This needs to be said more often.

This is one of many reasons why I never liked the media going "I'm implying Putin and Trump are gay and wanna do it, that's the joke!"

God, the media sucked at making fun of Trump.

Remember how starting in 2016 EVERY show had to have a character who was "Basically Trump", and the plot was "Trump is bad." And the ONLY thing to do it competently was The Boys; Because it showcased Trump/Homelander as an actual threat and character study into "What if someone has no brains, no skills, all the power, the humility of Julius Caeser and the tolerance of Henry the VIII. And no one in charge is going to do anything about it. Why? Corporate and political entities fully realize he's a ticking time bomb they can barely control, but don't care about that little detail because he's useful to their agenda!"

instead of "Remember when Trump said dumb thing he actually said in real life? Laugh! Trump's an idiot and a loser, but we're also really afraid of him!" Which is not only not funny, but runs close to Fox News' "Weak Willed Tyrant Fallacy"

It's like, I get it, I hate Trump to, but for the love of God, change the fucking channel. I enjoy fiction to escape reality.

I'm really hoping we don't get a second wave of that. Because, holy shit, I understand that "orange man bad", please tell me what the fuck we're going to do about it besides try to make a buck off of it.

Republicans to Trump acting like he's sucking dick: "see how these f*ggots are the problem with America?"

Democrats to Trump acting like he's sucking dick: " you better not make fun of Trump for sucking dick."

The problem is, him acting like he's sucking dick IS the joke to his supporters. It's like the ableist joke he pulled during 2016, and the rapist "locker room talk" he did during the access Hollywood tape.

You're not being a knight in armor by saying "pointing out Donald Trump's homophobic acts is wrong," you're normalizing his homophobia.

Donald Trump should be allowed to fantasize about Arnold Palmer's dick, and Tucker Carlson should be able to fantasize about some man coming into his house and saying "Daddy's home, and you've been a bad girl." They should not be allowed to judge other people who think the same way.

Everything a Republican is against is an admission of what they are for.

I used to have a mate called Josh who'd always call things gay if he didn't like him, and I asked him to stop. I said, imagine if I called stuff I don't like "joshy" or something. Anyway he stopped talking to me after that. It was a bit more heated than I've made it sound but you get the point.

Pretty joshy of him

I feel like most people are wildly inconsistent on this. Fat shaming? Small dick energy? How about mental illness? Baldness for some reason? Disabilities? Oh, we could probably go on about those. Some people seemingly decide a line is too simple and draw a complex sine function instead.

My rule is to try to be decent. Sometimes, I even succeed. But I don't think I'm very good at it, and neither are most of you. Bunch of hypocrites, we are.

Haha you mean like when people make fun of ben shapiro for being short, "its ok because he's a piece of shit" alright well then make fun of them for their shit takes not the stuff they cant control.

I'll be over here minding my own short business catching strays from content creators I used to otherwise enjoy.
I'm not really sure when it happened, but I'd say people were generally pretty successful at destroying the old social norms. There's a lot of terrible slurs that are no longer socially acceptable to say today, there was a lot of power that white men had in conversations that was stripped from them, it was good to get rid of.

The problem is that we didn't really replace it with anything. There was no great basic decency movement, nothing new about treating people with respect. If anything, it seems like we've embraced being more toxic than ever, and have decided to invent new ways to insult and belittle each other.
I've always liked "Just don't punch down." But you're right, we're all hypocritical in some form or another.
- The issue is that even when your target is "up", using common characteristics as insults means lots of people below that are going to catch strays, as it were.
- The problem here is lots of people have different definitions of who is up or down.
But what if it's in the positive? Damn girl I like your fat ass. But I can see it being used negatively.

I like Big Dick Energy though. Can we keep that?
- I think you answered your own question? It depends on meaning and context, not just words themselves. And while positive messages intersect the overarching topic, they're different enough that we can't just bundle them together and treat them in the same fashion.
  
  I like Big Dick Energy though. Can we keep that?
  
  Can't handle the magnitude of that question on my own, I'm afraid.
- Nope. Far too misogynistic and aggressive. It implies there are small dicks and it even completely ignores people born without dicks or had them removed.
  
  The point is, there is no such thing as perfection. We all follow the "Open mouth and insert foot" rule on occasion. But we can try to do our best knowing we will often fail. And when others fail us in return, we must learn to gently correct and forgive.

I agree.

Friendly reminder: deadnaming Twitter is not transphobic.

what??? that's like deadnaming elons child!! oh wait, he does that.

Counter point: I think the world would be a better place if Tucker Carlson would be able to admit to himself that he wants some dude he calls "daddy" dressed as the green m&m would spank Tucker and call him "a bad girl." Also, the world would be a better place if Donald Trump could admit he wants to suck Arnold Palmer's apparently massive dong.

My problem isn't homophobia and transphobia, my problem is these homophobic and transphobic pricks performing these homophillic and transphillicic acts and getting away with "Satan made me do it."

If these homophobes and transphobes do something that would trigger homophobes and transphobes, they should trigger homophobes and transphobes.

Does your Lord and and Savior want to suck dick? What's wrong with that? Is it that your Lord and Savior wants to suck dick, or that the person who wants to suck dick is Your Lord and Savior?

Using someones homophobia to mock them is highly ok.

Don't call them a little removed tho. That ain't cool.

I guess this is what is implied, but this is what I read at first.

If you want to insult someone, don't say things you find offensive. Say things they find offensive.

I remember when I was a teen talking online with someone from Britain. I don’t remember why, but at one point, he called me a “wanker.”

I thought it was hilarious. He thought he was insulting me, but since I’d never seen nor heard that word used in real life before, it had no emotional meaning to me. Instead, I was tickled by how silly (and patently British) the word sounded.
Like when we called Conservatives weird and they had a literal meltdown?
- yeah and when that was clearly working the Harris campaign just dropped it in favor of stupid shit like bragging about republicans endorsing her.
- They had such a "literal meltdown" they took over all three branches of government.
  
  Yeah, you really got under their skin.
I am super racist against Republicans.

But pointing out hypocrisy is AOK

I don't see anyone, on the left, disparaging public figures for being gay. I see plenty of people disparaging gay public figures for being hypocrites.
- Yeah, that was my point

Actually must be pretty sheltered cause I just don't run into this shit anymore.

The cool kids have moved on to using ableism to mock public figures. Now Trump is a psychopath, Musk is a narcissist, and Peterson is schizo.
- Drag, I get where you're coming from, but don't you think those three groups are different?
  
  Schizo? Schizo ppl are harmless and don't deserve to have something fundamental to their mental state used as an insult. I completely agree with you here.
  
  Narcissist? This wasn't always a diagnosis and doesn't always refer to one. I don't see anything wrong with using this as an insult. Defending it under ableism kinda feels like calling the word "abuser" abelist - sure, abusive people probably also struggle with mental health.
  
  Psychopath? That's also pretty hard to defend.
  
  Honesty I think you'd be better off pointing out how these people aren't mentally ill and are fully culpable for what they do, instead of labeling it all abelist.
  
  The word Schizo definetly doesn't belong here, that is abelist. Peterson isn't schizo he's a close minded misandrist.
- I know right, can't we just leave the high functioning unmedicated, untreated, psychopaths, narcissist, and schitzos alone. Its perfectly normal they hold reins of power.
- I thought they were pedos.
  
  ^^hey, ^^they ^^have ^^feelings ^^too!
  
  Not this shit again...
- It's ableist to point out the (obvious) mental illnesses of some of the most successful people in the world?
  
  I'm honestly curious how?

I said that on here and was heavily downvoted. Granted, I was inebriated so a lot of anger came across (so I've since deleted it) so maybe it was that.

I don't even think it's that. Sometimes people get mad when you point out that they did something bigoted, even if they claim to be progressive.

Ya just imagine the same thing but with racism

This isn't a meme

A meme is a self replicating unit of cultural information. This is a meme
- Internet memes and cultural memes are not the same thing. This isn't even a cultural meme - it's a screenshot of political opinion. Internet memes are pictures that are funny, ironic or relatable.

If everyone you meet is an asshole ...

...You might just be a colorectal surgeon.
...you might be a redneck?

Calling someone a dick is phallic. Got it.

And calling someone a cunt is yonic.

I no longer say things like “Miss Lindsey Graham can take it in the ass as often as she likes and she puts the ‘smart’ in ᴅᴜᴍ sᴘɪʀᴏ sᴘᴇʀᴏ”, because I’m a good person.