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I would have thought that such a feature would be completely uncontroversial. Really weird that some people seem resistant to it.

That is fortunate. Bigotry is sadly very popular in a lot of places at the moment.

Some "challenges" are completely without merit though. Conservatives like to "challenge" the human rights of women and minoritised groups. The rights of people to exist within society and pursue happiness are, to progressives, axiomatically true. These challenges aren't something to be argued, they are something to be rejected as abominable.

If conservatives want to challenge tax policies or foreign relations or other such issues, sure! That's a discussion we can and should have. But that's not the same as challenging the ability for certain demographics to exist within society.

This is a bit of an unrealistic position, especially if trying to generalise past the boundaries of your friend group. Your friends trust you, so by all means, talk to them and try to educate them. But trying to change a complete stranger's mind is almost impossible.

And many of the positions the left refuses to "debate" are that certain groups of people should not be able to exist within society. Like, the left isn't refusing to debate tax policy, it's always about bigotry.

And let's just be perfectly blunt. The vast majority of conservatives screaming "groomer" at visibly LGBT+ people aren't going to have their minds changed. You can't educate someone who does not want to be educated. And demanding minorities stand in the firing-line and fruitlessly try to educate the people who hate them, sometimes to the point of hate-crimes, forever... You have to question the priorities of such a demand.

Sometimes caring for minorities means giving up on convincing hateful people.

What civil political discourse?

That's fine, add a big disclaimer that "here there be dragons" and a checkbox to accept that.

But they fight the user every step of the way to disable features that do in fact work.

The definitely do not. They want the government to be involved in private medical decisions about one's own body. Conservatives love invasive and overbearing governments.

I really wish it would allow us to install .xpi files.

Unfortunately the add-on that I want, Yomichan, seems incompatible with Fennec. I've done all the collection steps, but I just get a generic "failed to install" message when trying to add it.

Edit: Holy crap. Switching the user agent totally worked. Dead simple. Thank you so much!

Why do they make this so complicated if the add-ons will just install?

Is this going to impact their ability to offer region-specific pricing?

Mass organisation would work. Protests and strikes. Not just from LGBT+ people, but from the population broadly. But that seems unlikely, sadly.

You are just going to have to live with the fact that you're the weirdo on this. People do not see Nazism and communism as similar or comparable. Nazism has discrimination and extermination of the "other" as core tenets of the ideology, communism is an economic model that simply does not have those elements no matter how desperate you are to assign them to it.

Authoritarianism is bad. But communism is not authoritarian. Governments calling themselves communist have become authoritarian and committed atrocities. But as much as weirdos like yourself like to deny it, governments capable of genocide are also capable of lying about being communist.

Why is it that whenever someone says "Nazis are bad" there are always weirdos crawling out of the woodwork to say "what about communism?"?

It's like clockwork.

It is an attack on LGBT+ people in general. But it also has a second purpose, in that it forms a part of the framework to criminalise transgender, non-binary, and gender-non-conforming people specifically.

Conservatives tend to place stock in traditional gender roles, and also tend not to recognise trans and non-binary people as legitimate. This makes it simple to lump trans and enby people existing in public, and drag performances, together. After all to a conservative, both are just a person of one gender expressing themselves as another gender. This can also be done in law, by simply making the legal definition of drag loose enough that trans people dressing as they like in public could be argued into the definition.

Then they go ahead and criminalise drag in public, by arguing that it is inherently sexual, and that in public a child might see it. This conveniently makes trans people think twice about being visible in public.

Some states then go on to classify sex crimes that involve minors as capital offenses. Completing the framework where being trans in public could, if the courts allow, get you murdered by the state.

I see what you are saying about the bottom of the stick, but that isn't the mental model of the people who invert the Y-axis. So that principle doesn't really apply.

Consider it like plane controls. With the stick in a neutral position as pointing "up". Left and right are still left and right. But forward and back tilt the nose, which is forward, down and up respectively.

Wow I would have thought it would at least have a regular deadbolt from the inside in addition to the external lock.

Also typing this comment makes me realise it's a little weird to externally lock public toilets in the first place. But I know we can't have nice things.

This comment raised my blood pressure.

It's not the same principle for both axes though. I invert just the Y-axis. For me, left is left, right is right, up is "back" and down is "forward".

So much of the online bathroom discussion makes more sense when one realises that US public restroom designs are insane.

Yes, it does matter. A positive and safe environment for students is imperative for them to learn. That includes trans and non-binary students.