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What is your unpopular flim opinion
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Ill upvote you, because its an appropriatly unpopular opinion, but ill have you know I'm truly offended.
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What is your unpopular flim opinion
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Ill upvote you, because its an appropriatly unpopular opinion, but ill have you know I'm truly offended.
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Map countries where using VPNs is against the law
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Hello from Taiwan, while your heart's in the right place this meme actually plays into China's hands as it fits their one-china narrative. Taiwan considers itself an independent nation and hopes the wider international community will begin treating it as such.
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Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes?
Automata 2014
Oblivion 2013
Jupiter Ascending 2015
Evolution 2001
There might be a pattern in there somewhere...
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Time travel whoopsy
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Or, he was always the one that killed Hitler, we always just assumed he committed suicide...
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Bill Maher Goes on Anti-Vax Tirade During Heated Covid-19 Debate With 'Family Guy' Creator Seth MacFarlane
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Thats not how masks work. But Im guessing you believe your "common sense" is better than years of epidemiology research...
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How do we make this happen?
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Hello fellow old person, welcome to old age. Please feel free to shake your fist and mutter at things as often as you like.
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What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
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Upvote because i understand, not because i agree.
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Schrödinger's Cat
I don't have anything clever to say but this is amazing.
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just wait, it could get worse....
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Bolshevik Communism was the second worst thing to happen to the working class in the 20th century. Second only to the rise of corporate Capitalism. Its failure crippled any other working class revolution for the 30 plus years.
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Don't care what the reason is.
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"avoid"
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What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
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Did someone say long pun chain? Wait, I'm new here how do we post a link?
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Reddit kills awards and coins
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When I was a younger man I used to feel very uncomfortable around gay people, particularly gay men. I didn't "hate" them per se, but being around them made my skin crawl. This was a direct result of the environment I grew up in, and the lack of experience I had with actually getting to know gay people personally. Eventually once I made my way out into the world I was forced to interact with actual gay men and learned that they are just normal people, and my discomfort was entirely in my head, it was a product of ignorance and prejudice. I am glad to say I am better for having moved beyond that. At that time those feelings were a lot more politically valid, but that doesn't make them any less homophobic. What you are validating is the same. Trans women using female bathrooms pose no actual risk to those cis women (any more than other cis women do in female restrooms). I would bet that very few of those cis women vocalizing those concerns have ever actually been aware of sharing a restroom with a trans woman. They just imagine some hairy boogyman dressed in a dress saying "I have the right to use this bathroom" but that's in their head. It's not a valid fear, it's a phobia. They need to be educated, not coddled and told those feelings are valid. If trans women were actually assaulting or peeping on cis women using the restroom that might be different, but the fact remains women (cis or trans) are almost certainly much more likely to be assaulted in the women's restroom by a cis man than by a trans woman. You can't say you are not trans-phobic and still validate those baseless fears.
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Which TV series intros do you not skip by choice?
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Bojack is my ringtone, that funk intro works so well.
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Sweet and Sour
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Nominative determinism
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trans men
first, you have your terms backwards. Trans men were assigned female at birth and transitioned to male. They want to be able to use the men's restroom. You are discussing trans women's right to use the women's bathroom.
What does the physical size of some trans women have to do with anything? There are a lot of gay men who are bigger and stronger than me, if a "bad actor" wanted to sexually assault me, the men's bathroom would be the perfect place for them to do it. Should we ban gay men from straight men's restrooms because of some men would have that fear? No, and the reason is because it's not a valid fear, it's in my head (or was), it's not likely. Does that mean no gay man has ever assaulted a straight man in a restroom? Of course not, but it just not a realistic fear. It's in their head. It's a phobia.
Cis women who are uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with trans women are uncomfortable not because they have seen big hairy men in dresses eyeballing them in bathrooms, but because they are irrationally afraid of that. It's not a valid fear, because it doesn't happen. It's a phobia. Cis women are just as safe with a trans woman in the bathroom than they are with other cis women in a bathroom. That is an indisputable fact based on all actual evidence. Anything else is an irrational fear based on prejudice and ignorance and you are validating that. That means you are supporting transphobia right now, whether you want to admit it or not.
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xkcd #2823: Fossil
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I think you would need 1,000,000,000,000