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Watch the video.

This is only about the gay persecution part. Go elsewhere to discuss other parts. Trumps history is irrelevant. He used to be a democrat. Now he's a fascist. We need to deal with the here and now, clear and present danger. The video explains why this is NOT all talk. Did you even watch it?

This topic is not about such a narrow detail. I get it -- you're trying to cherry pick something to try to justify the overall Trumpist fascist stance to everything LGBT.

Well that's true. In history some of the most notorious persecutors of gays have been gay themselves. But historically those were deeply closeted gays. Gays for Trump and yes such fools exist are very out as gay so in a way sort of a newer phenom. Also yes of course Trump is very desperate to take power again in order to dodge prison, protect his fortune, and to indeed save his life. I don't see that he would do well in prison. Desperate people with nothing to lose are of course more dangerous.

It's funny (not ha ha type) how the Trumpist LGBT agenda is so similar to Putin's policy. Though Putin of course has gone much further. But keep in mind Putin started as the American right wingers did, with fear mongering about protecting kids in school, and then fairly quickly expanded to persecution of everything LGBT in ALL aspects of society. Totalitarian dictators / fascists whatever you want to call them always need scapegoats. In the Trump Putin nexus LGBT people especially trans are prominent in their scapegoating efforts though of course they are not the only groups being scapegoated.

No they live by politics in a democracy. I predict Israel will only enforce a border buffer zone within Gaza but the question is will it be big or small.

More toxic and dangerous than ever. Also, if you think this is only about trans people, you'd be sadly mistaken.

On October 7 Hamas baited Israel into the response they got INTENTIONALLY. Hamas wanted mass civilian casualties of their own people to use to gain international sympathy and gin up hatred of both Israel and Jews. So Hamas got what they wanted but I don’t think any country in Israel's position would have or should have responded very differently. At best they could have been more careful and sacrificed more IDF soldiers in exchange but there would still be mass civilian casualties and the PR victory for Hamas would be much the same.

Might be huh? You gave yourself away with that one.

Again your paranoid vision of all this ending with an Arab free Gaza is incredibly remote. Israel itself isn't even Arab free.

You're speculating only. Your assertion that Gaza will be Arab free is incredibly unlikely.

Yes he did.

Government officials say a lot of things. That doesn't mean it is actual policy. You have clearly said the intention is to make Gaza Arab free permanently. It's obvious that is almost definitely not going to happen.

What a disgusting ad hominem attack. First please leave your vile condescending dime store pop psychological analysis to yourself. Also I never said its not OK to be critical of Israeli government policies. I'm very critical myself especially of Netanyahu.

Yes not including those facts was a form of intentional misinformation.

So you're being a little more honest now. There is no current policy to have Gaza be Arab free (as Hamas policy IS a Jew free Gaza).

I think it is highly probable that marriage equality will soon become the law in Thailand. So premature congratulations to Thailand for being the first in Southeast Asia. It will be good policy, good politics, and good for the international soft power brand of Thailand.

That horrible song on TV does NOT prove in any way whatsoever that it is official Israel government policy to clear Gaza of all Palestinians! STOP LYING. You know, I kind of feel that the obsessive Israeli demonization brigade WISHES their worse accusations against Israel turn out to be true so that their hatred of Israel spreads even wider than it already has. As many have said including me, there are two wars. The war war and the propaganda war. Israel was always going to win the war war. But Hamas is winning the propaganda war. That was their aim all along. To wit: How the spectacle of Palestinian terrorism changed the world | The Hill You don’t need to be a terrorism expert to read the tea leaves about this. Hamas welcomes the high number of dead civilians to create international condemnation of Israel. That same calculus is at work when Hamas fires rockets from hospitals, schools and apartment buildings inviting devastating Israeli responses. The violence of the Palestinian cause is thus one the world seems to find consistent sympathy for, despite the utter barbarism of Hamas’s strategy and tactics. A far better approach would be to actively help the Palestinian people resist Hamas’s cynical strategy to use Israel to continually “keep Palestinians radicalized . . .

Another example of intellectually dishonest sleazy posting tactics. Yes some Israeli officials have said such horrible things. True. Instead you imply that means that is Israeli government policy. Those are two different things. It would be like take statements from American "politicians" like Marjorie Taylor Greene and asserting they represent actual U.S. government policy. I think it's legitimate to be very concerned that the most right wing forces in Israel will eventually prevail, but that again is very different than asserting that has already happened. I don't know and neither do you, but I do not expect that all of the Palestinian population will be removed from Gaza, any more than the 20 percent of Arab Israeli citizens will be removed from Israel. Please be more honest in your posting tactics and you might actually gain some credibility.

It's not rocket science.

Thoughts and prayers doesn't cost anything.

Bizarre.

Only for you.

Not if you know what you're doing.

Fake news. After 5 minutes he came back on stage to play more songs.