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      It brings a certain: “Why do you make me beat our children” vibe that I’m just not feeling.

      It’s the very fabric of humanity that they’re going for.

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    Well, if they rere trying to put their political enemies on a war footing, this is a fine way to inspire it.

    On a related note, I was unaware there was international funding available. Do I get double payments for being both anticapitalist AND transgender?

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    Uh huh. Good luck, assholes. Gun’s loaded and just waiting for you to come and get me.

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    Make a note of your local red hats. Their faces. Their addresses. Don’t lose this when they leave power. Keep if with people who will be safe.

    Remember them. Remember the families who still spoke to them. Remember where they live. They will let their guard down someday.

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      One has to make the case for gay sex. It literally causes ZERO unwanted pregnancies. So as a Cis male perhaps I should do another gentleman in the name of Jesus Christ? And incredibly enough, no abortions either. Hopefully everyone walks away all the happier.

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        Religious people want pregnancies, they are always going on about birth rates as if humanity is about to go extinct 😅 Although that’s a racist thing too (they worry that people from other religions have more children and thus change the religious balance).

        It’s also the reason they are so against abortions really. More births, wanted or not is a secondary concern.

        As an atheist I find all this very tiring and sex is just for fun for me, but they love putting all these arbitrary rules upon themselves.

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    Counterterrorism used to mean stopping crazies from blowing shit up or killing innocent people in the United States. Now it means targeting minorities. Which gives actual terrorists free reign to attack on US soil.

    Even if Trump is a Russian agent he couldn’t do more damage than he’s already doing.

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        Berlin of the 20s was probably the most liberal place for queer people in the west. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and wrote the first paper on trans identities, gave people counseling, hormones and recommended surgeons.

        He was able to decriminalise homosexuality and have trans people allowed to present “sex non-conforming” in public if they had a slip from him.

        The Nazis used this for culture wars and promise a return to the golden time of tradition and morality.

        His institute was raided in the first book burning, thousand of scientific papers are lost forever, his patients hunted down. He managed to flee to France.

        It’s important to treat his persona critically though, because as a scientist of his time, he also adopted some problematic stances on eugenics and racial teachings. On the other hand, he was also one of the few that criticised the rigor of the science behind those teachings from time to time.

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    Trans people existing is subversive because it is an extremely high expression of freedom and challenges fundamental concepts about our world. If someone can change their gender, what else can we change? Capitalism? Politicians?

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      Thanks party that sabotaged every single effort to build coalition or enthusiasm for any opposition . You’re completely blameless.

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      Stop fighting among yourselves like mindless sheep the oligarchs want you to be. Whatever the election’s results, you’d still be living a shitty life. Elections will not get you a decent life, no matter how badly any of us wish they would. Either start organizing or leave the country. You deserve better.

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      Belief that transgender identity is valid. Which, contrary to popular belief, is supported by science. Are they going to shut down university biology departments that say sex and gender are different? Label these scientists as terrorists and execute them? It’s terrifying

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      It means that my daughter and her friends can stand behind me.

      If these Nazi cunts want to go after them, they gotta go through me first. Literally. Physically. They will have to kill me to take her.

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      Alive.

      But in reality, their words are meaningless. They’ll say anything to get power over us, and if they see an advantage in it, they’ll say the opposite tomorrow.

      Debate doesn’t work with them. Organize, resist, subvert. Do whatever you need to do to survive.

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    Can we get a Lugi to take this fucking terrorist out? Look at him remember his face. Fucker literally said anti fascist. Goddamn right I am anti fascist and pro trans. Come yourself and get me.

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    Remember when people prioritized genocide on the other side of the planet and now they’re going to get it right here at home?

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      One side wanted a two state solution the other side wanted to bulldoze Gaza. The intellectually lazy said ‘they’re both the same’ and sat out with a smug simle on their faces.

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        False. One side giggles to themselves while telling their voters a two state solution is possible while they sat back and allowed Gaza to be bulldozed. The other looked at the rubble of Gaza created by the previous guys and promised to build a tacky golf course on top of it.

        You’ve been lied to. A two state solution hasn’t been possible for many years. Democrats know this. They decide to collectively pretend that it’s still something they hope for, as voters like yourself are easy to fool.

        Both sides are the same in outcome. The only real difference is that Republicans practice performative cruelty, while Democrats feign compassion.

        Can you provide any evidence that the death rate in Gaza has been higher under Trump than under Biden? Any at all? Because my understanding is that the worst parts of the conflict were during the Biden term. Trump was a lot more crass about it, openly celebrating the murder of Palestinians. But Biden instead publicly lamented their deaths while also enabling them.

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          Precisely my fucking point.

          You’re wanting evidence from a hypothetical. We can’t know what Harris would have done because she’s not potus right now. People on the left stayed home and now we have our own Nazi tick dug up our fucking asshole because of it.

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      Yeah it sucks Harris and the DNC fully supported the genocide in Gaza. Hopefully they, and the american public, has learned their lesson.

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        fully supported

        Not sure you understand what these two words together mean.

        One side was floating arms shipment cancellations and trying to broker a peace deal. The other side said “bulldoze it so we can build a resort” and a ton of American dipshits thought both sides were the same and abstained from voting.

        Nothing I’ve seen in the last year has indicated to me that the American public has learned their lesson.

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          You’re trying to have an honest conversation with someone who has no intention of giving you that same courtesy.

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            I"m used to it.

            My comment wasn’t for them. It was for anyone reading that wasn’t aware Dems were floating arms shipment cancellations and actually trying to broker a peace deal.

            People need to be made aware that both sides are absolutely not the same. There’s young, impressionable minds out there. I’m sure they occasionally read my comments and the comments of others that are trying to combat misinformation.

            It isn’t about one side being perfect. It’s about one side being way, way better than the other. It’s about making sure that side is in power so we have the flexibility, the opportunity, to bring about change. Cuz we ain’t getting that with the other side. Well, we are getting change with them, but not the good kind.

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          One side was floating arms shipment cancellations and trying to broker a peace deal.

          No side did this. Biden said he was going to do this, then he went behind congress multiple times to deliver weapons. Harris explicitly stated her policy on Gaza was the same as the Biden administration. Which would be useless ceasefires (ceasefires aren’t ceasefires if only one side stops), empty words, while fully materially supporting the genocide while also supplying US intelligence and personnel for the genocide.

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            Sorry you’re getting downvoted. There’s this sickness among many liberals that think they can manifest their way to election victories. There’s this sick impulse to immediately deny any criticism or negative news about Democrats, even if acknowledging those failures is exactly what is needed for Democrats to win future elections. It’s the Blue MAGA gene, see no evil hear no evil speak no evil.

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              There’s this sick impulse to immediately deny any criticism or negative news about Democrats

              My god. The irony of stating liberals manifest while you manifest that they deny any criticism or negative news about Democrats.

              The number of times I’ve seen liberals shit talk Democrats absolutely dwarfs the number of times I’ve seen conservatives shit talk Republicans.

              Hit me up when you achieve self awareness.

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            Reading comprehension. I never said Biden DID cancel arms shipment cancellations. I said he floated doing so. It was a shot fired across Israel’s bow to see how they’d respond. That’s how you start dealing with an ally that’s doing things you don’t agree with.

            Question.

            Do you remember Trump publicly expressing disapproval of Israel’s actions?

            Do you remember Trump publicly floating arms shipment cancellations?

            Do you remember Trump publicly attempting to broker a peace deal?

            Cuz I viscerally remember Biden doing all those things.

            Not. The. Same.

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              1. Trump disapproved of the optics of Israel taking so long with the Gaza erasure. So… Half credit?

              2. Not to my recollection, but that was never the ambition with his “peace through power” schtick.

              3. He made LOTS of hay about sending Witkoff over to try this, to the point that several posters here were grousing about the Logan Act.

              Ehh, Biden talked a lot of shit- some of the most egregious were his red lines on Rafah. Yes he was a step up from our current admin (almost fucking everyone is), but he left a lot to be desired- especially concerning everyone’s favorite Mideast Democracy.

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          Can you provide any evidence at all that the death toll is higher under Trump than it was under Biden? Or is this just a vibes-based assessment?

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          Yeah that’s giving Americans far too much credit. One could imagine an educated populace could understand ‘Those willing to do genocide to others are willing to do it to you,’ but we are talking about the US here. They barely even go to school.

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      You’ve been sleepwalking into it for 30, 40 years.

      You’ve let your buddy drive drunk for the entire road trip, quietly scolding him while giving everyone else the finger for deigning to suggest maybe you should take the wheel or at very least take away his keys. Now that you’re headed toward that cliff, you like to pretend this is something you just now became aware of, but… huh, you’re STILL not doing anything about it.