• LemmyLefty@lemmy.world
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    “There are 150 ICBM missiles that are being controlled by that Air Force base and by these individuals.”

    “I do not want someone who doesn’t know if they are a man or a woman with their hand on a missile button.”

    His “argument” is that trans people are inherently unstable because they are trans (really, questioning, but that distinction doesn’t matter to him).

    This is what queer people are dealing with: the constant pathologizing of our very existence to the point where we’re viewed as a threat. This is why I can never accept people who continue to vote for these dangerous assholes: they either benefit from or are indifferent to the suffering this rhetoric engenders. It’s not a difference in opinion and deserves no such protection.

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      Well as we know, all cishet people know exactly who they are at any given time, and their personality, philosophy, epistemology, and tastes never cha—oh wait…

      Must suck for him being so boring and predictable all the time, that he has to invent reasons to get all hot and bothered.

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        If we had to wait for only the eternally ethically pure, completely content and self-actualized people to be the ones to man the silos, we’d be waiting a longass time, because those people don’t join the military.

        But we all know it’s just shitting on a minority in order to drum up a new scapegoat after gays finally became boring.

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      It sounds very much like how women were ‘dismissed’ from essential roles in society because they were ‘fragile’, ‘overly emotional’, ‘suffer from hysteria’.

      This all sounds like a repeat, we’ve been here before.

      Only difference is that with lgbtiqa+ the very existence is denied to them.