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Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast.
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I mean, they weren't "vastly outnumbered" by some random accident or people ganging up on them. The Nazis chose to go to war with the Soviets and Americans entirely of their own accord!

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Not just allowing but often *compelling* - cis kids prescribed puberty blockers are often as young as 8 or 9 and have no right to refuse, they can be restrained and have it forcibly administered to them kicking and screaming.

submitted 49 minutes ago • 2 comments

*fighting for Turkey

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These rumours are ten a penny and mostly bullshit, but just posting this because of the idea. Not against it but not so sure tbh, partly just because I'm still a partisan of casting Kylie Minogue as Dazzler while we still can!

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Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

submitted 1 hour ago • 23 comments

And although non-medical, see also climate change, teaching creationism, etc

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I mean, tbf it won't have any significant impact, because the current commander-in-chief won't pay any attention regardless of how it is relayed to him.

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One of the basic things women are always taught to do for safety is not to be alone. Walk home with a friend, text a friend where you are so they know. Yet our politicians are determined to deny sex workers that basic safety and security measure, to criminalise any friend who tries to help them.

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

There are a couple of minor exceptions like FiLiA, but as a general rule anti-trans campaigners and groups do not have some other area they're focused on which has coincidentally led to a clash with trans rights on one of many issues. They're singularly, exclusively anti-trans as their only activity

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Another example of the obsessive media laundering of transphobia: the BBC describes "Sex Matters" as a "women's rights group" despite the fact that SM don't describe *themselves* as such, and their stated aims show little explicit interest in women's rights.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Look at what was taken in “sweeps” of homeless encampments. projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

submitted 170 days ago • 37 comments

I like the way the Guardian felt the need to clarify "which was false" here.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Can't remember where I read it, but strongly recall reading the story of that Moms For Liberty woman elected to School Board promising to get rid of all the "gender ideology" library books, she found there weren't any, and the other local MFLers got angry with her, convinced she was covering it up.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm also going to point out the rather bizarre of Ezra Klein interviewing the first trans person in Congress, at a time when there are more trans legislators in the US than ever before, as well as more trans singers, actors, characters, etc and going "So where did it all go wrong?"

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Erm... OK then

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When Richard and Mildred Loving got married, support for interracial marriage was *4%*. And that includes Black voters who'd always supported it at much higher rates, voters from Northern states where it was already legal, and voters from states where it was quite common like Hawaii and Alaska.

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I can first remember coming across Hoppe when mentioned in the Anarchist FAQ 10-15 years ago and discussing him at that time, and it was always blatantly obvious he was just trying to find a way to contrive a "libertarian" reasoning that justified his aristocratic elitist authoritarianism.

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Imagine being this spectacularly wrong about a TV show

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

How it started - How it's going

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People who abstained from voting to decriminalise abortion: -Wes Streeting (health secretary) -Bridget Phillipson (women and equalities minister) -Rosie Duffield (top feminist and woman defender)

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#BernieBrohran

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Wonderful news! The fight back begins! Abortion is not a crime and we are human beings not incubators 🥳 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

Finally

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments