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they should make this guy famous as the influencer who tries to defame the US military, give him a taste of his own medicine
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Soon after Ellis’ statement on Facebook, Wallace shared another X user’s post with Ellis’ video, writing that it was an “Important Update!” and adding that Ellis was not piloting the helicopter and is still alive. Wallace also wrote in another X post that the original rumor that Ellis had been flying the helicopter involved in the crash came from another account with the handle @FakeGayPolitics, which is no longer active. Wallace said the rumor “seemed credible” because Ellis, whom Wallace misgendered in his posts, “wrote an article calling out Trump’s trans military ban only a few days ago.”
How does this logic work in his head?
No logic needs to be involved when the only goal is to ruin the lives of marginalized people.
"if someone said anything negative about me, I would gladly murder dozens of people JUST to make them look bad, therefore this is perfectly believable!"
That's the logic.
I think their tiny-Trumpy-brained syllogism goes:
- Trans people bad.
- Helicopter crash bad.
- Therefore, trans people helicopter.
Premise 1 is false, but other than that you simply can't fault the logic.
Yea unfortunately probably not his is but more like his followers' are. He is aware enough of this to exploit it for his own gain. The thing to do is to have obligatory critical thinking courses each semester every year from age six to twenty two, repeat it so many times it becomes a reflex not a choice.
trans people helicopter.
"I identify as-"
Yeah goddamn I bet that made perfect sense in his head.
I wish them great success. Not only were they greatly wronged, which could cost future jobs, but in the rush for clicks, too many streamers think that freedom of speech also means free from the consequences of their words. That needs to change
Her, and "was she"... but good on you for not being hateful!
It's my go-to way of speaking to people now too. I will either use just their name or use non gender pronouns. I figure I will avoid misgendering by not gendering.
For the better part of 30 years I have used a non-gendered language when possible. I was elated to find that "they" was originally, 13th century, a single pronoun instead of plural. I have probably used "one" way more times than is healthy.
~30 years ago I was living in/near Hillcrest, San Diego. Gay, trans, drag and everything else. I was online and people's genders were frequently unknown. In 1993 we already had the issues that On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.. Now we have AI which has no gender pronoun, I'm voting for "hal".
Point is that avoiding gendering text has been and will continue to be the safer option for general purpose writing. Some people will get bent out of shape that you didn't use gender specific language because the Narcissism of Small Differences means they must see you as the enemy even if you agree with them on 99% of things. Trying to have a generally non-discriminatory pronoun policy? That's a paddling. Your good intentions must be stopped because they aren't pure enough.
It sucks. Instead of focusing on the slander used by hate speech and the remediation sought by the one who was wronged we are totally lost in the weeds and focused on if we used the right three letters because avoiding the wrong three wasn't enough. It's thought police with the best of intentions but it's still thought police.
Point is that avoiding gendering text has been and will continue to be the safer option for general purpose writing.
I do the same, but if someone's gender is known it's really not hard to use one of their preferred pronouns.
I don't think that's being the 'thought police' and it's certainly not something to focus on instead of hate speech, we can do both.
Uhm. Hey, I know you are well meaning and I'm only saying this to inform, not to call out, shame or attack.
But most trans people deeply dislike what you're doing, it's called degendering and it's not an appropriate or respectful way to refer to us.
I understand you are worried about saying the wrong thing, but this is a way to deny trans people their identity but talking around it. It's extremely noticeable and as someone who has attended more than a few trans support groups, it's dehumanizing and upsetting. Just as non-binary folk use they/them, binary trans folk use she and him. We have one correct way to refer to us, and apart from sentance where you are referring to a group, "they" is not a safe one size fits all.
Again, I say this respectfully in effort to inform. You seem well intending, but I implore you to reconsider.
Like I replied below,
Then we can't win, it feels like people are purposely making it impossible to be respectful to everyone by always having an issue. So I will go with offending the gendered people.
If y'all gonna have a problem with using neutral terms then you will have to live with being offended because it's not fair if we can't just use your name.
"It feels like people are purposely making it impossible to be respectful to everyone...." Yeah by ignoring simple social cues (or a written article) that would have allowed them to correctly and respectfully refer to another person, if they would have had the energy to allow a single additional neuron to fire off in there.
"...I will go with offending the gendered people." You know everyone here can see your previous posts right? Where you correctly gender Trump, Musk, and probably every other cicgendered person without having any trouble. But nice edgy touch.....
I'm not talking to them in person, and they are not ambiguous. I was speaking from the point of not knowing the person on a level where it is public knowledge or personal knowledge. Nice try, trying to make this a personal attack.
I wasn't trying to start a flame war, honestly. It was just clear from the post that "she" was a "she/her"
You don't need to 'other' people who aren't requesting it. Do no harm.
Get that bank girl 💸
Take fucking everything from this chode.
Of course it's Matt fucking Wallace