Reactionaries work according to a ruleset: "Rules apply to everyone who are not us, and everyone who is us, needs no rules."
They are hypocrites and a plague of the first order.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2025
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They are not hypocrites, they are fascists. Fascism prioritizes power over rationality or rules based order.
They flaunt the fact that they don’t care about the rules because it’s a way to show they have power that others lack. It’s a domination thing.
Fascism and hypocrisy overlap often times.
Power is not just 'hard', it's also 'soft'. Fascists often live in denial of that fact. If you as a "man" need a fist to make people listen - because you can't do so by your own word, then you already lost.
Its not hypocritical; they're just lying and want you dead.
This is exactly it and why I hate seeing all the self congratulatory gotchas on social media as if they care about the logical consistency of anything they are saying.
You didn't just get one over on them, you expended precious mental effort arguing against a firehose of bullshit, and not fighting against it.
Hmm, no they're also hypocrites, it's not mutually exclusive
They are not hypocrites if they don’t believe in any of the stuff in the first place. Which they don’t. None of them do.
That's a pretty fair assessment, is it hypocrisy if you're not aware of the irony, I would argue so, but your point still stands, they don't care for the truth at all. If they did, they might have to contend with the fact that they are monsters
And they can't be mad when a FTM marries a MTF, because it's hetero with extra steps.
It's not like they need reasons to be mad, it's more of a default position.
the default position is being scared of the unknown, but most conservatives can only handle the emotion of anger so the fear gets expressed that way
i honestly find that pretty sad. so many people could be so much better if only they were taught to learn about new things instead of being scared and avoiding new things as much as possible
It proves that transphobia is illogical.
phobia is defined as irrational fear after all
Oh, there's definitely a logic to it. They just lie and make up rationalizations, when in reality it's as simple as you're an out group and deserve punishment for that.
I somehow managed to be in a sort of omnisexual relationship with my ex.
I'm a trans girl, full in her transition (legal name change and everything) and suspected born inter. My ex was a trans girl early in her transition and hadn't had her legal name and gender changed.
- for transphobes (my dad), we where in a gay relationship
- for the government, we where in a straight relationship
- for outsiders / regulars, we where in a lesbian relationship
- in actuality, we where in a aroace relationship where gender just didn't play a role at all
We somehow managed to represent every single letter in LGBTQIA
Did you yell out bingo when you realised you got them all?
Nope, just got a steam achievement pop-up sadly
See, what all these gotchas miss, is they have absolutely no intentions nor pretense of caring about consistency.
If you're an out group, they hate you as an out group, and thats it.
Any words that happen to come out of their face holes or their slender typing sausages are just there to batter you down until they can do what they really want to do and what they are increasingly becoming emboldened to do (violence).
The MAGAts are happy to see ICE committing violence against the out groups. This is the primary thing they voted for. They're happy to see Donald enact discriminatory laws against trans people.
People have gotta realize that any time spent arguing against bad faith points is time wasted on burning yourself out accomplishing nothing and or time that could be spent trying to get people who don't pay attention to pay attention rather than trying to argue against people who actively wish you physical harm for your inalienable traits.
I don’t agree with conservatives’ way of life and they shouldn’t be allowed to get married
How can they oppress you if they don't know how to categorize you? Up yours, woke moralist!
im happy for this person-
A regular reminder for us all to search for contradictions in our rationalizations of our own behavior
If you dont try to be rational, you can get down to zero pretty quick.
The only goal of being rational is to communicate ideas with others. It's not something that makes you inherently smart
the goal of being rational is to communicate ideas with others
Wait, that's what it's for!?
It's fucking useless for that shit.
Right? I thought it was a sort of self-defence against being swindled, lied to, or otherwise taken advantage of by malicious thought patterns.
Trying to use reason to communicate - especially with others who don't share your commitment to reason - is insane.
This one simple trick!