one indirectly owned by the CCP such as Lenovo?

You could say this about literally every Chinese owned company. Eliminate all Chinese and all American companies and there’s not a lot of goods left you could purchase. Even less when it comes to goods made for other companies in China by Chinese firms.

Thank you! 🙏

Weird, and kind of gross, that BBC included something that wasn’t in the article in the link preview. Would you be able to edit your post? It doesn’t seem fair to Sharpe to attribute it to her.

The article doesn’t include a quote from Sharpe using the terminology biological women, so I’m not sure why you’ve chosen that wording in your post body. She says at one point “If they don’t want to ride with all women, then it’s not the kind of ride I want to be part of”.

I personally believe out of the closet Nazis that are allowed to exist are far more dangerous, but to each their own.

Also though, you really couldn’t be more wrong, as the person I replied to was about the Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson’s_One_Nation

Perhaps if you applied a USA-esque “there are only two parties logic” but that doesn’t really translate well to most other countries political systems. Least of all one like Australia that uses preferential voting.

I mean, from all accounts of how Starmer has been as a prime minister, Labour marched hard towards the right to get elected.

The overton window of each country is unique. The far right in Australia is still less extreme than the far right in the US. For example, they likely wouldn’t just dismantle healthcare for everyone. They generally all rely on populism though.

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Did we culturally forget that digital art and photoshopping exist for a minute?

for me it was lil bi boy to big (mostly) gay woman. i feel like i craved connection to my community.

Yeah, compose has been an open standard for a while now, that’s why docker started* pushing you to rename your files to compose.yaml rather than docker-compose.yaml.

That is not how you secure a system.

Yes, but projects like Wayland which are trying to do this get shouted down.

Oh, I thought this was the “they were in my coat pocket” one again. This exact thing is why I bought an airtag for my keys.

I feel like I gave the benefit of the doubt as much as possible, rather than assuming or accusing.

Unfortunately trolls these days are much more devious than in the Internet’s infancy, so can often look indistinguishable from someone who is genuinely misunderstanding or means well. Sometimes you have to step away for the benefit of your own mental health and sanity. I’m glad we could figure out a mutual understanding though.

I am struggling to understand why approaching any topic with calm and critical thinking instead of potentially rash action based on potentially temporary feelings is toxic?

To me, especially how it’s drawn here the character with the stamp is being toxic. Dismissing without asking someone who is calmly saying something. Depict the saying character in a dismissive or hostile way? Fair point.

How is a ten year gap a rash decision? Based off who the artist is, the feminine character is also most likely trans, and it wouldn’t be too much of a leap to assume that her feminineness is what was being called a ‘phase’ in the first panel.

Whether intentional or not, your comments here come across as concern trolling, so I’m going to disengage now. Have a good day though! <3

… Now that I am reading this back I might be overinterpreting internet culture, I am not into memes as I used to so maybe the context is more obvious than I am used to…

Are you queer? Because I feel like most queer folks recognise this phrase and how it’s used to sow doubt and cause harm. To me, what you’re implying is toxic, not what’s said in the OP.

I mean, isn’t the UK literally trying to introduce segregation of trans folks? I read somewhere that trans folks won’t be able to use the toilets of their sex assigned at birth either. They solved the burly trans men in the women’s bathroom “problem” 🙄

Yeah but you’re extrapolating a whole bunch of situations that this phraseology isn’t used for, like toxic relationships. It’s speaking to the “it’s just a phase” mentality that gets used to dismiss queer identities like being trans or gay. It’s actually not super clear whether the two people in the second panel are supposed to be, like, “me from the future” or if the one doing the stamping is proving a “hater” wrong with her identity.

Either way, I found your comment to be kind of unhelpful…

I feel like you’re projecting a lot onto this meme that isn’t there?