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Cul-de-sac literally translates to "ass of bag" in french.

Lmao if you project any harder you'll go blind.

No that's part of the post. The tumblr user probably shared the tweet with the text copied under the image to make it more accessible to people that use screen readers.

I thought it was filled with water from a hurricane at first glance

As a woman I occasionally get praised for being naturally thin, but it's almost always from a place of insecurity on the part of the person praising me so it still doesn't exactly feel good.

dude, your argument about women denigrating men is based on women complaining about men denigrating women in exactly the same way. You stand up for what you see as the losing side, just as they do, but your argument is on the same grounds. You're no better than they are. And that's not me taking sides, that's just what this argument boils down to.

Perhaps picking your battles and searching for the root of your beliefs, so you can express something meaningful without coming off like a raging sexist (their words, not mine), would make it a lot easier to broach this topic with your liberal community in a more rational manner. People are going to criticize you, that's part of having beliefs, but presumably there are other things on which you agree with these people, meaning there must be a common foundation between your ideas which stands up to criticism and can be a means to a mutually beneficial end.

Stopped at a light at a freeway junction. Guy in front of me stops but gets impatient and goes just before it turns green.

We get stopped by the next light at the same junction. I am now next to the guy, both of us waiting to turn left to then merge onto the freeway across a fairly large intersection that accommodates all N-S normal traffic, traffic entering the E-W freeway from the N-S traffic, and traffic exiting the E-W freeway to join the N-S traffic.

He stops for only a few moments before deciding to go anyways (I think another direction had come to a stop and he assumed we'd be next), and as he goes through the intersection, the traffic exiting the freeway to go south gets the green light, and in slow motion with plenty of time to stop (cause they were just getting moving) the two front-runners both t-bone (f-bone?) the guy.

It was bizarre and completely avoidable on all fronts. Like a slow motion train wreck. Benefit of the doubt though, the exiting traffic probably just didn't see him coming until he was right in front of them. I'm just glad that, whatever accident that guy was gonna get into that night, it happened before we got onto the freeway together.

Ban kids making up dumbshit challenges and attempting them?

You say circumcision, I say castration, ehhhh potayto potahto

Are we sure the horse is a horse?

I didn't link a video lol and your own political circles revolving around intersectionalism does not mean that is all there is; I think there's been a lot of manipulation in the media to make it center of mind because it gets clicks and serves to distract; but if you want that badly to be conservative and make judgement calls on people individually that extend to their entire sex instead of holding more nuanced opinions about issues that can be solved systemically then go for it, I can't stop you.

Identity politics coding is everywhere, and on some level I need to "pick a side".

No, you don't. That's what I've been telling you. Who cares if it's niche. It's better than giving up on all your other values and saying you're conservative or "more" conservative than liberal just so you can bicker about which sex is more oppressed than the other. Maybe you'll be the person that makes someone else see the light if you do the work to better contextualize what you're trying to say, and then your ideology is that slight amount less niche.

Right, and what I'm saying is that disagreeing with liberals does not make you more conservative than them. You can be further left than liberals, or even aligned with them, and choose not partake in identity politics at all or only do so from a broader context. For example, you may instead advocate to fix the things that those identity politics and division are often a symptom of.

Per delduthling - It's very possible to be a fully fledged socialist demanding structural economic change who also recognizes that oppression on the basis of race, gender, and sexuality are intertwined with capitalist power structures. The project of "woke capitalism" can never make good on its promises of liberation.

I found this to be a pretty thoughtful article on the topic, Meet the Anti-Woke Left

But I relent. Perhaps you mean more conservative on a personal or sexual level that you wouldn't try to enforce on others. A level entirely separate from your politics. That kind of self determination would still be an ideal of the left though imo; you have the right to choose your own lifestyle as long as it doesn't cause harm to others.