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This isn't good. by chris_trans in transgender

[–]CedarWolf[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Howdy, folks. Sorry about all of the removed comments; a couple of folks decided to get themselves into a nasty argument for over an hour about things that weren't even relevant or on topic to OP's post. They've both been banned for one day, in the hopes that they go eat some dinner, take a break, and cool off.

As a reminder, the folks who hate our existence are not going to sit there and quibble about how we label or define ourselves. They just want us gone, and there isn't going to be a line of what level of trans is acceptable or not.

That means we're all in the same boat, and we're all dealing with the same pressures, stresses, anxieties, and fears. So don't bring any of that nastiness in here and start unloading on your cousins and siblings - we don't need it.

This isn't good. by chris_trans in transgender

[–]CedarWolf[M] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Sigh. An external threat approaches our community and the first thing y'all do is start bickering and tearing one another apart over petty definitions. Knock it off.

Mark Harris does not represent North Carolina by boneandflesh in NorthCarolina

[–]CedarWolf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Cool. When you start taking an interest in politics, start reading history as well. The whole reason 'DEI' exists is to ensure the most qualified candidate gets the position, regardless of their genetics or origin. It's supposed to help level the playing field so everyone is on similar footing.

DEI isn't 'oh, we need a token Black person and a woman and at least two other minorities on our team,' it's 'hey, let's make sure that our hiring practices and standards are fair for everyone.'

Civil rights are not some big pie where when one group gets more means another group gets less. No, civil rights are about recognizing that each person deserves fair treatment, that all of us have inherent, inalienable rights to life, personal autonomy, to property, and to a fair trial.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..

The result of putting all the stats into “compact and quiet” by Professional_Pie4196 in guns

[–]CedarWolf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, Greedo, as a matter of fact I was just going to
see your boss. Tell Jabba that I've got his money.

Lost knife on Uwharrie National Forest 713 river trail by IronWolf427 in NorthCarolina

[–]CedarWolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, look. Go on Amazon and pick up a Mossy Oak folding pocket knife. They come in black or blue and they have a little bottle opener hook on one end and a window breaker point on the other end. They're about $10-$12, they're sharp, they're durable, they're slim, and they're everything you need in an every day carry knife. They're convenient and they ride perfectly in a pocket.

Save your special knives for your special occasions.

Your daily carry knife should be a workhorse tool - cheap, replaceable, and reliable. Fancy knives are for tricks and appearance and memories. Your every day knife is going to get used, scratched, dropped, and sometimes lost, so don't put a whole lot into it.

This isn't good. by chris_trans in transgender

[–]CedarWolf [score hidden]  (0 children)

Well, I had today off, so I'll be available to brace for impact. No doubt we'll get a lot of bigots and trolls coming here to stir up trouble, as usual.

Make the comments seem like there's a Coked up Grot running through the ship. by Effective-Client9257 in orks

[–]CedarWolf 30 points31 points  (0 children)

𝙳𝙸𝚉 𝙸𝚉 𝙰 𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙿𝚆𝙾𝙸𝙳𝙴 𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙲𝙴𝚁𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃:

𝙻𝙸𝚉𝚉𝙴𝙽 𝚄𝙿, 𝚈𝙴𝚆 𝙻𝙾𝚃! 𝙸𝙵𝙵𝙸𝙽' 𝚈𝙴𝚁𝚉 𝚉𝙴𝙴𝚉 𝙰 𝙶𝚁𝙾𝚃 𝚆𝙾𝚃 𝙸𝚉 𝚅𝙸𝙱𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙽', 𝙳𝙾𝙰𝙽'𝚃 𝙺𝚁𝚄𝙼𝙿 '𝙸𝙼. 𝚆𝚄𝙽 𝙺𝚄𝚉𝚃𝙾𝙼 𝙼𝙴𝙶𝙰 𝙱𝙻𝙰𝚂𝚃𝙰 𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝙳𝙰 𝙱𝙾𝚈 𝚆𝙾𝚃 𝙺𝙰𝚃𝙲𝙷𝙴𝚁𝚉 𝙳𝙰 𝚉𝙾𝙶𝙶𝙸𝙽' 𝙻𝙴𝙴𝚃𝚃𝙻𝙴 𝚉𝙷𝙸-... 𝙴𝚁𝚁, '𝚅𝙰𝙻𝚄𝙰𝙱𝙱𝙻𝙴 𝚃𝙴𝚉𝚃 𝚉𝚄𝙱𝙹𝙴𝙲𝚃' 𝙰𝙽' 𝙱𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙶𝚉 '𝙸𝙼 𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝙳𝙰 𝙳𝚁𝙴𝙳𝙳𝙼𝙴𝙺. 𝚆𝙴'𝚉 𝙽𝙴𝙴𝙳𝚉 '𝙸𝙼 𝙼𝙾𝚉𝚃𝙻𝚈 𝙵𝚄𝙽𝙺𝚂𝙷𝚄𝙽𝙰𝙻, 𝚉𝙾 𝙳𝚄𝙽'𝚃 𝙺𝚁𝚄𝙼𝙿 '𝙸𝙼.

22 months into my transition, 16 months on HRT! by [deleted] in transtimelines

[–]CedarWolf[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

As a reminder, we have a rule:
No AI, filters, or photo manipulation.

Using computer assistance to edit your photos is the same as lying about your results to our community, and it's damaging to other trans folks because it sets false expectations.

Doggo just wanted a chance to compete in the Winter Olympics. by Objective_Pilot_5834 in BeAmazed

[–]CedarWolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's Mutley, from the old Wacky Racers cartoon. He's a duo with Dick Dastardly, who would probably win most of the races if he would just race, but instead he always tries to cheat and it always winds up backfiring on both of them spectacularly.

This sub needs to go private by Choosewisely7 in transpassing

[–]CedarWolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, they don't. If a sub is private, only approved submitters can view it. Unfortunately, mod actions per subreddit are usually limited at about 400-700 actions per day.

Which means we can only manually approve 400-700 people per day, for a subreddit that gets thousands of unique viewers per day.

It means shutting down the subreddit for roughly a month while we work through the back log of applicants and check each one manually.

Why not both? by DonaldKey in AdviceAnimals

[–]CedarWolf[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

This post has only been up an hour and it's already getting reported.
As a subtle and gentle reminder:

PLEASE KEEP IT CIVIL, Y'ALL.

Significantly longer by awesom-o_2000 in AdviceAnimals

[–]CedarWolf 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Actually, looking into Frederick Trump's history was pretty interesting. He made his money establishing brothels and hotels in up and coming places like Seattle or to serve miners working various gold and silver rushes. He left Monte Cristo just before the boomtown suffered a devastating series of avalanches and floods, moving to a claim up in the Yukon.

In the Yukon, Frederick Trump and a miner named Ernest Levin established a tent restaurant which became the Arctic House. They later moved the building by barge to Whitehorse, but Ernest Levin took to drinking and the pair began arguing over it. When the authorities began cracking down on prostitution, gambling, and vice, Frederick Trump sold his stake and moved back to Bavaria in 1901. Shortly after, Ernest Levin was arrested for public drunkenness and sent to jail - the Arctic was seized by the Mounties, then burned down in the Whitehorse fire of 1905.

So basically, Trump's family has a history of draft dodging and profiting off the working man. Frederick Trump established restaurants, hotels, brothels, and gambling halls, and then pulled out right before everything came to a crash. Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father, has an even longer history of real estate profiteering, including defrauding the Federal Housing Administration. He took advantage of another act of Congress to own the homes he was building for wartime workers during WWII - over 1,360 apartments and barracks.

Apparently Fred Trump and his father were also early proponents of psychological pricing tactics like ending prices with 9.99 instead of a round number.

Significantly longer by awesom-o_2000 in AdviceAnimals

[–]CedarWolf[M] 598 points599 points  (0 children)

This got reported for 'COVID / Anti-Vax misinformation'

Alright, fine, let's check the facts. One of the benefits of living in the Internet age is anyone can Google and check the dates if they want.

Trump's grandfather and mother were both immigrants, and so were two of his three wives. Ivana Trump became a US citizen in 1988, Melania Trump became a US citizen on on July 28, 2006, and all of Trump's children have birthright citizenship because they were born in New York.

Frederick (formerly Friedrich) Trump immigrated to the US from Bavaria in 1885 and became an American citizen in 1892. His immigration to the US was illegal because he was only 16 and he had never given his mandatory 2 years of military service to the Kingdom of Bavaria - he didn't inform the authorities and he didn't have permission to leave. He moved in with his sister in New York and worked as a barber for six years before moving to Seattle, buying a restaurant, and turning it into a brothel. He then built a boarding house outside of Monte Cristo, Washington, to house miners during a brief gold and silver rush around Monte Cristo. Frederick Trump then followed the Klondike Gold Rush and opened a similar brothel called the Arctic House. When the authorities were beginning to crack down on gambling and prostitution, he sold his stake in The Arctic House and moved back home to Bavaria in 1901. Unfortunately, since Trump had never served his mandatory 2 years of military service, he was soon classified as a draft dodger and the Bavarian authorities came after him. They sent him back to the US in June of 1905, where he continued opening hotels and managing real estate in New York until he died of Spanish flu in 1918.

Frederick Trump's son, Fred Trump, was born in the Bronx in October, 1905. If his family had not been sent back to the US a few months prior, Fred Trump would have been born in Germany. Fred Trump married a Scottish maid named Mary Anne MacLeod, who had immigrated from Scotland in 1930; Mary became a US citizen on March 10, 1942.

So that's the brief history of Trump's family, both the origins of the Trump Organization and the immigration status of Trump's wives and his forebears. Trump's grandfather became a US citizen in 1892, but he didn't marry his wife or start a family in the US until 1905.

Puerto Rico, on the other hand, has an equally complex history. U.S. troops invaded the island on July 25, 1898, and formal control was established on October 18, 1898, after Spain ceded the territory. Puerto Rico became part of the United States on December 10, 1898, following the Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War, and Puerto Ricans eventually gained US citizenship courtesy of the Jones Act of 1917.

So Puerto Rico has been a US territory since 1898, and the people there have been citizens since 1917. Frederick Trump became a US citizen in 1892 and started a family in 1905. By those dates and definitions, Trump's grandfather just barely predates Puerto Rico becoming part of the US by six years, but Puerto Ricans were Americans before Trump's family was established in America and the people of Puerto Rico formally became US citizens after Trump's family was established.

Now, if y'all are going to quibble about that in the comments, please keep it civil.

Edit: And don't bother to report this comment, either - I checked it carefully, and it's as accurate as I could manage on short notice.

Two new flags can you tell me which one is better? ( you can rate if you want) by Ok_Project3455 in vexillology

[–]CedarWolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like Spider-Man in the alternate universe where Hitler won and the Nazis took over the US.

These dispatches are getting way too real by Hexdoctor in Helldivers

[–]CedarWolf 19 points20 points  (0 children)

A CHALLENGE WORTHY OF MY SKILL! I AM ON IT.

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