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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by Comevius on Friday October 28, 2022 @12:45PM (#33373878)
A closest analogy would be the Babylon Bee making a joke about how you are not bipolar, it's all just in your head, or a satire about researchers trying to cure bipolar disorder instead of cancer, a real disease, and those would be fine, but then they would insist that it is true, your bipolar disorder is made up, and the CEO of Babylon Bee would go on Tucker Carlson's show and they would laugh about you being a whiny, lazy leftist making up things because you never had a strict parent to beat some sense into you.

Feel the difference? Transgender people should be absolutely the butt of jokes, that's how you include them, but then don't go around denying, mocking and invalidating them. Without some semblance of good faith you are not a joker, but a propagandist.

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by rufus_foreman on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:08PM (#33375058)
>> the CEO of Babylon Bee would go on Tucker Carlson's show and they would laugh about you being a whiny, lazy leftist

Then the Babylon Bee would publish "After Dismissing Warnings From His Mother, Tucker Carlson's Face Is Now Stuck That Way", which is hilarious since I knew before clicking the link which face it would be.

They make fun of everybody.

-- https://babylonbee.com/news/after-dismissing-warnings-from-h...

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by Comevius on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:23PM (#33375298)
Yeah, once, lightheartedly, in jest. These comical masterpieces are on the front page every other day.

https://babylonbee.com/news/man-pretending-to-be-woman-visit...

"OMG OMG OMG Mr. President, how aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrree you? EEEEEEEEEE!" said pretend woman Mulvaney in a perfect impression of a totally normal woman. "I'm so, so, so, so, so, so excited to talk to you about important issues concerning very, very young little girls just like me!"

Meanwhile this one is just shamelessly pushing conservative misinformation. They even call for action at the end suggesting a propaganda book for children from the Libertas Institute, a libertarian think tank.

https://babylonbee.com/news/the-top-15-greatest-threats-to-d...

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by labrador on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:31AM (#33391098)
Yes I feel that because there are people close to me who think I manipulated the psychiatrist to get the diagnosis to excuse my behavior. They feel I am smart enough to do that. They can't experience what it is like to be me so they can't know and I excuse them for that. I use Jesus' phrase "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" to get through it.
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