The one thing I will add is that the soul searching isn’t always visible, which was what made it so hard for my family/friends to understand when I came out. To them, it seemed like a very sudden and “snap” decision, when the reality was that I had spent years at that point reflecting and doing soul searching, but was so terrified about what it meant and how they might see me, I never told anyone about it.

I definitely think that this dad did a solid job overall, and even as an adult transitioning in their late 20s, I would have loved this response vs how my parents handled it…

I think it just shows how little they actually value women in any way, shape or form.

They see trans men as a total joke, that they’ll never be a “real” man, and of course women would want to be a man! Being a man is the greatest thing ever and only thing these people have going for them, and in effect, transmen affirm their gender identity as being “the best”.

It’s the same reason they hate transwomen so much. They have such a low view of women, it disgusts them that anyone would willingly lower themselves to that level. It attacks their idea that being a straight white men is the best thing ever, and the idea that maybe it’s not, and someone would willingly give up their masculinity and be happier is beyond horrifying to them.

People are already suffering and dying because of him, let’s not make it any easier for him to take lives.

Wait, seriously? I figured they used a much more power hungry bulb! I’ve wanted to get one for a while but I’m always so concerned about energy efficiency I’ve held off buying one because I figured it was like 150W

The Model 3 released in late 2017, while the “Pedo guy” thing happened in late 2018, and the “420 funding secured” fraud was before the Model 3 even officially entered production. The “FSD in 6 weeks maybe” BS had been going on from the earliest Model S days, and I can give a very comprehensive list of all the massive red flags that’d been waving from when the first Roadster rolled off the line.

I can give a pass to anything earlier than the Model 3, just because it wasn’t reported on nearly as much and I don’t expect people to follow industry news to the same degree I do, but it was still definitely there for people to see if they wanted to. However, Elon has literally always been a massive piece of shit from day 1, and it’s only gone downhill from there and especially after the Model 3 was starting production. Anyone trying to convince themselves they bought their car before that was “obvious” is coping hard.

Well, if America is no longer a superpower, then Putin and all his oligarchs buddies are planning on sweeping up the spoils of its ruin for themselves.