• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    I find it incredible that global warming is skyrocketing, debt is skyrocketing, we have all sorts of existential political and health issues and the thing people worry about is…

    Trans people in bathrooms.

    Like, what the heck?

    Even if I was anti-trans (and I am not), why would I lose so much sleep over that? What’s gonna happen, I see what looks like the opposite sex in the bathroom and my head explodes?

    Even racial segregation made slightly more sense because actual societal segregation was the existing state, precedent, and public consensus (as horrible as it was) but… trans people are already mixed into the public?

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    Democrats should hire a staffer to stand outside of the women bathroom at the capital and have them accuse every GOP women of being a man before they go to the bathroom.

    They want to play these games? Let’s show them what their crazy looks like

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    If you had transition surgery and therefor you couldn’t make use of a urinal, could you make the argument that the bathrooms are not fair and equal for you and therefor unconstitutional?

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    If bathrooms were properly designed instead of having half walls that don’t even meet, I doubt people would care nearly as much.

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      I was in a bathroom the other day with a messed up toilet paper dispenser. I didn’t notice until a woman sat in the stall next to me and I turned my head to just see full cleavage perfectly centered through this massive like 5x5 inch gap. Most uncomfortable pee of my life.

      Worth noting, this was a massive bathroom with like 30 stalls and 3 people currently in it and she chose to sit right next to me :(. It ain’t just urinals, guys.

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      I love the way Alamo Drafthouse in Texas did this. Each stall is a fully walled environment and there’s a long sinkway for everyone. No one gives a shit that it’s male and female together.

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        There is or was a bar and restaurant in Pensacola FL that tricked people into going into the wrong restroom if you weren’t paying attention and/or drunk. It was funny and there was no panic or outrage.

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      This sounds good in theory but most women I know want to have their own bathroom. Unless it’s like one person at a time deal.

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    if I owned the establishment

    removes sign entirely

    BATHROOM

    “There, y’all figure it out.”

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    Republicans will use anything to generate outrage and distract from the constant war they wage on the working class

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        we’ll see. Media companies, gas companies and private prisons for sure win here, other corporations may suffer if they enact most of these policies:

        Invading cities with the US military will destroy real estate markets. My guess is this is a bluff.

        Rounding up immigrants (lets not pretend they’ll be checking documents) will destroy agricultural corps and one of the US’ largest exports

        Tariffs will drastically damage consumer spending and costs for electronics (which will indirectly hike data center costs).

        Tax cuts will radically increase inflation again.

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        Regardless of party! Because we’re such a great country full of decadence that we have not one but two pro capitalist pro imperialism pro forever war parties!

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    I’d love for a bearded trans man to walk in there, look her dead in the eye and tell her not to worry, he has a vagina.

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    These people are obsessed with people’s genitals. Just go to the fucking bathroom. Must you go out of your way to make even taking a shit in public more uncomfortable than it needs to be?

    Shut the fuck up and do your fucking job.

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        What if they’re a grower not a shower? How do we sort this out we talking flaccid or erect? Can half these congress critters even get an erection without chemical help?

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      I don’t care who is with me in the bathroom. I’m not there to make friends. I wouldn’t care if either Nancy Mace or Donald Trump was in the stall next to me.

      Just don’t talk to me unless it’s an emergency, that’s all I ask.

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        I would care. Trump stinks like shit and even though I’m in a bathroom, I only want to smell my own.

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      I’m still trying to figure out what these people [Republicans] are doing in the bathroom. I probably don’t want to know. All can say is, when I’m trying to pee in a public restroom, I don’t really give a shit who’s in the stall next to me. I don’t care what their gender is. I don’t care what their birth gender was. I’m just trying to do my business and get on with my day.

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    I say we push them harder, hard enough that they mandate single person unisex bathrooms, with the fancy auto room washing function they have in Japan. Then I can finally crap in peace.

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    Oh irrational fear and tribalistic othering, is there no asinine bullshit you won’t stoop to, repeatedly?