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Celerity

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29. It's not bait. You used a misogynistic slur and now try to ignore that fact away. You using it is offensive to me as
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 01:04 AM
Mar 2025

a female.

Neither female reproductive organs or male ones play any role in whether someone 'stands up'.

To call someone a 'pussy' for doing something you frame as 'not standing up' IS misogynistic.

There is zero bait. You made the statement, and yet you think you can ignore it away when your misogynistic language is called to account.

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Simplistic and wrong GreatGazoo Mar 2025 #1
Excellent points, but tRump's degree in Economics is dubious and the "running away" is a canard Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #3
A tariff is a tax but it is one that seeks changes in a foreign vs domestic dynamic GreatGazoo Mar 2025 #13
The problem with that logic is that Trump is a useful tool Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #11
You are confusing Nazism with Fascism... AntiFascist Mar 2025 #17
No voice/free exit GusBob Mar 2025 #21
This is the same real estate developer and media personality that attempted a self-coup AZProgressive Mar 2025 #22
Fascist is as fascist does Martin Eden Mar 2025 #31
I don't approve of this. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #2
Freedom does include running away to fight from afar or another day. Just like boycotting is a freedom Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #4
Fair enough. But I don't see that in most of this. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #6
You generally only hear about the more prominent ones because they are prominent. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #9
True. I often feel guilty about the things I don't do to help. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #12
Be kind to yourself. If you don't take care of yourself your ability becomes limited. Forgive yourself. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #14
What is up with the misogynistic slur? Celerity Mar 2025 #23
I don't accept your premise. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #24
What is up with the misogynistic slur? ('pussies' used as a word for cowards) You did not respond to my initial enquiry. Celerity Mar 2025 #25
I'm not taking this bait. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #26
It's not bait. You used a misogynistic slur and now try to ignore that fact away. You using it is offensive to me as Celerity Mar 2025 #29
It's his business as to whether to leave or not. I would if I could. elocs Mar 2025 #7
It's your business what to do. But when you try to extract moral credit for it, that's us. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #8
Most of my ancestors "ran away" from their countries of origin Mariana Mar 2025 #10
Those were (I assume) ordinary folk escaping dire conditions. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #19
it's always this way Skittles Mar 2025 #18
Yup. And this has been happening always. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #20
Cool story bruv... Celerity Mar 2025 #27
Thank you for your appreciation, bro... AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #28
I am a cis female. Celerity Mar 2025 #30
We each have but one life. keopeli Mar 2025 #5
For those of us not moving to Canada or Ireland GreatGazoo Mar 2025 #15
Understandable but futile, like moving from Berlin to Warsaw in 1936 0rganism Mar 2025 #16
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