Hubs took a stroll down the beer aisle at the grocery store yesterday. All of the Bud products were on sale and he is pretty sure the other cheap beers had gone up a dollar or so.
(I’m already told my money guy to invest in Bud stock when it starts its upward bounce, I know it will recover in almost no time at all.)
The use of chemical weapons should be a last resort.
This is why I haven’t shipped it to Ukraine with a label saying, “In last resort, pull tab and throw at enemy.”
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I don’t understand the outrage on this issue. This is very different than the child welfare concerns that people seem to be focused on. I mean Dylan Mulvaney is an adult. The consumers of beer are adults.
I think the right’s feelings about trans issues extend far beyond any purported concern for children.
She’s not an athlete either.
And its not exactly clear that this is a left/right issue.
Painting JK Rowlings as “right” is pretty inconsistent with everything she has done and said outside of this one issue.
Athletics are just an excuse to get less transphobic people on board. They basically want trans people shunned from society, or worse.
And, it’s just the right’s way of finding a convenient minority that many people find odd. Scapegoat them, get your voters riled up about bullshit non-issues, cruise to electoral victory.
This is a thread about “conservative dad’s” “ultraright” beer.
It’s not clear that what is a left/right issue?
I was responding to “the right’s feelings about trans issues”
There are people who are not on the right that have feelings about trans issues that may depart from the general consensus here.
Yes, but this tread is about a “conservative dad’s ultraright beer.” We’re not discussing how people on the left feel about trans issues. People on the right are attacking the very existence of trans people, like objecting to women who appear with bud light beer, even though it has nothing to do with children or athletics.
“The very existence of trans people?”
That seems hyperbolic.
I am pointing out that the reservations about trans issues are not coming exclusively from the right.
JK Rowlings concern is not limited to children or sports. I think she would object to the notion that trans women are merely a subset of women.
Look at who JKR had made friends with over that issue and tell me that this isn’t a Left v Right issue with a straight face.
Agreed.
I wish.
Dude, we’re talking about beer and the people who seek to politicize it for…reasons. Take your Harry Potter analysis to its own thread for people who like to obsess about fictional sports involving flying around on brooms and doing…stuff, I guess.
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As for the beer, the project is probably pining for the fjords.
Did you not notice the recent kerfuffle about a CPAC speaker literally calling for the “eradication” of transgender identity?
No, I’m not claiming that he or other rightwing transphobes are planning to literally murder transgender people for daring to exist as transgender (although sadly it wouldn’t surprise me if some of them are on board with that; they certainly don’t seem to have a problem with actively promoting rhetoric and policies that encourage violence against trans people).
But it is very clear that opposition to the existence of transgender identity itself—the very existence of trans people—is indeed a position genuinely held and freely platformed within the transphobe Right. There’s nothing at all “hyperbolic” about stating that.
I thought this whole tread was supposed to be funny. Said with a big grin on my face.
Who has she made friends with?
I think it would take a lot of rationalization to label her as “right”
Ah OK, so people are attacking the notion that trans people exist. I thought the comment was referring to the notion that genocide was being contemplated (as some people seem to think Michael Knowles is doing).
Gender dysphoria is clearly a thing and transitioning is clearly something that some people do. There is no arguing about whether transwomen/transmen exist.
I don’t really understand what Michael Knowles is trying to say. I mean, it seems to me that if you eliminate the term transwoman then you are left with “men who feel like they are women and choose to live their lives as women” which seems like a very inefficient way of saying transwoman.