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Nov 30, 2022Liked by Anne Gibbons

I enjoy reading articles where the author is abiding my the asinine preference of they/them. I don't need to read it over and over to try to discern who is saying what or who did what to whom. They pronouns tell me everything I need to know" I don't care and everyone involved is a dumbass.

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I know, right?

The Synthetic Left so thoroughly sh@t themselves with this utter nonsense that I no longer recognize them as functioning humans. I TRY to allow for the possibility that they still ARE functioning humans. But where's the evidence? (I'm still looking.)

NB: I don't vote Republican and have abandoned the Demos. The Synthetic Left have themselves to thank for this change.

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Arrest/Fauci

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Nov 30, 2022Liked by Anne Gibbons

My pronouns are pro/nouns.

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Nov 30, 2022Liked by Anne Gibbons

Yup…got that right!

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Nov 30, 2022Liked by Anne Gibbons

That hit close to home. Two months ago I contacted the Maine Cooperative Extension regarding an invasive weed issue and the agent had included the dreadful she-her-hers in her return message contact info. I thought glumly “ Please, no! “ and bought a book on the subject instead. These folks need a doggy school-style “Leave it” command.

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You have such a gift forr saying with a picture what I struggle to say with words. And then you evince a smile or even a laugh from us as well. I consider myself left, that is seeking an economic system that includes fairness to all. That these however elected paid shills are even called leftists galls me. I think of those democrats who stood with the workers in their fight for decent pay, for the 40-hour work week, an end to child labor and we all know that they have zero DNA in common with what's currently stealing their good name.

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Spot on! As an old lefty of five decades vintage (I'm so ancient, I can remember a Time Before TV, and I still don't know what an 'app' is), I have been utterly dismayed by how the contemporary 'left' has befouled its own nest during the Covid Era by snuggling up to the capitalist state, embracing censorship, rooting for the police-state and worshipping Big Pharma. Covid Derangement Syndrome was preceded by Trump Derangement Syndrome and Woke Derangement Syndrome, so the trajectory had already been set. Now the 'Left' has finally left me - but I have found a wonderful ecosystem of people (including most of the working class, and some cartoonists!) who actually believe in such unfashionable things as freedom, both medical and political.

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Pronouns are for third person referral. Asking (or demanding) that someone refers to you in a certain way when they are talking to someone else is pure self-importance.

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