The All Things Political Topic - In politics stupidity is not a handicap

[Lexx]

Was the website hacked or is this actually real?

/Edit: 10 seconds on Google finds this https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-transgender-mice-medical-research-1235289439/

Edited Wednesday at 10:14 PM by Lexx

[Malcador]

2 hours ago, Lexx said:

Was the website hacked or is this actually real?

Seems real enough. 

Considering who the Comm. Director is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_(political_advisor)  it isn't surprising. 

 

 

[ShadySands]

I still don't understand the right's obsession with trans people. Bunch of Mark Robinsons.

Ctrl+F trans level of effort

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

1 hour ago, ShadySands said:

I still don't understand the right's obsession with trans people.

You know, I really got nothing. I mean I can see how on a tactical level they'd go for the weak link and all that, but even taking that into account these people are genuinely obsessed with teh transgoinders in a way that makes Captain Ahab look chill. Probably something with (social) media brainrot and covid making them very weird and dumb.

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3 hours ago, ShadySands said:

I still don't understand the right's obsession with trans people. Bunch of Mark Robinsons.

Ctrl+F trans level of effort

 

whenever this kind of obsession happen

it is almost always related to some kind of fetish

 

[bugarup]

This is a parody website, right?

 

...parody website, right?

[majestic]

5 hours ago, bugarup said:

This is a parody website, right?

 

...parody website, right?

No, just proof that the average American is even dumber than our stereotypes make them out to be.  

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46 minutes ago, majestic said:

No, just proof that the average American is even dumber than our stereotypes make them out to be.  

 

most thought all the funny florida news are exceptional stupidity among usa

last 10 year prove they are average

[HoonDing]

Enola Gay is DEI!

Everytime something new from the Nottheonion administration.

[Malcador]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/world/canada/trump-trudeau-canada-51st-state.html

Had forgotten him talking about the border treaty not being legitimate

[majestic]

On 3/6/2025 at 5:50 AM, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

You know, I really got nothing. I mean I can see how on a tactical level they'd go for the weak link and all that, but even taking that into account these people are genuinely obsessed with teh transgoinders in a way that makes Captain Ahab look chill. Probably something with (social) media brainrot and covid making them very weird and dumb.

Andrea Dworkin might have been onto something when she said the right wing conservatives (men and women alike) define womanhood through the ability to whelp. Since trans women are by definition unable to do so, they're basically a threat to the definition of womanhood, and through that, women - wich means for the conservative men that they threatened their women, who no one else is allowed to threaten their women but themselves.

That's a bit like why conservative Christians dislike Muslims even though they basically want the same thing: for the womanfolk to stay at home to cook, whelp and rear their children. Since they cannot deal with the cognitive dissonance, they don't even notice or double down on their viewpoints. Hilariously exemplified in one of the interviews I saw with an avid MAGA cultist who stated, on camera, that he's with President Trump on the Muslim ban, because Muslims don't respect American women. All the while wearing a t-shirt with Hillary Clinton's likeness on it, reading: TRUMP THAT BITCH.

Meanwhile anti-trans thought also finds purchase in feminist circles because they're seen as men threatening what they fought for. This is history repeating itself insofar as feminists originally tried to exclude lesbians because they were seen as a bunch of butch dykes and feminists did not want women who look and behave more like men than women to be part of their group. Ultimately, even modern feminists still struggle to define womanhood outside of what tradition dictates. Sure, the more radical elements have their girl bosses, which are basically women who adopted toxic masculinity, which is an incredibly self-defeating solution for a movement of a gender suffering immensely from toxic masculinity, hence the rise of various counter-definitions (including the tradwife, which loops neatly back to traditional role models).

Then you have, of course, the elements who chafe under homophobia no longer being acceptable in modern society and simply supplanted theirs with transphobia. That is why you get exactly the same arguments against transgenders as there were against homosexuals (and lesbians). Verbatim, even, at times. They make all our children gay when they're allowed to teach. They pollute the children's minds, making them want to transition. Now that we have accepted homosexuality, there's suddenly so many of them. Now that transgenderism gains acceptance, people identifying transgender suddenly tripled.

Now you might want to say: but, but, but @majestic, you only talked about trans women, what about the trans men? Yeah, what about them. They get caught in all the negativity and anti-trans legislation, but let's be real, it's the trans women who are the targets. They tickle fears of being trapped in conservative men, they are visible reminders of the self-loathing of conservative men who wank to shemale porn and are ashamed of it, they're seen as a threat for women and they're the targets of feminists who see them as encroaching on what little they can agree on that defines a woman, and by extension, that also garners the attention of the moderates. I mean, honestly, if a lot of well known women like J.K. Rowling think that trans women are just men wanting access to women's toilets and locker rooms to rape them, there just might be something to it, no?

Meanwhile the trans men, they're seen as what? Taking the girl boss a little too far? At worst, they're targets of more radical feminists who see them as traitors to their gender. 

Edited 18 hours ago by majestic

[ShadySands]

2 hours ago, majestic said:

I mean, honestly, if a lot of well known women like J.K. Rowling think that trans women are just men wanting access to women's toilets and locker rooms to rape them, there just might be something to it, no?

You know, the sign on the bathroom door is the only thing that keeps us safe from rape and murder.

[Bartimaeus]

Why don't the women who are scared of rape and murder simply declare themselves to be transgender men? Problem solved.

Edited Friday at 09:08 PM by Bartimaeus
oh god I can't believe I actually posted this

[Lexx]

Then they get murdered on the streets for being transgender.

[Bartimaeus]

Apropos of nothing, if Canada were made into the 51st state, its population is the same as California's and could prevent us from having a Republican president for a long while. Please come save us, Canada.

[Lexx]

All the terrible stuff from america would then wash over to canada. This is a really bad idea.

[Malcador]

1 hour ago, Bartimaeus said:

Apropos of nothing, if Canada were made into the 51st state, its population is the same as California's and could prevent us from having a Republican president for a long while. Please come save us, Canada.

We'd have to be 13 states, so 26 new Senators and maybe 50 new Representatives ?

 

[Hurlshort]

3 hours ago, Lexx said:

All the terrible stuff from america would then wash over to canada. This is a really bad idea.

I think the whole idea is silly, but I don't know what you mean by this. Canada isn't actually all that different than the different states of the US. Culturally there just isn't much to distinguish the two from one another. I mean, I guess hockey is bigger than football. But really, each state in the US is already fairly unique, so adding Canada to that (or 13 new states) would hardly move the needle. 

Health care was probably the big advantage Canada had on a federal level, but that has apparently changed in the last decade+.