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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
"Children aren't allowed to drive cars, but we're encouraging them to cut off their reproductive organs?!?"
- Some MAGATs completely missing the point.
It's amazing how hypocritical rightwingers are, "protecting" children by preventing them from being themselves and then accusing us of being "groomers".
And the GOP are all to happy to scream about wanting to increase the age of voting to take away their right to vote, but will sell guns and throw them into the military to die for them by the same age, and in the case of girls they want to impregnate them as young as possible before they reach 18.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Mar 15th 2023 at 9:04:37 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.Not so much the military these days actually. Well, maybe among "moderates", but not among the MAGATs.
I'll give them some credit, judging by what I've seen on their forums, they seem to have finally figured out that wars are more about seizing resources for rich people than "spreading democracy". It's one reason they consider the Neocons to be "traitors" and "Rinos".
Mostly though, rightwingers believe that the military has gone "woke", that the military's leadership has been taken over by "commies", that "patriots" are being purged, and that those who remain are being given vaccines designed to sterilize them.
They honestly believe that we ultimately plan to send all of them to gulags, if not exterminate them completely. It's one of the reasons they are radicalizing. As such, they are no longer encouraging kids to go to the military.
Edited by aidreamer on Mar 15th 2023 at 10:34:14 AM
Just in time for a war that breaks the trend and sees an actual defence of democracy and the right of self-determination.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThat's true of the Ukrainian side, but the Russian side is definitely seizing resources for rich people under the veil of "Denazification".
Edited by Diana1969 on Mar 16th 2023 at 2:52:24 PM
the one gender affirming surgery that is performed with any regularity on minors is masectomies. However, IIRC they are outnumbered by the number of breast reductions done on cis boys who have heavy breast growth.
Also, you don't cut the penis off for vaginoplasty, you split it in half. This is a weird nitpick, but I just want to point that out.
"It's amazing how hypocritical rightwingers are, "protecting" children by preventing them from being themselves and then accusing us of being "groomers"."
One thing to keep in mind is that, by the very nature of being conservatives, they possess a mindset that is oriented toward finding aspects of life that are unchanging, things that provide certainty in a chaotic world. The idea that everything is a form of self-expression and that individuals should be completely free from external restrictions, and that the entire world should be expected to respect that, isn't so much wrong from their perspective as incomprehensible. I know conservatives who look at trans people go "what?" They really can't understand why anyone would want to do that.
The groomer thing is dishonest propaganda.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.What's the general consensus on puberty blockers? It's another one of the things righties like to whine about when it comes to gender-affirming care. They accuse it of being some sort of "Big Pharma" scam "causing irreversible harm". I'm not really well informed enough on this topic to come up with counterarguments, especially when they bring up potential side effects.
To the best of my knowledge, they don't cause any harm irreversible or otherwise. Any effects caused by them can easily be fixed by... not taking them.
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Sure but is propaganda that is working, if you cant get trans people and some other conservative tell you they are weird groomer, is easy to jump from A to B.
Also when people said "let the child express themselves" the idea is "I will let then with resonable limits" and of course conservative can be quite behind in that area.
In fact by some tweets I have seen, there is a sort of new media is evil behind the whole thing.
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They're easily reversible, and in fact they're also prescribed to cis children at even younger ages to prevent them from starting puberty too early.
Sanofi is also cutting the list price of its short-acting Apidra insulin by 70%.
I doubt the fake Eli Lily tweet was what clinched it, but it was a domino in the chain of dominos falling. Thanks, Elon

EDIT: pagetopper, this is about the Nebraska State Senator who's filibustering everything to prevent an anti-trans bill making it to the floor and to prove a point.
She's not blocking the bill itself, she's blocking EVERY bill. She's refusing to allow the legislative queue to advance at all.
Which, good job, and it's a talking filibuster too, so impressive as well.
Edited by Florien on Mar 15th 2023 at 7:11:10 AM