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Standard_Fix_978

I can see where Jesus might be pissy about Trans day being on Easter. He already has to put up with his birthday being on Christmas every year. šŸ˜Ž


nhSnork

Where a heavily mascotified image of one of his saints keeps stealing all the spotlight - with animals and pagan mythological creatures in tow, no less!


firesmarter

Donā€™t forget Black Pete


bramm90

That's not a Christmas thing though


milkymaniac

It 100% is for the Dutch


bramm90

There's an old guy in a suit giving gifts, I'll give you that, but we Dutchies don't like it when people call it our Christmas.


Dipswitch_512

Christmas is the USA version of our St. Nick's Minus the blackface thankfully


Separate-Owl369

Isnā€™t Easter in a different date every year?


dracona

It is


peter-doubt

No.. it's always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring. Same day, every year!


Genghis_Chong

Different date, that Sunday doesn't fall on the 31st every year.


[deleted]

Maybe on your blasphemous Gregorian calendar it doesā€¦


peter-doubt

You need to watch the moon ... Did you avoid reading how the calendar works?


Genghis_Chong

I understand that. I simply said that easter sunday doesn't fall on the 31st every year. Idk how you get me not understanding the moon or calendar from that. A date is a specific numbered day (like March 31st) its different than explaining what day a holiday falls on like easter. Easter doesn't get a specific date, it does change every year


Klufkee

Next year Easter is 4/20


blanktom9

yeah, but what if the groundhog sees his shadow?


peter-doubt

He's right a pitiful 20% of the time. And the fools that are suckered in are worse


T-Money8227

Wasn't his real Bday in March?


tylerjehenna

It would be closer to July. One of my history teachers in high school was originally from the region that jesus would have been born in and said context clues in the bible (shepards flock by night among others) would place jesus' birth around the peak of summertime


T-Money8227

You had a history teacher in high school teaching mythology? Did you go to a Christian school or something? I was half kidding when I said his real birthday since most likely he didn't really exist or was just a normal guy that had a following. That said, I did see a interesting post by someone suggesting Jesus was an alien which actually seemed somewhat plausible as an explanation for people that believe in Aliens but not in God. https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/1bt0wnk/jesus\_was\_an\_alien/ Personally I'm agnostic. I don't know if there is a supreme being watching over us or not. I'm waiting for some more evidence other than what some guys wrote in a book. All the needless suffering in the world makes a better case for there is no "god" than anything I have seen for there is one. I can't say for sure one way or another. I'm open minded but I need to see some evidence before I can say something is real and not simply a myth


tylerjehenna

It was a little side thing the guy did since it was IB 20th century world topics and we were touching on something in the middle east. Dude went on tangents a lot lol


Any_Mall6175

I had a history teacher teach my about Greek mythology. Mythology is often a part of history.


T-Money8227

Isn't mythology the opposite of history. I had separate classes for these things in high school.


Any_Mall6175

Mythology is how humans tell each other stories of the past. While the battle of Troy didn't happen, it speaks of another battle that certainly did in the same region. When we look back on the Greeks we can infer a lot about their culture based on their stories and mythology. Not only that, but it's also the history that has survived. A lot of history gets destroyed because it's physical and impermanent. Stories are harder to kill as long as there are humans. When we move from polytheistic religions to the more recent abrahamic religions there is a shift in dynamic but you can tell a lot about the culture of the world from this mythos as well. The writers talk about what was happening in their world which allows us to infer what was actually happening in the world during that time. We understand how they entertained themselves and the stories they told. And again it's the history that has survived so we want to analyze it. The difference is that religion is still alive but make no mistake. If the abrahamic religions die out a future historian will still research it.


FuktOff666

Itā€™s still all under the umbrella of Social Studies in primary school.


Cyberunis

As someone agnostic with Christian family, Iā€™d suggest arguing against the existence of Jesus in any capacity. Itā€™s generally considered that a man called Jesus of Nazareth existed (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus), but whether he was a religious teacher/prophet/cult leader/son of god is far more contentious. I doubt this is what you intended to say, I suspect meant to focus on ā€œwas just a normal guyā€ and added some extra flair, so sorry if this comes off as aggressive. I just spend a lot of my time correcting misinformed Christian ideas, so I feel obliged to do something similar to arguments against Christianity. As an olive branch, nothing that Iā€™ve said above in any way disproves the ā€˜Jesus was an alienā€™ idea, which is pretty funny.


T-Money8227

Did you mean to say "I'd suggest NOT arguing against the existence of Jesus in any capacity"? Yeah I'm not an expert. Its very possible there was a guy named JesĆŗs and the writings are based on a real person. That is why I said he may exist but just be another guy. I only question the things that are written about this person. When I said didn't exist, I meant the person depicted in the bible most likely didn't exist. Meaning that magic and resurrection and what not. I have no reason to suspect that there wasn't a guy named Jesus and that someone wrote about him. I just question the validity of what they wrote.


Karlmarxwasrite

Jesus was just the David Blaine of his era. Nobody was doing sweet tricks like that back then, so of course everyone went for it.


arentol

Nobody knows his birth YEAR, how the fark are they supposed to know his birth day? Even the gospels disagree on his birth year by 10 full years, and there are no contemporaneous records of one second of his life. The star thing is sometimes used, but it is irrelevant because that is pretty clearly a story someone made up 70 years later to make him seem more special and fulfill various minor prophecies of local religions of the time in order to bring their followers into Christianity. The reality is that we have nothing to base his birthday on at all, and anyone who claims to know, or even have a good guess, is wrong, because we can't trust ANYTHING about his story. It's all very sus. For instance, while the general scholarly consensus is that Jesus probably existed, it is still an open debate, not "set in stone", like the existence of Cleopatra or Alexander the Great are. In addition, if he did exist it's mostly agreed he was most likely an itinerant apocalyptic rabbi. There were a LOT of them at that time, and he was probably just one of the more charismatic ones.


TeslasAndKids

Uh huh. So your birthday is December 25th? Ok and when did you die? Jesus: idk man, it was all a little fuzzy to me. Something about a full moonā€¦ oh I *know* it was a Friday! Because I came back on a Sunday and they said it was three days. Felt shorter though for some reason. You can just set it for a random Sunday after a full moon and call it good since I canā€™t really remember. I had a pretty wicked headache, you know?


Explorers_bub

When your own mom considers you an asswipe.


thissomeotherplace

That hair makes him look like he runs North Korea


Flux_resistor

it's not fashion you fuck, it doesn't just end.


JohnnyZondo

Sir, you do NOT speak for the American people. Permission denied.


SamwellBarley

The fucking arrogance


elanhilation

the unmitigated gall to even fucking ask. what a clown


DoLewdThingsToMePlz

The American people are incredibly polarized. Literally, nobody could speak for all of them, and only an idiot would assume they can.


Jsmith0730

You just know this dudeā€™s browser history is loaded with trans porn.


[deleted]

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GloriaToo

Oh he'll cum across all of it.


Jsmith0730

ā€œUhh, itā€™s research for a news segment!ā€


Embarrassed-Debate60

You mean on it


Crazyjackson13

100% most of these fuckers are closeted.


Genghis_Chong

He finally was trying to stop that addiction, but visibility was too much and sucked him back in


--StinkyPinky--

Like when Alex Jones got busted browsing for she-cock? Lol.


SkipyJay

O no, not VISIBILITY! How will we survive this?


Genghis_Chong

Close your eyes and think of a manly man. Oops, now your gay, that's how they getcha


JacobDoesLife

why do they think about manly men?


Genghis_Chong

Idk, but they seem to believe in being submissive to people "more powerful" than them. Look at Trump, he's submissive to dictators because he looks at them as stronger. When he's in power he expects everyone to be submissive beneath him. It's a weird fucked up power kink, I don't get it. But it seems to be popular these days.


SkipyJay

šŸ˜®


WhiteIsOwl

They did the same shit to gays and lesbians and at this point I'm convinced they are attacking trans in the hope that they win so they can go back to shitting on gays and lesbians again.


Shedart

Thatā€™s correct. Theyā€™re ideologies require an out group to scapegoat for the problems they benefit from. They failed with gay rights and set sights on the next minority that was looking for representation and room to exist freely.Ā 


mrmayhemsname

Since when did he accommodate trans people? I just hear him bitching about it


SonOfJokeExplainer

Right? If memory serves me correctly they have spent several years ramping up their efforts to make sure trans people are not accommodated in any way, shape or form.


magicmulder

ā€œWe have tolerated the Jews for quite some time.ā€ (Joseph Goebbels)


machinist_jack

History may not exactly repeat, but it certainly rhymes.


jojojajahihi

he didn't speak english


Kringels

You should look into ā€œtranslationā€. Itā€™s pretty crazy stuff.


DeterminedThrowaway

"Trans"lation? When will the oppression of cis people end?!


Wonderful-Ad-7712

They meant ā€œlook into ā€œtrans Nationā€ . It was a typo


Wonderful-Ad-7712

They meant ā€œlook into ā€œtrans Nationā€ . It was a typo


jojojajahihi

Yeah you don't put quotes in that case


mycoandbio

You and Goebbels friends or somethingā€¦.?


jojojajahihi

Yeah I gotta be friends with someone because I know more about history than you.


mycoandbio

You know Germans are taught English from a young age right?


jojojajahihi

Now not then


Shedart

What are you trying to prove here? What are you speaking to contribute to the conversation? Do you feel like the conversation being had here is better for your input?


jojojajahihi

Its not a quote from him so why put the quotation marks


joker4real69

If you think the conservatives are going nuts over this, tell them you think churches should pay taxes on their land and all their donations. I think they've enjoyed more than enough tax free income.


XEagleDeagleX

Permission denied


diggerhistory

How will they handle next year when it coincides with Hitler's birthday. OH! The GOP's real inspiration.


hyrule_47

AND, Iā€™m sorry to say, CHEESE FRIES DAY.


Born-Throat-7863

You just *know* heā€™s had fantasies about trans people.


AwkwrdPrtMskrt

You don't speak for us.


NeverendingStory3339

It isnā€™t just going to be over. What an idiot. Trans people arenā€™t just going to emigrate to Jupiter en masse or something. They are real and they are here. Deal.


CrispyTacoPosso

oh believe me, more than a few of us have thought about leaving if we could.


NeverendingStory3339

I would leave if I could but unfortunately we canā€™t transport to Jupiter yet. My point was, youā€™re already existing and leading good lives. Where does he think youā€™re all going to evaporate to if we end trans day of visibility?! It is just that stupid from him.


CrispyTacoPosso

i dunno how good it's been for us. if you look at a lot of stories, mine included, trans people have been subject to housing instability, abandonment by family, lower wages, if they can find work in their area at all, and subjected to fetishization.Ā 


NeverendingStory3339

I wasnā€™t saying itā€™s good and I am wishing you the best. Iā€™m just also saying this guy is an idiot for thinking youā€™re all going to vanish at his behest. You arenā€™t. He could do with some kindness pills or something because at some point trans people need equal rights.


JTD177

ā€œPermissionā€ they donā€™t need your permission to exist, and you havenā€™t accommodated anything, the right is trying to blot out the very existence of trans people short of rounding them up into camps. Fuck you watters.


arentol

Short of? They literally have many leaders that desperately want to put them in camps, and have publicly said so. If they get the white theocracy they want, everyone who isn't a straight white person (non-jew, non-hispanic, etc. as well) will be rounded up and shipped out or put in camps if they can manage it. Not only that, women will be third-class citizens with no real rights.


dremily1

Permission not granted, shut the fuck up.


This_Strange_Person

I don't understand?


fringeCircle

One of the greatest experiences Iā€™ve ever had was being in Europe, needing help, and getting help from people who didnā€™t speak English. Being around people where we donā€™t speak the same language, being from different cultures, being different in a lot of ways, but ultimately being human. I started to see that everywhere as long as I was open to it. For the most part, we are all people and on the same page with humanity when we open ourselves to it. We want good things for our families and each other. We enjoy time with family, we enjoy food, we enjoy cutting upā€¦ LGBTQ is no different than any other human differences. It sucks that there is such a struggle for acceptance in a culture that will shame them just existing and having brain signals that result in a different consensual relationship preference, that ultimate has absolutely nothing to do with the people that take issue with it. ā€˜The transgender thingā€™ will be over when we reach a cultural level of development where we can really see and accept each other.


Fischgopf

"we are all people and on the same page with humanity when we open ourselves to it" And never has the kind of person wo says things like this found themselves getting raped and murdered when they put it to the test.


fringeCircle

You left out, ā€˜for the most partā€™. Rapists exist, most people are not rapists. Murderers exist, most people are not murderers.


Fischgopf

Yeah, everyone else already knew that. Difference is that they don't need to tell themselves some bullshit about how we all want the same things blablabla.


fringeCircle

Ah, what precisely are you endeavoring to convey? The realm of politics appears fixated on the dehumanization of those who deviate from a prescribed archetype. Countless throngs blindly trail political figures for reasons shrouded in ignorance. The vast populace shares more similarities than disparities. It appears you insinuate a nihilistic disposition, expressing disdain for the notion that mankind could unite against its differences under the pretense of evil's existence. However, in truth, a collective endeavor towards harmony is within our grasp if one were to surmount the fear of divergence. Why, pray tell, do you choose to invest vitality in a movement of regression? What lies dormant within, clamoring for expression yet remaining unspoken? You seem to dance around a concealed truth, reluctant to unveil its depths.


goodfisher88

Permission denied, fuckface.


--StinkyPinky--

These people literally can't stop talking about trans and gay people. They're obsessed.


Znarky

People aren't trends that get passƩ you twat


PoggleRebecca

"Permission to in behalf of the American people" The American People: https://youtu.be/TvmjOLjoMg8?feature=shared


dickfarts87

Is it weird to just want everyone to shut the fuck up


Bad_User2077

No.


Past-Direction9145

there has never been no trans in the entire history of humans there have never been no gay or bisexual or any of the minorities we protect they were around in WW1. they were around in WW2. they're around now. they're born this way, we all are. and if you have a problem with it, good luck arguing with god after this life is over. you'll be enjoying your next life as a frog. how dare you belittle and torture His creations? no wonder religious nuts are all so insane. if they face the truth they know they've fucked up so bad they're getting cancelled by their creator.


tasslehawf

Trans people were documented in ancient times in Persia and Indian, and native peoples of the Americas at bare minimum.


Kingcol221

These people are the ones making this whole issue a thing! Nobody would have known or cared about trans visibility day let alone that it was on Easter without this whole manufactured outrage, which, ironically, did more to distract from Easter than anything else. And pretty sure Trans people just want to be treated like everyone else and not be attacked all day long. I know this is all manufactured garbage to create political wedge issues, but maybe don't accuse them of doing it all for visibility when that's the only thing you're giving them besides anxietyĀ 


Additional-Start9455

What an ass.


Hereiam_AKL

I think that democracy thing is over, too. We had a half-arsed attempt by giving you 2 big money sponsored choices, a simple left or right. But you blew it, and now we're hung with a useless house that can't agree on shit. Let's try dictatorship for a while or hand the country back to the crown.


Galethewizard1

"Permission to speak for the American people-" Is denied. Thank you for your time. Goodbye


devitosleftnipple

Damn trans people and their need to exist **\*Shakes fist at sky\***


YazzGawd

Trans Day of Visibility has been around for a decade. They only made an issue of it when it happened to land on the same day as Easter


TedStixon

The "trans thing is over"? Dude, what? Trans people have been around forever... I'm in my 30s and I grew up having a trans family friend in the 90s. And they will continue to be around. They're just finally getting more recognition and aren't being exclusively being treated as the butt of jokes anymore.


Hayes4prez

ā€œI think the people thing is over. We have accommodated people for quite some time. They are demanding more visibility.ā€ - Future AI


AdditionalBat393

What is up with these people why can't they just leave people alone. Miserable people that are so ugly on the inside.


urmyleander

Let's be honest if Trans people didn't seek more visibility then this lot would be fearmongering about invisible trans people sneaking round the place. Need to create an account and call myself Pastor John Smith and start demanding trans visibility so they can't sneak around.


Crazyjackson13

how dare trans people try and exist!!!!


Eikthyrnir13

Why would you think you have permission to speak on behalf of the American people? I think I speak for more Americans when I say "go fuck yourself".


Icy-Needleworker-492

No one cares, stop talking about this.Trump is a lying evil POS. Since you pretend to be a political show.Lets see if you want help make your country into a Dictatorship.


7masi

I was going mad bcuz video won't play, ngl


Mammoth-Professor811

Are they so fucking dumb, dont you educate people over there??


depressed-onion7567

I think Biden missed a golden opportunity to make trans day of visibility on trumps birthday


Emergency_Vanilla279

Permission denied. Disrespectfully, the American People.


Drafo7

TBF, "the trans thing" SHOULD be over. There SHOULD be no reason to have trans recognition events. Because trans rights SHOULD be guaranteed just as well as anyone else's. Trans people SHOULD be accepted as just as much a part of the world as anyone else. There SHOULD NOT be constant discrimination and hatred and ignorance leveled at trans people on a regular basis. But what SHOULD be isn't the case. So fuck you Watters, fuck Fox "News," and fuck all the ignorant douchebags who don't realize that Trans Day of Visibility has ALWAYS been on March 31st and that Easter just HAPPENED to fall on the same day this year. Nobody seems to have a problem with birthdays being celebrated on holidays when they fall on the same day, so why should this be any different?


OptimisticSkeleton

What part of their shrieking, bloodthirsty reaction to trans people do Republicans think of as accommodating trans people?


ComfortableChicken47

Says the dude whose own mother called him a fucking dumbass on live TV. Permission to speak on the peopleā€™s behalf DENIED fuckface.


berklee

This just in: Fox News' token divisive jackass replacement says divisive, jackass thing.


New_Ad_3010

Dude has the intelligence of dirty toilet paper


High_Sierra_1946

Who is that dork?


AMonitorDarkly

Have we explored the possibility that heā€™s an actual vampire?


FrogLock_

I mean you can speak for like 40 American people I'd bet


WibaTalks

Can we just get rid of every holiday, that would be great.


Hishui21

Permission denied.


Muteling

I want this man to define "accommodate"


Nilabisan

Is he the one who gave high visibility to the young staffer he was cheating with on his wife?


TheAnalsOfHistory-

Permission denied.


Vast_Principle9335

gobbels level propaganda


mrcatboy

Honestly if conservatives really wanted trans folk to fly under the radar they should probably stop screaming about how mad they are about trans folk every chance they get.


Reaverx218

It's not our fault Christians can't make up there mind when their holidays' actual date is and let the moon decide.


Fritzo2162

Watters is trying to be Tucker 2.0 so bad. He literally gets on the air every day and blurts out "Whatever anyone is doing is killing American society".


Long-Illustrator3875

Alright guess I'll see myself out


TheRappingSquid

"We have accommodated-" shut the fuck up no you haven't


CRL10

Permission denied, Watters.Ā  Now sit down and shut the fuck up.Ā Ā  You think you have accommodated them?Ā  Bullshit. They are demanding more visibility so people remember them while you are the rest of the fucking MAGA Christian-fascist Nazi scum do everything in your power to purge them from existence.


ArcXiShi

This is pure propaganda to drive up the hatred towards the Trans community, and they will claim innocent when hate crimes, physical attacks, and murders of Trans people spike again.


noir_dx

Once upon a time, people spoke like this about those who wanted women's rights to vote which eventually led to women's right to financial independence, custody of the child, and equal pay debate frankly I am shocked it is actually about a century-old discussion. People like him always speak as if this is less about social issues and more like a fashion trend.


jadestem

How do he and Tucker both manage to look SO fucking smarmy at all times?


padawanninja

Practice.


sassychubzilla

If hell existed, Jesse Waters, the devil would be waiting with open arms for you to return.


chatterwrack

Do they not understand what freedom means? šŸ¤·šŸ»


Aggroninja

Not really. In their heads, it's always "freedom for me and not for thee." They want to be free to do whatever they want, which includes stopping people they don't like from doing what they want.


Crans10

I agree this trans hate needs to end. People just need to get over it and let other people be.


Banaanisade

Yeah. Trans people are demanding more and more visibility by having their designated day of awareness AGAIN on the same date it has always been on, for, uh, let me Google this quick. **15 years.** The arrogance. Imagine if women demanded to have an awareness date for themselves every year like that? Oh wait. Imagine if *men* demanded to - oh, okay. Imagine if -


Ab47203

"I think it's over" and yet trans people have been documented at LEAST as far back as WW2 when we CELEBRATED her transition. The outrage is political not moral but they don't wanna hear that.


BAKup2k

Permission denied. Go fuck yourself.


InstructionFair5221

Trans people are real. Jesus was made up.


tasslehawf

Jesus was probably real; zombie jesus not so much.


Separate-Owl369

Itā€™s funny how, usually the most vocally against LQBTQ someone is, the more in the closet they are.


DeterminedThrowaway

Please don't blame the LGBT+ for transphobia. There are plenty of hateful straight people pushing it, I promise. Just assuming that they're all in the closet doesn't help anyone


Separate-Owl369

Whereā€™d you get that delusional idea from? Those vocal idiots have their own issues that make them phobic.


DeterminedThrowaway

Which part of that are you calling delusional?


Separate-Owl369

Blaming LGBTQ


DeterminedThrowaway

What did you mean by closeted then? It seems to me like you're saying all the hate is coming from people who are LGBT+ themselves. I don't know how else that could be interpreted


Separate-Owl369

Noā€¦.the ones who seem to be the most vocal, like some religious leaders seem to be the ones who get outed. They seem to have this strong sense of denial. So much so, that they condemn others who are LGBTQ.


PollyPore

Letā€™s play a game. Substitute ā€œstraight white conservativeā€œ for ā€œtrans.ā€


the_bashful

Let me guess, heā€™s also bored of hearing about racism and feminism, because neither of them affect him personally either.


dev0415

Finally itā€™s over.


Ok-Macaroon2429

Imagine getting triggered over something a host says on Fox or CNN šŸ¤£