Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 2/18/2025 9:09 PM, bitrex wrote:

On 2/18/2025 10:51 PM, Don Y wrote:

On 2/18/2025 8:06 PM, bitrex wrote:

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

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

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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.

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What's to stop a WOMAN (looking like a woman) from entering a woman's
bathroom and engaging in similar activities?
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As I said, elsewhere, there are people who are just obsessed with
living in fear and they will move from one "imagined threat" to another
with ease.
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Sad that we can't give them something to TRULY fear; perhaps a cancer
eating away at their internal organs, wondering what the next "6 month
checkup" will reveal...

 Why, hardship tends to just make the habitually cranky/fearful more cranky and fearful.

Let them turn their "fight" internally.  Something with tangible
loss potential!

"People die as they lived" is what an acquaintance who worked in palliative care once told me, and she'd been with hundreds of people when they died. I've only been with a couple but it seems to track.

Probably so.  Hard to imagine any "revelations" at the end of such a life.