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[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

MAGA voters couldn't identify a pronoun in high school. How are they supposed to figure it out now?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Doesn't go far enough, remove pronouns from the email body too.

To it may concern. Notice did not complete task before deadline. Please can provide update? Look forward to reply.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 48 minutes ago

Don’t think whom is a pronoun, is it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Someone's about to get fired...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

Small government regulating pronouns in worker's email signatures.

Regulations For Thee but Not for Me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Does that mean no-one can call him 'President' Trump or 'Mr' President any more?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Isn't president just a regular noun?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

For the life of me, I can't understand why they care about someone's sexual orientation or their pronoun.

I ran the numbers on sex changes and it's like .001 of the population. It's a non-issue.

The real issues are homelessness, inequality, Internet privacy, poisons in our food and workers' rights..

Not fucking pronouns.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They don't care. The tactic is to have a minority that you can blame for all the bad things.

100 years ago it was the jews secretly running the world, today it's the evil trans people and immigrants conspiring to destroy The West™.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

100 years ago they were also persecuting trans people. Here's a photo of them burning books in 1933, some of which were from the Institute of Sexual Science after it was raided by the Nazis. And it only got worse from there. Here's a whole article about it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.

They don't. It's classic divide and conquer tactics to package up the general population into nice bite-sized chunks that they can destroy individually with minimal resistance from the others. Exact same shit is how the Nazis rose to power.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

Got to distract from the real issues somehow. Gotta keep that wealth extraction and concentrating system of exploitation alive. Can't have the slave rising up to overthrow their masters again...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

Sorry to all the Blakes, Dylans, Ashleys, Francises, Shannons, Frankies, Charlies, Rorys, Blairs, Leslies, Angels, Billies, Sams, Kellys, Danas, Harleys, Adins, Caseys, and all the other non-binary/gender neutral names that I can't think of right now.

-signed a person with a non-binary name

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Finally. Something that will bring down the cost of groceries...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Don't you know that adding your pronouns to an email costs an entire 6-10 bytes? There are children starving in Africa and you're wasting your bytes on pronouns! Shame on you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

And, the tariffs will bring them up

[–] [email protected] 106 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This is so stupid. I know plenty of cishet people who include their pronouns in their sig because they have a gender neutral name.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Or, in my case, for solidarity and normalizing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 45 minutes ago

Yes, this is why they care. It's part of woke ideology.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Of course. How else will we prevent future aviation disasters?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

And lower the price of eggs

[–] [email protected] 54 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I’ve never done this, but this would make me start doing it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I, too, dislike being employed.

But seriously most people will not risk their livelihood for it. It is almost guaranteed to end up in court like so many other of their bullshit policies.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

They're getting fired eventually anyway, they had pronouns in their sig in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

Got a source for that, or are you making up your own inflamatory "facts" again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I'll start requesting people to use thee/thou soon.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Does that include Mr. Mrs. and other gendered titles?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

That's not a pronoun, but it could function as a replacement to skirt this ruling, assuming it doesn't include gendered honorifics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

thatwasthejoke.jpg

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

And yet again, the Tangerine Palpatine is focusing on stupid shit.

Farmers unable to gather their harvest? The working and middle classes being squeezed into oblivion? Grocery prices skyrocketing? Unknown drones taunting our military bases? Military helicopters colliding with commercial jets?

Nah, none of that stuff matters! Instead we just focus on fucking pronouns in emails!

What an absolute fucking joke.

Edit: fixed a typo.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The communist leader of northern Venezuela is mandating how to conduct your business, how to write, how to speak.

Party of small government, rule of law and free markets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Mexican here. We're Northern Venezuela. We'll let you have Northern Cuba.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

All fascists need to take dirt naps

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