Transmedicalism is the proposal that trans people are only legitimate if a medical professional says they are. It's saying that being trans is a condition to be treated, not an inherent part of someone's identity.

People like this also tend to say being trans is only valid if HRT and surgery are involved. The reality is someone is trans the moment they declare themselves trans. It's an individual's decision on whether or not they relate to a trans experience, and no medical screening is necessary to authorize them

The only example I can remember is on another instance, around a year ago maybe. It was a surprisingly civil conversation between a liberal and some hexbears about the Korean War. The liberal actually knew dates and names of specific documents, knew the names of people on either side, knew stuff about 1950s diplomacy. So i was impressed. There was also a surprising lack of portraying North Korea as a cartoonish dictatorship where haircuts are illegal.

The liberal still used a liberal framework though and was completely wrong. Any bare level scrutiny over the claims would reveal them as imperialist and racist, but it's possibly the only time I saw a liberal around here have at least the bare minimum of a presentable argument.

If "13 year old in jail for 2 weeks" doesn't radicalize someone I don't think much breath needs to be wasted on them. What the fuck are you talking about

I'd compare leftism in the west to more like a dormant virus that occasionally shows symptoms, but is quickly and ruthlessly addressed because the host is a hypochondriac. And there's no vaccine or treatment of the underlying cause, because capitalism is the cause. I'm a very firm believer that leftist movements spring up then spread very rapidly, like a pathogen or something. The masses can "activate" within weeks sometimes. Movements that begin as maybe 100 people can suddenly explode into hundreds of thousands in just a year, or less. At one point the communist party of China had dwindled down to what, 20 people? And then around 15 years later they had seized the whole country.

I think Porky knows this, that the really scary stuff is uncontrolled widespread spontaneous discontent that coalesces into something more concentrated. That's why they're less afraid of fascists, because fascists will gladly play by the liberal rules.

Also yes I'm comparing myself to a virus

"oh no all these people accidentally died by putting them in trains and concentration camps and they died from diseases and hunger. Us poor wittle Nazis tried to take care of them but it was just too hard and we didn't have enough food and medicine :((("

I've always hated this form of Holocaust denial the most. These people are trying to make murder only about explicitly shooting or gassing someone. They're denying any other form of death is a legitimate murder.

1. that's never going to happen, they're an explicitly genocidal party.

2. you vastly overestimate how much Democrats actually want to win and govern. They do not give a shit. If anything they make far more donor money when they're the underdogs than when they're winning.

3. i don't know where you've been for the past 50 years, but Democrats don't learn lessons. If they lose because a bunch of people withhold their votes over Gaza, then the Dems will simply blame the left like always. They did it in 2000, they did it in 2016, they were preemptively doing it in 2020 before they won.

Are you talking about the polls that show Trump winning Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas? Yeah those were foregone conclusions. Most national polls I see show Harris up 2% to 5% points. She's at least winning the popular vote, if the election were held today.

Yeah this is what it really is. The average American conservative has become so mentally deep fried that Trump comes across as quaint in comparison. He no longer hits the same for them. Or at least, they've gone so ass deep into trans panic and anti-wokeness that Trump's 2016 rhetoric just isn't doing it. He doesn't cater to the same cultural grievance politics that DeSantis and Vance try to lean into. I'm remembering that one time Charlie Kirk was interviewing Trump. He was trying to get Trump to say there's a widespread conspiracy on universities to censor conservative speakers, but Trump wasn't having it. He said stuff like "No they're doing great. Everyone loves me. The speakers get a lot of listeners." Just didn't play into it at all.

"I have the best transparent cubes, folks. Come join me in the Trump Cube."

Apparently based on the Republican Party's own rules the only way to replace the VP nomination at this point is death, serious illness, or if Vance voluntarily declines.

So in the funniest possible timeline the Republicans could break out the heart attack gun I guess

look at comrade diamond turds over here

some of us shit pure yoo-hoo and we like it that way

As a kid my dad gave me a manual on self-defense. The chapter on improvised weaponry suggested shitting your pants and flinging the turd at your assailant. It also suggested picking up a human-acclimated duck and throwing it.