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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

You’ve been dead aged!

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

Fred is getting what he richly deserves - the big house. Cheers!

:-)

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Josh's avatar

Ye end transagephobia! Just get rid of them all!!! Concrete slippers and deep lake!! What a joke this world has turned into. If for 1 second you think I'm going to let a transage/pedophile be apart of society without a fight your mistaken. Can't wait for transage people to try and crawl out the woodwork and protest ill be stood there waiting 🙃

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Tomas Maldonado's avatar

This is brilliantly right up there with Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”! 👍👍

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happy wok's avatar

you tried ⭐

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GrifiN's avatar

Makes perfect Woke sense

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Peter R. McCullough's avatar

This essay may be more provocative than helpful. Some sentences sound familiar and may have appeared elsewhere in this hxstem substack; I think in the comments.

Transtemporalism has been practiced without much controversy for as long as people have been people. I'm thinking of famous people like movie stars who claim to be an age other than the one on their birth certificate.

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happy wok's avatar

It is helpful in a couple of ways: By committing Pat's fairy tale to writing, we can see how jejune their reductionist understanding of a nuanced issue is. If Pat thinks they are on the intellectual or comedic vanguard with this tepid fantasy, this reflects negatively either on Pat, the movement (under the parody) that Pat is hoping to buttress, or both. Furthermore, writing this probably helped Pat blow off a little steam, hopefully making Pat less likely to do something boneheaded in a non-cyber space.

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Peter R. McCullough's avatar

I'm glad to see your post here. It was some of your comments that I felt had been presented in the essay without attribution.

I concur with you that such essays do serve a purpose of helping people blow of steam, both the author and the readers. But such essays can also encourage more divisiveness - that is my main concern. At least in this case, everyone can plainly see it is satirical. Reasonable people will disagree on whether it is funny or not, or in poor taste or not.

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Bernard Capaldi's avatar

you have to smile first of all then chuckle then laugh out loud.

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