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My friend from Lousiana taught me a wonderful saying for when we are faced with absurd hypotheticals: "If my aunt had a d_ck, she'd be my uncle." Of course, t

My friend from Lousiana taught me a wonderful saying for when we are faced with absurd hypotheticals: "If my aunt had a d_ck, she'd be my uncle." Of course, that doesn't quite land the same in 2024, our finally learning of all the travails our trans brothers and sisters face in this world filled with such mean, ignorant mofos.

gadders 2y ago
That's a common saying in the UK as well, but with "b_lls" substituted for "d_ck".
- MrMcCall 2y ago
  LOL, for real. Thanks! Those sayings really have a nice flow to them.
llamaimperative 2y ago
The claim was they don’t care about inequality. That’s obviously untrue. They might not care about specific instances of inequality, but the distinction is important because, for example, other people experience different instances and clearly OP’s “caringness” is highly modulated by their information. Who’s to say they just actually have no fucking clue how bad inequality can be (in either direction), then it’s no surprise at all it doesn’t bother them. To make it more explicit: it doesn’t bother me either that people have jets or fancy cars. I cannot draw from that observation that “inequality doesn’t bother me.” And you certainly can’t draw from that the suggestion that certain forms or intensities of inequality don’t yield bad outcomes in society totally aside from GP’s personal emotional state.
- MrMcCall 2y ago
  Yeah, that's fair. Most people's morality is very situational, and oft varies by how they're feeling at the time. The challenge, as always, is to rise above it all, no matter what.
pmg101 2y ago
"If my grandmother had wheels, she'd have been a bike!" is a suitable drop-in replacement. (Made famous in the UK by Gina D'Acampo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc)
- MrMcCall 2y ago
  Rode hard and put up wet? :-O

gadders 2y ago

That's a common saying in the UK as well, but with "b_lls" substituted for "d_ck".

MrMcCall 2y ago
LOL, for real. Thanks! Those sayings really have a nice flow to them.

llamaimperative 2y ago

The claim was they don’t care about inequality. That’s obviously untrue. They might not care about specific instances of inequality, but the distinction is important because, for example, other people experience different instances and clearly OP’s “caringness” is highly modulated by their information. Who’s to say they just actually have no fucking clue how bad inequality can be (in either direction), then it’s no surprise at all it doesn’t bother them. To make it more explicit: it doesn’t bother me either that people have jets or fancy cars. I cannot draw from that observation that “inequality doesn’t bother me.” And you certainly can’t draw from that the suggestion that certain forms or intensities of inequality don’t yield bad outcomes in society totally aside from GP’s personal emotional state.

MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, that's fair. Most people's morality is very situational, and oft varies by how they're feeling at the time. The challenge, as always, is to rise above it all, no matter what.

pmg101 2y ago

"If my grandmother had wheels, she'd have been a bike!" is a suitable drop-in replacement. (Made famous in the UK by Gina D'Acampo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc)

MrMcCall 2y ago
Rode hard and put up wet? :-O