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Teen disqualified from Pokemon tournament for laughing when asked his pronouns (web.archive.org)
posted 3 years ago by TriangleGang 3 years ago by TriangleGang +102 / -0
Teen disqualified from Pokémon tournament for laughing upon being asked his pronouns
Makani Tran was brought to tears after being disqualified from a Pokémon Trading Card Game tournament for allegedly violating its inclusion policy
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– TriangleGang [S] 67 points 3 years ago +67 / -0

I can totally understand why he was thrown off. If you're not a freak, this is a completely alien question to you.

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– Assassin47 46 points 3 years ago +46 / -0

It turns out the teen is a little commie too. I'll cut him some slack since he's still young, but the freaks are the crowd he wants to be with.

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– TriangleGang [S] 39 points 3 years ago +39 / -0

Ah, I didn't catch that part. Well, if you're going to embrace the left's philosophy, then you get what you deserve.

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– jenniferq8 34 points 3 years ago +34 / -0

Yep. Very few of them realize that at some point they are going to slip up or the window will shift too far and they end up in the crosshairs. Theres a podcast I used to listen to where one of the hosts is very vocal about how in favor of current thing he is, but also pays for a service to delete his tweets after two weeks so he doesn't wind up on the hot seat down the road.

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– thepalagoon 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

The instinct to feel like a part of the in-group is so strong.

Young boys being psychological lemmings... jumping right off that cliff.

Proper reaction is to not be a victim but get fucking mad. But he won't. Probably because mom won't let him.

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– herg 28 points 3 years ago +28 / -0

Not only is he a commie but he also emphasized that he does not condone the harassment of members of the trans community and not to use this incident to harrass trannies according to the article even after what happened to him

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– elleand202 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0

Yep, and the other tournament player that he was going to go against stated that he thought that Tran should not have been DQ'd but then immediately pivoted to kissing tranny ass.

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– Bottle_of_Memes 23 points 3 years ago +23 / -0

He made the mistake of thinking commies get to have their own views and opinions separate from the hive mind

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– Bruvazz 18 points 3 years ago +18 / -0

Why do commies LOVE games, which are 100% superfluous things only made possible through the wonders of Capitalism?

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– redman012 17 points 3 years ago +17 / -0

Escapism from their lives

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– ryry117 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

Because these people are delusional. Their ideologies really aren't even communism. It's a weird futurist utopia they want but don't know how to achieve. They've literally been trained from video games that have a "hub world" where nothing bad happens into thinking that is how society should function, a fairy tale.

They want to be video game heroes and kill the big bad corrupt system and afterwards there will be a no-work utopia where everything just magically gets provided by future robots or something while they get to jerk off and play games endlessly and be hailed a hero for their part in the uprising.

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– Imthrowing4 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

The actual people who will control the commie state have told them that they will be allowed to spend all day doing luxurious things like art and games and whatever their heart desires.

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– I_Bent_My_Wookiee 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

When you don't want to work, you have to find something to fill up the time

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– dzonatan 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Because they are childish like that.

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– LinkR 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Young people are naturally turned on by the idea that they can coast on others doing all the work for them, because they would be forced to. Lacking the foresight that they would be as well. It's natural naivety.

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– Puppy528 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

I'd get awkward when someone of assumed authority asks about my sex parts in a public setting, too.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

The only freak we need is a GameFreak.

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– Guy_Incognito76 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Like asking someone for their Thetan number.

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– herg 41 points 3 years ago +41 / -0

Tran emphasized that he does not condone the harassment of members of the trans community "One more thing, do not use what happened at charlotte as an excuse to bully and harass the trans community. That shit is not okay and I do not condone this behavior at all. That’s all I had to say and again thank you for all the support i’m so happy right now"

They never learn

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– ClosetDissident 22 points 3 years ago +22 / -0

It's groveling submission to the state ideology. Citizens of the USSR lived like this for generations.

"I'm loyal to the Party! I swear, I'll be good! I'll give you the names of traitors, just please let me go!"

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– Gizortnik 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

The Killing Fields of Cambodia are filled to the brim with Party Loyalists. The only right-wingers were literally driven into the sea. And they were the lucky ones.

It's a key lesson that needs to be learned as quickly as possible. "Better Dead than Red" isn't some anti-communist mantra. It's an objective fact. You should choose death before surrender to a Communist because death is always preferable, and you have no idea just how bad it's going to get when you surrender.

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– deleted 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0
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– Steampunk_Moustache 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

He's a kid who has been subjected to pozzed indoctrination his entire life. It's no surpise that he doesn't realize why this has been done to him.

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– 83671R18 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

"No no comrade I wasn't making fun of Dear Leader's ideology."

"I understand you are doing what's right but won't you be a good party member and follow me to the commissariat to straighten this misunderstanding out like a good party member?"

"Sure comrade"

Once there, he is put in jail in solitary confinement and subject to starvation for 7 days.

In those seven days he keeps telling himself it's a mistake and it will all be sorted out. On the 7th day he has his first interrogation, the interrogator has prewritten his confession and tells him he knows he hasn't been the only one who has made fun of pronouns. He tells him to sign the confession and name all of his co/conspirators.

He refuses to sign it, begs it's a misunderstanding and that's when they turn the interrogations into torture sessions until he signs the confession and names at least 10 "co/conspirators". They all go to the gulag and while they're working to death they dream of the day the party will rectify their mistake and grant them their membership back.

And just like that, his life ends - a statistic, nothing more.

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– Ricky_CIA 28 points 3 years ago +28 / -0

Troons and troon supporters are not compatible with civilized society.

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– SuurSuomi39_II 17 points 3 years ago +17 / -0

That includes the kid himself seeing as he's defending them by some retarded logic.

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– ClosetDissident 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

He's a kid. Kids are very vulnerable to social exclusion and ostracism. It's how "educators" inculcate them with leftist morality.

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– magyar_warrior 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

As someone who was in high school not too long ago in a very liberal area, I know what its like when you think the whole world is whatever the left says it is, it wasn't until people I knew who were smarter and older than me guided me into opening my mind more. On my own I'd probably be screaming about trans rights right about now.

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– ClosetDissident 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

That's the cultural headwind that we must fight against. If we do nothing the default state is to fall into their system of indoctrination.

I like your username. I visited Hungary about 20 years ago. Stood in Husok Tere. Those statues are pretty badass.

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– magyar_warrior 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Thanks! The statues are nice, but the women are even better hehe

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– AntonioOfVenice 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

That's why they're coming for the kids.

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– PraiseBeToScience 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

He also has access to the internet and its many spaces for other thought. So he chooses to be that way.

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– magyar_warrior 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Really going to blame a kid for not being redpilled? The internet today is not what it was like ten years ago, the majority of dissident content has either been purged or shoved into digital ghettos like on here.

This kid doesn't know any better, hes inundated daily at school and through pop culture on whats socially acceptable to believe, and on the internet all he knows is social media and tabloid news sites.

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– PraiseBeToScience 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Communist children grow up to be communist adults, does it really matter if we're splitting hairs on who is to blame, when the solution to his condition is the same?

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– magyar_warrior 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

You're moving the goalpost, its unfair to put all the blame on the kid as if he should have known better. Hes a product of his environment just like kids raised in cults like scientology.

The real target should be the ones targeting the children.

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– PraiseBeToScience 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

It might not be the fault of a cat who gets rabies for having rabies but sadly, there's still no cure and the cat has to be destroyed.

If this kid, up to that point, was 'okay' with faggotry and degeneracy, but still maintained that shit even after it fucked up completely out of $800, ruined his hobby, and literally left him stranded in a strange city, then he's got rabies. This was a Redpill moment. That he still is worshipping tranny cock means he's incurable.

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– deleted 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0
... continue reading thread?
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– ItsOkayToBeWight 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

The internet is wholly owned by subversive elements. Most normies only know about facebook, reddit, twitter, tiktok, etc. They're not going to get access to real truth there.

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– Gizortnik 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Leftists are anti-civilization by their own admission. It is a desperate attempt to destroy civilization and return to Rousseau's "Noble Savage".

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– Norenia 19 points 3 years ago +19 / -0

Clownfish had a good take on this. The humiliation this kid suffered-

"Where was his father?"

There would have been beatings and broken bones had I been the kid's parent and witnessed it all.

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– cccpneveragain 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

I was about to type a tranny hating rant that still stands, but I like this response so much better. I can count on one hand the times my Dad had to stick up for me as a teenager, but I remember them all because they were impactful in a way that I couldn't have done myself and that a mother never could have done for me. Let me guess this kids father has either been set aside by his mother or is a submissive weakling.

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– Norenia 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0

I think the kid might have been fending for himself during this event, unaccompanied by a parent or guardian.

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– current_horror 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0

Why would trannies want to work at an event where children are actually accompanied by their parents?

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– cccpneveragain 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

Yeah from what I read about it last night I do think that were the case. I might have been allowed that at 17, but I doubt it. At least not at that scale. If I were, I probably wouldn't have handled it any better at 17 if I'm honest.

Except I wouldn't have gone home and fondled the trannies in my comments. I'd have hated them.

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– Hugs 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I understand the sentiment, but the disqualification is wrong and shouldn't happen in the first place.

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– SomeRando 18 points 3 years ago +18 / -0

Of course, they get their grimey hands on everything especially if they're too old for it.

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– ClosetDissident 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

Yeah, that grown man is really into Pokemon. It's just a coincidence that he's also spending time around unaccompanied boys.

This is a dead giveaway for pedos. I'm not saying all men in these roles are pedos, but it's smart to be wary of them until they're proven to be on the level..

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– Smith1980 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0

But if we had laughed at pronouns from the beginning we could’ve stopped this or with transgender we should’ve acknowledged it as a mental condition and not objective reality

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– ClosetDissident 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

How far back do you want to go with this?

We should have laughed in the 90s when the gay agenda was being pushed.

We should have backlashed against them in the 70s when they sent death threats to leaders of the American Psychiatric Association and coerced them into de-listing homosexuality as a mental illness.

Etc, etc.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/16amYiVbP8/theythem-becomes-judge-at-a-pokm/c/

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– ClosetDissident 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

All sorts of nuggetts in this article.

Notice that the initial person he offended was too much of a pussy to eject a 12 year old. He had to run and tell another judge who confronted the scary 12 year old.

Also notice how the judge performed like good party apparatchik. "I'm sorry, but the rules are the rules."

"The head judge tells me that he was sorry and that it sucked but I was disqualified due to pokemons [sic] policy. At this point I’m at the verge of tears but I tried my best to keep my composure. I just couldn’t understand what was happening. Was the judge just not listening to anything I had just told him? Was he trying to look at my side of the story at all??

This is the sort of shit you read about in Gulag Archipelago. Today it's silly kids pokemon tournaments. But this mindset is percolating upwards and reaching a tipping point of what Gramsci called "cultural hegemony. "

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– bamboozler1 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I honestly, honestly expect my University will do something like this, soon…

Some businesses (including government departments) already do…

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– deleted 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0
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– StupidPrizeWinner 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

If only he were Makani Trans, it would have been completely different.

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– deleted 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0
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– elleand202 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

Archive.today link because Archive.org is gayer than people who use they/them pronouns.

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– AntonioOfVenice 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

I sue both. Imagine if archive.today just disappeared one day.

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– MLGS 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

archive.yesterday

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– elleand202 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

That would really suck.

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– spambot 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

mmm baked clams.

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– PraiseBeToScience 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

The teen also clarified that he does not have a problem with using pronouns nor did he have any negative intentions.

One more thing, do not use what happened at charlotte as an excuse to bully and harass the trans community. That shit is not okay and I do not condone this behavior at all.

He got what he fucking deserved.

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– bloodguard 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

We need a parallel... everything. Economy, sports, education, entertainment, banking, investment. Let them have the existing franchises like the NFL, NBA, Disney etc. I'm sure they'll be happy with the maybe 5% hardcore squishy headed crazy people.

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– WeedleTLiar 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Or we just fuck up everything that worships weakness.

If we can't have the things our forefathers built anyway, why not tear them down?

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– spambot 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

thats one way forward but its the one that has they highst likelyhood of spreading rats from the rubble. the way i would like to see is them exposed for all to see as small petty things that went nuts with petty power that wasnt even theirs. show them the saga of the cake baker, show them the lunacy of the man who lost his son because his mother decided the boy was trans, show them the detrans movement, show it all as the news wont. the only way outta this mess is with a great reject the ideology needs to glow from space.

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– ClosetDissident 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

This sort of thing is dress rehearsal for the future. Only instead of your kids Pokemon championship it'll be you pleading with the local commissar to please not send your kid to a state run orphanage for children of reactionary parents.

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– barwhack 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Sue them.

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– trump4044 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Time to vocally laugh whenever anyone asks my pronouns.

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– deleted 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0
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– magyar_warrior 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Troons are so entitled and insane, they can't even tolerate a socially awkward geeky teenager nervously reacting to being put on the spot?

"What are your preferred pronouns" is basically "are you with us or against us?"

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– Hogbutcher 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Why did he not identify as Tran? He is literally Tran.

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– AntonioOfVenice 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Orwell once said that fascism could never come to the UK, because the British people would laugh if they looked at men in uniforms goose-stepping.

The new fascists have a remedy for that. Thou shalt not laugh at us.

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– bamboozler1 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Well they already killed satire and stand-up comedy…

We’re honestly pretty much already there…

I don’t think that’s coincidental.

Our overlords were always going to be humourless, nuance-free psychopaths…

They just masked it in “weirdness” and “nonconformity” while they took control of the levers of power, and of course the dominant culture…

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Face. Crime.

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