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      from stability, peace, and quiet.

      remember: stressed, angry, distracted, undereducated, and poor people make good minimum wage employees and cannon fodder.

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        from stability, peace, and quiet.

        Bingo.

        Every single time in the course of my life (I’m getting older) that conservatives have come into power, things get way less stable and way more stressful. It’s always a non-stop assault of chaos and uncertainty.

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    Nothing says protecting people in the bathroom like constantly monitoring them and keeping track of everyone that uses them.

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      Well, they’re the party currently going to the ends of the Earth to protect pedophiles, so…pretty on brand.

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      Seriously. Like imagine if a trans person used their preferred bathroom. I mean I don’t, cause I don’t care. But for people the right claims to hate, they have an odd fascination with them. Like how hard is it to just not give a fuck?

      My energy is more valuable to me than being mad at a group of people who I have minimal interactions with. Wouldn’t these pricks be happier just ODing on meth?

      I’ll give you this as an example, I drive Uber and have a mas presenting trans person. I call them by their preferred name and drive them where they wanna go. That’s it, and it’s never a problem. They told me about another driver that keeps making up mas names to call them in an attempt to antagonize them(?) I guess. I seriously can’t imagine giving that much of a fuck about someone I don’t even know.

      But here I am giving that same energy to dipshit “conservatives”. I guess we’re all hypocrites.

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            I haven’t really checked since I’ve never needed to, but I imagine there’s a way to report that they’ve harassed you, which presumably would be worse for them.

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              I haven’t really ever had any problems cause I’m a normal human who doesn’t instantly hate things I don’t understand/identify with. But I know when ranking riders you do have options such as ; no seatbelt, disrespectful, inappropriate conversation, and maybe smoking/vaping (?). I hope there is a harassment option, cause honestly, how hard is it to just call someone what they wanna be called‽ It literally takes less energy and causes less drama in your life. The worst part is I look like the homo erotic image they have about what masculinity is. I’m town standard deviations to the right of the bell curve in terms of largeness and I’m in fairly good shape. So they talk to me like I’m one of them regardless of I got super ally rainbow shoelaces on. Like are you that unobservant‽

              Sorry I’m rambling. I just really don’t like it when they confuse me for one of their rank and file, and since I moved to the corner of bum fucked and nowhere, it’s been happening a lot lately.

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        What does “mas” mean? I thought it was a typo for male, but you said it twice, so I’m not sure it’s a typo anymore, lol

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        The persecution of people is the point, not a means to an end. They just want to hurt people, it’ their kink. They are fucked in the head. Like psychopathic, sociopathic, sadists etc…

        They make up whatever arguments that justify them hurting people.

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        Like how hard is it to just not give a fuck?

        When you’re not very intelligent and you don’t have a lot going on in your life, it’s actually really hard to not give a fuck about stupid shit. What else are conservatives going to do? Further their education?

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        Ehh being annoyed at someone else for being an asshole isn’t equivalent to being annoyed that someone else exists. You don’t seem hypocritical to me

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    If they can’t handle the person shitting in the stall next to them possibly having a different set of genitals than theirs, then how the fuck are they supposed to handle combat? What a bunch of absolute cowards.

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    Americans are so weird.

    They’re also so dumb that they can’t see that this entire bathroom thing is just one giant distraction

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      No shit. The solution is easy too. Make every bathroom non-gendered with ceiling to floor walls and doors on the stalls and cameras in the washing up area. Add a guard or attendant if you feel like you have to.

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        are you kidding our cheap corporations won’t even make the cheap shitty stall walls in the toilets we do get go down to the floor and they usually have gaps you can see through. They don’t make any money on the bathrooms so they aren’t going to spend an extra dime to help.

        Not to mention nobody can afford a house so when you do get bathrooms like you’re describing homeless people move into them. I’m not blaming them either.

        I wish we could have nice things like that but i can’t see it happening here.

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          The place I worked at in the UK remodeled all their bathrooms to be a hallway with doors to multiple single self contained unisex toilets, each with its own basin. Bathrooms were generally cleaner, more accessible and more available. No urinals, but urinals are gross anyway so no big loss.

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            I was really pleased when places here in Canada started doing this. A close family member is trans, and I really felt their pain when going to a public toilet where we had to stand in a line for men or for women. That stuff can make every bathroom visit fraught, especially with the expectation that men will stand next to each other to pee. I even hate that as a cis man. Far better for everyone to form one line with no questions asked and have a private stall.

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          Well, instead of regulating people’s bodies they could regulate bathroom standards that give people some dignity.

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        Or, you know, make all your bathrooms gender neutral. Problem solved, if there was a problem to begin with. There never was a problem though, it’s all just made up and blown up by the likes of fox News which, somehow, is still legally broadcasting their lies over and over to brainwash the US populace.

        It’s weird and creepy

      • While that is ideal, there’s an even easier solution: let trans people shit in whichever bathroom they prefer and direct that energy towards stopping known sexual abusers, like clergy and most Republicans

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          Now is not the time to politicize this… We’ve got the flood and all the other things going on /s

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      It’s a normal part of the military anyway… willy watching duty during drug tests is a thing. Gotta make sure the Joe isn’t cheating the drug test.

      I don’t know what the other bathroom did… never asked or cared. But I will assume the stall door stayed open.

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        I wouldn’t be able to go. That is the truth! I was caught with some weed like 20 years ago and had to go to probation for 6 months. They tried to have me pee into a cup for 6 hours while he stood behind me. Couldn’t do it. I had to get water after each try. Guy looked frustrated, and they started telling me what to do, I got so panicked I pushed as hard as I could and farted. The guy was a trooper, he looked confused and also definitely wanted to laugh but held his composure. They finally let me just use the stale even because what else can you do? Every follow up visit i was never asked for another random test, which is kind of normal if you don’t look like your a problem, but I like to think its because I just can’t do it.

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        I did many a peepee check while in the Marines. It was a rite of passage. Guys tended to have fun with it, although, as with general population, some dudes were piss shy, and you’d let them have their privacy. Most guys would ask you to get as close as possible to watch though, because homoeroticism is rampant in the Marines, especially back when infantry units were all male. There was very little fun to be had, so you made it where you could.