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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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Do you ever watch the NBA and think to yourself, "WOW, being taller than 6'4 is exceptionally rare! The odds that they are all here playing basketball together is simply unbelievable"?
A terrible analogy. There's nothing about using a particular Internet server that people are predisposed to having the ability to do.
There is if that server was made specifically by those people for that purpose, though.
First I've ever heard of that concerning hexbear but another great point. Literally everyone especially op knows that
"Most of us are trans"
"I don't believe you"
"Here's a demographic poll showing that we are indeed majority trans"
"That seems really unlikely, you must be lying or that poll must be wrong"
"Here's a detailed history of our origin explaining exactly why it isn't at all unlikely that we are who we say we are"
"Ah, forgive me for my error, I believe you now"
Literally none of that happened
We're in a version of that conversation right now bud