Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

Or, in my case, for solidarity and normalizing it.

And lower the price of eggs

For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.

They don't. It's classic divide and conquer tactics to package up the general population into nice bite-sized chunks that they can destroy individually with minimal resistance from the others. Exact same shit is how the Nazis rose to power.

Two core reasons:

1. Demonization. They need someone to demonize, that distracts voters and the general populace away from their own misdeeds, and lack of functional policy. If you're too busy getting angry at the trans people, you won't strike against the Billionaires.
2. Insecurity. If the world isn't actually as simple as you thought, your entire ideology is based on putting people into given labels and boxes to make your life easier, idealizing a nonexistent past, etc, then the world changing in any non-standard way is seen as something to be extremely afraid of. This is also what drives their concerns over immigrants ("replacing" their community's racial dynamic), homeless people ("not wanting to work" like they did), climate change (this couldn't possibly happen because then the industries and consumption you had your whole life would have to change), progressive education and scientific growth (learning new things about how what we used to think was wrong), etc. It's all rooted in just wanting things to stay the same.

They need an 'enemy' to rally people against and all the usual suspects are no longer politically expedient

They don't care, they just need an other to blame to get everyone scared of.

Well, eggs are back to $1 a dozen and everyone has housing and excellent healtcare coverage, so you can focus on renaming gulfs and prosecuting minorities...

https://thenewinquiry.com/the-scapegoating-machine/

Peter Thiel has many times loudly stated his goal since 9/11: Create scapegoats so the public has somebody to blame for their suffering and his fervent belief this will keep billionaires safe. My guess is most billionaires see it this way.

if you want to see a way to defeat this idea look up Thiel's interview with Piers Morgan after Luigi Mangione allegedly killed Brian Thompson

I'll start requesting people to use thee/thou soon.

I, too, dislike being employed.

But seriously most people will not risk their livelihood for it. It is almost guaranteed to end up in court like so many other of Trump's bullshit policies.

Don't you know that adding your pronouns to an email costs an entire 6-10 bytes? There are children starving in Africa and you're wasting your bytes on pronouns! Shame on you.

And, the tariffs will bring them up

Try stopping eating animals. Huge cut in groceries

Of course not, those are heteronormative.

That's not a pronoun, but it could function as a replacement to skirt this ruling, assuming it doesn't include gendered honorifics.

You used it

Don’t think whom is a pronoun, is it?

Nah, none of that stuff matters!

No, not to him, that's the point.

How much more deliberate in their oppressing and exploiting do those in power need to be before people stop expecting any different?

They're there to serve themselves, not society

snrk A+... i always get a giggle when somebody actually includes that one

App can go except for "SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS". Because that one is SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS!

Man, I spent a lot of money and time for my post-nominals, I don't care if they're 100% irrelevant to what I do, they're getting used in every god damn email.

(Helps that I only have one, though. And to be clear, I am happy to vehemently argue this point for months/years to steal focus from pronouns).

This would make a great pronoun or title attached to your name. Sign off every email with ...

John Doe
Jesus Fucking Christ

They could read the Bible: I am he

Isn't president just a regular noun?

Mexican here. We're Northern Venezuela. We'll let you have Northern Cuba.

God forbid someone is named Riley, Sam, Charlie, etc.

I thought the same thing as well.

I have a few trans friends and neighbors who told me that basically when they came out and tried to change gender, no one would acknowledge their new identity. So it's a subtle way to inform other people.

Also, I have met more than a few people whom I had no idea of their gender. So it's actually great to read that pronoun because I don't like playing guessing games.

Um, I didn't see where it said to replace pronouns with anything, only to remove them. So the correct verbiage would clearly be:

The information contained in this email message is intended only for the personal use of the recipient(s) named above. If are not an intended recipient of this email, are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If received this email in error, please immediately notify by replying to this message and then delete this email from system.

I thought he actually got the majority of voters this time?

Sadly it’s a mandate until people actually start pushing back.

even though he wasn’t even able to scrape together a majority of votes; more people voted against him than for him.

What makes you think he cares, or that it makes any difference? He's steamrolling ahead regardless and most of people in his way seem much happier to bend their knee than to resist in any meaningful way.

There's good reason we say you can't vote fascism away.

Or Kim!

What sentiment do you agree with then?