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on this. Remember when pride was a sin? I'm going to give it to you in my own special way. I've always been weirded out by anybody who is proud about their situation for which there's been some bigotry. Now I'm a super pro-gay community in LGBTQ but I never understood why you would be proud of your sexual orientation. I do understand why you'd not be ashamed of it. That part makes perfect sense. B…

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Feminism is all but dead now. Somebody says there's a New York Times column on saying that feminism is all but dead. I don't see that. Do you? What do you disagree with him about? I've heard him say some religious interpretations of things that I didn't quite line up with. So mostly that. And I also think that on the trans stuff he's probably further than I am but I'd have to really see exactly what he said. I'm not entirely sure that's true. What, concealed carry is unconstitutional according to the Supreme Court? Oh client has been getting heat from his LGBT audience after recent comments. Oh yeah my criticism is vague. That's true. Yeah you know in general when I'm talking about notable people who've said lots of things about lots of things I generally walk away with either a sense that I've agreed with everything or there's something I disagree with but I don't often remember exactly what I disagree with.

All right. Oh it's open carry. Open carry was found unconstitutional. What? I don't know. I guess I have to look into that. Kangaroo says I'm a trans person and I find it insufferable how the community injects itself into every issue. Yeah you know it's been successful because the LGBTQ community has done a great job. I mean a great job. I don't know who's done a better job of changing how people think and winning acceptance from a bad place. But you know what's weird? I feel as if we've had trans forever and I don't remember it being a big deal when you know 20 years ago. Like I remember being in a seminar in which the instructor was trans and it was a conversation and then in the class because it's sort of just interesting you know it was someone who appeared as a woman but we were told was born with male parts. I don't even know if that's true but it was the talk of the class and stuff. But it was more the talk of the class because it was interesting. I don't remember anybody having some kind of a negative thought about it that you know you wouldn't take the class or they were unqualified to teach it or anything. It was just an interesting factoid. And now it's become something else. I don't know if things got better. Did they? It got so political when before it was just oh well there's somebody making a choice that I've never made. Like it seemed like it was less of a big deal and maybe that was better. I don't know. I don't know if it was better. Somebody says it got far worse. All right well now somebody, so a trans member of the audience just said that things got worse. I guess I would take your opinion on that over my own.

All right. You're right. In the 70s and 80s people were transitioning. Yeah it just I just feel like we went from more tolerant to less tolerant because we talked about it more or something. I don't know with enough confidence you can use any bathroom you want. You know I don't know why this reminded me of this but do all of you know that my county in California, Alameda County, I think we're the last place in the United States with masks. It's actually still like they reinstituted it recently because of an uptick. Is there any place else in the United States with masks required except where I live? There's not, right? In the United States. Am I the only place in the United States we have to wear a mask, right? So you should see what the compliance looks like where I live. It's become funny. The employees are almost universally wearing the masks below their nose. Almost universally. No that's too much. I'll say at least half. I say half of the employees are mocking the requirement by wearing it below their nose. Now if you come into a business and the employees are wearing it below the n

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ose are you going to keep your mask on? No. So the enforcement is maybe 10%. I would say 90% of the businesses here have just said okay so there's a new rule that we have to wear masks and let me understand this. Everyone else in the country, maybe the world I don't know, everyone else in the country they don't have to wear a mask but in my county, just in my little county, you got to wear a mask…

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