charlessurface.bsky.social
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Oh what a shame.
He could just have taken the money and gone off into obscurity, but now this link will (deservedly) persist forever.
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Thankyou. That means a lot. Rational brain knows you're right, but if rational brain were always in charge I wouldn't need the medication! ;-)
Mainlining Angie McMahon helps. Just in case you're not familiar:
youtu.be/rOlWHb-ta3c?...
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This is it. This week's just been keeping going and getting through it. I stopped SSRIs a month ago but admitted defeat on Monday. So not only badly slept and strung out but also feeling like a bit of a failure.
Still. Keep buggering on.
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Do you even London, bro?
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Under the UN?
So Russia gets a veto when it invades Sweden?
China when it invades Taiwan?
Not sure how that works.
The UN is already a 'force for resolving world conflicts', it's just deeply ineffective at the sharp end.
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And of course you can add the vast majority of education and a good chunk of health spending to that.
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Is there ever a question that asks about support for more spending if tax increases to pay for it?
i.e. would you support a U-turn on PIP if it cost you x% extra in tax?
Because even fairly left wing people on here just seem to wave vaguely at 'the rich' rather than argue that.
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I was also born in 1981.
I therefore remember coming into Waterloo in the late 80s/early.90s and exiting through 'cardboard city'.
There's an IMAX there now - is that really 'so over'?
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Also - same birth year as me. It's just made me feel *very* young to recognise his opinions are at least a couple of decades older than mine.
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🇺🇸?
What language is that then?
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Because it is. Cross sex hormones remove peoples' ability to reproduce... which is sterilisation.
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That's not the claim though. You need a better straw man and you'd still be wrong.
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Reviewed by Dr Hilary Cass and found not to support the prescription of puberty blockers. Similar reviews done in France, Sweden and the Netherlands (funnily enough where this started) came to the same conclusion.
Humans are animals like any other mammal. We don't change sex. We don't have souls.
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You can just say Jews.
We know it's what you mean.
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Really disappointing Humanists should go with this line. Materially, objectively, a female child is female.
To believe they 'really are' male requires a belief in the metaphysical, a supernatural gender essence, subjective and unfalsifiable.
That's not meant to be what Humanists believe in.
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I'm sure you can't.
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I'm almost verbatim repeating your conspiracy theory to you.
I agree it's gibberish.
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This *is* saying 'someone' controls UK politics, or the Labour Party at the very least.
So the 'gullible Jews' are the ones in Israel, whereas some Jews in the UK are the powerful ones who control the Labour leadership (but on behalf of the gullible ones in Israel), is that what you're saying?
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Wait, are the Jews 'gullible' or do they control Western governments, like you claim they do Starmer?
Your racism is hard to keep up with.
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You know why Israel was founded, yes?
It's not like the others. And unlike the others, British and American people haven't been attacked for millennia because of their ethnicity.
Israel's actions today are reprehensible. Netanyahu is a war criminal.
Israel remains essential.
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And?
Do you not think Israel should exist?
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For an interview about housing?
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He's a Housing Minister! Why ask the question in the first place - what could he actually usefully say, even if he was fully briefed?
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Where is this manifesto?!
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Dr Jane Clare Jones:
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Your protest is to not buy goods from chains with stores in Northern Ireland?
Because that's all you can infer from that label.
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Then you don't understand what the label means and you're too incurious to Google it.
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'spicy autocorrect'
Very good.
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Oh, and I'm still waiting to hear what the "feminine qualities" are.
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And 'they' were wrong.
I'm not one of them. I'm *really* not.
You need first to explain how your hypothetical relates to a genotypically and phenotypically standard male or female who believes they are truly the opposite sex.
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Wow.
Lots there to unpack.
If you "were born with a penis and produced enough estrogen to totally change how my body functions"
You would have a DSD. Full stop.
"my brain starts developing feminine qualities"
And what are those, exactly?
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You seem to be confusing being trans with having a DSD - they're wholly different things.
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Contrast that with people being gay. They obviously are. All sorts of evidence it really is true, none of it requiring any sort of metaphysical belief system for it actually to be real.
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I accept some people may genuinely believe they are the other sex.
They are objectively not though. For me to believe that requires me to share a belief system (or ideology) about what male and female are that is not material.
Some Catholics believe wine turns into blood every Sunday. Do you?
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These things are not the same.
People loving, fancying, doing all sorts of stuff with people of the same sex (or both sexes) is objectively true. We can see it, it is material.
An objectively male person telling you they are female now and always were really? That takes an ideology to believe.
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"Deploy the meme, sir?"
"Deploy the meme. May God have mercy on our souls."
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You really need to think beyond 'good team' and 'bad team'.
It's childish.
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And yet, even if you disagree with them on everything else and think they are bad people - they're right (on that point alone) if they say male humans are not female humans.
I'm an absolute centrist Dad - Remain, Lib Dem, rules based system, etc., for the record.
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culturewarblues.substack.com/p/on-woman-a...
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I cannot, and would not presume to, say it better than Dr. Jane Clare Jones herself.
Listen to her, not me.
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You've massively missed the point there.
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It's truly her view, and that of many others.
It's logical, consistent, historical and realistic. It's therefore far more convincing than the guff that says a male human can become actually female (or actually always was).
It's Jane Clare Jones, by the way. Look her up.
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Agreed.
Sex isn't.
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Many women say no. Listen.
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The point is this - you and 'iffy' up there can call me names and imply I'm a bigot all you want.
Sex in humans will still be immutable.
Galileo was forced to recant his beliefs under coercion; the Earth still went round the Sun, not the opposite. Eppur si muove.