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Editor (retired), innkeeper, anti-corruption gadfly, cautious Christian, Enlightenment fan.

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@frogNscorpion Darwin was right.
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@libsoftiktok A still image from a security camera that authorities say shows Brown attempting to flee from the scene of the crash.
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@sachsyd @joedirt501 That's a little rich. Doesn't take long to burn through savings if you have no income.
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@Serena_Partrick The truth is that most Afghani men are fine with it. It is part of the inherent appeal of political Islam: Women's lives are controlled are controlled by men. I mean individual men, not just the "Islamic patriarchy". Islam hands real, practical power over women to men who
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@Garnet4evr @marycatedelvey X-Y in every cell. Men, no matter how they masquerade. The vast majority of people find them nauseating and utterly repulsive. Bolemics routinely view photos of "trans women" to induce vomiting.
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@soulkhan I'm no great fan of the Israeli state, but Islamic theocrats don't strike me as "morally superior" in any way.
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@visegrad24 @Elad_Si Poor Sweden. In 1980 it was the cleanest & safest country in the world offering its citizens an astonishingly high quality of life.
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@HazelAppleyard_ Infant and childhood mortality was of course much higher back in the day, too. We also had real prosperity then, when the average working person could afford a large family on a single income.
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@implausibleblog Europeans have a hard time understanding that in America, a gun is a simply another mass consumer product. Like golf clubs, or fishing poles. A gun-collecting nurse hasn't been a matter of irony for at least 40 years here.
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@9mm_smg The story also underscores that local corruption is the most pernicious. A decent man driven to dire extremes by the petty abuse of power.
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@BriannaWu I presume you mean people like @marycatedelvey , who publishes hilarious videos exposing the tight link between autogynephilia & transgenderism. Most of of her videos are just her reciting posts made to trans forums, word-for-word. Sure, she also mocks men who pretend to be women,
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@Garnet4evr @marycatedelvey Not a single woman anywhere on earth has an x-y chromosome pair. True, there is a very, very rare variation of Klinefelter Syndrome where a female presents with xxy.
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@marycatedelvey Yep, verified.
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@Garnet4evr @KellytheWorrier @Space_Sausages @marycatedelvey Yes, they most certainly are a problem. Almost all "trans women" are men with autogynephilia, a deviant sexual fetish. A huge part of that particularly repulsive, sociopathic disorder is resentment and hatred of women. Just look at this individual.
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@marycatedelvey I, for one, am immensely gratified by your rejection of porn, and your escape from that creepy industry with your dignity (and your intellect) intact.
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@9mm_smg To be fair, a lot of the info about "huge paychecks" being disseminated is corporate disinformation. Top longshoreman wages at the Alabama port are about $40/hour, and the average is about $31/hr. Decent enough in a place like Alabama, but barely middle class. In a free society
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@Ulti9938Gojira @legaltweetz If your worldview is one where @marycatedelvey is considered "ugly", it's probably based on a lot of other obvious untruths.
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I’m so very glad you asked!!
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@Rothmus Oh man, you don't get it at all. Good trains are a civilizational necessity, and US trains suck (well, they're comfortable enough, but slow and with very limited reach). I live in Appalachia and an F150 with an 8' bed is my daily driver. But there's nothing like a clean, fast,
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@patrick_ness "These are the dying voices of unhappy dinosaurs." Really, I don't think so. I think you have a genuine majoritarian backlash against transgender ideology — especially when it involves medical intervention & children — and for the most part it's been suprisingly civil. Even most
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@oledoteth Your graphic is mostly accurate, but you could easily produce one emphasizing the areas where European quality of life is higher than in the US. The food is way better in Europe, the cultural scene is richer and more sophisticated, and healthcare costs are lower with far better
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@9mm_smg Before some of the neighborhood denizens violently robbed me, I spent a few weeks in Anacostia, DC in the 1980s, definitely the only white guy within a square mile. I'd inherited an six-unit apartment building down there from my uncle, who bought it in the 1920s. I decided I
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@keira_con I love Iceland. Kind, sensible, self-respecting people. Generous, but ready to protect their special home. Was fortunately to spend three months there at the onset of the pandemic in 2020. While the rest of the world was going insane, Iceland was calmly enjoying a temporary
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@MattWallace888 Every serious media outlet has covered the identity of the attacker. They're still unsure and contradictory on whether he arrived with his Rwandan immigrant mother as a child, or was born in the UK. Hardly matters. There's a lot of simmering resentment over mass African and
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@Rothmus Ferdinand Porsche was actually a decent, very talented fellow. You can certainly accuse him of doing what he needed to do to function as a top industrialist in Nazi Germany. Porsche complied with government war demands and Ferdinand himself kept friendly relations with Hitler.
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@godblesstoto X-Y chromosome pair in every cell. He's male, mentally ill, and an utterly revolting individual.
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@CedarPosts @UltraDane Actually that pic is AI 2024.
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@patcondell You are so right (as usual). Most rational observers saw it coming. There was simply no way someone like Rishi Sunak could defend your borders. Even if he was well-intentioned, which seems unlikely, he lacked the ability to do anything without the requisite political consensus to
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@Rothmus There was a show about 10 years ago called "Dead Like Me." I guess I was the only one watching it. It got cancelled after two seasons and and no one seems to remember it, but it was wickedly funny and insightful.
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@KaliaTheShep @marycatedelvey Actually she's gorgeous, talented, and worthy of a civics award for her efforts to reveal the truth. I'd also trust her with my children.
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@Henryz_mom The real issue is that the road is common space shared by self-interested people. You're interested in a safe, stress-free drive. Perfectly rational. Others are more interested in screeching their tires because they like the noise. Still others are late for work and must get
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@Rachael_ICU @BriannaWu @marycatedelvey True. Brianna is actually a source of intellectual sincerity, most of the time. This, however, is mockery.
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Man who identifies as a woman dances in heels for the first time.
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@TaylorRMarshall Actually, the Holy Father looks none too pleased.
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@SuspectFed Weird that so many people instantly blame the father. It would take any normal person a few seconds to process what was happening. An assault from a random woman on the street is really pretty rare.
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@Garnet4evr @delilahmused @Heatherthefair @marycatedelvey "Chromosomes don't determine sex." Virtually the entire world rejects you, and those that don't eventually will.
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@9mm_smg It was glorious.
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@eyeslasho Imagine a future historian analyzing a sentence like this: "Acknowledging the cultural diversity in sleep patterns and work schedules is another important step toward dismantling ... harmful stereotypes."
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@margohchanning @legaltweetz @marycatedelvey I think Mary Cate is a precious bundle of talent, wisdom & humor. Easy on the eyes, too.
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@Juchemyyk LOL. Ok, pornography in China is relatively rare. I'm good with that. But gambling & prostitution? Their "illegality" is utterly meaningless. Prostitution in China is much more blatant & entrenched than it is anywhere in the west. And last I checked, Macau is part of China.
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@RenOfMen Seems like you resent their youth and energy. The music is puerile & shallow, I agree, but the sweeping & derogatory conclusions you've drawn say a lot more about you than it does them. They seem healthy, happy and free.
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@eyeslasho Massive government spending can do that. It's a viable strategy. Of course, there are significant consequences.
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@9mm_smg I see things so differently: * Trump will win the election, Republicans will win both houses of Congress. * Woke/left-culturalism is in retreat even in blue parts of the country. * Transgender/gender fluid material is being driven out of the public schools. Again, this is
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@eyeslasho I was an NYT editor at a foreign bureau for awhile. Strange mix of talent and entitlement, with an astonishingly homogeneous worldview. Undoubtedly the best newspaper in the world, yet surprisingly blind to any number of critical trends. Ugly newsroom politics.
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@beinlibertarian Seat 1 without question. While we wouldn't agree on a single thing, she's pleasant enough & easy on the eyes. She's a talkbox, too, and probably has good stories you'll hear nowhere else.
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@realJennaEllis @TPC4USA I appreciate that point of view, but Dobbs itself was quite clearly crafted around state divergence. Until & unless there is a constitutional amendment specifically empowering the federal government, the Court sees the statehouse as the correct venue to arbitrate social policy. I
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@prayandfast2 Jesus is the only king required.
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@JebraFaushay "Crotch goblin." What a lovely sentiment.
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@Juchemyyk With hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign direct investment pouring in year after year.
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@ShaykhSulaiman He was expelled because he caused serious, unlawful disruptions that cost many students weeks of academic advancement. He had no right. These are bright kids who have worked hard to earn a spot at that university, while their parents spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars
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@JMPSimor And how is that hatred defined? If I say something like: "Sustained mass immigration will lead to significant demographic changes in Britain, including minority ethnic status for English, Scot, Irish and Welsh people." Am I breaking the law? Am I a purveyor of hatred? Do
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@Rachael_ICU @BriannaWu @marycatedelvey I'd also defend the sincerity of @marycatedelvey . Her clear-headed satire is invaluable. The fact that it is derived almost entirely from trans voices online gives it a lot of credibility. Her pleasant, feminine, snarky-but-diminutive camera presence is very effective. I was
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@HomeTalk_DIY Clickbait avoid.
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@9mm_smg your point is well taken --- except "no one talks about it." Maybe not in your world. I grew up hearing everything about the systematic rape by the Red Army. Every German knows about it in full detail, and for that matter so do the Poles & the Finns. Stalin gave his troops
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@JUSTcatmeme More information was delivered than I actually required.
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@CatholicCharm My word. I am also a extraordinary minister in my local county prison. My primary function is to share the rosary & its mysteries with inmates. What I never do is abuse the sacrament with which I have been entrusted. In eight years I have only given communion in the prison twice,
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@Ghostof1896 @Garnet4evr @marycatedelvey That sounds about right. There's an additional complication in a small fraction of those XXY people where the SRY gene on the y chromosome is damaged, thereby preventing male phenotypic expression. These people appear female. Otherwise, XXY people are Klinefelter males.
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@XVanFleet Honestly the woke phenomenon in the US — troubling as it is — is nothing like the Cultural Revolution. Equating the two is manipulative, and trivializes one of the greatest tragedies in human history, one from which China has never really recovered.
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@benappel It was a scathing &deliberate attack on transgendering children, lost on no one with a triple-digit IQ.
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@eyeslasho You didn't mention that a lot of those bachelor's degrees are from Indian Universities, which have widely divergent outcomes, and many of which are corrupted.
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@theafroaussie @DrewPavlou If you're talking about the 1992 bombing in Beunos Aires, it killed 85 people, mostly Jews, at a cultural center. Please explain how it was "enabled by Israeli weapons."
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@LPNational "Illegal activities." Subtle. I've been supporting Assange since the very early Wikileaks days. He would *never* be on board with you dismissing/defaming/trivializing Navalni like that, like you are Russian trolls or something.
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@9mm_smg If you think our Republicans are bad, look at how well the UK "Conservatives" dealt with immigration. Total betrayal. Brexit didn't help at all. Britain is a lot smaller than the US, so the impact is way more damaging. You'd think the Tories would have an interest in maintaining
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@reroutethe23 My F150 Supercab with an 8 ft bed hauls in hay, feed and water for my semi-feral security goats. They really like my truck, and so do I.
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@HippieReligious Babies in church have always been a "problem" for some, but it is a normal, healthy problem that afflicts thriving multi-generational Catholic communities, and therefore a problem I am very happy to live with. (There are cry rooms, though.)
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@WhyTank @soulkhan Actually, I'm not a fan of crazed theocrats of any sort, and I'm pretty careful not to pick sides when they start killing each other.
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@luinalaska Sorry you had that experience. Not every listing is ike that. Our Airbnb is a real full service, owner-occupied Bed & Breakfast in existence before Airbnb.
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@eyeslasho A pejorative term now nearly empty of meaning, after it was co-opted as a weapon by anti-intellectual faux conservatives. I still appreciate Chaya, but she's full-on MAGA straight-jacketed at this point, which has a tendency to erode integrity. BTW --- just bought my first-ever
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@HazelAppleyard_ Ok I'm just some rando on X, but I'd suggest taking a refreshing break rather than declaring your permanent departure. Go to Iceland or something for awhile. The "movement", by the way, is just an abstraction to describe what is really a cohesive disunion of people with roughly
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@marycatedelvey "Transition works by disrupting your endocrine system and critical thinking skills." The woman is a doggon genius ...
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@SteveStuWill Need to see the methodology before drawing any conclusions, of course. Suppose the average Turkish man visits 40 prostitutes ...
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@HazelAppleyard_ I like your feed, that's why I follow it. Don't understand why this person is angry or what she expects of you, and I don't really care, but I do hope you continue to produce thoughtful content on @HazelAppleyard_
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@MikeSington I dunno ... does seem like a sand bag from the journalist.
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@xbtGBH Just because a person interacts with Jews doesn't mean he is controlled by them. Give Vance the opportunity to lead for awhile before you draw conclusions.
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@PaulSkallas Some airport storefronts make very good money, especially in key international travel hubs like Dubai, Singapore, London and Hong Kong. At least once or twice a day, heavily monied individuals who don't mind paying the premium will drop a few thousand dollars in these places.
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@Mo20al00 @Serena_Partrick Male familial authority exists in Western tradition, too, although it's by no means universally recognized. What's fundamentally different from civic Islam in the West: male authority ceases outside the family, where women are (in theory, anyway) offered equal agency under the
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@9mm_smg As I didn't know the woman, my eulogy would have been a little less mean: "She was a gifted administrative functionary armed with billions of dollars in funds left entirely to her discretion. During Covid, her hitherto vaguely left-wing media worldview morphed into a robust
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@raymo_g While I'm not with his theocratic politics, he's right on immigration. What he needs to do now is, instead of speaking in vague terms of taking things to some unspoken "next level", is offer a transparent blueprint for immigration security that safeguards the constitution.
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@0xAlaric I don't get it. I'm a conservative. I have a large 19th century house that I love, in a small conservative town that i also love. I buy natural gas from the only supplier available. If I don't look for ways to maximise energy efficiency and conserve gas, I would pay enormous
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@MyriamFrancoisC Maybe flinging open the borders and importing massive communities of people inherently hostile to French civilization was a mistake.
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@ellegist Fresh raw milk from high-quality, properly fed cows is one of the very finest foods on earth.
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@_BlaineWilliams I'm a practicising Catholic, and I'm reasonably sure that Protestants are equally offended. Why wouldn't they be? Just because we are theologically distinct does not mean their faith is valueless. They are Christians, as we are.
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@9mm_smg "The Eternal Boomer."
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@eveforamerica @MattWallace888 Conclusive proof that there was no gas feed into the house, and that it was destroyed by Chinese Illuminati Jews wielding space lasers.
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@9mm_smg Those bobbies are always getting stoned.
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@XVanFleet To be fair, there have been other brief periods of open dissent in China among the ruling elite. In the 1980s and again (after Tiananmen) in the 1990s, the National People's Congress would frequently tally 20 or 30 votes in opposition to official legislation. There were actually
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@JoshPower80 @WSJ It's important not to dismiss, abandon or trivialize such people — that's why we have Trump in the first place. Remember Clinton's "deplorables?" Romney's "47 percent?" What ultimately became MAGA arose from legitimate working-class grievances against elitist assaults on their
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@BriannaWu I think if you spent a little more time analyzing "gender affirming care" and the industry that delivers it, you might think twice about a "long-term mission of securing gender affirming care". It is based on very dubious science laced with dubious ideology, and the backlash
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@ShaneSchaetzel We having a thriving Catholic community in central Pennsylvania. Descendants of Irish, German and Italian settlers. Even earlier, the French were here, although many of them were actually protestants.
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@SupremeCrusader I'm a practicing Catholic, but I was so smitten by Old Order Mennonite society that I sent my daughter to their community school for three years. It was a 19th century educational model, with all learning done at school (the Mennonite kids have hours of farm chores before and
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@Quidnam @dvorstone Of course it is entire possibly that the same girls could participate in both activities.
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@Burgess7281975 I wasn't raised Catholic at all & had no real concept of God, but I kept bumping into absurdly kind, generous, decent Catholic people who treated me a lot better than I deserved. First they invited me — 15 years old, penniless & estranged from my own family — to study French
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@Rob_ThaBuilder I'm pretty sure this is satire, a la MaryCate Delvey, the original AFAB trans girl.
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@KaliaTheShep @marycatedelvey You've reminded me that I have not subscribed to her channel. I will address that oversight immediately. I don't hate trans people. In fact I didn't give them a second thought until an utterly bizarre & obviously false gender ideology was suddenly thrust upon my children in
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@zarahussain999 Of course in the West, he is free to pick and choose what he likes in Islam and discard all backward, disgusting parts.
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@begbuggirl That's a stretch. You're basically saying that because the "TERF Elite" is trans-skeptic and trans-exclusionary, they thereby condone or ignore horrific violence against women. A manipulative stance, and obviously untrue. Trans people have every right to live & love freely,
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@HazelAppleyard_ Really, no. I've always found the idea of male gay sex repulsive. The actual physics of it are kind of disgusting, honestly. Not passing any moral judgments on it. It's just my honest feeling.
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@BriannaWu There are plenty of old-timers in the gay rights movement who are all for "LGB", but are re-thinking the whole "T" and "Q" thing. Gay normies are the ones who gained the most in recent decades and now stand to lose the most.
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@WhyTank @soulkhan The OP described Hamas and Hezbollah as "morally superior parties." Sorry, but that's absurd. Back when there was still a secular Palestinian resistance and an Israeli Left, it was easy enough for a western Christian to "ally" at least in in some basic sense with the Palestinian
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@XVanFleet I love your posts about Chinese history & your resourceful supply of compelling imagery. This one surprised me .... I would not have guessed that you would know or care about Zhang Dongsun, who was in truth a very interesting fellow, something like a utopian Social Democrat. His
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