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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Damn. That Fox news article was absolute trash. πŸ€”Thanks for providing a more reputable news link!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I can't believe this map includes Castile, but does not make any mention of Al-Andalus. That's one of the most interesting epochs of Iberian history!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Because critiquing a system as currently failing doesn't translate to, "good things aren't possible," or as you said earlier, "things can't get better," except by hyperbolic inference. You're welcome to disagree with my points and offer your own thoughts on the issues, and that would certainly be more interesting than trying to critique me as a person based on four sentences on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You've wilfully misread the comment, but I'm not going to quibble with you about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Honestly with the way the US stands today, "no fundamental change" is probably the best we could hope for. Of course, I think things are generally worse now than when he was elected, but I don't blame him for the problems of crony capitalism, a completely dysfuncional congress, a Supreme Court beholden to private donors, and a national constituency that seems to shed brain cells like trees shed leaves in autumn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Your claim as to its history is simply not true, and its use has, obviously, been mostly limited to the community that generated it. Did you expect Ronald Reagan to use it in his inauguration speech?

Other than that, I don't see what point you're actually trying to make here.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Organically developed, like, a community making a new word that fills a lexical need to describe a concept? Sounds a lot like "Mx." to me. What's stupid about it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You just read an article about a non-binary person, so I think we can assume they are, indeed, "a thing." Something tells me you don't interact with a lot of queer people anyways, so your acceptance of their terms of address feels pretty irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I usually hear it as "mix".

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (11 children)

All titles are "made up," and Mx. as an honorific has been around for almost fifty years. A better question would be why our two main honorifics for people are so pointlessly gendered.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I still use Skiplagged pretty exclusively.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the tip! I have it on my wishlist; can't wait to start collecting some destiny stars again! 🐱🐱

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