Politics Please say rock bottom is getting close

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  1. riverman

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    I've always felt that many of these anti-gay, trans,anti- abortion spouting folks are actually harboring deeply buried gender or sexual confusions and they think going to war with free willed people will make their God happy and keep them in the shadows and safe from discovery.
     
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    Really don't like this read, and way this could be twisted to use against the queer community. Feels really tempting to say "oh yeah all those anti-gay pedophiles are closeted gay people" and let the system that oppresses queer people and exploits people in secrecy off the hook while painting all queer people as the real bad guys. "Oh it's just the self-hating ones" then maybe it isn't the gay part but the self-hating part.

    I get your intentions are good, and you're not a bad person or anything, and I'm not upset by you, but this line of thinking feels very close to "blame the gays" with extra steps, and I needed to express that here.
     
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    I do see what you are saying, but as an old straight white guy, when I read that, I don't think 'the problem is the gays', I think 'the problem is the bigots'.

    barfo
     
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    I do think many homophobes are scared of their own feelings.
     
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    I think you're a pretty cool person but also I can demonstrate pretty readily that you don't represent all old straight white guys, which I think is the point here.
     
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    Can't teach about the Holocaust. It's too unpleasant. Literal reason for banning Maus.
     
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    Katie Ledecky tied Michael Phelps in winning her 20th swimming gold medal. Right wing assholes never learned if you don't have anything nice to say, keep your mouth shut. They are spreading totally unfounded rumors Ledecky is transgender. No evidence.
    They don't consider trans women to be women.
    A woman, according to them, can only achieve athletic greatness if she is "not really" a woman.
     
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    Yeah, she must be trans. It can't be that she works harder at it than nearly every other person on earth and swims with a different, much more efficient technique than nearly every other swimmer...

    Oh, wait...she does!
     
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    Who said Katie Ledecky is trans? ‍♂️
     
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    No Proof For Rumors That Katie Ledecky Had 'Come Out' as Trans
    Ledecky is the first woman to earn 20 World Championships gold medals. It's not the only reason people were searching her name in July 2023.

    On July 25, 2023, U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky tied Michael Phelps' record for the most individual swimming titles at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships. She also became the first woman to earn 20 World Championships gold medals.

    However, that wasn't the only reason people were searching Ledecky's name online in July 2023. Around the same time, rumors began to spread that Ledecky had "come out" as a transgender woman.

    The claim spread as rumors continued to swirl about Lia Thomas, who has faced anti-trans vitriol while becoming the first transgender woman to claim a national title in swimming. They also spread as World Aquatics, the governing body of swimming, was reported to have an "open category" that would include transgender swimmers in a trial of such a category after effectively banning trans people from competition previously.

    We found posts about the claim on Twitter and Facebook. In addition, we received reader mail asking us about the claim. An article wondering if Ledecky was a trans woman appeared as a top Google News result when we searched "katie ledecky":
    https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/07/27/katie-ledecky-trans-rumors/

    https://www.google.com/search?q=Katie Ledecky trans&rlz=1C1RXQR_enUS934US934&oq=Katie Ledecky trans&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBDTcxMTU2MDgwajBqMTWoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#ip=1
     
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    I don't think he even represent all pirates... He can spell more than X
     
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    Senator Tammy Duckworth took her two daughters and some of their friends to see Barbie. All of them in pink. When they got to the theater, they learned the only elevator is broken. Senator Duckworth is a disabled veteran who left her legs behind in Iraq. So she sat outside while the girls went to the movie.
     
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    This whole trans issue is a big distraction. I'm not saying it's nothing: it is a problem that thousands of children are being pulled into a cult that will do permanent damage to their bodies (and many are already coming out of the cult as young adults and are trying to blow the whistle). It sucks for women who are affected by men who get off parading their genitals in front of them under the guise of being trans, also for females who have to complete against males in sports etc.

    But so much focus is placed on this issue, and the left/right beat each other over the heads about it, while bigger issues are going on under our nose. The elite control the MSM and have propped up racial division, and this trans issue to divide the population.

    Do you think it's an accident that the incidents of the media mentioning these things suddenly skyrocketed right after Occupy Wallstreet?
     
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    What the absolute fuck?!?
     
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    This is what I deal with every day online. You may be able to see why I am a bit bitter and impatient sometimes.
     
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    WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO DESTROY WALL STREET?!?
     
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    Because it’s gambling with other people’s money. I mean… umm… I’m not…??
     
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    Hahahahaha!
     

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