“let’s divide the LGBTQ community by making the T kill themselves or be forcefully detransitioned so then we can go after the ones that are left afterwards”

They want people like me and those I love to kill ourselves because it’s cheaper for them than sticking us in camps then they can get to going after the gays. The depressing reality is that there is going to be a sharp rise in trans suicides soon, especially if the ban on Medicaid hrt coverage goes through. Many say death before detransition and they fucking mean it.

And it’s hard to exist in this country as a trans person right now and not just be terrified and feel like taking the easy way out. Even if it’s what they want.

I think the biggest problem with your point is that these specific religions have core tenants that center around converting people and “saving” them. Because of that people will always be able to use whatever rationale they want to justify how they’re trying to save people when they’re bigoted towards them.

You might say that religion and faith isn’t the problem, and you’re right that it shouldn’t be the problem. But right now, it is the problem. Right now religion is used around the world to purely spread bigotry under the guise of “saving” the people they’re being bigoted towards.

In order for religion to not be used this way they would require massive reforms that would help push them towards a more genuinely accepting existence. But that won’t happen. At least not in any of our lifetimes. These religions are so old that they get to move as slow as they fucking want to when it comes to modernization.

Religion is being used constantly as justification for being horrible people and allows followers to think they have the literal creator of the Universe behind them. There is no world that exists in the next hundred or several hundred years that does not continue to have religion be used for horrible horrible things.

So fuck it. Are there some good people in there who just happen to believe in God? Absolutely. But religion as an organized structure is really fucking over modern society.

I got so fucking excited seeing this that I went to see if I could buy tickets only to find out that no, in fact, it is not the 10th anniversary this year. That it was the 10th anniversary and in theaters almost 2 years ago. I am now very disappointed.

Ah yes, very smart, let’s use a nuke to blow up a nuclear facility. There couldn’t possibly be a much larger explosion and spread of radiation because of that.

“Hey, listen, we love you,” he said of the message he thinks should be sent to young trans athletes. “We want you to be part of our community, but this is just the one place you can’t play, and let’s find other activities for you to be involved.”

We love you, but only so much. Sometimes you have to understand that you’re less than others, that they’re more important than you, inherently.

I write on Substack about Videogames and I would fucking hate to have my articles, that I spend a lot of time on, be in the Washington Post. I hate that place. Even the article series I wrote that is significantly research based and took me a couple months to put together and release and that has led to me writing a book to go into more detail I wouldn’t want to have in that trash piece.

On fucking point. My mom, who has seen me deal with my MS and all it’s myriad of symptoms has still told me time and again I should try yoga to help with things that are just how my brain is damaged. I fucking hate cherry picked evidence and wish education was more accessible so more people with disabilities could more easily become doctors.

I think one of the biggest issues standing in the way of widespread acceptance of trans people is generally not understanding what we actually do or are like.

So like, most people completely misunderstand how hrt works. They think that you do it and only really get a better mental space. But that’s not true at all. Everyone I have known on hormones get so many changes. Our hairlines can change, our bone density decreases or increases to match the gender your hormones match with, our bodies redistribute fat, our skin changes, even our body smells change, we lose or gain muscle mass to again come in line with whatever our hormones match. Our body chemicals change. Estrogen can decrease the size of your feet by a size and can literally make your hips grow and change how your weight is distributed. Testosterone can make you grow a full bushy as fuck beard and a such a deep voice you’ll never know the person ever had a higher pitched one. Everything changes on hormones and cis people just don’t seem to understand that at all. I’ve known many trans people who transition so well that other trans people don’t believe they’re trans and think they’re cis.

Add on that they don’t understand bottom surgery and it just gets annoying as fuck. The fact that cutting dicks off is still how so many cis people think femme bottom surgery works is so fucking infuriating and it happens when leftists reference it too.

I think if more cis people simply knew trans people and were willing to discuss with them about what being trans is like then there would be more general acceptance.

So the plan for this competition is having 3 scoring categories, apparently. So a “biological male”, a “biological female”, and a trans category. So trans men and women will compete against each other.

Or, they would, if there was any more than the one athlete that is competing. Which means she will win, even if she fucking walks. This is insane and is the bullshit “separate but equal” thing people keep talking about being the supposed “solution”.

Trans people don’t dominate sports and there aren’t enough for them to have their own leagues. If you think they do dominate then you’re obviously misinformed. Trans people have been allowed to compete in sports for a long time and there has never been a problem with it, until fucking Republicans needed a new boogeyman to galvanize their base.

Fuck Newsom. Fuck Trump. And fuck anyone who refuses to actually try to understand the reality of being trans and the reality of just wanting to play sports like everyone else.

Yeah, so the gaffe in this speech would just have been in the present tense instead of past tense since he had already had that skin cancer removed. Which was stated in the article but still.

Edit: fixed I’m to in

I highly doubt Biden knew he had this specific cancer back then just because it seems incredibly unlikely he would find that out and just not get any treatment for it until he was out of office. It just doesn’t feel likely. You don’t just get told “hey you have cancer” and then not do anything about it at all. Especially when you’re rich and have the money. And when you’re the fucking President and have the best medical care available to you in the entire country all for free.

Course if we find out he was on chemotherapy back then then I’m obviously wrong. But I think that’s the only thing that could directly point to him knowing he had cancer back then.

Biden is known for his gaffes so it’s just more likely that’s what was going on in this 2022 speech.

Sorta like this but with citizenship?

If anyone wants to know what subreddit, it’s r/changemyview. I remember seeing a ton of similar posts about controversial opinions and even now people are questioning Am I Overreacting and AITAH a lot. AI posts in those kind of subs are seemingly pretty frequent. I’m not surprised to see it was part of a fucking experiment.

I think it’s fair to say that the US stock exchange is officially a yo-yo market. Like going up and down constantly every couple of days just depending on the whims of the fucking fascist people decided to put in charge. So fun.

There is a way to prevent having a child with Autism and it’s absolutely fool proof. Just don’t have kids. Boom, you’ve prevented a kid from having Autism.

I’ve got a few problems with this article but honestly the thing that bothers me the most is saying Bill Maher is a moderate liberal commentator. He’s a conservative libertarian asshole and always has been. He’s never been moderate, he’s never been a liberal.

Alex Jones also calls Maher a liberal, using him to represent the entire non Republican political sphere. Maher is not a moderate and I don’t like seeing someone who is from the left calling him that.

The lawmaker said Democrats are worried they would get the blame for a shutdown if they voted to defeat the House bill. The House is out of session for the rest of the week, upping the pressure on Senate Democrats.

Voters haven’t punished Republicans for their numerous shut downs. But that said, voters are always more likely to blame Democrats for anything at all.

In the article there are definitely some interesting points. Like how Elon would probably use the shut down to fire even more people. Or Trump would use it to take even more power from Congress.

I still think the Democrats need to stand firm and refuse to vote for it, make Republicans pass it via reconciliation. Shut it down if necessary. But there’s definitely a lot of possibly terrible outcomes to a shut down to consider.

They can and will pass it via reconciliation. Budget related measures are able to be passed with a simple majority vote.

He was elected to his FIRST term, at 70??? That’s fucking insane.

And they’re planning on passing it in the Senate with Budget Reconciliation so the Filibuster won’t stop it.