Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 2/18/2025 5:57 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
 

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:47:53 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
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Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
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Putin is nothing like Hitler. He's got no enthusiasm for mass murder,
and there's no obvious evidence that he is zenophobic.

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Have you seen what he is doing to transgender people?  That is
zenophobia by another name and is an attempt to kill off a whole section
of the population by withdrawing needed medical treatment.   Medical
websites have been closed to prevent doctors treating their patients.
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American history is being re-written to erase anyone suspected of being
transgender.  Families with anyone transgender have been moving away
from certain states for some time, now a 'kindertransport'  organisation
has been set up to get transgender children and adults out of America
before the purges start in ernest.  It's not being publicised in the
gutter press, who are still printing transphobic rants, but it is
happening - in America - now.

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Subject close to your heart, is it?

 Very much so;  politicians driving children to suicide by banning their
health care is something we should all be concerned about.

The idea that a man who has the appearance of a woman could easily enter a woman's bathroom and engage in nefarious activities drives even some of my better-educated American relatives and associate into conniptions of hand wringing.
Somewhat amusingly the idea that a man who looks like a man could easily enter the same women's bathroom (or a man's bathroom, for that matter) and simply gun down everyone in there with a high-capacity semiautomatic weapon that he straightforwardly obtained at the high-capacity semiautomatic weapon store down the street, doesn't seem to cause near the same anxiety, despite it being a far more regular occurrence. The price of freedom..