Trans People Are Taking Over | r/TheRightCantMeme ft.

[@RolyWestYT]

Haha Jesus You can tell me to shut up I do waffle on sometimes xD Thanks for having me lovely!! Let's do this again VERY soon!!!

[@Jammidodger]

You waffle the perfect amount! Looking forward to filming again

[@Skye_7_7]

LOVE when you do vids together 😁

[@SarastistheSerpent]

You guys do the best collabs lmao

[@sheersternfeld1914]

Roly, I'm not sure what your gender is, but you're very pretty!

[@kimicappiello5480]

I'm following you now, (subscribed sounds less creepy, but anywho...) I think you are a proper serving size of waffles! You have so much energy, it makes me wish I wasn't tired all the time. 🥲 🧇 ❤ This video was fun!

[@LaPrincipessaNuova]

How do you calm a trans man? Give him some herbal T.

[@qtea3.149]

WHEEZE

[@markusnixon3156]

Now that's clever!

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

Ok I'm trans masc, and I almost peed myself at that one. Good job!

[@Keebles8]

Omg so funny!!!!

[@KittyTrackz]

yes please (i am nonbinary and yearn to have a mustache)

[@emia0908]

One of the grossest things about the Fallout image photoshop is that they're violating Ella Purnell's real figure. She's a slim woman, not a super curvaceous one! So they're literally saying "this absolutely gorgeous woman, who is also super lean and fit like the media tells women they're all suppose to be, is STILL not good enough because she can't magically also have a big round ass, in a survival jumpsuit." Like if it had been from the front they would probably be "fixing" her boobs, cause she doesn't have huge cleavage either. We all know if the show had chosen a curvier woman for the part they'd be fat shaming her and "fixing" her waist and thighs. These actors are real people.

[@discordiacreates6669]

Yeah I don't follow movies or TV anything but there's a line between "fixing" a fictional animated or drawn character and "fixing" a real life person by hypersexualizing her. There's something wrong with people that think that's ok because that's really gross, like that's a real person you're publically shaming and harassing, if it ain't already a crime, it should be because just, ew

[@snorpenbass4196]

Adding to this, the Vault suit she wears on the show is 100% accurate - no canon Vault suits are tight. None of them. So not only are they insulting her, they don't even get the franchise they're "defending".

[@petthequeenofmaddness8592]

@@snorpenbass4196 I saw it as she's "useless" like each vault had its own "rules" but she has no real muscle or stats they also made the one ghoul "hot" like it would be ok if we saw that he got lucky with how bad his ghoul-ness was like the vaults were still teaching people how to survive and stuff and the reason she left was because her dad got kidnapped like the the vault is fine and her leaving alone with "nothing" is just dumb

[@ComradeMercy]

​@@snorpenbass4196 I don't agree with the Photoshop, it's grotesque to alter a real person, but your statement is false. The vault suits from Fallout 4 are indeed skin tight.

[@TheOblivionMan]

@@ComradeMercy Tight, yes, but not frigging vacuum-sealed. The photoshop is the product of someone that's spent so long playing with character model mods on they've forgotten what the games looks like by default.

[@Sylfa]

There has *literally* been people in mental institutes because they wouldn't perform their "wifely duties" with their arranged marriage husband. Think about that one for a second. "I got a headache today." "Hmm, that's what my last wife had before I put her in the mental institute for the rest of her brief life…" Other reasons: Didn't want to work, didn't want to marry, so on and so forth. There was a period where anything other than "what the husband/father said to do" meant you got put into closed door mental "healthcare" and experimented on.

[@prageruwu69]

it's so sad how many women went through that for just having their own thoughts and opinions.

[@seekervaltriz9447]

Even today, especially in the US, questioning any authority can get you diagnosed with a supposed mental health disorder.

[@dietotaku]

i was gonna say, where the woke lived in the 60s? that doesn't look like a hippie commune. these people are so deranged and hateful they don't even know what "woke" means anymore.

[@karowolkenschaufler7659]

I think there was a time when you could sew your husband for not getting it up... but that was earlier. doesn't reall balance anything out.. and the attempt to even balance anything out in that way is not very helpfull... I'm not being helpfull. but it amuses me. and that helps me.

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

Wow so I would have been locked up because there's a good chance I am infertile due to Chemo and Radical radiotherapy? Course I'd be dead anyway coz medicine like that didnt exist back then.

[@prageruwu69]

i love when jamie and roly collab, they're like the angel and devil on someone's shoulder.

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

Agreed

[@zefiro6829]

I immediately thought of Crowley and Aziraphale but more animated. Roly and Jammiraphale?

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

Which ones the angel which ones the devil

[@hunterspears9168]

OMG YESSSSSSS

[@maggpiprime954]

But when the devil is also on your side 😄

[@DivaAllyC]

*“I was going to call you a mean thing but I can’t even think of one”* Oh bless Jamie 😂

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

As general vulgar person, watching generally vulgar media and henging OT with vulgar ppl, jammies extrime (and genuine) politeness is really shocking sometimes XD

[@waffles3629]

He's such a wholesome little bean

[@maddykrantz]

@@aleksabanjevic8316 do you mean OT as in One Topic or as in a misspelling of out?

[@boneappletee6416]

​@@maddykrantz my guess is that it was a typo

[@Wilderness-Autorka]

A few days ago a dude kicked me in the ass while yelling "fuck off you f-word" as I was simply walking with my girlfriend and holding her hand. Not only did he almost lost his balance while kicking me and looked pathetic (the kick didn't even hurt, but he had put so much energy into it, it was HILARIOUS), but the look on his face... Full of disgust and sadness, really. I can only imagine how stressful it must be to be a stupid, overly "confident" bigot to be triggered by two women holding hands. I only turned around and asked him "are you fucked in the head?" and that was enough to scare him off lol (mind you - I'm tiny, but can be pretty intimidating by the way I dress :P)

[@imarandomperson761]

??? Holy I'm glad you're okay, straight up unwarranted assault would've gotten anyone arrested if that were me

[@Wilderness-Autorka]

@@imarandomperson761 Welcome to Poland I guess! Nobody around even reacted, it was also the middle of the day. Crazy stuff is happening lately

[@imarandomperson761]

@@Wilderness-Autorka This is wild... I truly feel for you, hope you're staying safe. I'm glad that guy was an all bark no bite snowflake though (which tbf is expected from a homophobe anyway)

[@Wilderness-Autorka]

@@imarandomperson761 Don't worry, we're fine ♥️ Thank you for all the concern and kind words. Honestly, my gf needs it more than I do, it seriously stressed her out in that moment alone, but we still had a good laugh right after and went onto plotting how we would've torn his ass open in different kinds of ways if he decided to persist in that situation instead of bailing out like a pussy he really was xd

[@Aaron-my9zy]

lmao he tried being a hateful bastard, messed up and looked pathetic, then was such a baby that he got scared and ran when confronted by the smol lesbian he tried to hurt. Classic homophobes, all bark, no bite. Hope you and your girlfriend are doing amazing and are staying safe.

[@chrissaldana9183]

So, the whole thing about Voter ID and racism comes from a couple of factors in the US: 1) The states with the highest Black population are among the poorest in the US 2) Those same states go out of their way to poorly run social services, with only one or two licenscing places open for a state whose area is comparable to the UK. Said licensing places are in the wealthier (read: white) parts of the state 3) Said states now require IDs to vote. To get said IDs, poor and disproportionately black voters have to take hours of their time out of a day to go to a poorly run licenscing location that has limited hours in areas of the state that are less than hospitable to folks with skin tone darker than David Bowie.

[@snorpenbass4196]

Add to this jury duty - anyone registering to vote is automatically signing up for jury duty, which most poor people (mostly black people) can't do without losing their jobs. So people don't register. It's horribly clever.

[@YourQueerGreatAuntie]

The UK government did recently bring in a voter ID law. They liked how much the far right in the US liked it.

[@orsolyafekete7485]

The US got voter suppression down to a science. E. g. holding elections on workdays, it is completely unfathomable to me

[@arcadiaberger9204]

You left out one more element, @chrissaldana: any time that African Americans or white progressives complain about all of this, Republicans respond by saying, "The Democrat Party is so racist, they think colored people are too stupid to get ID!"

[@strawberryfox8819]

Shit like this makes me baffled at how people think systematic racism isn't a thing. Or systematic oppression of marginalized groups in general.

[@trishapellis]

The zombie cicadas thing works like this: the fungus infects one cicada. This cicada's hind parts shrivel up and are replaced by the fungus's spores (its gonads are gone at this point). However, the fungus also affects the cicada's brain and makes it a) believe that nothing's wrong and b) hypersexual (also bisexual, it will behave like the opposite sex to get that booty). So it will be trying to mate with as many other cicadas as possible... and because the body part that it uses to try and mate is now replaced by the fungus's spores, the other cicadas get infected. Important to note: Just like the cordyceps fungus so often referred to in zombie movies, this fungus cannot infect humans, or even mammals.

[@AlfredSoul]

That was quite a nice tidbit of knowledge.

[@sundalosketch4769]

So Cicadas have the risk of mind + genital-replacing STDs.

[@KiboSanti]

Thank you for clarifying, that's absolutely horrifying! I'm glad it doesn't infect humans!

[@strawberryfox8819]

Fungi are so scary honestly

[@grantmegan91]

​@@strawberryfox8819and really badass too. Did u know the largest fungi is as big as the continental united states?! It's just underground being huge. What's up with that

[@cadeludford2705]

The fact that the very first thing in this video is some guy admitting he thinks bullying your own children is okay makes me so sad.

[@prageruwu69]

some people don't deserve to be parents, i hope he doesn't have kids

[@JDMimeTHEFIRST]

They’re called dads😅. I agree with you, but most dads ARE like this whether kids are autistic, gay, trans, or just shy. They will bully you.

[@margotpreston]

@@JDMimeTHEFIRST No they aren't. Because true father would ever bully their kid. If they do, they're an abuser not a father.

[@Waspinmymind]

@@margotprestonThey’re still fathers. Abusers are not a second class of people. They can be any person in authority to hurt another. As soon as you try to separate that you can become just as hurtful as them. If you cannot recognize that anyone can be an abuser given the power or ability.

[@JuBenjiiiii]

​@@Waspinmymind I think they meant the emotional meaning and connection of the word "father". So yeah, they're still biological parents but because they're abusers too they don't actually feel like a 'father'

[@RealFreakishGaming]

I went to Easter with the queerphobic side of my family, and they pissed and moaned about Trans Day of Visibility being on Easter. As soon as they started I left and have cut off all ties.

[@ComradeMercy]

Good on you!

[@Gormathius]

These people really need to get some real problems in their lives, honestly. Even someone with a genuine deep-rooted discomfort about trans people due to circumstances they may not even understand could very easily just ignore this bit of knowledge added and enjoy their easter just like any other easter. It has literally no effect on anything other than bigots pissing their pants over being reminded a certain group of people exist.

[@darkstarr984]

Good for you!

[@cryochick9044]

I can't wait for in a few years when easter is on 4 20

[@depressoespresso5904]

good for you !

[@_StarlightRose_]

It would take 8,765,333,333,333,334 lemons to completely dissolve the eiffel tower

[@prageruwu69]

well, better get to planting those lemons then!

[@KitTheAnkafolk]

What if you only use 8,765,333,333,333,333 lemons

[@_StarlightRose_]

​@@prageruwu69true

[@_StarlightRose_]

@@KitTheAnkafolkI'm not sure, Mr.Think didn't cover that Though I'm sure some of the iron would remain and just get rusty

[@_StarlightRose_]

​@@prageruwu69We need to do a funny Go fetch cave johnson

[@John_Weiss]

They don't even want to go back to the 1950s. They want to "go back to" the world portrayed in 1950s TV shows … which were themselves nothing more than 30 minute long advertisements for life in the suburbs. So they want to live in a 1950s-themed TV commercial. Deranged.

[@colourcraze]

Pleasantville

[@Sapphykins]

It's always fascinating to me how many of the 'remember the old days' images used are just straight up adverts. It's honestly incredibly rare to even see scenes from movies or TV, never mind anything actually real, it's literally just 99% commercials.

[@frankm.2850]

Not surprising when psychological studies have shown most of them have zero media literacy. There are right wing fans of Star Trek who insist it doesn’t have left wing/progressive themes for fuck’s sake. These people are exhausting.

[@Earthstar_Review]

Star Trek lifestyle pls

[@tripolarmdisorder7696]

None of it mentioned the cold war scares, which is stuff we would have gone through in the 50s, except no one is alive that can give an accurate account of what the 1950 were actually like.

[@egoethereals]

The Trans Day of Visibility fused with Easter to create Egg Day this year.

[@nio804]

Makes sense. Lots of egg-discovery happens on Easter.

[@JuBenjiiiii]

I love that pun!!

[@egoethereals]

​@@JuBenjiiiii Thank you.

[@riddlemefish6217]

Underrated comment

[@katanah3195]

The Egg Day jokes were awesome.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

3:15 I am now 29 years old. Every day, in my head, I still audibly hear my father's voice saying the most horrible things to me. I've been in therapy since I was about 5. The impact of bullying your children is life-long, even if they get therapy and do it right.

[@RonelynValor]

*gentle hugs* I lived with that. It took time, but I'm very happy now. :) You deserve to be in a better place. It's nice out here. We'll save you a seat!

[@Finn4thewinn]

I’m sorry to hear that fam. You deserved better from people who are supposed love you. I hope you find peace and heal

[@waffles3629]

I feel that. Not quite the same situation, but big oof.

[@TheMAmeph]

I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Bullying is sadistic and abusing not at all a method to use to raise your children. Edit: fixed wrongly autocompleted words

[@transgreaser]

Seriously. 🙆‍♂️

[@flikkeringlightz7472]

I'm a millennial who can afford to buy a house. Then again, I'm someone who has already lost her father and her grandparents... I'd rather have them back than the inheritance.

[@KiboSanti]

🫂

[@strawberryfox8819]

I'm sorry for your loss

[@Roadent1241]

Completely fair, I hope you're doing OK.

[@cryochick9044]

My brother has a house cause my grampa couldn't afford the mortgage payments after my grandma died do he bought it from him

[@sirilundgren]

Exactly! My sister is 28 and has a house now bc dad died. She is happy having the house but she also keeps nearly texting him for advice for building lol

[@mommyofkittens4809]

The Venn diagram of guys who are upset about the Fallout outfit and guys who ask what she was wearing if attacked is a circle. You just can’t win with these brats

[@rolfs2165]

You can probably put a third circle of the people complaining that Abby from The Last of Us 2 is too muscular for a post-apocalypse on top.

[@wacawaka1802]

@@mommyofkittens4809 remember when you hated on me for calling out bigotry?

[@niahawk3678]

woman in formfitting clothing: "ew, sl*ut!!! dress appropriately!!111" woman in working clothing: "ew! are you trans? why d'you dress like a man??" no matter what one does... in the end someone always doesnt like it. there's no debating about taste. just don't force your taste on others. live and let live. ❤

[@killjoy_extraordinaire]

If they hadn’t any double standards, they’d have nothing

[@skypeter-thompson]

When my brother was six years old and completely failing first grade because he was an incredibly hyperactive kid with ADHD, school officials recommended that he should be withdrawn from school and kept at home, or placed in an institution (translation: mental hospital) just for being ADHD! This was Oklahoma in 1967. Mom had the good sense to tell them where to get off. That's how we ended up moving to California.

[@doggycatalan]

Yep. Yet people still wish for the "good old days" as if they weren't terrible for everyone but them. Times are so much better now, not perfect, but better.

[@mikado_m]

/vague clinic trauma rant? I was put through 4 'clinical stays' because they wanted to figure out how to 'help me learn how to navigate society' (read: get me out of my autism) and the only thing it did was make me loose all interest and abillity to participate in social life and it gave me.. notable ocd among a few more casual traumas.. Well.. i think the first stay was just for diagnosis... with my mothers agreement (she does her best) they took me out of my home and school for 3 months i think.. when i was 9.. to which i developed strong attachment issues.. So yk- fun! Im glad he didnt have to get through that

[@ImpudentInfidel]

The babysitter one is so blatant and disgusting I'm honestly questioning if they put that up themself or if someone is trying to get them harassed with a fake notice.

[@Pallibasher]

That was honestly my first thought, that someone is setting her up. Which is awful in a whole different way.

[@petthequeenofmaddness8592]

or she doesn't understand that kids of color don't need special treatment or white is a name of the area/street

[@belinda9642]

The babysitter one is a hoax. The woman in the picture has a different name and her picture was used without her permission.

[@King-of-Corvids]

Oh thank god ​@@belinda9642

[@allisoncastle]

@@belinda9642 noooo that’s terrible 😭

[@silly-LL-Guy]

People on the right: “The left are all snowflakes!!!” Also the people on the right: “HOW DARE YOU HAVE PRONOUNS I AM SO OFFENDED!!”

[@GayDemiDemiboy]

Meanwhile, the "I" in that sentence: "Am I a fucking joke to you?"

[@dietotaku]

every accusation is a confession!

[@ShanRenxin]

The way you find a snowflake is to listen for whoever is yelling "snowflake!" the loudest

[@silly-LL-Guy]

@@ShanRenxin YES IKR

[@imarandomperson761]

Don't forget the predator accusations when predators that get exposed are almost consistently right-wingers 😂

[@AntiCensorshipProKindness]

Anyone else getting strong "when an extrovert adopts an introvert" vibes? Loved the video and the way yall played off each other talking about things!

[@dirano09]

They still punish and bully people with disabilities... I was told the way to "fix" my spelling difficulties was to "just read more". I wasn't diagnosed with Dyslexia until I was 36. Reading more doesn't fix Dyslexia. There are ways to train your brain to overcome it when I was little, but they never recognized it. I just had to "try harder".

[@fewilcoxYT]

"Let's go back to the good old days." Start by turning off your AC. Shuts 'em up every time.

[@fernbedek6302]

Tragically, eating muffins on Wednesday Day was given a set calendar date and is rarely on a Wednesday.

[@KiboSanti]

According to DaysOfTheYear, International Muffin Day is indeed a fixed calendar date: February 20th. 😂

[@thelittlestpika]

You know what made me laugh really hard? Trump supporters were making fun of Biden for possibly wearing diapers but, when it came out that Trump wears diapers, _they started saying real men wear diapers._

[@fanfight]

They can't make up their mind 'cause maybe they don't have a mind from the start

[@livliveart]

HE WHAT 😭

[@MovieEggman]

Pretty much comes full circle with a comment I made almost 7 years ago about Trump being nothing more than a glorified GOP Crybaby when Colin Kaepernick took a knee in protest.

[@Insertia_Nameia]

And now they're going around wearing diapers woth t-shorts telling everyone they've decided to now start shitting in their pants.

[@TyphinHoofbun]

If it weren't for double standards, they'd have no standards at all!

[@NPortia]

The way the date for Easter is decided is very pagan.

[@discordiacreates6669]

Easter is very pagan so makes sense, they mostly just changed the name and they didn't even bother changing the mascot from a rabbit because what says fertility god more then a rabbit... Maybe a mouse, but most people find them less cute

[@chanterelle483]

It's actually derived from the way Jewish people decide when Passover is. (Which is why sometimes Easter and Passover fall on the same weekend and sometimes they don't.) So not pagan in the common meaning of the word - but I'd say that the ancient Judaism and even medieval Christianity can be, in a way, closer to an ancient paganism than to contemporary religous displays, because all the agriculture based societies were closer to each other than to us.

[@erraticonteuse]

​​​ But they even decide it wrong in reference to Passover. Because in the story itself, Jesus is killed a day after Passover. The Catholics (and then Protestants) brought in all this gubbins about the first full moon after the equinox, and it has no real relation to Passover any more.

[@juliemcn6931]

yea it's based on the moon cycle

[@silverghostcat1924]

​@@chanterelle483The word Easter parallels the word Ostern, which derives from the word Ostara, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of Spring.

[@toadette4x]

I'm a female aro/ace (I'm also low suport needs autistic) and i'm very happy without a man and just beeing single in general 😇. I just can't see my life beeing any other way and i like it 😎.

[@RonelynValor]

Anyone tries to take a seat from my ace-spec folks on the Big Alphabet Bus, they'll get one of my women's size 11s in the face. *hugs*

[@teshlafreeman4040]

You win!! I love that you’re so happy where you are keep being happy ❤

[@tealkerberus748]

Are you a cat person or a dog person?

[@crypticlol]

that's nice ^-^

[@salemsmith7085]

i am wishing u amazing life long platonic connections that fill ur life with joy 😊 one demi-romantic to u, an my ace/aro compatriot. 😊😊😊😊

[@Metalwabbit]

On the charging too much rent and paying too little, I sometimes think the point is just cruelty. Somehow they started hating poor people so much, they want to make life miserable for them so much they don't care they're hurting themselves. That or they are so out of touch they can't fathom the idea of not having enough money

[@YourQueerGreatAuntie]

It justifies the wealthy as "deserving" of their money and privilege. The more they can blame the poor for their poverty, the more righteous the wealthy feel. What's super sad is when the poor collaborate in their own oppression, which is what the whole capitalist ideology runs on.

[@Maerahn]

Yep, the vitriol is real - "You need to find £30,000 for a house deposit? Well, you need to cancel that £7.99 a month Netflix subsciption then, you HEDONIST! And if you do it RIGHT NOW, you might have at least half the amount you need before you DIE OF OLD AGE!"

[@tealkerberus748]

The rich have always hated the poor. They know that being rich is an injustice they only achieved by stealing from or defrauding the poor, and they're always subconsciously scared that some of their victims will one day decide to take it back.

[@akira_ariga]

As a trans christian, I was indeed having a great pink and blue chocolatey party that sunday 😂

[@vibeslime]

YOOOOO trans Christian gang

[@prageruwu69]

your mere existence makes transphobic christians seethe and that's very admirable

[@Vinni-2K]

@@vibeslime also trans queer Christian here some people were actually surprised when i told them like "i dont know progressive Christians could exist" and harassed me over it

[@discordiacreates6669]

Double holiday sounds lit, I hope it was a great one ^^

[@LakinMae5]

Both Easter and trans people can be represented by eggs too!

[@malter95]

Quick correction: you have to be at least 35 to be president in the US, not almost 40. Realistically older people are more likely to be elected based on their public presence and experience (for better or worse) but the actual age limit is only 35.

[@livliveart]

Matpat can run for office, let's gooooo

[@NikkiTheOtter]

Of course, with one exception, the presidents of the last 3 decades were all born in the 40s. Which was understandable 30 years ago when someone born in the 40s was nearly 50. Not so much when they're 80. Only 3 presidents of the last 120 years were under 50. That's 3 out of 20. So while the actual limit is 35, the realistic limit is higher.

[@voilet-the-non-violet-vulpix]

@@livliveart He did once say that one of his childhood dreams was to be a world dictator MatPat for President 2028?

[@jaqsre]

i’m a christian AND trans. the uproar in this years easter was just insanity. who cares. two things can happen at once 😭

[@tjenadonn6158]

If Jesus can be both fully God and fully human a day can be fully Easter and fully TDOV.

[@jaqsre]

@@tjenadonn6158 absolutely!!you don’t even have to celebrate both. like just celebrate the one you want? 💀

[@YewNayVerse]

​@@jaqsrethat's exactly why they're worried 😂. Christianity is growing slower than the general population, they're just scared people won't know it's easter anymore.

[@skabogatoXVIII]

I share my birthday with Liam Neeson, but it's still MY birthday.

[@jurassicsmackdown6359]

Slugs for salt

[@claratalbot7613]

I would absolutely love to open a portal up for all the people who want to go back to the 1940s-1950s. I can guarantee they wouldn't be able to last a day because they have romantized about those times to the point they don't realize how much progress has been made for people's rights. Like if the lack of smart technology wouldn't cause their version of what it was like back then shatters it would absolutely be the way people treat them that would shatters their perceived view

[@John_Weiss]

What they want is to live in the 1950s of sitcoms. Which wasn't real. And was actually a 30 minute long advertisement for life in the suburbs. Real life wouldn't suit them.

[@claratalbot7613]

@@John_Weiss Yep. They're going off of sitcoms and movies that romantize those times despite the fact that it was post WW2 & that without the suffrage movement & people fighting for their right to choose & be independent then we would most likely still be living in a world were woman had to have their father or husband's permission to do even something as simple as use a credit card to go shopping because they weren't allowed to be independent & literally had to relay on men unlike now when people are able to be independent if they want to & of course if they are able to

[@John_Weiss]

@@claratalbot7613 Forget "credit card to go shopping" [that sounds kinda sexist, ngl] - women couldn't have _their own bank account_ or _have control of their own finances._ So when a woman had to go and get a job to help the family make ends-meet, it went into _her husband's_ bank account and counted as _his income._ …Hmm … now I wonder how many of those "single-income households" really _were_ just one income, or were actually 2 incomes masked by women not allowed to have their own bank accounts.

[@Leofwine]

How about we open a portal to a 1890s clothes shop, instead?

[@the.treeman]

48:46 i had a conversation with my grandfather about wages and inflation and shit and he was bragging about his first job only paying him like $1.25 an hour. I asked him the year (mid 70s) and plugged it in an inflation calculator. In todays money, he was making $31 an hour. When he retired like 3-4 years ago, he was making $21 an hour. And still thought he was making a point about how im ungrateful when i said i needed a higher paying job than the $14 an hour.

[@waffles3629]

Yep. When my sister got her first job post uni, our father congratulated her "on making almost as much money as I did at my first real job". 30 years difference. Then I plugged his salary and and discovered he's making less than when he started when you account for inflation. He "informed" me I was wrong because he was making over double what he started. He's got an engineering degree. Some people just won't listen.

[@DraconisWyrm]

here's a nickel! don't spend it all in one place

[@tomassedlacek6714]

My country tried to pass a law that would make you pay tuition for universities (they are currently free) and Britain was used as an counter argument as to how that would look xD

[@Batz-on-paws]

Mine just made high school final exams cost money.... wtf

[@tomassedlacek6714]

@@Batz-on-paws wow, what?!

[@Batz-on-paws]

@@tomassedlacek6714 yeah, it's insane. Granted, it's like 30 bucks but still. Idk how systems elsewhere work but we have to do at least 5 finals to graduate and each now costs individually, even the mandatory subjects you aren't allowed to choose (aka language and math) On top of that they're trying to implement a system where students over 18 have to buy their books which I don't even know how they could enforce since they would have to take free e-book lisences away from students??? Who then would have to buy those same books to study for finals they also need to pay for. I am so glad I got out of high school right before this because how are people supposed to afford that??

[@NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois]

​​​@@Batz-on-paws You happen to be finnish? Anyway, I went to school before the higher education was changed to be free (and mandatory) in Finland, and many did struggle. Most would buy at least some of the books used (obviously not an option nowadays), so much so that teachers would often tell us what year editions were too old to use and which pages had the same info (like "turn page 43, 41 for you with year X editions"). And I knew at least one who didn't go to gymnasium because it'd be too expensive for their parents. Some asked for goverment funding to be able to afford school supplies, but I don't think many even knew that to be an option. And that's exactly what they want back, poor/middle wage families' kids going for lower education and low paid jobs so they become tax payers quicker and younger. Meanwhile the well-paid enjoy giving themselves more money, less competition and less dirty poor people befriending their nepobabies.

[@VanScott69]

"Back in my day, I bought my house for an onion."...hahahahahaha!!! Best comment EVER!

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

Witch was a stile at the time, anyway they didn't have any yellow ones, only the big white ones....

[@calicojacque]

16:16 you know what irritates me the most about the fucking porn-mod crowd who always want a bubble butt in their games to the extent that they have no idea that's not what real humans look like anymore, is that they also have no idea how tailoring works. Clothes don't hang sucked to the body. Even famously figure hugging fabrics like latex, lycra and spandex are subject to a little thing called gravity. In fact, the only costume I can think of to date that really *achieved* a figure hugging quality was on Star Trek Voyager, for the character Seven of Nine. The construction of her costume was gravity defying and everyone was obsessed with finding out how her costumer did it. Turns out the construction of it was a clever use of hooks and sculpting and forms and is uhhhhh ... expensive. A lot of a shows budget goes into costumes and most cannot or will not spend that much money on such high calibre artistry. tl;dr Bros mad because show using real humans does not match the game they play porn-modded to hell and back. Quelle surprise.

[@pineapplefrostyfruits9225]

There is actually a phenomenon related to this that people have dubbed the "roach wife". It's named after someone getting so incredibly horny whilst reading Kafka's Metamorphosis and growing so conditioned by their own idea of lust that the two conflate into one thing, and actual people are no longer attractive: he must picture the roach to be able to register it as horny. Anime and Video game characters growing so extreme and exaggerated that they are completely unrealistic are only making that phenomenon more common, and more recognisable as they keep exaggerating more and more to get the same affect. It's actually quite fascinating from a psychology perspective. Also you get to call their stupid abstractions "roach wives" which is normally quite fun.

[@snorpenbass4196]

The costume also almost killed the actress multiple times. The guy responsible for the whole thing was one of the main producers at the time, and he was/is a fairly awful person.

[@shanerasmussen5225]

Jeri was actually wearing a plastic "boob plate" the fabric was attached to.

[@shanerasmussen5225]

​@@snorpenbass4196 There are only 4 "major producers" from Star Trek Voyager, 2 of them are women. The other 2 have no scandals attached to them that I can find. Ron Moore does, from his BSG reboot, but he was only on Voyager for a few weeks in season 6, 2 years after Jeri Ryan joined the show. The worst thing Rick Berman did was hire a fraud as the Native American advisor for the show. So who are you accusing? If it's real verifiable information you should not have any hesitation in sharing it.

[@calicojacque]

Unfortunately Rick Berman was a bit of an awful person, whose sexist crap made life pretty awful for multiple actresses on the various shows he worked on, but yes, to acknowledge your comment about the boob plate, that was the form I was referring to, which the stomach plate was hooked onto. Hope that helped.

[@EbyTheDragon]

Actually inclusive trans jokes: Q: How do you comfort a non-binary person? A: Say "Their their" A trans person and their wife are in the hospital about to have a baby. The wife pushes and finally the baby is born. The medical staff turns to the other parent to ask if they want to cut the umbilical cord, but they can't find them because in that moment they became trans-parent. (Can insert any trans identity for this one)

[@QueenMegaera]

I liked Gianmarco's joke "I found out my college friend had come out as trans, and I was so happy, because I'd forgotten their name". 😂

[@ArDeeMee]

And of course the classic: „How to enbies murder someone? They/them.“

[@thecb2002]

Douglas Adams summed up the whole people in leadership thing: "It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

[@keepcalmproductions]

"Jesus was in a K hole for 2 days" is my new fav Bible headcannon. As a Christian, this is the funniest shit; I am WHEEZING! 🤣🤣🤣

[@idkimnotgoodatthis]

"Just like Jesus Christ at Easter, I'm back girls" I'm using that from now on 😂

[@melvasaiel]

The thing where people get mad about Transgender Day of Visibility reminds me of a FB post from a year or so ago. The local meteorologist showed the forecast for the upcoming week, and on each day was a short summary like "Warm and Sunny", "Overcast", "Bright but Brisk", "Rain Likely" and then on Sunday it happened to be "Decent Day".....and someone wrote in to complain that he was too "woke" to just call it Easter Sunday, but instead called it Decent Day.

[@waffles3629]

Ugh, I saw a picture of some whiteboard that had people freaking out. It was from a medical setting. It had fields for stuff like date and nurses name, but the label was on the bottom of the box and the lines were extremely faint. It was some big Christian holiday and the nurses name was something like Mohammed. And someone posted it claiming the hospital (or whatever medical setting it was) was renaming Christmas to Mohammed's day. No, just no. Some people just want to be mad.

[@ombrenightcores]

Easter is my favorite type of weather!

[@Panguinolucy]

19:20 to quote Emily from Rain “as opposed to what a robot woman?” Apparently in that case the answer was literally yes, as opposed to a robot woman. Well to all the trans women who need to hear this, you are definitely a real woman.

[@Hyperplaterine]

Instead of a minimum wage for workers, we should have a maximum wage for employers. If the highest earner in a company wasn't allowed to earn (for example) 200% more than the lowest worker, then everyone would get a fair raise automatically.

[@SeaBreeze-w9999]

People would be less willing to start businesses if their earnings were capped like that.

[@goodpeople25]

@@SeaBreeze-w9999 Factually untrue and you are not a future millionaire.

[@waffles3629]

​@@SeaBreeze-w9999 if people can't afford to pay their employees a living wage they don't deserve to be in business

[@SeaBreeze-w9999]

@@waffles3629 That's not what @hyperplaterine was suggesting...

[@cryochick9044]

Gonna say you 3 don't really understand buisness. Sea Breeze: firstly small business owners don't make salary at all. They get the profits and have no way of knowing what profits will be in any given year. Make it so that it's last years profits what if profits tank? They can't afford the higher salaries of their workers. Waffles: I don't even know where to begin with you, your post is just unintelligent and low effortn Hyper: this wouldn't work at all. Not only are there some companies who charge massively different wages for different jobs, for example a welder could get 20-30 an hour. But if the company does under water welding that can be 60-80 an hour sometimes. If you don't see the problem here I'll try to explain it. You're forcing a company owner who potentially does some of these harder jobs to be paid less than if they just worked the job themselves. Meaning that anyone who actually has skills never would want to be a higher up, making ALL management shitty management. And I think welding is a tame example, let's not mention the brain surgeon vs janitor salary. It's just not pheasible at all to do this and would lead to more tax evasion and less knowledgeable people in higher up positions WHO WE NEED in higher up positions.

[@DeRien8]

Digging the Hitchhiker's Guide reference. Also, I feel like the "cleaning toilets" one is a dig *at* people who like arguing with feminists for no reason. Like, "Your arguing is just unproductive. Why don't *you* go clean a toilet yourself instead of trying to argue that it's a woman's job to do it!"

[@kbutler317]

They actually used to institutionalize people for having asthma thinking it was a mental health disorder so that meme really missed the mark. I love the dynamic of you both! Roly on a tangent and Jamie with his calm sweet voice keeping up with Rolys hilarious stream of consciousness 😂

[@Fallen_Angel_959]

It's funny be they don't know how to put actual thought into anything they do. Even a "normal" conversation with these people in real life will uncover how smooth they've made their brain. My favorite part is that so many of them will claim to be the intelligent ones LMAO

[@darkstarr984]

The degree of physical pain that I felt at seeing right wing memes from my mom where one is a perfectly sane and reasonable quote about watching out for fascism and then the immediate next thing is a prime example of what the man was talking about… it’s astonishing. I didn’t think I had this much feeling about things.

[@doggycatalan]

@darkstarr984 I feel that. I physically cringed when my mom sent me a video of Donald Trump with "Gangstas Paridise" in the background. 🤮

[@mkcatrona]

7:47 This babysitting poster reminds me of a time in college when I was looking for a new roommate for junior year. All of my friends were getting singles except me, so I had to find a roommate through the student life office. They had me fill out a profile for others to look at, and I looked through other people's profiles to see if I wanted to reach out to anyone to see if they would want to room with me. There weren't many profiles for me to look at, but nearly 90% of them had a note at the bottom where the person wrote in that they didn't want to room with any black or latina people. I'm pasty white, so I'm sure they would have been fine with me, but sure as hell knew I wasn't going to get along with them.

[@outlawsyl]

What? Which country is that? Probably a long time ago too

[@mkcatrona]

@@outlawsyl Scarily enough, it was in the US ten years ago.

[@Vultariev]

Some people don't realize when you have a system that by design maximises prices and minimises wages over time, you will reach a point where everything will become unaffordable.

[@Ian_Jules]

Fun fact: In the US, we have Mothers’ Day the 2nd Sunday in May, whereas it’s in March in England and many other places. Still a Sunday, but separated from the old church calendar associations.

[@MissGardenlife]

In sweden its the last Sunday in may instead (26 mat This yr) its a little bit funny XD

[@legojenn]

If Christians don't want to share a day, then they can move their date. Share or go away.

[@eljoel89]

They move their day every year so they can have a three day weekend and a government holiday, but they're the victims. 🙄

[@allanjmcpherson]

@@eljoel89 that's not why Easter moves, but yeah, it literally moves every year.

[@eljoel89]

@@allanjmcpherson Well if Christians wanted to be accurate with their dates, they would celebrate Easter after Passover. But then they would have to admit Jesus was a brown skinned, Arabic Jew and not a blonde haired, blue eyed white guy.

[@SeaBreeze-w9999]

@@eljoel89Plenty of Christians admit that. In fact seeing Jesus depicted as blonde is rare.

[@silverghostcat1924]

@@SeaBreeze-w9999 he's using depicted having long medium brown hair.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

I just adore the fact that when Boomers were young adults they could live off their wages and now they think others don’t deserve that. It’s just so great

[@KheldarLars]

Sherman Edwards said it best when it comes to those leaping to the defense of billionaire. "'Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor."

[@BlazeNStar]

Getting a job 30-50 years ago: "oh, you got your highschool diploma? Great! You're hired to be [insert most mid to high paying jobs here]! Within a year you're going to be promoted to manager, which comes with less work and higher pay!" Getting a job in the 2020's: "What do you mean you don't have 2 postsecondary degrees and 15 years of work experience? Why did you even apply to work at [insert job that pays slightly above the cost of living here]?! Not even the fast food place down the road will hire your 25 year old ass!" Everyone who can get a high-pay job now knows someone with a lot of influence in the place they apply for the job, or the job is basically inherited.

[@SeaBreeze-w9999]

Don’t like that? You should support defunding education.

[@Alex-gh8iu]

​@@SeaBreeze-w9999why? So kids can be belligerently ignorant hate machines like you?

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

Whenever Jamie and Roly makes a video together, you know it’s going to be so much fun!

[@halem6580]

You are correct about the American presidency. You have to be 25 to be in the House of Representatives, 30 for the Senate, and 35 for president

[@triciaboo1204]

34:20 luckily with my fiances grandpa (silent gen;82yrs old) who we live with understands why we have no way possible to afford a house (or really rent elsewhere bc let's face it we sink alot into rent for the rooms here) but he does the groceries shops and has watched the rent prices in the paper sky rocket. With 2 kids and 1 job we physically can't do it right now.

[@phantomvines]

As a german, the whole student loan thing is such a wild concept to me, i'm at a pretty well respected university and i pay maybe ~320€ per semester, from which ~200€ are just for my public transport ticket. I can't imagine how it would be if we had to pay that much, given the many people i know who are struggling just with rent, if their parents don't pay for them, or even finding a flat to live in

[@TheMAmeph]

I'm German as well but old ;⁠) - in my days there was no Semestergebühr at all, because education should be public and free. We tried to fight it but they changed legislation.

[@rolfs2165]

Fellow German, I went to uni during the time that NRW had Studiengebühren. But because I was on the student council, I got it back at the end of each semester.

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

Click has talked about higher education in Sweden, he's said that not only do they not pay for their university, but they get paid to go. I've heard stories of people in the US paying back in the range of a hundred thousand dollars for their student loans over ten years or so....and they still owed more than the original amount.

[@RichardGadsden]

Roly is saying that they can't just move everything else for Easter, but Christians do exactly that. They'll be hearing him saying that "well, you can't just do that" and they will all be saying "yes you can, that's the normal thing to do". They move all the saint's days away (St George's Day isn't on April 23 half the time because it has to avoid the entire fortnight around Easter), they move people's birthdays. Of course it's all ridiculous, but that is literally what they expect.

[@DraconisWyrm]

i've never seen anyone move a BIRTHDAY for easter when it's more fun to celebrate the birthday with an easter theme, wow

[@OneEyeShadow]

Who moves their birthday for Easter?

[@felvkitties8]

I totally agree that there should be an age limit for president. There should be a max for age in all offices.

[@tealkerberus748]

As life expectancy goes up, the age limit needs to go up with it. Genetics and lifestyle choices play a huge factor too. But we could have a medical life expectancy for each candidate based on their health metrics, and if they're less than 10 years away from their life expectancy date, they're not an acceptable risk. If we applied this principle to everyone, we could let people retire and access their pensions at a fair age, instead of forcing the same retirement age on everyone when some people have decades of good life left and other people die before they get to retire.

[@baby.nay.]

7:56 this hurt my heart. I’ve put myself out there as a safe space nanny and I now almost exclusively babysit autistic , non binary and trans kids . I’m not a mother, but as a white passing person I would love to tell her that she will never get business from anyone who cares half a shit about their children not being exposed to some bigoted attitudes. This is sadly not unbelievable though . Who tf certified and licensed her ? Likely nobody

[@Strawberries1994]

The fall out one is weird af.. they rly saw a REAL woman, bone and meat and thought "tHaTs nOt a ReAl wOmAn".... like.. that's a person... I don't understand how they think game, Photoshop or 2d characters are real... it's wild, and honestly they are telling on themselves, they never saw or touched a woman in their lives

[@cjphights8324]

Roly's opinion on greedy landlords and corporations are spot on. The problem in the US is these corporations need to continually make more and more year after year no matter what so now they do all these sketchy business practices or not following safety just to meet that goal and if they get sued they can just keep a worker tied up in court til they can't afford to fight it anymore. Trad wife incel Christianity is running a muck right now.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Quote of the Day: “Aren’t we carbon based?”

[@Omniscient_AI]

Not me!

[@crypticlol]

Technically, 99% of our composition is made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sulfur The famous CHONPS Chonping deez nuts

[@Kattlarv]

To me: Style for a show, game, whatever: IF it fits the world and/or is consistent: Sure. If *everyone* runs around in skimpy anime outfits: It adds up. But: If trying to have this depressing, post apoc setting that is super gritty and grimdark... *and* you want the protagonist to be Giggles McGee with pink hair and a tube top... what? And to add: The minimum wage in denmark is x2 the US. And unlike the US: They have health care. Isn't a third world country. Has parental leave. Has welfare. Women have rights, all that stuff. They have higher taxes. And *yet*: The burgers cost *less* than in the US. Weird how that goes.

[@coasttocoast2011]

Basically Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the spring equinox which is why the date changes every year. It’s like the Chinese new year which falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice on December 21

[@Jane-oz7pp]

If the Chinese New year is reliant on a Solstice on 21/12 then they're getting a year every few years because the Solstices are not set dates because the lunar year and the calendar do not line up, so the Solstices move.

[@SeaBreeze-w9999]

@@Jane-oz7ppThey add a thirteenth month sometimes

[@CrankyNovelist7335]

I'm on the autism spectrum and being put in a mental institution is one of my biggest fears. There's already so many people who don't believe much about anything. Being in an institution would only make that worse. I just want to live my own life how I want to. I don't tell someone else how they should live their life.

[@studioghiblets958]

On the topic of student loans and education, if I were to get a degree in illustration from the cheapest art college where I'm from, it would cost me $20k USD a semester- so $40k a year. Times 4 would be 160K for the degree and that's not including food, housing, supplies, ect. Other degrees are even more expensive. Like that's literally a house loan and then you also look down on us for not being able to afford that and a house as well and are mad we aren't happy?? They are so out of touch honestly...

[@jecicox7605]

25:46 The impression i got from my ex is that straight men think they want a family (for whatever reasons) but they dont want the reality that having a family requires. He was a very selfish person.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

14:12 This one is the leader of zombie conservatives. Also, he had the audacity to talk about ‘The Golden Girls’ like the original cast wouldn’t give him a second look as he supported conservatives.

[@livliveart]

Fr tho. The Golden Girls were steadfast allies during the AIDS crisis and beyond, it's ridiculous to think they would be conservative

[@the.masked.one.studio4899]

Concerning the rent stuff, at least in the US, a lot of the management companies are driving up rent and they don’t care if people leave because they’re able to charge more at their other properties. It’s been revealed that some states are using a program for all of the landlords to charge maximum rent costs across the board. There are lawsuits going on to stop this but it really depends on if the administration will step in to protect renters. Another purpose for keeping buildings empty is that people can basically hide their wealth from being taxed in this way. There are some great More perfect Union reports addressing similar topics, I definitely recommend them.

[@SteffBrockley]

2086 - the next year that the Trans day of Visibility falls on Easter Sunday. How ever will the religious right cope?

[@seagantaylor7470]

Almost $8 per hour minimum wage in Kansas. If people did the math that was used to determine the minimum wage, but with the current cost of living, then minimum wage would be at least $23 per hour. In 2015 rent was around $500, but now it’s $1000 per month.

[@silly-LL-Guy]

GUYS THEY KNOW OUR PLANS! ABORT , ABORT!!!

[@leggi_bois4eva]

I can't, I'm in the US

[@InsaneNines]

@@leggi_bois4eva I spit my breath from this reply

[@I-Hate-Everybody-But-You]

@@leggi_bois4evaboth sad and funny

[@doggycatalan]

​@@leggi_bois4eva You did not... 💀

[@silly-LL-Guy]

@leggi_bois4eva NOOOO AHAHHAH

[@ComradeMercy]

On the whole "that's the best you could come up with?" Topic, me and my wife (both trans), were walking to McDonald's a few days ago, and some lady in a big pickup truck rolled her window down and yelled that we were "fuckin weirdos" like.. Really? That's the best you could come up with?

[@Aaron-my9zy]

... "Fucking weirdos" was the best she could come up with? Seriously? Wow, the hateful bastards must be really running outta options now that they're just throwing out playground insults now. Hope you and your wife are staying safe and having an amazing day.

[@DaOldSkoolHipHopJunkie]

Proof that queerphobic people have no creativity in ANYTHING, let alone with insults

[@samisacat1]

Y'know I was actually born on Easter Sunday...I guess I was just born to piss off christians???

[@Omniscient_AI]

My existence annoys transphobes on Thanksgiving break

[@A_T216]

I bake quite frequently... Because I want to eat dessert lol. Maybe the men who make those "memes" should learn how to bake so they don't go without a homemade sweet treat (since I guess they don't believe in bakeries lol).

[@mjrtaurus2714]

"What is he fighting?" His cholesterol.

[@shadowldrago]

In the words of one Mr Frank Wilhoit: "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."

[@SeaBreeze-w9999]

Nonsense

[@shadowldrago]

@@SeaBreeze-w9999 In what regard?

[@katyamcadams]

​@@SeaBreeze-w9999how? That is an objectively true statement for how conservatives like you feel.

[@Alex-gh8iu]

​@@SeaBreeze-w9999OK nazi.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

29:59 the stereotype is a good example of right wing misunderstanding of how statistics work. See, there was a census category at one point about parents' marital status, which recorded a lot of unmarried mothers. And a lot of unmarried father's. The chuds read the part about mothers and decided to extrapolate, without qualitative data, that this was an indication of a higher number of SINGLE mothers. Which it isn't. Black people in the USA, on average, are poorer. Well known fact. Well, it costs quite a bit to get married, and those tax benefits actually tend to hurt you if you're too poor, so less black couples were/are inclined to marry than white couples. These were two parent households, with a higher number of unmarried couples, and it was (probably intentionally) misinterpreted as being a higher percentage of single mothers. There was no question or category relating to unmarried relationships on the census at that time. Various racist old men then took that idea and made trashy tv shows where they played up the infidelity of the black community, in the US and in countries outside of it like Australia and the UK.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

(there are also other factors with a smaller deterrent effect on black people in regards to marriage, such as location and availability of marriage registers etc. but that's the most cited factor in choosing to stay unmarried, economic pressure)

[@Jane-oz7pp]

(also the stereotype of the hypersexual black is an old one going right back to the transatlantic slave trade and the myths white people told to keep eachother afraid of black men and to justify their treatment of black women, and definitely played a huge role in the way that statistical misinterpretation was formed and why it was so readily accepted)

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

Reading this just made me sad, humanity was a mistake

[@tealkerberus748]

Can confirm in Australia if you're welfare dependent, marrying is almost always economic suicide. It's one of the reasons why disabled people find it impossible to live a "normal" life - if the government even thinks the person you share a home with is your partner, they'll slash your living allowance and remove most of your professional care supports because your assumed partner is now supposed to have a job that pays enough to support you financially and also be your full-time in-home carer for things like showers or meals if you can't manage those for yourself. Likewise if you're a single mother and find a new partner, the government will make you beg him for grocery money and your older kids' education expenses (that aren't his kids) because if you have a partner, you're supposed to be his financial responsibility now - whether he can afford that or not.

[@KamillaMirabelle]

I like that adults with an imaginary friend, they insist om exists but no one can see and they cant prove are real.. but believe that this friend created everything.. are so fast to judge others

[@KamillaMirabelle]

I do not condemn people who believe in a god. Just making a joke on them claiming things based on superficial appearances of others, but totally ignorering their own PR faults 😂

[@redarrw1633]

Ok thats pretty funny when its worded like that. Kind of a "He who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones." thing.

[@jakeryker3751]

First meme. I have been repeatedly apologized to by my dad because he was my first bully. He was ruthlessly bullied as a kid and so when he saw so much of himself in me he “tried to keep me from experiencing the same things he did” only to realize 25 years later that he was just being his bullies.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

ROLY AND JAMIE ARE BACK! YAYYYYYYYY! Cannot wait for us spuds to be administered some Darjeeling tea lol

[@bethcare1890]

Had a customer asking for my number over and over (which happens a lot) and saying "why? Why? Why?" And I lied and said I was underage and he got angry and told another worker I should go back to the kitchen 😂😂❤

[@kearstinnekenerson6676]

There have been 71 documented trans men who have given birth so at least 71 people because it only started getting documented less then ten years ago

[@salemsmith7085]

omg im undocumented then lol bc im a trans man who gave birth. 😅

[@kearstinnekenerson6676]

@@salemsmith7085 that’s awesome though I bet your an amazing dad

[@Unknown-ov2kz]

Statistically, people who receive higher education are more likely to vote for left-leaning parties, which is why right-leaning parties want to restrict it as much as possible.

[@SeaBreeze-w9999]

Alternatively, left-leaning parties want to use tax money to create more voters for themselves

[@Alex-gh8iu]

​@@SeaBreeze-w9999God forbid there be functioning social safety nets, coward.

[@saoirse2963]

Higher education nowadays is brainwashing of radical left wing propaganda, that's why. I don't know that I'd send my child to college nowadays.

[@SeaBreeze-w9999]

@@saoirse2963So you get a self-perpetuating cycle.

[@SpamTongbutcool]

@@saoirse2963 you meant to say "empathy", dumby

[@jasminkarlsson1744]

University student from Sweden here! Apologies for possible misspelling and grammar. Just thought I would shed some light on how university and loans work in my country. Attending a university in sweden is compleatly free for anyone who lives in the EU or the European Economic Area (EEA). You also don´t have to buy books for classes as they often can be found in the university library. However having your own books is often easier and then you´d have to pay for them yourself. To be able to afford to live you do not NEED to have a job, since there is a specific loan you can take. We have a state agency which only exists so that students can take loans (and grants) with a really low interest (1,23 % for 2024). The loan ofcourse has to be payed back but NOT the grants. The grants typically 1/3 of the total amout a student gets every month. The total amount is just above 13k in SEK (or just below 1k in pounds). I hope you found this information interesting! ^^ Btw Jamie make sure you paying of your actual debt and not just the interest, just a tip

[@waffles3629]

Your spelling and grammar were excellent

[@hello_i_am_jacob]

Should I move to Sweden lmao

[@reader111089]

Add another one to the long long list of ESL people online who use better grammar and spelling than almost anyone whose first language is English ever do.

[@lazylynx6220]

As a university student from Norway, it works very similarly here :) Only differences I would note is that there is tution costs but it isnt more than 600 NOK each semester (At least that's what my university does and it isn't private). You can often borrow the books you need from the libaries, but if you are taking courses that aren't the most popular ones the liberary might have very few copies, so a lot of people do pay for either new books or second hand ones. The amount the student loan gives the student each month (if they are a fulltime student) is about 9k NOK. The first month of the semesters the student will get more. A lot of people do end up working part-time tho to be able to afford rent and food, as 9k per month often doesn't cover everything living in this expensive country. A nice thing about the loan is that if the student ends up in a situation that results in them not being about to work (disability, injury) they wont have to pay. I'm guessing Sweden does that too.

[@Cole_Cross]

I'm a stay at home wife---and a ferocious feminist. and i love to bake. do laundry. garden. clean. organize. be generally domestic. i wear an apron every day. Being a feminist means you absolutely and completely REQUIRE and will FIGHT FOR having the RIGHT To CHOSE THAT LIFE. OR ANY OTHER LIFE.

[@claratalbot7613]

I could not agree more about the education part. When I finished college I had 3 degrees with a license included in one of them, and was one semester away from my bachelor's but had to drop out do to burn out & costs. However, up until my current job I could not find any jobs in my fields of study because they all wanted like 1+ years of experience & it's like: How is someone supposed to get experience if they can find work in that field? I ended up having to work for 2 years in jobs that could have gotten before even finishing high-school just to get into my current job. Absolutely makes zero sense for jobs to never or rarely hire people who are fresh out of school. I mean isn't that supposed to be the whole point of why entry lvl jobs exist? So that people fresh out of high-school or college can gain experience to get those positions that require more experience

[@Casual_Goof]

I’m an ex-Catholic and ex-conservative. They are both evil cults, and every single moment of my life now is spent trying to undo the harm I caused by parroting their horrible rhetoric. It hurts even more now that I’ve embraced my identity as Trans. I feel genuinely disgusted with my past self, and all I can do is promise to work hard every single day to be better. People can change, but it is such a painful, intimate, and difficult process; I think most people will never willingly do it because of that.

[@CassidiVine]

Jamie remarking on wistful conservatives- 'I don't get any special attention.' Me, a 50 year old (1 yr. HRT) trans woman in a comparatively conservative city, who will likely never get near passing to a point I don't get hate or ridicule from randos just leaving my apartment every day- ' 'Special attention', I can do without.' Careful what you wish for, I guess?

[@white_isnt_a_race2338]

But also…. Jewelry for piercings are non-magnetic… they dont go off in a metal detector.

[@GayDemiDemiboy]

Wait really? My life has been a lie-

[@qryptid]

Depends on the jewelry. And non-magnetic doesn't mean it won't go off in a metal detector, most metal detectors detect both ferrous and non-ferrous metals

[@white_isnt_a_race2338]

@@qryptid well yeah if you’re buying crap jewelry that isn’t either surgical stainless steel or titanium then yea it might go off… if the drawer is either nickel or brass and yeah, it’s likely to go off and it’s cheap jewelry that you probably shouldn’t have to begin with. The most people who have jewelry have either surgical stainless steel or titanium…. Because they are the least reactive.

[@DraconisWyrm]

​@@white_isnt_a_race2338 stainless steel and titanium are detected by metal detectors.

[@KeaganZ2737]

Whoo hoo, the sassy and unhinged Statler and Waldorf reunited, and it feels so good!

[@YourQueerGreatAuntie]

I would totally watch Jamie, Roly, Shaaba and Luxeria live-stream their commentary on the next UK general election! Now I need to go and buy a "Dinosaurs are cool: transphobia is not" t-shirt for my new friend. First genuine dinosaur nerd I've ever met IRL and also a trans woman. She deserves the shirt more than anyone I've ever met!

[@jewelsbycat]

Thank you for being so amazing. You've really helped me figure out who I am as a queer human being. :]

[@HirschfeldWillamette]

Every time I see a gay conservative say something homophobic I IMMEDIATELY imagine the COD friendly fire warning [FRIENDLY FIRE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED] lmfao

[@potato7937]

The freedom of speech thing in the constitution is actually a "you can critique the government and not get arrested for it/can't censure the press" not a "I can yell 'fire!' on a plane/say hateful things/threaten someone without consequence". A lot of people have interpreted it as the latter unfortunately. Same with quite a few of the other amendments in the bill of rights.

[@j.apenrose7896]

Honestly, a universal basic income would be absolutely amazing, and thankfully it might actually become a thing in our lifetime. I'm living with chronic pain and keep having the fun conversations with my doctor of "so are you still taking *list of medication*?" And having so say that I'm actually not taking half of those, because I have to choose between basic groceries or being able to walk without feeling like I have several knives in my gut. It's amazing.

[@IllisiaAdams]

Roly seems like a lovely gent, very sensiblr thinker and nice to everyone regardless, etc, but alas, my autism cannot handle this level of personality, volume, etc. I wish I could watch the rest, but it keeps "triggering" my autism, sorry. It's not his fault and I'm not asking him to change, of course. Sending love to you both, and an apologetic donation for my inability to feed the algorithm by watching the full thing lol

[@ShanRenxin]

"It's so offensive that they cannot be bothered to put effort into you," As a former call center worker, I can confirm. I can't recall the number of times I was called a stupid b*tch, or any of the other low-grade insults that basic idiots used. However, I can remember (with fondness, even) the guy who used old-timey prospector swears at me, and the one that said the company I worked for was a "hemorrhoid on the world's @ss". You have to be 35 years old to run for president here in the States. While I don't necessarily want random teens to run for the highest office in our land, I do believe it's high time to knock a few years off the age requirement. Oh, and, Roly is so scary! AAAAAAHHHH! Am I helping?