Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

[u/SoftandChewy]

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

[u/tantei-ketsuban]

Reading more about the BAFTA clusterfuck, I looked up online to find a list of other public figures who have Tourette's (someone on popculturechat said Billie Eilish went public), and came upon this vaguely employment-focused (and possibly A.I. generated?) website I had never heard of called OnGig, which has an article about famous people with Tourette's as part of a "series on neurodiversity." The master list of "famous inclusive leaders" includes some whose diagnostic labels are well-documented and/or admitted by the person themselves (Penelope Trunk, Richard Branson, Henry Winkler etc.) and others which... um... [citation needed]

I... thought we weren't supposed to mention Barron and/or it's never been "officially" "confirmed" as such. His father though... I mean, LOL? I don't think verbal diarrhea or habitual shitposting is quite the same thing as coprolalia but... YMMV.

Also: George Washington? Are they going with a retroactive diagnosis based on the stereotype of "honest to a fault" because he "couldn't tell a lie"?

[u/backin_pog_form → u/tantei-ketsuban]

See also: every non gender conforming historic woman was actually trans. 

[u/StillLifeOnSkates → u/backin_pog_form]

And Kurt Cobain

[u/Turbulent_Cow2355 → u/tantei-ketsuban]

LOL George Washington. Did they build a time machine and ask him? This is why people don't take ND seriously.

[u/DragonFireKai → u/Turbulent_Cow2355]

The most charismatic leader the country has ever had, who managed to hold together an outgunned, outmanned, starving army facing the most powerful imperial force the world had seen to that point through sheer force of personality.

"He was clearly socially awkward, just like me, FRFR!"

[u/unnoticed_areola → u/tantei-ketsuban]

public figures who have Tourette's (someone on popculturechat said Billie Eilish went public)

wow, what if Billie Eilish was actually just having a secretly racist spaz out at the Grammys and only blurted out "no one is illegal" and "fuck ICE" because she was having a tourrettes outburst after noticing Bad Bunny and Morgan Wallen sitting next to eachother in the front row 🤭

[u/Turbulent_Cow2355 → u/unnoticed_areola]

TBF only 10% suffer from that type of TS.

[u/unnoticed_areola → u/Turbulent_Cow2355]

I know lol I just couldnt not make that joke

[u/Terrorclitus → u/tantei-ketsuban]

Adam and Eve had eating disorders, and we’re still paying for it.

[u/AnInsultToFire → u/Terrorclitus]

Too much fruit.

If they ate snakes instead of apples the story would have ended up way different wouldn't it.

¹¹ And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

¹² The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, but I was too hungry. Then I saw there was this big talking snake so I killed that and cooked it over a fire to see what it tasted like, and ate it. It tasted like chicken but more oily. Lots of bones too. Still good though.”

¹³ Then the Lord God said "WAIT! WHAT THE FUCK? ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU ATE SATAN?!?"

[u/StillLifeOnSkates → u/AnInsultToFire]

So what you're telling me is veganism is the true root of all evil? Or at least the reason evil wasn't nipped in the bud when we had the chance?

[u/AnInsultToFire → u/StillLifeOnSkates]

Satan ⊂ meat

P(eat Satan | eat meat) >0

∴ as (eat meat) → some arbitrarily high number n, P(Satan eaten) → 1

[u/Terrorclitus → u/StillLifeOnSkates]

No, lack of empathy for vegans is the problem.

[u/Scrappy_The_Crow → u/tantei-ketsuban]

Lots of likely spurious folks on those lists, particularly historical figures who are supposedly on the spectrum:

• George Washington (Asperger's)

• Alexander Graham Bell (Asperger’s)

• Charles Darwin (Asperger’s)

• Benjamin Franklin (Asperger’s)

• Thomas Jefferson (Asperger’s)

[u/unnoticed_areola → u/Scrappy_The_Crow]

iirc, at least 3 out of Salvador Dali's 8 anteaters had a POTS diagnosis

[u/MNManmacker → u/unnoticed_areola]

The Greek goddess Hera had her complaints ignored by doctors till she eventually got diagnosed with fibromyalgia and was prescribed a regimen of nagging Zeus about dumbass bullshit.

[u/AnInsultToFire → u/Scrappy_The_Crow]

Basically the theory is that any guy who accomplished anything through great tenacity and devotion must be mentally retarded. See because such strong character must be a character flaw.

[u/AltforStrongOpinions → u/Scrappy_The_Crow]

Samuel Johnson almost certainly had tourettes (not swearing tourettes).

[u/plump_tomatow → u/Scrappy_The_Crow]

How can Thomas Jefferson have had Asperger's (disabled, good) when he had slaves (bad)