dragonfucker

Drag didn't do that.

That's because those plans and policies were drafted 10 years ago when coal was cheaper. These days the plans being made are based on solar, because solar is the cheapest.

Which, have they even said they’re trans before now?

https://lemmy.nz/post/15737101

the post seemed to be wanting discussion about that

Mostly wanted to vent. People are horrible.

What strikes drag about all of these comments is that they're not just mean, they're... dumb. People insisting their false memories of drag demanding they use drag's pronouns are correct. People choosing not to use their heads. People inventing fake reasons for the ban (like saying drag changed the subject to drag's pronouns) so they can still believe that attacking the trans person was justified. It never happened, but they confidently state it and get tons of upvotes. They want to believe it and so do most of the lurkers in the thread. Whatever they can fool themselves with to think that the trans person is mean and bad. Inventing a fake fight so they can make it real with their "retaliation", whether it be a man, a he/him, calling drag a narcissist...

Yeah... Drag was giving the benefit of the doubt...

My is the singular possessive of the self.

That's right, most people change their pronouns when they're expressing ownership. But drag's pronoun is consistent and doesn't change for that case. Drag doesn't have a special possessive pronoun, drag just uses the same one as usual.

You don't seem mad about the answer. You seem confused, but not angry. Drag is complaining about the people who actually get angry at drag for using drag's pronouns. The people who see someone ask about the pronouns, and drag answer, and then yell at drag for changing the subject. Drag thinks that's confusing. Drag doesn't understand how someone can refuse so strongly to be happy with anything.

Also, drag's pronouns are very consistent. Most people change the rules for their pronouns based on grammatical person, possessives, whether they're the subject or the object... They have so many pronouns! At least twelve!

Drag only has two pronouns, and they don't change inflection based on person or subject/object, and they always conjugate the same way. Drag's pronouns are four times simpler than most people's. They're not inconsistent or complicated, they're just unfamiliar. They're way easier to learn than most people's pronouns, but they do require that they be learned. You didn't complain about learning other people's pronouns, even though it took you years, because you were a toddler. You're all grown up now, and much smarter, so this is easy. But it does take effort.

And drag doesn't really mind if you don't want to do that effort either. If you want to use normal pronouns for drag, go ahead. Drag won't get mad. But if you want to discuss the grammar, then you do have to put in effort. Drag promises that it's much, much less effort than you put in when you were a toddler. But you do have to choose to try.

Drag's name is Dragon Rider, and drag uses pronouns. Only two, though, instead of the twelve that most people use. Drag/dragself.

You sound like a reasonable person who will listen to drag's explanation and understand it. You're not at all like the people drag is complaining about. Those people get mad at drag for explaining it and choose not to understand.

When you talk about a they/them pronoun user, do you conjugate the verbs as if you were talking about them in the plural? When nonbinary people were first becoming socially accepted, a lot of people complained about that. "He is Greg", "They are Sam". People complained that the conjugation makes it sound like Sam is more than one person. They said they/them can't be singular, because of the conjugation.

We moved past that drama when we realised that conjugation doesn't indicate plurality. It doesn't indicate grammatical person either.

See that's a sensible, coherent worldview. That's how normal people think. Drag tries to empathise with transphobes, and it doesn't work. They get mad when you give them what they want. They get mad when you don't. They're just stuck in angry mode and there's nothing that can calm them down. It's exhausting trying to see things from their point of view.

Maybe drag could prepare a stock response...

Drag has a rule about talking about drag's pronouns on threads that aren't about those. Drag will only talk about drag's pronouns if somebody says "I want to change the subject to drag's pronouns". Drag isn't going to change the subject to drag's pronouns, somebody else has to, and clearly state they are doing so.

Because drag uses first person neopronouns. Drag's drag/dragself pronouns are person independent. They're inflected and conjugated the same way in all grammatical persons. They represent drag's identity as a dragon rider.

https://lemmy.nz/post/15737101

Drag is aware that it's bad manners to answer a question with a question, but where did you and the other person get the "8 months" figure from?