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  • Jesus hates American "Christians"

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  • I’m not saying all religious people are dangerous, just those who ask how someone can have a moral compass without religion. In order to ask that question genuinely they have to believe that they, without their religious rules, would have no qualms with harming others for their own gain.

  • Jesus hates American "Christians"

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  • People who ask that question are really telling on themselves; they’re saying that without religion they would have no qualms stealing, murdering, and raping. They’re very dangerous people.

  • Far-right U.S. influencer Candace Owens loses legal fight to enter Australia

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  • Yeah South Australia has done some amazingly progressive things. They were the first jurisdiction in the world to give women the right to vote AND run for parliament in 1894 and when Australia voted No on creating a federal Indigenous Voice to Parliament, they were the first state to set up their own state-based Voice of elected Aboriginal peoples.

    Some other progressive firsts:

    They were the first Australian colony to accept legal testimony from Aboriginal peoples in 1844; the first part of the British Empire to cut links between church and state in 1851; the first Australian state to give Aboriginal men the right to vote in 1856; the first part of the British Empire to legalise trade unions in 1876; the first Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality in 1975; and the first Australian state to make age-based discrimination illegal in 1991.

    I, too, find it really odd that Turning Point has found a hold there. They’ve typically been quite progressive - even their Liberal governments are usually far more progressive than the Libs around the rest of the country.

  • ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

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  • And this is why fascism is inherently untenable in the long term - it becomes an ouroboros. It’s always a short-lived political philosophy as the reins keep getting tightened on who qualifies for the in-group until, eventually, those who supported it become part of the out-groups.

  • Laura Loomer Reaches Her Final Straw With Trump: ‘I Don’t Think I’ll Be Voting in 2026’

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  • Trump is a lot like the Christian bible. They both say so many different and oftentimes contradictory things so everyone can just focus on the parts they like and disregard the ones they don’t, all while claiming to be true to the source. They’re both followed zealously, often with the most zealous being the least knowledgeable about everything that’s been said. They both inspire violence against others in their followers. They’re both worshipped as infallible by large swathes of people. There are actually more similarities than I thought.

  • Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol

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  • That figure absolutely staggers me. The fact that it’s so commonplace to irreversibly mutilate the genitals of a baby that has no capacity to consent to such a lifelong alteration really says something. Conservatives being up-in-arms about trans kids taking hormone blockers to prevent puberty but not about taking a scalpel to babies’ penises would be genuinely baffling if I didn’t already expect that without double standards, they’d have no standards.

  • Life goals

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  • My cousin was diagnosed with Asperger’s a long time ago and I can agree with you for a fact that it definitely presents in many different ways, and cannot simply be called a ‘superpower’. He has struggled for a very long time and continues to struggle to this day. Thank you for providing a balanced opinion.

  • Trump considers massive bailout of at least $10 billion for American farmers hurt by his trade war | CNN Business

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  • I’ve been saying for a while that the USA needs to disband and form (at least) three new Unions - a West Coast Union; a Northeast Union; and a Midwest/South Union(s). Take away all of the safety nets that red states get from the federal government supplemented by blue states and they’ll descend into utter chaos in a matter of months. That’s the only way that red state constituents will have a chance of realising how much they benefit from the federal government they so often rail against.

    You want states’ rights? Secede and see how long you last.

  • Republicans shut down the government. They run the government. They are blaming everyone else.

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  • They need a larger majority of 60/100 in the Senate to my understanding, and while they have a majority they don’t have the 60 necessary to pass the spending bill. They need at least some Democrats to cross the floor and I don’t think any are willing.

  • Marc Maron, Shane Gillis slam fellow comedians performing at Saudi comedy festival

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  • His records were among some of the first I ever owned (inherited from my father) and it really hurt to destroy them when we all found out about who he actually is. It really felt like I was destroying a part of my childhood. Had to be done though.

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    If you found someone attractive, would you date them if you found out they were trans?

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  • That depends - am I only physically attracted to them? The answer is no, whether or not they’re trans. Am I also attracted to their personality? Then yes, whether or not they’re trans.

    It helps that I’m bi.

  • FBI to Categorize Trans People As "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" Threat Group, Report Says

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  • It’s been Israel’s playbook against Palestine for a very, very long time.

  • What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am?

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  • As many others have pointed out, there’s no governing body that defines these terms clearly so we all kind of have our own definitions. It’s important to make a few points though:

    • There’s a difference between sexual attraction and romantic attraction. You can be sexually attracted to a gender without wanting to have a relationship with a person of that gender.
    • Because gender is a spectrum, so too is sexuality a spectrum.
    • Sexuality is also fluid, and can change significantly through a person’s life.

    Personally, I identify as bisexual and not either pan or omni, and the reason why I do so is because I’m attracted to feminine women and masculine men. Because I’m not attracted to anything else on the spectrum (masculine women; feminine men; androgyny etc.) I feel like the term bisexual (two) better reflects me. I only have two genders I’m attracted to and am only attracted to those who both identify and present with that gender. I also identify as heteroromantic because, as a cis man, I only want romantic relationships with women (cis/trans, doesn’t matter).

  • Does each language have "lefty loosey righty tighty"?

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  • We were taught a similar trick in physics - point your right-hand thumb in the direction that current (or electrons, same same) is travelling and the curling of your fingers shows the direction of the resultant magnetic field that the current creates.

  • Donors

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  • I donate regularly to a charity and don’t try to dictate how they spend that money, because I have faith that they’ll responsibly use my donations.

  • Platypuses

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  • And their venom HURTS. They’re not particularly deadly or anything but their venom will land you in the hospital or at least laid up in bed for a while. My stepmother grew up out in the bush in NSW the ‘70s and received one of the few recorded platypus envenomations and she described it as the most painful experience of her life. She said childbirth was a breeze compared to the platypus sting!

  • Tip rule

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  • It’s really sad to me that Americans get put in the awful position of choosing between tipping, which supports the low wages, and taking responsibility for ensuring another human being has a living wage. It’s just such a terrible position for a consumer to be placed in, having to make ethical and moral choices about how much money to pay for goods and services.

  • There are no trans women athletes at the Paris Olympics. So bigots manufactured them.

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  • Honestly, most conservatives are just directing their rage toward whatever conservative politicians and talking heads tell them to direct it at. Conservatism lives and thrives on hate, requiring in-groups and out-groups that must be pitted against one another. The new fad is to care about a person’s genitals.

    You see, conservatives don’t believe in gender equality, so someone who isn’t a cis woman will always perform better than cis women, because they believe that women are inherently weak and men are inherently strong, failing to believe that any other form of gender identity even exists.

  • Breast Cancer

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  • For reference here in Australia my wife has been asking to get mammograms for years now (in her 30s) and she keeps getting told she’s too young because she doesn’t have a familial history. That issue is a bit pervasive in countries other than the US.