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      Yeah, or at least about 20% of the people I used to be in contact with before I realized I’m much better off jettisoning them before I (or they…) do something irreparable

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        I just nod and fake-smile a lot more.

        I just re-heard the “kitty litter for the furries” tale for the hundredth time (gotta be 5-6 years now, and EVERYONE can google!), yet here we are.

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          I just nod and fake-smile a lot more.

          I’m not cishet, and after I got told by a “moderate conservative” (according to his own definition and his voting preferences, anyhow) acquaintance that he thinks the world would be a better place if gender minorities didn’t exist, and that we’re all pretending anyhow, I realized that my life is going to be better without any sort of contact with his kind. Too many of them are either quietly or overtly literally dreaming of genocide