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Memes are great and all, but we need to not spread misinformation. It's fertilized eggs specifically that have been called children. Reproductive rights are important, but any time shit gets misconstrued, it's a chance to be attacked by the right.
Do you live under a rock? The right is going to attack no matter what whether the arguments are correct or not. They don't care about substance, they only care about aesthetics.
"A chance" lmao. Welcome to politics 2024.
(again, OP post is a cheap joke but,)
Disinformation is not just about the 'right' attacking, it's also about disenfranchising the 'left'. I'm amazed how many times on Reddit I see something that hits the spot of "that's truly awful" together with "maybe it's actually true that way", so I check the source and it's not at all like that. Now I'm used to it and assume all Reddit/Lemmy political outrage is at least partially misinformation.
(Anyway I don't aim to learn my politics from Lemmy or Reddit.)
More deeply, do you want a world where lying makes your side win? Or a world where people are honest and willing to learn from the truth? Defending ourselves with dishonesty is cruel to people around us, damages our society, and ultimately undermines ourselves.
Sorry for the rant here, it's been stewing in me a long time, and will continue to every time I see lies in support of something I care about, or from people I care about.
defending ourselves with dishonesty
You keep losing the plot here. The OP is a meme ridiculing the concept that frozen embryos are children. You don't need to draw an objectively, 100% philosophically congruent analogy for the meme to work. Plus as a man, it's not my place to tone police anyone on abortion rights. The Alabama judges that made this decision are a disgrace to the legal profession and to the country.
Do you mean to tell me the egg section of the local Alabama supermarket is not, in fact, an orphanage?
Fucking misinformation gets me every time.
I am not getting it. It's there any visual aids?
You can get aids in your eyes?
I saw it on the inter-web so it must be true.
Also cancer. But bleach may help with that.
Doesn't really matter because I can see what direction they're going. This started off being about abortion of a fetus with Roe being overturned. Now we're talking about embryos and fertilization. The egg and sperm are only one more step away.
The act of creating that embryo could be the next thing they put into law. I could see the religious extremists wanting sex outside of marriage to be illegal. That sounds crazy to me, but again, that's what direction this argument is going.
Masturbation will soon be genocide
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great
If a sperm is wasted, god gets quite irate!
From one of the best Monty Python sketches ever, IMHO (but sadly not quite the cultural reference as things like the dead parrot one)
Yeah I get that. I'm gay. They talk about making "sodomy" illegal again. But any time that people take things to extremes that are not true it hurts the people making the correct arguments.
I completely understand wanting to keep the discussion based in logical facts. It can be difficult to do when the other side is always arguing in bad faith. On the flip side, inaccuracies help drive discussions on social media and it got us talking with each other.
There are some fertilized chicken eggs on the market, but most factory farmed are not. This note is for all the folks that didn't get a proper biology teacher.
Every single one of those eggs was the loving product of a cock and a chick.
No they weren't.
Look, she may have never met him but you can't prove it isn't love. The first day a chicken learns what love is is the first day they start producing eggs. They lay until they truly believe Romeo may have been a liar and they lose their love. A tragic broken heart.
These eggs are unfertilised.
I don't think you'd like fertilised ones, to be honest. Although it is a delicacy in Asia.
We know they are unfertilized...
Well the guy above didn't.
He thought chickens have to have sex to be able to lay eggs.
So the Romeo and Juliet references and the discussion of the love life of a chicken must not have given away my sarcasm haha
It also appears FlyingSquid was making jokes as well. "It does for these eggs" was stated in the discussion by them.
It is probably hard for people to pick up in text but is a cultural colloquilism I would say. Like saying "Not with that attitude" to someone who says an individual can't throw a car over a fence with their bare hands.
This whole thing seems like people took his jokes to seriously and thought of them as trolling.
Sure, "it was a joke", but it also gave away your ignorance of basic biology.
.... I have lived on a dirt road and raised chickens without any roosters. Keep going on thinking you are better than others you don't understand, you sound like an ignorant asshole
Edit: Also in case you don't believe it still, here is an undedit response by me days ago in this post
Ehhhh no? You don’t need a rooster for chickens to lay eggs, AFAIK.
You need a rooster to fertilize the egg. An egg without a rooster is just chicken menstruation.
*ovulation
Releasing of an egg is ovulation. Menstruation is shedding of the lining of the uterus in mammals when pregnancy has not occurred.
It's a little pet peeve of mine when people refer to eggs as "chicken periods." I get a similar itch when people refer to anything in the crotch area of a female as a vagina lol.
Mad props. I was sure I had the words technically incorrect even if the point was right...thanks for the clarification!
You do for these eggs.
No you don't.
I know you live in Indiana. There are chicken farms near you. They shred 99.9999% of the males because they aren't needed for egg production. The roosters are only needed to fertilize the next generation of chickens, which roughly 50% of them will be immediately killed at birth.
Edit: ok you're trolling. I was wondering, cause normally you're more educated than that take is.
I wasn't trolling, I was joking. Cock and a chick? Terms for penis and woman?
Tough crowd in this thread, yeesh.
Eh. If every joke of mine was a success, I wouldn't have quit doing standup.
Save your new stuff for the second leg of the tour, that's what I say.
That or make sure they've got two for one at the bar.
This. Even if you do take everything seriously and use proper terminology, the far right will find a way to troll you. Don't let it shape your reality. Acknowledge them for the unproductive trolls they are and carry on with your business without a second thought.
I'm just amused that someone wants us to have legally accurate memes.
To be fair, when the right does this, they end up mocked on "The Right Can't Meme".
Just stop making us look like the moron you are lol
Sorry... you want me to stop making you look like a moron?
Ah a troll. Gotcha. Blocked lol
Just stop making us look like the moron you are lol
It's literally what you said. He is making you look like a moron by posting a meme lol
Lmao bro flyingsquid is like half of lemmy content. They're pretty intelligent. This is a meme, so they aren't taking things seriously
Thank you, that's very kind of you to say! I remember you posted a Some More News video on Leftism the other day about Dr. King, I'm guessing because of Black History Month. I hadn't watched it since it came out, so it was worth a re-watch. I should have thanked you for posting it in the community, but since I didn't, I'm thanking you for it now. :)
Yea of course! I always enjoy your posts lol so glad I could do the same.
You nailed it, I posted it for black history month since I missed the chance to post it on his birthday. Hopefully I'll have some more good stuff to post before the month ends!