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Yeah I agree Damaged. Also I don’t think the US is ready for an Asian president.

There is one I think anonymous source, The reputation of Hersh is spotty, especially the latter part of his career. Putin has taken this as truth and so have American isolationists that don't want to help Ukaine. It could be true but this is too important to accept as true with such thin verification.

The Magaheads want to Putinize America. Make LGBT invisible in schools. Now Russia has passed a low to expand to all society. This is how that starts. The American fascists need to be resisted before it's too late.

Florida Men doing their thing. It won't play nationally.

Too far from the grifter to be nominated. To close to the grifter to win in the general. Next ...

It's one of these fake issues the American fascist party promotes as important because they have no interest in addressing real problems.

Theater lovers.

The GOP is all about anti LGBT all the time. Just like Putin. Fascists think alike.

Give him the jets yesterday. Ukraine must win.

Not sure that there a strong basis for your optimism. The maga heads are passing different kinds of anti LGBT laws quickly in many states and also they're having success in erasing real history about black people, banning books etc. Overturning Roe v Wade wasn't enough for them. Now they seek national abortion bans. I'd say they're winning.

Yeah when the Nazis forbade Jews from using public transportation, they weren't attacking the Jews, they were just politely stopping them from taking rides. The transphobic right wing is all about attacking their targets. Am I saying American Maga is Nazi? No. But it is without doubt a fascist movement.

Well nothing like that. If that really happened, that's hilarious. Of course I've been taken for long ride detours by scam taxis. Didn't you look at the signs pointing to Bangkok? Well I did have one memorable disaster (before smart phones) in Bangkok. I was with a visiting friend and there we had a destination in mind. The driver took us all over town for well over an hour and it turned out the place was basically walking distance from where we started. Believe it or not, in this case, I really believed that the driver was incompetent plus language barrier rather than a scammer. If he was a scammer he deserves an Oscar.

I'm not buying it. The majority still support Russia in the war. The repression wouldn't have ever gotten this bad if they hadn't accepted Putin's deal. There was a window of opportunity in the 90s for Russia to not go in the direction that it did, and they blew it. I hold this to all countries including my own. All citizens are part of the picture even though most do nothing, and that is a big part of a lot of problems. There is a difference between responsibility and blame.

I'm not sure that Russia didn't deserve what happened to them. They accepted a deal with Putin to ignore politics as long as their material quality of life was improving. This is where it got them. Is there not at least some collective responsibility to that entire society? As far as the war, I think it might be apt to compartmentalize news like this. Of course the human tragedy, the pain of those killed or injured is just as real on the Russian side, the waste of life, the grief of their families. But the context is a war where Russia is the invading country. So as far as the war box goes, of course it's good if the enemy side suffers high casualties, even more so when like in this case, one side which is Russia is clearly the offending one.

Pretty predictable as the entire Maga movement (which dominates the right wing republican party trump or not) is decidedly hostile to scientists and experts and so called intellectual elites (often as code for antisemitism). Reminds me a bit of the Chinese cultural revolution. Let's put the dumbest people in charge and exile people that actually know stuff. I feel this maga thing is massively more socially dangerous than any excesses that so called "woke" may have, and of course, there are some excesses.

Orson Welles would love this.

Yes exactly. As I'm not a medical professional, I have wondered in what situations surgery would be appropriate before 18. The needs for hormones and puberty blockers for some selected people is obvious. For surgery, all I could think of are people born with ambiguous genitals who are declared a gender at birth and then it turns out the person doesn't think they are that gender at all! That would likely happen very early in such a child's life. I assume that in such cases surgery to make their genitals fit their gender identity would be a huge benefit to them socially and psychologically as they grow up. But hey, these right winger demogogues really don't care about these children. Let's make it all illegal! That'll make them a maga-rific winner.

Yes one of the most qualified men to ever serve as president. Thank God he beat the clown grifter.

Not a joke These maga fascists are criminalizing medically neccessary health care to a demonized minority just to get more votes. That is EVIL. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/symptoms-causes/syc-20475255 "Adolescents and adults with gender dysphoria without gender-affirming treatment might be at risk of thinking about or attempting suicide."

Typical transphobic response.

Bait ignored.

I will also add that NOT taking puberty blockers is an irreversible decision. Those trans people that do will have a great lifetime benefit for having done so before puberty . No politician fascist maga or otherwise should dictate such momentous decisions. Of course nobody is suggesting that medical and psychological screening isn't needed for such things.

The subject here is trans non binary etc. LGB people are generally cisgender and don't need gender affirming medical care. While it's true that the American right wing is usually but not always anti LGBTQ civil rights in general, trans, non binary, drag queens etc. have been selected by the republican bigots for extra special scapegoating.

Trans Americans suffer violence and murders at higher levels. The righr wing doesn't care. In fact they inflame it.

No way. These right wing laws all come from the American right wing party. Totally political.