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[–] w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago
[–] AnalogHole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Trans people existing is subversive because it is an extremely high expression of freedom and challenges fundamental concepts about our world. If someone can change their gender, what else can we change? Capitalism? Politicians?

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nah. They're just a boogeyman conservatives use to scare WASPs. If it wasn't them it'd be some other group

[–] AnalogHole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Hard disagree. The Nazis did it too and they already had their boogeypeople. Its about control.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like trans people are an indicator species.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

One has to make the case for gay sex. It literally causes ZERO unwanted pregnancies. So as a Cis male perhaps I should do another gentleman in the name of Jesus Christ? And incredibly enough, no abortions either. Hopefully everyone walks away all the happier.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Religious people want pregnancies, they are always going on about birth rates as if humanity is about to go extinct 😅 Although that's a racist thing too (they worry that people from other religions have more children and thus change the religious balance).

It's also the reason they are so against abortions really. More births, wanted or not is a secondary concern.

As an atheist I find all this very tiring and sex is just for fun for me, but they love putting all these arbitrary rules upon themselves.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Sex and ... rules.. can be fun... ;)

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Well yes if you make your own rules 😈 or someone makes them just for you 🐕‍🦺

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 11 points 14 hours ago

Jesus that man looks like he was invited to NO parties and he is going to attack the people he thinks are responsible for that.

[–] grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

"Terrorizing people now counter-terrorism."

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 32 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Counterterrorism used to mean stopping crazies from blowing shit up or killing innocent people in the United States. Now it means targeting minorities. Which gives actual terrorists free reign to attack on US soil.

Even if Trump is a Russian agent he couldn't do more damage than he's already doing.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 31 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

It's like Nazism and McCarthyism fucked and had a creepy, evil, disgusting baby.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

That's what incest tends to produce.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Or you know, just Nazism. Trans people were some of the first victims in the Holocaust.

[–] katkit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Berlin of the 20s was probably the most liberal place for queer people in the west. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and wrote the first paper on trans identities, gave people counseling, hormones and recommended surgeons.

He was able to decriminalise homosexuality and have trans people allowed to present "sex non-conforming" in public if they had a slip from him.

The Nazis used this for culture wars and promise a return to the golden time of tradition and morality.

His institute was raided in the first book burning, thousand of scientific papers are lost forever, his patients hunted down. He managed to flee to France.

It's important to treat his persona critically though, because as a scientist of his time, he also adopted some problematic stances on eugenics and racial teachings. On the other hand, he was also one of the few that criticised the rigor of the science behind those teachings from time to time.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

On our way to a more, well, final solution.

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

I am not afraid of these halfwit child-raping traitors, and you shouldn't be either.

Are they gonna try? Yep. They will definitely fuck around and then, they will definitely find out.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago (14 children)

Remember when people prioritized genocide on the other side of the planet and now they're going to get it right here at home?

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 18 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

One side wanted a two state solution the other side wanted to bulldoze Gaza. The intellectually lazy said 'they're both the same' and sat out with a smug simle on their faces.

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