This is literally what the civil war was fought over. Southern states making shitty laws and attempting to enforce them over the will of northern states. The south lost the first time, and they’ll lose again.
It was, but people don't just blow without a reason. It is usually a buildup problems until they are too much to take.
In this case, it had a lot to do with the underground railroad and slaves fleeing to the north. The South wanted those slaves back and threatened to split from the north if those slaves weren't returned. The north saw them as people and declined.
I feel like the reason the left doesn’t make a sport out of “triggering the right” is because they already live in reality, conservatives are triggered every time they wake up.
Also just like, it isn’t fun to make people angry for no reason. Either they’re a bigot or they’re an insane person. One I’m just going to piss off by living my life the way I want to and the other I’m more concerned about than anything. Making people angry just isn’t fun.
Though I will admit, I started listening to knowledge fight and listening to alex Jones does make me sorta get it.
What a pathetic piece of shit. The senator backed away stating “You’re attacking me.” After he was informed of the 8 YEAR OLDS gender. If you’re threatened by an 8 year olds presence you need to seriously reevaluate your life. Fucking shameful.
He’s not even thinking this through to a logical end. If this is legal (and I really doubt it is) wouldn’t that mean that Texans can be sued by anyone in a state with more restrictive gun laws if a gun sold in Texas ended up being used in a crime elsewhere? What about training? Ammunition?
It definitely is ethically, but I don’t know that every state has legal provisions that would protect it in the same way that something like a heart procedure would be.
Yeah, that’s pretty emblematic of how seriously most of the country’s politicians take mental health 😮💨
To the GOP ones like Paxton, it’s good for deflecting from the need for common sense gun control and for distortions to claim that everyone not exactly like them are unhinged, but when it comes to actually HELPING PEOPLE and by extension all of society (including their precious economy that overwhelmingly favor the rich and powerful such as themselves), they want nothing to do with it 🤬
I want to see the video. From everything I’ve heard the only people shot during this shooting was by the police. I want to see proof that she actually fired her gun and wasn’t just killed for having brown skin and holding a gun.
I’m getting The Surgery ™️ this coming summer, hoping I can stay ahead of the bigots’ increasingly cruel laws. Donate to relevant causes if you can, protest, if a bigot happens to put their face in the way of a brick that’s great too.
I have a bunch of extended family who are all insufferable and get way too personal when asking about my transness. I’m sick of it but I’ll always repeat my lived experiences to them because I know if I don’t they’ll get their understanding of the topics from people who want to see me dead.
In fact, one systematic review found that the average prevalence of surgical regret was 14.4% among all research studies analyzed
Holy shit that’s actually crazy to me. [I actually tracked down that number because I was so curious] (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…/s00268-017-3895-9) It’s over half cancer surgery. I’ve known that the regret rate for transition surgery was low for a long time, but that piece of context kinda blows my mind. You’re more likely to regret a variety of life saving procedures than gender affirming surgery, and it’s often by insane orders of magnitude.
Worth noting that particular subreddit appears to be pretty heavily astroturfed. To the point where some detransitioners created r/actualdetrans to get away from the TERFs.
Here’s one of the more recent meta analysis papers on it. When people who detransition are asked, the majority of the cite external factors like the ones here.
“Back in 1997, virtually no one had heard of queergender people. I couldn’t find a support system, and I couldn’t figure out how to tell people what I was.”
That would be a big discrepency. The denizens of /r/detrans generally post about contemporary detransitioning rather than detransitions from 25 years ago.
I’m sorry, but if you think that there aren’t huge portions of the trans population who have no support system, then it doesn’t really feel possible to have a meaningful discussion about this with you.
if you think that there aren’t huge portions of the trans population who have no support system
Huge portions of the trans population having no support system doesn’t imply that reasons for detransitioning will include not having a support system because the lack of a support system alters the likelihood of transitioning in the first place.
if you think that there aren’t huge portions of the trans population who have no support system, it doesn’t really feel possible to have a meaningful discussion about this with you
I don’t think that and it doesn’t make sense to assume or even suspect I do, given anything I’ve said. I’ve no idea why you’ve introduced this idea into the conversation.
And even if I were to think that, what you’ve said doesn’t invalidate what I said, which was that having seen /r/detrans, the reasons given seemed silly.
Clearly it is indeed not possible for us to have a meaningful discussion.
I’m not saying it implies that. I’m saying that trans people and established research both say that. Your minimal experience with one of the detrans subreddits is not more substantial of a source than first hand accounts and peer reviewed papers.
Did you spend substantial time in /r/detrans and /r/actualdetrans? Were you aware of drama around when that split happened? Discussed it in the other trans communities on the sites? Because right now, your comments make it seem like you’re a passerby who has popped into a trans community and tried to say that your interactions with one community known for astroturfing are more meaningful than decades of research.
It’s unlikely the people who detransition because of it would be active on a detrans subreddit, because they would still consider themselves trans, and would instead be in trans subreddits for support.
The three reasons the other commenter mentioned was taken from studies done on the subject.
Just a reminder for when you listen to people being presented as trans persons who regret their surgery:
Norma McCorvey - Jane Roe of Roe v Wade - was presented for decades as a devout Christian (evangelical and later Catholic) who regretted her decision. She was used as a prominent voice in the anti-abortion movement and in the attempts to overturn Roe.
She revealed on her deathbed that she was being paid to take that position. The narrative was also complicated by her 35 year relationship with Connie Gonzalez, later claiming that she was no longer a lesbian before confessing that she was paid to say that as well.
Also remember that when they call the child survivors of school shootings “paid actors,” it’s because that’s exactly the tactic they engage in.
But but but the folks from lemmygrad told me voting cant do anything against fascists and I shouldn’t waste my time and should organize a revolution instead.
Fuck the republicans, but if you’re only voting that’s not going to help you when these shitheads get to the point of dragging people out of their houses and disappearing them. All my girlfriends are getting strapped and organizing self-defense.
Hell yeah, love to hear it, i just wish my mental health was sound enough to let me stay strapped. Sold all my firearms after my father took his life. If you or your girlfriends ever have ideations, please leave your arms with a trusted comrade.
Some of the biggest hurdles are having to interact with the police to even get a license to carry. Plus it’s expensive. Plenty of people opt to just learn to shoot, borrowing from friends.
They lost every local campaign. Every school board race had some skinwalker cloaked as parental rights and my fairly progressive city saw right through them.
This. I am in a solidly blue district. 4 out of the 7 school board candidates, ALL of the non-incumbents, were running on some sort of "family values" or "parents' rights" platform. But their statements to media were highly scrubbed because they know to tread carefully and avoid the dog whistles. One of them unseated an incumbent (and the only POC in the group) yesterday. I'm glad the trend is going in the right direction nationally. But I wouldn't call for a victory lap just yet.
This is pretty consistent in conservative circles. There used to be (still is?) a lot of right-wing outrage regarding undocumented immigrants to the United States, insisting that they are a nexus of crime and a burden on the state, and yet, they actually pay more taxes per capita than the general population and have lower crime rates than the GP as well.
(The GOP doesn’t want to admit that the US likes undocumented immigrants specifically because they can be exploited as a cheap labor source, because usually it’s their own constituents doing the exploiting.)
So it’s not about sensibility or truth, it’s about alarmism and two minutes of hate to rile up their base to vote and keep them in office.
Conservatives also LOVE to forget that most developed nations rely on immigration to keep the population growth steady, which is what props up retirement and a growing economy, as well as the fact that poor immigrants are generally the people who end up doing the shitty jobs that natives don’t want to do but have to be done.
Kick the immigrants out, the economy collapses and there’s no one to clean your office, then complain that leopards ate your face!
Theirs is a dead worldview propped up by money and rage. And even drill it's slowly fading. They can see it, we all know.it, and they're mad about it. They're retreating from reality to cope. It's why they go on suicide shootings. It's nihilistic lashing out by people who know their time is over and can't handle it.
It is our standard procedure to place a staff member on leave when we review concerns shared with the campus
So you’re not claiming that there WERE any concerns shared by actual parents, you just put a teacher on leave because you happened to see some random tiktok by a domestic terrorist and reacted without any evidence? Oh wait, we’re talking about Texas so that’s probably exactly what happened.
That’s bigots for you. They’ll cut off and throw community members into the sacrificial fire for the sake of their panicked feelings, because treating people decently is just not one of their baseline values.
Right, and the child was removed from their care because they tried treating her eating disorder by sending her to a religious counselor to convince her she’s a boy.
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