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slothrop lemmy.ca slothrop@lemmy.ca
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Triumph fedia.io Triumph@fedia.io
Joined: 2025-09-19
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Goddammit, you're supposed to send furries to the pet groomers. Trans people go to Aamco... For a trans mission.

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Promethiel lemmy.world Promethiel@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
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Ain't no way this random salon owner can duly comply with the rightful decision from that board and still keep their business going. May the 'Finding Out' ring loud and true, for once.

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Blade9732 lemmy.world Blade9732@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
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In before SCOTUS rules that the founding fathers definitely meant to let hairstylists refuse service to people and send them to pet groomers

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jasoman lemmy.world jasoman@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-07
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In before SCOTUS rules that the founding fathers definitely meant to let hairstylists refuse service to people and send them to pet groomers

So we can finally send MAGA to sheep farm for shearing.

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Tylerdurdon lemmy.world Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#6 · Quote Reply

In before SCOTUS rules that the founding fathers definitely meant to let hairstylists refuse service to people and send them to pet groomers

We the people, do hereby decree...

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𝙈𝙞𝙖 quokk.au Quokka@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-06-09
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So we can finally send MAGA to sheep farm for shearing.

They’ve already been fleeced.

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nocturne slrpnk.net nocturne@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-06-13
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So we can finally send MAGA to sheep farm for shearing.

No, because they would likely abuse the sheep.

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Jhex lemmy.world Jhex@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-28
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They’ve already been fleeced.

Yes, but not hard enough for them tolearn the lesson… For once, they shall be taught as they wish others to be taught to the beating should continue until they learn or go extinct

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RobotToaster mander.xyz RobotToaster@mander.xyz
Joined: 2023-09-13
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Ain't no way this random salon owner can duly comply with the rightful decision from that board and still keep their business going. May the 'Finding Out' ring loud and true, for once.

Won't the likely just phoenix the company?

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Sarah Valentine (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-01-15
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Yes, but not hard enough for them tolearn the lesson… For once, they shall be taught as they wish others to be taught to the beating should continue until they learn or go extinct

I can't imagine simultaneously thinking of people as sheep and being disappointed in how sheeplike they act. Like, my brother in Christ, it is you who is characterizing them as sheep, and those things are bred to be okay with being fleeced. Find a better metaphor.

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∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ lemmy.nz luthis@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-29
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I can't imagine simultaneously thinking of people as sheep and being disappointed in how sheeplike they act. Like, my brother in Christ, it is you who is characterizing them as sheep, and those things are bred to be okay with being fleeced. Find a better metaphor.

Wouldn't that make the metaphor even more accurate?

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Rimu piefed.social rimu@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-01-04
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Ain't no way this random salon owner can duly comply with the rightful decision from that board and still keep their business going. May the 'Finding Out' ring loud and true, for once.

Yeah, it's closed now.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/2F73qPLazpnAaxLs9

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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Won't the likely just phoenix the company?

You still need clients.

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chiliedogg lemmy.world chiliedogg@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-26
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You still need clients.

Plenty of bigots will flock to them. They'll probably end up with more business than before.

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SnoopSqueak lemmy.today SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-07-09
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I can't imagine simultaneously thinking of people as sheep and being disappointed in how sheeplike they act. Like, my brother in Christ, it is you who is characterizing them as sheep, and those things are bred to be okay with being fleeced. Find a better metaphor.

I can't imagine simultaneously thinking of people as sheep and being disappointed in how sheeplike they act.

But that's the whole point. We are disappointed in them for acting sheeplike, for letting someone fleece them instead of thinking more critically. They are humans and should know better.

Either way, I don't think sheep should be exploited.

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Triumph fedia.io Triumph@fedia.io
Joined: 2025-09-19
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Yes, but not hard enough for them tolearn the lesson… For once, they shall be taught as they wish others to be taught to the beating should continue until they learn or go extinct

They need to have their balls bitten off by shepherds.

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Sarah Valentine (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-01-15
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Wouldn't that make the metaphor even more accurate?

No. See: Zootopia

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Estiar sh.itjust.works Estiar@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-03
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Huh. I used to use the laundromat a few doors down. There are some great places in traverse City that we can go to anyway. We've got a good trans/LGBT in general Community there. And we give each other business recommendations. Granted, I never got a haircut there but I'm trying to get more hair.

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eestileib sh.itjust.works eestileib@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Goddammit, you're supposed to send furries to the pet groomers. Trans people go to Aamco... For a trans mission.

🐻🔥

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Sarah Valentine (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-01-15
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I can't imagine simultaneously thinking of people as sheep and being disappointed in how sheeplike they act. But that's the whole point. We are disappointed in them for acting sheeplike, for letting someone fleece them instead of thinking more critically. They are humans and should know better. Either way, I don't think sheep should be exploited.

If you call them sheep and talk endless shit about them then you should expect nothing less from them.

A better metaphor would one of a lion, chained and humiliated, robbed of its strength, made to believe it's a lowly sheep. This whole sheeple thing is petty and vindictive to the point of being counterproductive.

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ZILtoid1991 lemmy.world ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-16
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So we can finally send MAGA to sheep farm for shearing.

That will lead to you getting jailed for discrimination immediately, with all your close relatives being smeared too.

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Trex lemmy.world Trex202@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-03
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Yeah, it's closed now. https://maps.app.goo.gl/2F73qPLazpnAaxLs9

The pictures are hilarious

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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Plenty of bigots will flock to them. They'll probably end up with more business than before.

A bunch of obnoxious assholes who don't tip?

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chiliedogg lemmy.world chiliedogg@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-26
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A bunch of obnoxious assholes who don't tip?

Bigots tip other bigots. They also give them a ton of business.

Remember when Chik-fil-A got caught giving money to organizations trying to have all gay people in Africa killed? Conservatives did a huge nationwide "Buycott" and gave them more money than they lost in the boycott.

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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Bigots tip other bigots. They also give them a ton of business. Remember when Chik-fil-A got caught giving money to organizations trying to have all gay people in Africa killed? Conservatives did a huge nationwide "Buycott" and gave them more money than they lost in the boycott.

Bigots tip other bigots.

If you're cutting hair, you're not in the club.

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chiliedogg lemmy.world chiliedogg@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-26
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Bigots tip other bigots. If you're cutting hair, you're not in the club.

I've never heard more openly-racism and homophobia than the guys talking at one of my hometown barbershops.

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hitmyspot aussie.zone hitmyspot@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-07-03
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Plenty of bigots will flock to them. They'll probably end up with more business than before.

Lol, you think the bigots are reasonable, well adjusted clients?

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