TranscendentalEmpire @ TranscendentalEmpire @lemm.ee

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Always a pleasure to meet a person whose wit perfectly matches their class. I'm sure your mother is proud.

I think that says a lot more about you than it does Hitler?

Hey, there is another option. Corporations could illegally decide to absorb the cost of the labour and tank their share prices.

I'm not quite sure which option would implode the economy faster, but it would be a neat experiment.

Have you never heard of intersex before? It's not even that rare of a condition, roughly 1 out of a 1000 children born have abnormal primary sex organs that make determining sex medically difficult.

Lol, way to contribute to the discussion.

Btw I am just a dude, not trans or anything. I'm just not a whiny fuck about addressing people how they wish to be addressed. It's just a respectful and polite thing to do, and requires little to no effort.

Well you see......it's because we as a people reverse financed happiness. The previous generations spent all their good times, so they leveraged the promise of future generation's fun to subsidize their own fun.

Then later generations whose fun was used as leverage decided they also would like a little fun, and decided to once again to borrow against an already leveraged future generation's happiness to supplement their own.

Unfortunately you can only borrow against the future fun for so long before you are only able to finance happiness with subprime fun loans. Climate change is currently affecting the speculative value of happiness futures, which is causing the happiness bank to seize any fun collateral we had left.

Yeah, but repealing the csra wouldn't exactly solve their issues with federal employees, and would likely cause more problems than it solves.

The CSRA was a compromise between federal employees and the government. Giving up their right to collective bargaining for a set amount of guaranteed rights and options of recourse. If you ended up overturning the csra you would also be getting rid of the prohibitions against collective bargaining and more importantly.....strikes.

Meaning that federal employees would garter the power to freeze aspects of the federal government on demand. Making their collective bargaining power immense.

I'm sure he's going to do a bunch of damage, but I doubt they would go as far as repealing the CSRA, and even if they did, it might be a good thing for workers.

Yeah, also...... Relying on social media of any type to get a realistic depiction of an entire country is really really dumb.

Imagine if you moved to America because of Instagram, thinking everyone here did nothing but travel and thirst post.

Social media app users are primarily middle/upper class millennials and younger. You know the people most isolated from the general public and not in charge of anything.

Okay, gotta explain empathy I guess. Has any kind of descriptor ever been used to hurt your feelings? A slur, name calling, or even an unflattering description of your looks or personality?

Well when a nonbinary person is misgendered they feel bad. What you are telling people to do is just accept that they will feel bad when being discussed in their workplace.

It's not about how the person presents themselves, it's about how they prefer to be recognized.

Ahh, well now I'll have to download and watch it out of penance.

I mean how many people can this be? Are there actually any people who only work on dei compliance? Seems like one of the many things that would be handled by someone who got cross trained in an HR department.

Would be pretty rad if you were in that position though. Seems likely some people just got a 4 year long paid vacation. After the civil service reform act, trying to fire people like this is a long and uphill battle.

I mean, price gouging is kinda built into the economic model we're all forced to perpetuate. What's the difference between price gouging and the "law" of supply and demand?

The only real reason people with capital acknowledge the idea of price gouging is because eventual conclusion of the law of supply and demand during a crisis is the guillotine.

My condolences, dealing with shitty parents is always hell. He sounds like a real piece of shit.

My partner's father has a similar second family scenario going on still and he's like in his late 70s. Never understood how these dudes found the energy to be that much of an asshole.

Hmmm.... I might have been heretical then. Been a while since I've seen it, maybe I just subliminally associate Kevin Smith with New Jersey for some reason?

Ouch, would have imagined they had already separated. This screams divorced man energy.

Looks like she is from New Jersey originally? I guess being banished to new jersey is biblically accurate if you consider the movie Dogma to be canon.

I think at some point this is just being pedantic. There's no medical definition for sex at conception because there is no applicable medical reason for it.

The whole point is that legal definitions are not sufficient to dictate biological processes, let alone determine an embryos future sexual development.

Sex isn't usually medically determined by chromosomal pairings, that would require a lot more prenatal care then most women generally receive. For the most part it's determined by the development of primary sexual organs, which can be a complicated process for about 1 out of 1k children.

Hypocrisy is an easy sell, and unfortunately the hypocrisy of being the product of immigration and simping for people who hate immigrants isn't that uncommon.

Regrettably there's a lot of prejudice in most immigrant communities that align themselves with conservative culture.

But her parents doing it is not her doing it, which is the accusation.

Just because I critique an aspect of your argument doesn't mean I am affirming someone else's accusations. I was just literally commenting on this.

"Do you really think her parents called her a Punjabi name in childhood to make her more American just because it sounds like a Western name?"

Personally, I don't think it's prejudice to acknowledge that it's common for immigrants to westernize their names to blend into white society. I think it's more of a critique of America's history of racism more than anything.

Personally accusing someone of doing this for political gain is kinda dumb, especially when you could look it up. But I don't think it was prejudice or even that far from the truth. I know i think a lot less of anyone in the immigrant community who supports conservatives.

This actually happens a lot, especially back in the day when America didn't have large populations of asian immigrants.

As an asian dude who was born in the US in the 80s, I can attest that it is not abnormal to have a "western" middle name and a traditional first name, or vice versa.

Even when I was young, teachers would tell my parents not to speak to me in their native tongue because it would inhibit my English language skills.

I'm guessing Nikki's parents got the same treatment, and is why she doesn't speak Punjabi, and why I had to relearn my parents language as an adult.

So, yes I do think her parents and her probably felt pressure to westernize themselves, as America was even more racist back then.