Thank you for your response. I feel I must repeat in case it is ambiguous: I am absolutely against any form of trans shaming whatsoever. If you want to date a trans person, you should be 100% free to do so without negative social consequence.

And anti-vax idiocy flourishes because communities didn't make life hell for them.

Tact does matter. That is why I say "seeking cis man/woman" is better than "no trans man/woman". "No black people" is bad, "prefer SWM/SWF" is better and acceptable IMO (disclaimer: I'm black), "looking for athletic man/woman" is better than "no fat people", etc., just my opinion.

The right isn't a frog in a boiling pot. It's reaching its final form as dictated by the Southern Strategy.

Behold the corporate state.

That is a holdover from when I thought cis was an acornym. Sorry!

"Housing addiction: the next drug war." - Republicans/Capitalists

Given their birth rate they'd be lucky to have even Sato's around by the 26th century.

Many of your points here are spot on. There's not a lot of trans people as a percentage of the populace. Maybe like 2-3% tops, so you're right, you're not going to run into hordes of trans people while swiping. And many of those do NOT want to hide who they are short term and are loathe to just up and hide it from a date long term. Let's make it clear there's no movement to trick people into dating trans people, to *further *derail any right wingers reading this to get their rageohol fix.

You are also right about the etiquette of it all. Tact and timing are important. "Before you go any further I only date cis people" is idiocy. But the fact is a lot of people do not want to date trans people and that's their right. We have to come to a happy medium where we respect that but (to address your legit and underlying concern) don't also let this "trans people are everywhere looking to trick us into dating them OMFG RUNNNNN!!" hysteria genie out of the bottle. I am definitely NOT here to foment that.

Good. Hope all these office mandating companies go out of business. No more of people being forced into these mandatory COVID infection labs just to make a living.

Let them go and the white nationalists forever lose electoral power in what remains of America. As a black man... I support this reduction in threats to my life and my family's life.

We had 3 scratch-happy cats and quelled them with scratching posts. No declawing needed.

Finally, a resistance is starting to wake up in this country. I've been left with this belief that the lawless vigilante fascists can do whatever they want and the populace is just too scared to try to stop them.

Yes countless soldiers fought and defended America so that freedom persists. *deep whiff* smell the freedom, y'all. It applies to gay vampire fiction writers, too!

It's stuff I encounter online. But stuff online festers for years, and then erupts in real life. MAGA and QANON, for instance, was festering from USENET in the 1990s and forums thereafter. I watched it happen. Everyone ignored it, and now look where we are. MAGA of course is a whole different scale of true horror but still. This mentality I'm mentioning is festering. All cancers begin this way.

Hey can we please be civil here?

Freedom goes both ways.

Reddit has a near-monopoly on forum communities. It is ranked 16 on similarweb and no other competitor comes even close in terms of community size. It's like Facebook in its dominance.

That's a lot of words to say "Cartel". Car...tel... get it?

I'm here all day, folks! 👍

Here’s a hint: the automakers are doing great. By essentially coordinating an industry-wide production cut, the pandemic gave manufacturers power to demand mind-boggling prices for fewer cars, leading to record profits. As consumers adjusted their expectations, executives saw an opportunity to establish a lucrative new normal. Low inventory is an “opportunity to drive strong margins”, GM’s CEO, Mary Barra, told shareholders in 2022. Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley, went even further, declaring: “I want to make it extremely clear to everyone: we are going to run our business with a lower day supply than we have had in the recent past because that’s good for our company.”

Also see: collusion... market manipulation... fauxflation.

Looking forward to seeing Reddit take a hit. They love to ban people for the silliest of reasons.