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Actually fucking painful the amount of people I had this argument with, hate being vindicated in this way. It was never about the children, it's purely about hate.
It's never, ever about the children. Even abortion isn't about the children. Children are just a convenient and effective red herring.
If Republicans cared in the slightest about children, they would have done something after Sandy Hook other than make up conspiracy theories.
like the wise man said "if youre preborn youre fine. if youre preschool youre fucked."
That's a minority of people who aren't conservative so much as they are extremist. Just very vocal. On the other end of the spectrum, there are actual people who want to transition their toddlers. They are also very vocal.
But so now you have people leaning left judging everyone right of them by the most vocal extremists on the right side, and vice versa. And then the divide between left and right seems to widen, because in politics it's apparently law that every action be met with an even bolder counter action, so if you try and be neutral about any of this you'll lose your mind!
Can't you see that this isn't even about you versus me, both actually just very mildly distant in our ideals, but about you and me versus whoever is profiting over us spending the time to debate this in the first place?
I get this response a lot, but I also see a lot of those crazies online. There are actual people who do want to bring children into this. (Using them as scapegoats to push some third agenda is another topic.)
You're unworthy of civil discourse.
Thanks for your opinion. Please stop polluting my inbox if you have nothing of substance to add. Good day to you.
And what do you imagine such transition would entail?
Now now, they also care about them as soon as they're old enough to enlist in the military. But as soon as their service is over, fuck 'em again.
Or it's just transphobe fanfiction posted in hate forums.