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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you don't want to bother with individualized pronoun choices, just don't. It's that simple. But if your problem is you don't want them to exist in the world, well that's a lot more complicated.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Coming soon to a Truth Social post near you:

"He the people..."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Elon I, the Musk.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Babe wake up, new pronouns just dropped

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never realized that the first sentence was so long

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Read Moby dick it has sentences as long as half a page with 5-8 commas, 3-4 semi colons, and few real colons.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

A roman senator is running late to an important senate meeting. He arrives 15 minutes late and enters to see each seat filled, with the exception of his own, and Cicero standing in the middle of the room giving a speech.

He manages to stealthily make his way to his seat without causing too much of a commotion and leans over to the senator next to him, asking in a hushed tone, "Hey, what's Cicero talking about?"

The other senator simply shrugs and whispers back, "I don't know, he hasn't gotten to the verb yet"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is the first word and which is the constitution?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ah the USA constitution. In the german one, its an article as the first word, excluding numbers and symbols. "DIE Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar." But technically germany has no constitution but only a basic law

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course the German "constitution" starts off telling you to die /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Well, it's the only thing people will reliably do. Each and every last of us.

Happy weekend, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah sorry, this meme struck me as very steeped in current American politics (not sure if this same nonsense is happening elsewhere) so I didn't think about other constitutions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

you keep talking like that and soon it will be your state constitution.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

All down to bigotry of course. For fun, try earnestly writing in absence of pronouns. Perhaps a bit more challenging than expected!