Yah, that's not going to go over very well with any of the libertarian types I know, that's for sure. Maybe this year the Greens will finally outperform the Libertarians nationally. Maybe.
It's fine. I go to the restroom with my trans friends all the time without a problem. That's why we have toilet stalls in public restrooms. It's called "privacy." No big deal.
We have Americans who think the Israelis are okay with ethnic cleansing Palestinians and have all sorts of anxiety/transphobia issues. Grow up and get a therapist to talk out your childhood problems, racists/transphobes.
That is a kneejerk reply and it's full of shit. I don't give a damn what people do to their own bodies after they are legal adults. I am staunchly opposed to transgender "therapy" for children, because they do not have the maturity to get a drivers license or to vote, much less to decide on invasive surgery and hormones and very profitable "medical" treatment for the rest of their lives.
And who said anything about bathrooms? Nobody cares about gender neutral bathrooms, but boys in girls' showers? There have been couple of assaults by transgirls on girls, just as I knew would happen when all this bullshit started.
The whole transgender movement is a Parasitic Class-approved grift. All those gay organizations fighting so long and hard for the right for gays to marry won, so they had to find another reason to continue to exist, so they came up with this trans nonsense.
There is no mass hysteria about trans people in general. There is revulsion at classifying psychologically distressed children as trans and then signing them up for a lifetime of very profitable medical treatment and, let's be honest here, experimentation. There's also disgust at biological men saying they are women so they can win at a sport they have no chance in against other men.
Whatever happened to not letting big, bad men dominate women, anyway? When did that become acceptable? Oh, that's right, when transwomen started dominating women's sports!
Transgender "therapy" for children is being rolled back throughout Europe because it does far more harm than good in the large majority of cases. The only reason that's not happening in the US is that we have a for-profit medical system.
Thanks for the laugh, though. The entire trans movement IS identity politics taken to a ridiculous extreme. It's an artificially created fad, pushed by LGBT NGOs searching for a reason to exist after gay marriage and equality became a thing, and financed by Big Pharma for profit and billionaires to keep us divided against each other.
It's also doomed. Men crying about not being allowed to use the women's restroom seem pretty pathetic compared to what's going on in Palestine, too. Another nail in the coffin of a Very Bad Idea.
Let's do away with trans and just bring back cross-dressers, shall we?
Well, I ain't any of those people. I don't care what people do to their own bodies after they are adults, but I draw the line at children, who can't even legally sign a contract, for very good reasons.
People have the right to identify however they want, but they do not have the right to use that identity to cheat at sports or to take disturbed children away from their parents. Both of these things have happened a lot.
Fortunately, that's going to stop. The majority will win this little debate.
Agreed. We now have men claiming to be female being transferred from men's prisons to women's prisons and -- predictably -- raping female inmates.
Men competing as girls/women in high school and collegiate sports has robbed women of their Title IX rights.
I am a retired psychotherapist who worked over 25 years in inpatient, outpatient, day treatment and residential programs both rural and urban and most of that with adolescents and young adults. I worked with literally thousands of clients and their families. In that time I had two -- TWO -- clients identify as transgender, and both of them had severe psychiatric issues.
It used to be that clients would need 2-3 years of therapy before any medical transition procedures. Now, in many programs it is two SESSIONS.
Are there genuine transgender people, Yes, and they need to be treated with respect, but what is happening now is totally different. There is some kind of psychological contagion effect in process that is social, not medical. Unfortunately, our society does not have the maturity to address's it correctly.
Current "affirmative care" standards is malpractice, a fraud and betrayal of clients. There is a reason trans clinics are being shut down in Europe.
In the meantime if some purple-haired dude in a dress comes swaggering out of a bathroom my granddaughter is in, there's gonna be a problem.
Thank you for that fact-filled reply. The "psychological contagion" you speak of is nothing more, nor less, than a very well-financed fad designed to divide and distract people, and it has worked brilliantly in that respect.
Communal bathrooms have baffled me since I was 5 years old. My bathroom at home was one toilet per door, and I saw no reason to design others any differently. Airplanes and buses can do stalls, and dressing rooms have stalls. This whole thing is so fucking stupid. People are not ants. The only thing that should be communal is mass public transportation.
That's a rational position. The Romans certainly never thought of anything but communal bathrooms. This culture, however, developed differently and most people are used to men's and women's restrooms. There's nothing wrong with that setup, either.
What is wrong is men claiming they're women so they can dominate them in their previously safe spaces, and that HAS happened. The reaction against it was completely predictable, and in my case, predicted.
Well I mean rome was long enough ago to have compelling material reasons for communal shitting, similar to the military reasons. We're well past that. And yeah, there have been assaults, but the real cause isn't co-ed bathrooms, it's the trans process itself. We accepted for decades that steroid abuse causes roid rage. What is roid rage? Loss of impulse control coupled with strong artificial emotions. I'm 100% sure roid lust is a thing too, it just had other outlets or didn't make the news because it wasn't new. Western civ is incapable of being rational on sex issues. We're too objectively puritanical. And I mean that as stated, not as a proxy for prudish. It's entirely possible to be puritanical and crass at the same time. Indeed, they are two sides of the same coin in my view. Suppression leads to extremity. But just add it to the list of basic things we lie about, it's as long as my arm by now.
Agreed. I voted for her in ‘16 and likely will again, but I’ve lost much faith/trust/hope in the Greens. Hell, I don’t have any of those feelings for politics at all. 🤷🏻♂️
That feels diplomatic. I'm not trying to be confrontational but you're developing a bit of a platform here so I want to know. Do you actually think people in washington set policy? If so, how do you answer the Princeton study? To me it's quite obvious that "government" policy is 100% banker will, and has been at least since Citigroup chose Obama's entire cabinet by email. To me this is not hyperbolic, it's objective fact. Do you disagree even 1%? Is so, how so, and explain it for me please. For absolute clarity, I believe elections in America are as impactful to policy as I am. Which is to say, not at all. Literally zero. Statistically insignificant.
I know what you mean, BUT the German Greens have become big pro NATO, pro war globalists. Considering Germany is the origin of the Green Party, it's something to keep an eye on IMO.
The German Greens are insane. American Greens say they're not like that, but I haven't kept an eye on them because I have seen a grand total of one local Green Party candidate in my life.
Brisaeis? The Trojan princess? Now that's a cool handle.
To tell you the truth, I also agree with Jimmy Dore on the Greens. I did before he felt that way because of my own personal experiences with them, but I'm not going to bash anyone for voting for them.
I WILL say there's no point in any working class person investing their time and money on the Greens.
As I've said a lot, we can't just vote ourselves out of this mess we're in, and the Greens are, let's face it, permitted opposition.
It's a shame being a libertarian became associated with being a pro-capitalist pervert, it could have been so much more. Anyway I am the opposite of the Mises camp, critical of capitalism and a social conservative. Or at least a social conservative by today's standards where people like William Burroughs would be dismissed for being a white male.
A few fun facts. Plus : "None of the Above", rules the day...
You ask ten different Libertarians what it means to be a Libertarian, you will get ten different answers.
You ask ten different Marxist what it means to be a Marxist, you will get ten different answers.
You ask ten different Capitalist what it means to be a Capitalist, you will get ten different answers..
You ask ten different Religious Scholars about a section in the Bible, you will get ten different answers.
Now, you individually ask Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama about a particular subject or event, you will get more answers than you know what to do with, all depending on how they a feeling at the moment. Go figure!
But, we can figure/agree on this: The world is on fire, and none of these people have a fire hose to put is out with.
I agree 100 percent with Zolani Mkiva, the South African MP who says that we should 'derecognise' Israel when recognizing the state of Palestine. In fact, I think it is a prerequisite. This will undo the great mistake the world made in 1948. Israel has been nothing but trouble in the world since and this has cost oh so many lives. As things stand, it is possible that the whole edifice of international law we have (such as it is) is likely to be shredded because of Israel and the US (another rogue state).
I do have a question for the people of the US; Do you have, in this day and age, anyone like Paul Revere ? You're going to need him !!
God, if only Boeing bombs and missiles raining down on refugee families huddled in tents had the same quality control standards as Boeing passenger aircraft.
And as for: "Democrats, this is not the way to win votes."
My understanding is that South sent North some propaganda leaflets, so North waited for the wind to change and sent back some literal trash.
Ha! Who says Kim has no sense of humor? Well, of course he does. He met with Trump, didn't he?
I was shocked to see this from Chase Oliver (@ChaseForLiberty) today, though it's from a year ago:
"Cisgender girls have nothing to fear from a trans peer needing to pee."
I don't want my 17 year old daughter, or my wife, subjected to that.
https://x.com/chaseforliberty/status/1638164919425155073?s=12
Yah, that's not going to go over very well with any of the libertarian types I know, that's for sure. Maybe this year the Greens will finally outperform the Libertarians nationally. Maybe.
I'm of the mind to tell these "woke" people to get some serious therapy and deal with the dicks they were born with.
It's fine. I go to the restroom with my trans friends all the time without a problem. That's why we have toilet stalls in public restrooms. It's called "privacy." No big deal.
We have Americans who think the Israelis are okay with ethnic cleansing Palestinians and have all sorts of anxiety/transphobia issues. Grow up and get a therapist to talk out your childhood problems, racists/transphobes.
That is a kneejerk reply and it's full of shit. I don't give a damn what people do to their own bodies after they are legal adults. I am staunchly opposed to transgender "therapy" for children, because they do not have the maturity to get a drivers license or to vote, much less to decide on invasive surgery and hormones and very profitable "medical" treatment for the rest of their lives.
And who said anything about bathrooms? Nobody cares about gender neutral bathrooms, but boys in girls' showers? There have been couple of assaults by transgirls on girls, just as I knew would happen when all this bullshit started.
The whole transgender movement is a Parasitic Class-approved grift. All those gay organizations fighting so long and hard for the right for gays to marry won, so they had to find another reason to continue to exist, so they came up with this trans nonsense.
The grift must flow. Don't flow away with it.
There is no mass hysteria about trans people in general. There is revulsion at classifying psychologically distressed children as trans and then signing them up for a lifetime of very profitable medical treatment and, let's be honest here, experimentation. There's also disgust at biological men saying they are women so they can win at a sport they have no chance in against other men.
Whatever happened to not letting big, bad men dominate women, anyway? When did that become acceptable? Oh, that's right, when transwomen started dominating women's sports!
Transgender "therapy" for children is being rolled back throughout Europe because it does far more harm than good in the large majority of cases. The only reason that's not happening in the US is that we have a for-profit medical system.
Thanks for the laugh, though. The entire trans movement IS identity politics taken to a ridiculous extreme. It's an artificially created fad, pushed by LGBT NGOs searching for a reason to exist after gay marriage and equality became a thing, and financed by Big Pharma for profit and billionaires to keep us divided against each other.
It's also doomed. Men crying about not being allowed to use the women's restroom seem pretty pathetic compared to what's going on in Palestine, too. Another nail in the coffin of a Very Bad Idea.
Let's do away with trans and just bring back cross-dressers, shall we?
Well, I ain't any of those people. I don't care what people do to their own bodies after they are adults, but I draw the line at children, who can't even legally sign a contract, for very good reasons.
People have the right to identify however they want, but they do not have the right to use that identity to cheat at sports or to take disturbed children away from their parents. Both of these things have happened a lot.
Fortunately, that's going to stop. The majority will win this little debate.
Agreed. We now have men claiming to be female being transferred from men's prisons to women's prisons and -- predictably -- raping female inmates.
Men competing as girls/women in high school and collegiate sports has robbed women of their Title IX rights.
I am a retired psychotherapist who worked over 25 years in inpatient, outpatient, day treatment and residential programs both rural and urban and most of that with adolescents and young adults. I worked with literally thousands of clients and their families. In that time I had two -- TWO -- clients identify as transgender, and both of them had severe psychiatric issues.
It used to be that clients would need 2-3 years of therapy before any medical transition procedures. Now, in many programs it is two SESSIONS.
Are there genuine transgender people, Yes, and they need to be treated with respect, but what is happening now is totally different. There is some kind of psychological contagion effect in process that is social, not medical. Unfortunately, our society does not have the maturity to address's it correctly.
Current "affirmative care" standards is malpractice, a fraud and betrayal of clients. There is a reason trans clinics are being shut down in Europe.
In the meantime if some purple-haired dude in a dress comes swaggering out of a bathroom my granddaughter is in, there's gonna be a problem.
Thank you for that fact-filled reply. The "psychological contagion" you speak of is nothing more, nor less, than a very well-financed fad designed to divide and distract people, and it has worked brilliantly in that respect.
It also makes certain elements of the corporate medical industrial complex a lot of money. It is so cynical, dangerous and abusive.
Communal bathrooms have baffled me since I was 5 years old. My bathroom at home was one toilet per door, and I saw no reason to design others any differently. Airplanes and buses can do stalls, and dressing rooms have stalls. This whole thing is so fucking stupid. People are not ants. The only thing that should be communal is mass public transportation.
That's a rational position. The Romans certainly never thought of anything but communal bathrooms. This culture, however, developed differently and most people are used to men's and women's restrooms. There's nothing wrong with that setup, either.
What is wrong is men claiming they're women so they can dominate them in their previously safe spaces, and that HAS happened. The reaction against it was completely predictable, and in my case, predicted.
Well I mean rome was long enough ago to have compelling material reasons for communal shitting, similar to the military reasons. We're well past that. And yeah, there have been assaults, but the real cause isn't co-ed bathrooms, it's the trans process itself. We accepted for decades that steroid abuse causes roid rage. What is roid rage? Loss of impulse control coupled with strong artificial emotions. I'm 100% sure roid lust is a thing too, it just had other outlets or didn't make the news because it wasn't new. Western civ is incapable of being rational on sex issues. We're too objectively puritanical. And I mean that as stated, not as a proxy for prudish. It's entirely possible to be puritanical and crass at the same time. Indeed, they are two sides of the same coin in my view. Suppression leads to extremity. But just add it to the list of basic things we lie about, it's as long as my arm by now.
Damn. There are slim pickings for the presidential election. Add another to the list of “no’s”!
The last one standing, on a crutch but still standing, is Jill Stein.
Agreed. I voted for her in ‘16 and likely will again, but I’ve lost much faith/trust/hope in the Greens. Hell, I don’t have any of those feelings for politics at all. 🤷🏻♂️
Agreed. That's why I used the crutch metaphor. Perhaps I really will write Cthulhu in this year.
You really might as well. You don't really think we have elections do you? https://innomen.substack.com/p/we-dont-have-a-government
Not elections that are difficult to rig, anyway.
That feels diplomatic. I'm not trying to be confrontational but you're developing a bit of a platform here so I want to know. Do you actually think people in washington set policy? If so, how do you answer the Princeton study? To me it's quite obvious that "government" policy is 100% banker will, and has been at least since Citigroup chose Obama's entire cabinet by email. To me this is not hyperbolic, it's objective fact. Do you disagree even 1%? Is so, how so, and explain it for me please. For absolute clarity, I believe elections in America are as impactful to policy as I am. Which is to say, not at all. Literally zero. Statistically insignificant.
I know what you mean, BUT the German Greens have become big pro NATO, pro war globalists. Considering Germany is the origin of the Green Party, it's something to keep an eye on IMO.
The German Greens are insane. American Greens say they're not like that, but I haven't kept an eye on them because I have seen a grand total of one local Green Party candidate in my life.
Unfortunately I agree with Jimmy Dore when it comes to Jill Stein.
Brisaeis? The Trojan princess? Now that's a cool handle.
To tell you the truth, I also agree with Jimmy Dore on the Greens. I did before he felt that way because of my own personal experiences with them, but I'm not going to bash anyone for voting for them.
I WILL say there's no point in any working class person investing their time and money on the Greens.
As I've said a lot, we can't just vote ourselves out of this mess we're in, and the Greens are, let's face it, permitted opposition.
Pont du Gard photo you showed. Has not been carrying water for decades. I live very near. But it is an amazing structure.
Thank you. I was trying for the one in Spain that still works and picked the wrong one. But it's STILL there, isn't it?
fun and uplift
It's a shame being a libertarian became associated with being a pro-capitalist pervert, it could have been so much more. Anyway I am the opposite of the Mises camp, critical of capitalism and a social conservative. Or at least a social conservative by today's standards where people like William Burroughs would be dismissed for being a white male.
The minute they stole the election from Ron, libertarianism died. It's a Ayn Rand LARP now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRt8Lbk5eY
I should have realized then and there we don't have elections.
Ayn Rand...a contemptible person with a contemptible fantasy masquerading as a philosophy.
Right? It's so awful. Did you see any of Adam Curtis' work? Ayn Rand is often featured. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(TV_series)
A few fun facts. Plus : "None of the Above", rules the day...
You ask ten different Libertarians what it means to be a Libertarian, you will get ten different answers.
You ask ten different Marxist what it means to be a Marxist, you will get ten different answers.
You ask ten different Capitalist what it means to be a Capitalist, you will get ten different answers..
You ask ten different Religious Scholars about a section in the Bible, you will get ten different answers.
Now, you individually ask Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama about a particular subject or event, you will get more answers than you know what to do with, all depending on how they a feeling at the moment. Go figure!
But, we can figure/agree on this: The world is on fire, and none of these people have a fire hose to put is out with.
Oh no! Not tomato tariffs…. I love tomato sauce and making my own salsa (sigh).
Cats gotta cat!
Next time we are told there's a "Chinese spy balloon" overhead, I'll be thinking about those North Korean balloons. Pretty clever stunt there.
I agree 100 percent with Zolani Mkiva, the South African MP who says that we should 'derecognise' Israel when recognizing the state of Palestine. In fact, I think it is a prerequisite. This will undo the great mistake the world made in 1948. Israel has been nothing but trouble in the world since and this has cost oh so many lives. As things stand, it is possible that the whole edifice of international law we have (such as it is) is likely to be shredded because of Israel and the US (another rogue state).
I do have a question for the people of the US; Do you have, in this day and age, anyone like Paul Revere ? You're going to need him !!
God, if only Boeing bombs and missiles raining down on refugee families huddled in tents had the same quality control standards as Boeing passenger aircraft.
And as for: "Democrats, this is not the way to win votes."
Nobody does the worst better.