satisfaction of feeling smarter than the people they
have trolled, the underlying motivations for the hashtag fall clearly
into the political ideology
of the /pol/ message board, which has coagulated over time into a
simple philosophy: Women, liberals, and minorities are destroying
America. Here’s a sampling of some of the comments in the thread:
The anonymous trolls also suggest that pit bull-type dogs are almost
always owned by ethnic minorities, and are thus aggressive and
unfriendly — a racial stereotype that has long motivated anti-pit bull movements:
While we cannot speak to the broader claim that some terrible human
beings have adopted dogs for the purpose of putting them down, we can
say with confidence that the current viral #PitbullDropOff trend on
social media is a hoax orchestrated by anonymous hoaxsters using
unrelated photographs, fake context, and a characteristic reliance on
racism and misogyny. Don’t feed the trolls.
Its like the 80’s all over again, a remorseless madwoman runs the UK, a maniacal bastard runs the US, the world’s on the brink of nuclear war and all I want to do is listen to synthpop
star wars, ghostbusters, and mad max all pass the bechdel test now tho
that helps with the deja vu but tragically not the crushing fear of nuclear apocalypse
Rediscovering the childlike joy of crafting for fun kind of counts as a lifehack?
OK, I finally thought to make sure the landline phone was plugged in. It was driving me crazy ringing a couple of days ago, and I forgot to plug it back in.
Hopefully the delivery person didn’t try to call already, or at least would try back. Looks like they’re probably running late (with a couple of minutes left in the delivery window), but at least I’m not planning on going anywhere.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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