🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Digging this Fraktur capitals exemplar... I think ill practice it with some high-sheen ink :)

@Pantangelini

While I dont expect you to beleive me, I think the difference may be something you never expected.

I've mentioned a few times on my feed that my family has a personal relationship with both Biden and Trump, both of whom have eaten dinner at and spent time at my parent's home. Seeing how extremely brain dead Trump was, and seeing the GOP ultimately vote and swoon around him, was a pretty damning moment in my eyes. At least from afar you can have some delusion of him being a mastermind in disguise. Likewise Biden was pretty intolerable too.

@Pantangelini Ahh a fellow philly native born.. I am in philly right now and was here when the mostly-democrat lead riots were going down... So i can see where you get the violent comments from, and it isnt wrong.

While we might not agree about republicans we do generally agree about the intolerable nature of many democrats.

@Pantangelini

Its the exact same sort of criticism I get from democrats... but yea, I take no offense to it. But the predictable sort of responses that reflect similar pattern from democrats who are similarly "shocked" and argue much as you do in the opposite has only served to reinforce my stance.

For the record I grew up in a almost exclusively republican family. I have had far more exposure to republicans than democrats in that sense.

@Pantangelini when we talk about the 52 gender crowd on that we agree.

Thankfully there are some more moderate people who see gender as generally a binary spectrum (with a non-binary middle perhaps) rather than 52 genders, but at least recognize that ones linguistic gender does not need to correlate to their sex and that biological gender is a different concept... for those more moderate democrats they are right, compared to the complete ignorance of the republicans on that topic.

@Pantangelini

No I pointed out them and the repulicans are pretty idiotic about everything, and yes as I said their 52 genders thing is kinda silly cause its pointless as you state... but it still represents a better understanding of linguistic gender thant he republicans who are under some delusion it is identical to biological gender.

@Pantangelini

And to be clear, remember, as I pointed out the democrats arent **informed** about linguistic gender, neither them nor the republicans are informed about anything... its just one of the things they are kinda neutral on and have a better understanding about that republicans.

@Pantangelini I dont keep archives of videos of people claiming it isnt made up..I do remember just recently seeing someone on the fediverse saying exactly that, that it was made up and also point out so was everything else in language... which is true.

@Pantangelini

> So the "52 gender crowd" which is all democrats and the democrats, who call Latinos Latinx, are less confused about linguistic gender...

Absolutely yes.. Because they dont pretend these 52 genders have always been around. They will admit quite readily they are a new invention, but is perfectly in line with the use of genders in a few other languages (there are 13 languages today that I know of with more than 2 genders)... They also recognize languages can change, and while I dont personally like this change, and it isnt part of "standard" english yet.. yes, it is perfectly within the use of linguistic gender based on its usage around the world. Yup, it is far more informed about how linguistic gender works than people who dont even know such a thing exists and instead pretend it is somehow the same thing as biological gender, which it is not.

@Pantangelini

Republicans literally invoke imaginary people int he sky as the only argumentative point for most of them when they discuss abortion... while there is a valid argument about restricting abortion republicans rarely if ever have the wherewithal to invoke it.

@Pantangelini

> gender is the bell curve of stereotypes of biological sex.

That is biological gender, not linguistic gender. The fact that even after I pointed out we were talking about linguistic gender you immediately tried to define it like biological gender shows you are uninformed about the topic.

BTW linguistic gender existed before the concept of biological gender.

As to whether they use linguistic gender in a way I like is another matter. I am fine with someone having a different linguistic gender than their biological sex, that has been the norm in languages for a very long time. Though I am not a fan of the "there are 52 genders" crowd.. while there are languages that have many genders, it is not something that is normal in english and not something I see being particularly useful.

@Pantangelini

I dont usually see republicans or democrats understanding abortion too well. Most republicans are completely against it taking it to one extreme, largely citing religious basis. Democrats go to the other extreme being ok with no limits of any kind on abortion. Both seem pretty ignorant on that particular topic.

@Pantangelini Actually most models historically that predicted climate change has been remarkably accurate (see attached image).

I think you mean they dont understand **sex**? Seems Sex is something they sometimes struggle with, whereas linguistic gender is something republicans seem to get really confused about (often not even understanding the difference between linguistic gender and sex).

@Pantangelini

Right and I would say if you think that is exclusively a democrat thing, your wrong, and you did a poor job at conveying it at first but you are conveying your opinion more clearly now at least.

@Pantangelini

Yes its obvious that is what you are arguing **now**.. and no, sadly that doesnt seem in line with reality.

There are topics each group are horribly misinformed on (Democrats: guns, economics, etc.. Republicans: climate change, STEM, etc) then there are topics which, at best they arent complete morons but are far from well-informed experts (Democrats: climate change, Republicans: guns).

As for aggression, democrats seem to be more rioty and aggressive as groups, republicans are more the type to be violent as individuals(such as the guy who mowed through a crowd).

No I have no issue with their religious lean, I mostly respect it as long as it doesnt cause them to be biggoted.