SLfgb

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[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

again, gender-neutral wording like they/them don't say anything about gender or her own identity. 'They' does not refer to a third gender. I'm not demanding anything from her. You're the one who brought up using the correct pronouns. So I expect you to be familiar with English grammar.

I think your language-policing is ridiculous. You can't expect someone unfamiliar with a situation to be up-to-date with how to affirm someone's gender correctly. Gender-neutral language functions as a safe fall-back in such situations. You can rightfully expect people to not misgender people. You cannot be rightfully offended at people using gender-neutral language. The only person I'm making demands of currently is you, because you're making this discussion unnecessarily hostile.

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Yea, they seem to have a pretty short fuse...

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Also, how do you even know her preferred pronouns in English? Did you ask her?

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

yea, nah.

Edit: Using a word is not the same as refusing to use another word in its place.

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

I'm sorry but no. Using gender-neutral language does not describe gender; using 'they' isn't to misgender, it just leaves the gender unspecified.

You can correctly use 'they' for anyone. If they'd said 'he', now that would've been different...

(Edit: typo)

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

i haven’t needed one for years because i use their app on my phone and i can see their announcements as a notification and i can also kill off most of its tracking by DNS. unfortunately my parents don’t understand this

Sounds like you have a reasonable, compatible alternative on your phone already. Will they even notice if you continue using this and never plug the new alexa in?

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

obtaining and disseminating classified information is called investigative journalism...

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yea, not to teaching people how to hack...

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The US did not really try to negotiate with the Taliban regime. The US just demanded the Taliban hand them over, then refused a quite reasonable condition to show some evidence that Al Qaeda was responsible for the attack.

At a news conference in Islamabad, the Taliban ambassador said he was sorry that people had died in the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last week, but appealed to the United States not to endanger innocent people in a military retaliation.

"Our position on this is that if America has proof, we are ready for the trial of Osama bin Laden in light of the evidence."

Conflating a government or regime with an international terrorist organisation is the lie the propaganda told you to accept invading and occupying an impoverished foreign country that had just gone through a famine.

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That is not what Assange plead guilty to whatsoever.

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