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Sen. Ted Cruz has introduced a bill that would limit the use of preferred names by trans people.
The irony, critics point out? The senator, whose legal name is Rafael Edward Cruz, uses a preferred name himself: Ted.

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[-] penquin@lemm.ee 240 points 7 months ago

Wow, now THAT will solve most of our country's problems, right, y'all? Fucking piece of shit useless mother fucker. I hate his weasly voice.

[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

He's the kinda guy that leaves his tube socks on and pulls his pecker out of his whitey tighties before fucking his wife with the lights off.

[-] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

This imagery just burns right though my soul and it won’t go away.

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[-] MebHi@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Correction, he's the kind of lizard that eats a rat while the humans aren't looking.

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[-] circasurvivor@lemm.ee 35 points 7 months ago

The majority of people who support and parrot shit like this aren't even doing it because they think it's somehow good for the country, they just think it's something that needs to be fixed because some ignorant piece of shit on FOX News or the like told them it was bad, and we should all be mad about it.

I can't imagine being so fucking bored and miserable with my life, that the sheer THOUGHT of someone else being happy and comfortable... or even just not sad and miserable in their own life, that I'd feel obligated to dedicate what precious time I have on this earth to ruining everything for everyone.

I agree with you - Ted Cruz is an absolute piece of shit, but the people who feel driven to support these types of policies and bills etc. are truly vile human beings.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 15 points 7 months ago

*Rafael Cruz

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 19 points 7 months ago

Am loving the energy in this post! It's so tiring that this shit is what passes for politics around here. Like half' the fucking country seriously thinks kicking us is a worthy focus for the whole damn government? Really? REALLY? Let's just stop and have a vote on how much we all hate those people for existing! That'll make something better, won't it? ... Now here I am getting worked up too. Bleh. Of course those people have no concept of "better," only hurting people they hate.

"I hate his voice" tacked onto the end there is kinda hilarious though 🤣

Also the initialism for the act's name is SHSA which reminds me that "SHSR" is the IBM->HAL thing (letter-position-decrement?) for "TITS." So I guess this bill is about TITB? ... Nevermind, I'll show myself out :P

[-] diannetea@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Him eating his booger on the debate stage still makes me gag uncontrollably if I see the clip, and if it pops into my head sometimes I'll start gagging, which is pretty much every time I see his name

There are very few things that make me gag in disgust, this one gets me every time

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

Oh, just his weasley voice? Not his weasley everything else?

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

He gets on my fucking nerves when he talks.

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[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 206 points 7 months ago

conservatives pick the weirdest most inconsequential hills to shit their pants on

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 83 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Step 1: Pick an issue that is divisive*

Step 2: Boost it with stories about how bad the people on the wrong side are: won't someone think of the children?

Step 3: Watch the outrage donations roll on in

It's a playbook as old as time.

*Some people might call it divisive because one side is like "let's all become crabs and live in the ocean" vs the other side that's like "no let's continue using our opposable thumbs". But who am I to label whether one side is right and the other wrong?

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Look, we don't get to choose if we want to be crab people, nature has just forced crab evolution on us

[-] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Oh great, the crab-apologists have showed up

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[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Look, I don't care what you do in the privacy of your own bathtub, but other people have to use the ocean and I don't want you putting any funny ideas in my kid's head about being a crab. His chitinous exoskeleton and claw are just a phase.

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[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 104 points 7 months ago

So he's going to start going by Rafael now right?

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago

Either that or Fled Cruise. Either way.

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[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Assigned

Rafael

At

Birth

My god...

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 74 points 7 months ago

Everyone should start calling Cruz "she"/"her" and when she complains, tell her she's not allowed to use her preferred pronouns.

[-] EnmaAi22@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago

This is not a good thing.

  1. It shows people it's okay to misgender someone you don't like

  2. It won't feel bad for him. For him it's a joke that doesn't do any harm. For trans people getting misgendered is life and can deeply hurt

[-] agnomeunknown@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

It also semi consciously feeds into the misogynistic trope of calling/implying that men are feminine as an insult. It's just a bad look all around

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 29 points 7 months ago

Better to keep referring to he/him by he/his preferred pronouns, but just hammer in the point that he/him is using pronouns you keep saying both every time.

He/him being reminded of it every time is much worse, and doesn't invalidate trans peoples pronouns.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

I think "it" is a better pronoun for Cruz - or maybe "It" given the whole evil clown thing.

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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago

No, call him by his first name at all times.

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[-] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 69 points 7 months ago

Wait until they hear what Nikki Haley's real name is.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Well? Don't leave me hanging.

I'm much too lazy to type her name into Google. But I'm just un-lazy enough to ask you.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago
[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Fucking WHAT?! Wow.

Ok. I won't make jokes about someone's name. I'll leave that to Trump and conservatives at large who judge people based on 2nd grader standards.

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[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Nimarata*, according to Wikipedia

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[-] QHC@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago

How could this possibly be ruled as Constitutional? Let alone any remaining shadow of 'party of small government' irony, that shipped sailed into the West a long, long time ago.

[-] Pizzasgood@kbin.social 43 points 7 months ago

The article's title presents this in a misleading way. The bill in question wouldn't prevent people from using their preferred names and pronouns. What it would do is prohibit the government from spending federal funds to implement or enforce any rules or recommendations encouraging its employees and contractors to respect those names and pronouns.

So in other words this is an attempt at protecting hate-speech, not at restricting free-speech. Shitty, but probably not unconstitutional.

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No word from Rafael yet on whether he thinks enforcing preferred names if how the Pentagon lost 6 trillion dollars

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

They never meant that "small government" thing; they were just chapped that the feds interfered with their racist bullshit at the state level.

[-] Endorkend@kbin.social 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Having a stacked hyper partisan supreme court makes anything constitutional.

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 39 points 7 months ago

Once again proving that when a conservative is really against something, they're doing it themselves.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 29 points 7 months ago

Hey Texas, Collin Allred is going up against Rafael Cruz. You don't have to vote for the status quo, you could shake it up and put someone in there who isn't a complete shit-bag.

[-] spaceghoti@lemmy.one 14 points 7 months ago

You don't have to vote for the status quo, you could shake it up and put someone in there who isn't a complete shit-bag.

But that's not how Texas does things. They only make things worse and call it freedom.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Oh my god it's already been 6 years

[-] intelati@programming.dev 24 points 7 months ago

Rules for thee, not for me?

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago

I’ve always liked Wilhoit’s Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago
[-] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago

This is what's important of course. No need to do anything about the genocide they're funding.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Rafael thinks you peasants should not get the choice, but he does.

Typical.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Weird how Rafael Cruz is so upset over people using different names.

I wonder why Rafael Cruz is so bothered by this?

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

I am starting to think Mr. Cruz does not have the best interests of the LGBT in mind.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Oh, that's because he's a Christian Nationalist piece of shit.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

I say that we embrace the wishes of people like Cruz, Boebert, Greene, etc and not use personal pronouns for them.

Example, "Cruz introduces bill to limit using preferred names, pronouns; critics note it uses a preferred name."

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