I get what you’re saying but the argument they would make is the surgery will “fix” them and make them mission ready. I do question having the military pay for these surgeries. So I’m not 100% certain of my overall position. I do think if you are transgender and already in the military, you should be evaluated as any other soldier and given the same respect and allowed to have a sense of dignity. Should already transitioned people be allowed to join? They should be given the same opportunity and held to the same standards as anyone else who tries to join. I work with a lot of people and when it comes down to it, I’m more concerned with competency than identity.
I wouldn’t wish drug addiction on anyone, but someone like him, I just can’t feel sorry for. Maybe if I were a better person I would, like those people who forgive their child’s murderer.
Everybody gets a “My Bad”. Sometimes even 2 or 3. If they’re lucky.
But that motherfucker? He doesn’t even appear to have any sorrow. He freakin wallows in wealth and titilation.
Absolute 100% decadence at every level. Personal, professional, spiritual, intellectual. Every way.
I agree completely.
My issue is that I do not see how anyone who has had ‘gender affirming’ surgeries and procedures could be considered competent.
If I were anorexic, and went to a doctor saying “I believe I’m too fat” and the doctor agreed to give me a gastric bypass surgery, I should still be deemed to have a mental deficiency.
We can find people who do not have these inexplicably complicated issues to perform the duties required of the armed forces.
I promise you they will cost less, too.
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Janet Mills sure is giving Kim and Z a run for their money, but with Maine’s brand of crazy.
My governor is now comparing Trump to Louis XIV, bringing further shame to the great State of Maine. Whatever that saying about As Maine Goes, So Goes The Nation is somehow completely inverted under Democratic Socialist rule, as is the meaning of nearly everything.
For a local update, Lewiston’s Economic Development Coordinator spoke at tonight’s school committee public comment to accuse the board of using “coded language” to be racists who wish to mistreat minorities. That seems like a great way to attract new business investments to Lewiston. Her sister is also a City of Lewiston employee, our DEI Specialist.
What you see here is straight out of the Soviet Union, but with modern terminology to achieve the same effect. The goal is to make speaking about the bad effects of Socialist policy become unacceptable and a reason to ruin your reputation with accusations.
I’ll give her credit, she is well-studied in the cult’s vocabulary and tactics. She assumes bad faith by believing she has the ability to transcend the dictionary and discern the true meaning of the committee’s words, which she perceives as malicious and racist.
This is actually an exceptionally good demonstration of ideological enforcement, straight from a modern commissar.
Yinz Mainers need to stand up en mass and dump that bitch.
Oh god you have no idea…. I’m going to go on a rant about lesbian feminists now and it’ll all tie in together. Specifically autistic lesbian feminists
I reference that I have a genetic condition but I don’t want to doxx myself given how much detail I’ve put out about myself on here
However it’s almost impossible to find men diagnosed with what I have, the patient cohort is 80% or even 90% female
This isn’t reality, it’s just women are either A: more symptomatic or B: complain more
I think it’s a combo of both
This disease is also STRONGLY correlated with neurodivergency… autism and adhd/add in particular… like its so commonly correlated despite being rare something like ten or twenty percent or all autistic people probably have this condition which is just nuts
I was told to join support groups… firstly disability groups are generally very left wing as many are (understandably) on welfare and can’t study etc and those like me who do study understand/empathize with those who can’t
Autistic WOMEN also tend to be very difficult as autism has historically been diagnosed based on the symptoms men experience in the same way depression screening often went by the symptoms women wkth depression often face but when you adjust for presentation and look at the stats in 2025 men are more likely to have severe depression (and almost everyone knows men are about 4-5x more likely to commit suicide). Therefore the narrative often taught to women is women weren’t diagnosed because misogny, but it’s more women weren’t diagnosed because selective pressures based on masculine and feminine characteristics differ… therefore say… dating as a high functioning autistic… If you can’t approach because you have no social skills as a guy and have no game, game over unless you are VERY good looking… As a woman… Someone will ask you out, I can give countless examples. As such high functioning autistic women were often overlooked even if it made their lives more difficult (which it almost always does)
And I’ve been told “well look at the routes or attempt, the rate of attempted suicide is similar”
Very politically incorrrect for me to say… but you aren’t a PC guy in the slightest… if I’m at home with mom and dad and I take 30 valium which will put me to sleep or put me in blackout territory (but probably deep sleep) for a few days where my parents will find me, the chance of fatal respiratory depression is exceedingly low then my cry fkr help has me seen by a psychiatrist and I’m logged up for an attempt on my life
Is it the same as a guy taking a shotgun, putting it in his mouth and pulling the trigger with his toes? No… the one was a parasuicide attempt
The other was an actual suicide
So I join these support groups and I’m seeing a LOT of support for socialism, a lot of support for bending over backwards for fringe minorities and like 50%+ are lgbt… how is that even possible?
Well there’s a huge correlation between WOMEN, “high functioning” autism and lgbt
Now high and low functioning are outdated terms, but they were erased for being “discriminatory” and were replaced bt levels of societal support you need
I’m level one for instance, I do not require support from society due to autism. I prefer low/high functioning distinction as it was used to distinguish between high and low IQ, verbal and non verbal etc
It’s an appropriate label as what is collectively known as autism today will probably be like 20 separate neuro developmental disorders in 20 years
But my god… talk about an easily offended bunch that will eat their own if the collective narrative isn’t adhered to! The feminism stuff is shocking
I’ve had my opinions dismissed for literallt “being a straight white man”, I’ve been removed from groups for my views Eben thougj I’m not radical in the slightest (well actually my views on modern men and women, but specifically dating culture are very dim and somewhat mean spirited)
And I do have some views about genetic purity… not in the whole racial supremacy vibe but in the view that people like me wkth genetic disorders that lead to a person suffering forever shouldn’t exist and people like me who decide to have kids knowinf the child will suffer and possibly be a burden on healthcare etc are being selfish
So not only am I a straight white man… apparently I’m a majority demographic… don’t we all (in the group) have the same uncommon condition?
And I’m Jewish… However I’ve found antisemitism is very common on those groups. You can be anti isrsel without being antisemitic but it’s a fine line as the argument is generally
“Israelis are white European colonialists perpetuating a genocide against indigenous Palestinians who have independently governed that land since he dawn of time, before the dinosaurs existed Palestinians lived in peace and sovereignty and while Muslims can have ocer 20 countries the thought of one Jewish state is unacceptable”
And there are so many holes in that argument but there are very valid criticisms to be had of Israel. I have family in Israel that are Jewish, Israeli and have commented on some genuine mistreatment of Palestinians over the years. I can also list examples of genuine mistreatment although I am still extremely Pro-Israel as I believe without a Jewish state (werever that state may be) there would be another holocaust before I could even snap my fingers… likely perpetuated by the Muslim world, and lefties would call it decolonisation or whatever
Funny how the group that has historically done the least colonising are labelled colonisers when the Arab world perpetuated the largest slave trade and was involved in absolutely brutal colonialism on a grander scale for a longer duration of time relative to white Catholic’s, blacks… literally everywhere
and the last thing I’ll say in this totally unrelated issue (you can see the ADHD seeping in by the tangents I go on 
) just about every country was founded by conquest and colonialism, Israel is one of the few examples where this actually wasn’t the case… In 1947 it was “no mans land”… essentially owned by the British but lots of land was privately owned by Jews, christians and Arabs… At the same time as that land hadn’t been formally signed over to anyone (and no promises had been made aside from vague insinuations pre WWII) and the British did screw over a lot of people who owned land privately and those people lost that land after Israel was signed over to the jews (including Jews who lost out on generational wealth from private land ownership)
There is a lot of focus on the lefties by Arabs whose towns were depopulated (often being told to evacuate by the IDF or Arab forces or choosing to evacuate… No one talks about how Jews were kicked out of majority Jewish towns (or entirely Jewish towns) in territories around west Jerusalem/west bank and Jordan
Even privately owned Jewish land (generational wealth type thing) was stolen from some jews to build Kibbutzim
Most people don’t know Israel started out as what Americans today would call a SOCIALIST state, including the economic ideology… it was full on socialism. It didn’t work out, and it was replaced with democracy although Israel still has a welfare state and does a very good job (to my knowledge) at taking care of the citizens that need taking care of
Those feminists also took issue at my opinions being from someone who is part of a majority demographic with institutionalised power because nothing says institutionalised power like me being unable to even tell people I’m Jewish without being called a racist genocide supporter at my extremely diverse college campus!
I’m part of the majority (0.1% that makes up jews) and I’m white (fitzpatrick IV skin tone). I am Caucasian but when I get tan. Before I developed a lot of pain and exercised a ton I spent many hours every day outside… I was often mistaken for someone who wasn’t/isn’t Australian. My great great great grandmother I do believe was black (scandalous affair in South Africa!) but that’s not why I’m tan lol
When I went to Turkey back when it was safe for a Jew to go to Turkey I was mistaken for the locals… So me, a straight white man has no opinion on anything as if I dare cross one of these feminists (and I’m telling you these neurodivergent disabled women are another breed of radical) the dogpiling is unbelievable
They were even eating their own “you aren’t oppressed enough, you rack up fewer victim points therefore how DARE you comment on this issue in a way I disagree with”
and they’d promote WILDLY disprovable opinions and scream with closed eyes if anyone dared say otherwise… for instance did you know autism isn’t a disorder because EVERYONE is neurodivergent! It’s just a scale of how quirky you are, and it’s up to normal people to adapt so autistic people can feel more comfortable
if you diagree and quote the DSM as labelling it a neurodevelopmental disorder… the DSM was written by straight white men and I’m a straight white man
in 1952 this was the case
the DSM was most recently released in 2012-2013 and went through a cultural sensitivity review through a diverse panel of doctors (as it actually should to some extent) yet you won’t find ANY woke shit in the DSM IV
gender dysphoria is classified as a mental illness… because a lot of them commit suicide, take drugs and wind up in domestic violence situations (sometimes where they’re the one beating their partner in a transgender on transgender situation)
I’m fine with sex changes which have been around for ages… as long as you pay for it out of pocket and have exhausted everything and are legally an adult… .18+ but for something like this preferably in your 20s.
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That was an impressively coherent screed. I followed along the entire way and agree with a lot of your observations.
I’ve never been to a mind doctor who can tell me what I am, but it’s possible I have a touch of the 'tism, but probably not as much as Theo Von.
It is evident to me that the entire ideology preys on people who are on the spectrum. Most of the “trans” kids and young adults I’ve encountered seem to be either on the spectrum (most common IMO) or just gay.
Please don’t take 30 valium again, that’s not good for you or anyone else in your life.
Don’t underestimate how much good can radiate from the USA. I’m optimistic for a better future that will be hard for other countries to ignore, as long as we avoid WW3.
The grammatical coherency was awful though, I looked over it and wanted to touch it up but was in class
I didn’t do this, I was equating the difference between what women often do when they make an attempt vs what men do when they make an attempt as a means to deflect from the idea men and women are just as depressed because the rates of attempted suicide are similar… Men commit suicide successfully far, far more often even if rates of attempts are similar because the attempts the girls are making (and I can personally name examples of women I know with BPD/similar issues etc who have done similar things) aren’t reallly “suicide attempts”.
if you REALLY want to die, you’ll often do a little bit of research beforehand… I have experience with the worst type of depression, and bipolar runs in my family (grandfather was Bipolar I, I may be bipolar II but avoided getting a diagnosis)
This thread isn’t about me… But I tried every antidepressant/medication in the book and nothing clicked until I tried lithium, which is actually like a magic pill for my mood. Bipolar runs on my dads side, genetic illness on my mothers side but I was the first to get a formal diagnosis.
If you REALLY want it all to end you’ll do a little bit of research. Most suicide attempts are impulse decisions done when someone is feeling very down usually by people with serious mental health issues like borderline personality disorder particularly coming to mind.
BPD type suicide attempts (BPD often isn’t permenant, I believe my 1st cousin has/had it) are often like what I outlined with the valium are what are sometimes coined as “parasuicide” attempts
or cries for attention… COULD theoretically kill you but incredibly, incredibly unlikely… perhaps you took the valium but were also taking tramadol for pain or something and you don’t know about these drugs and the combo leads to fatal respiratory depression etc
People who are very, very depressed when they start looking into an out often actually look into it… as failing often = vegetable or worse. Look up “locked in syndrome”
I do believe in euthanasia, that’s one of the few things I’m very left wing on. I think intractible suffering that can’t be cured isn’t limited to terminal illness by 99.99% of the time mental illness doesn’t fit this bill… it needs to actually be like a car crash crushing every single disk in your spine and surgery isn’t an option etc
Problem it it’s a slippery slope and go to far you wind up like Canada where people who need like serious neurosurgical intervention are on waitlists with six years to appointment and ten years to surgery but they’re so impacted they can’t get out of bed let alone work or interact with family and friends… and they otherwise need to crowdfund for 50-100k for out of pocket expenses for the operation overseas (generally like brainstem compression etc) so the government offers them medically assisted dying… I think that is absolutely fucked up and the government officials offering euthanasia to this person (it made the news this particular case because the person offered euthanasia complained about how unjust that was… but was actually contemplating taking the deal as they couldn’t realistically live the next decade in bed) should be imprisoned
But there are some people who REALLY suffer… doctors either don’t want to or can’t help them, and life is very, very difficult for them. I think these people especially if they can’t work, can’t study, can’t form meaningful relationships etc should be allowed to decide when they’ve had enough in a manner that is humane
Most people look at this stuff from the binary “it gets better unless it’s cancer/als etc” construct
I think it’s certainly a very serious thing to do, and life is almost always worth living and many don’t account for the hurt and sadness others feel for life (there’s a decent metalish song about this called suicide season) but there are people who are generally left out of the public spotlight because they suffer so much… When you suffer like I’m talking about you generally aren’t going to work, or studying, or hanging out with friends or family… theyre in agony 24/7 often due to intractable illness and doctors either can’t or won’t help…
My friend with Marfans syndrome at one point had an orthopaedic issue in two parts of his body
For a solid two years he spend 20-22 hours in bed I believe, ate less than one meal per day, didn’t interact with the outside world aside from his immediate family because he was in so much pain and suregons here wouldn’t help him. He is like 6’3 or 6’2 and weighed I think 110-120lb
He slept maybe 2-4 hours per night max despite being in bed so often. If that condition he was in WAS permeant … This is off topic but I believe you shouldn’t be forced to suffer if there is no cure for intractable suffering
This
Gay but can’t put a label on it… very effeminate and comfortable cross dressing etc doesn’t make you a woman either
And the rest… so many of us on the spectrum… what is up with autistic people feeling like they’re in the wrong body? Is it because we don’t fit in with society at large therefore we tend to accommodate fringe dynamics
Kind of like the disabled community…
I actually distance myself from people witj autism…. I make an active effort now which is crazy. The guys are more bearable then the women with autism (high functioning) in my experience the vast, vast majority of the time
The autistic community wss always annoying (I wasn’t autistic enough to fit in with 90%+ of autistic people) but not neurotypical enough to understand all social norms without going to therapy and group therapy and making a huge effort
But with this new Marxist Schtick amongst young people (you have NO idea how extreme it is at my university… and Austrakia doesn’t even have a reputation for being liberal!)
This is the last I’ll say of this as I’ve inappropriately switched the topic
I must say I am very nervous about what Trump is doing with American relationships with Europe
And him sucking uo to Russia really irritated me
Zelensky is not a dictator, there hasn’t been an election in Ukraine because Ukrainian legislature like many countries doesnt allow for elections during major wars
In Russia however Eben powerful people constantly “fall out of windows” or down stairs when they say something remotely antin Putin
Russia almost semi westernized in the early 2000s
They’ve gone far far against the grain of western powers and has become more in line with Syria, North Korea and Iran
Lots of Russians suffer extensively at the hands of Putin
And yes America coukd kick Russias ass
HOWEBER if America wss to go to war with NATO and Austrakia and the rest of the west (say in some nightmare scenario they become so isolationist and piss off the entire western world AND the non west gets involved as you mentioned WWIII)
I still think America probably comes oit on top… but so, so many Americans would die
Even just a war with Europe probably leads to an American death toll of 1 mil+. I want this presidential term to be like the last Trump term where no new wars were started by America
I am in agreement the whole untapped immigration and whatnot needs to stop… it needs to stop in Europe, Austrakia and America
Immigration is fine, but you need to be a functional ASSIMILATED member of society imo… refugee type immigration also needs to be vetted extremely stringently… and I don’t know what the answer is but letting in a lot of refugees in Europe
And in Australia has caused huge problems
Austrakia let in 3000 Gazans with fucking near zero security checks on who they let in… if that isn’t a potential disaster waiting to unfold I don’t know what is
I am hopeful Donald Trump does set a few precedents in the west in reversing trends thst have been ongoing for decades thst have been slowly eating at the fabric of western society yet theyre disguised as “for the betterment of our society”
At this point witj things declining I am thinking “how are new policies going to change the fact everyone my age will never be able to afford an apartment”
Australia has different issues, not exactly the same as the USA… but we have been digging a grave for my generation and the next generation for the past thirty years and we keep digging deeper and deeper
I don’t think a trump like figure fixes that specific issue I’m talking about for Aus… but we need the current generation of politicians (and their sons/daughters) out
I want the working sane man in politics for Australia
Its a ploy. He can’t be disrespectful of Putin publicly, so there’s that.
But every time he leans toward Putin Europe unites. That is a good thing.
Last time he told them so, they didn’t listen (nato leaders).
Now they listen.
I see a European armed forces in the near future. If not that, then at least a unification that supercedes nato.
Also a good thing.
He’s playing the leaders of europe off of putin without saying anything inflamatory that could spark an already very hot, tense situation with Russia.
Me too.
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I can’t argue with that. I just think on a conceptual level, they should be judged as an individual before making a decision about them joining or if they are already in, staying. If it turns out that most should be disqualified, then so be it. I remember when I joined, they had waivers for all sorts of things. Low ASVAB scores, asthma, criminal history, etc. You had, and I believe still have, profiles for things that get you out of PT or shaving. I knew guys who somehow managed to get out of PT tests for years. Back in Basic we had the floppy shoe brigade; those recruits who threatened suicide if they weren’t allowed to go back home. They were not immediately sent home.
Europe really wouldn’t need to spend THAT much more to beef up its defenses. France and UK are both nuclear powers, so there are teeth already.
Let’s say a new EU Armed forces is created and all of the integration challenges are overcome. Europe has a fighting force on par with the USA. Into Ukraine they roll, crushing Russia to retake every acre of ground.
Most of NATO is now a perfectly valid military target for Russia. If Russia launches an attack into Finland, Article 5 gets triggered and now the USA is obligated to fight in this stupid war.
It all seems a bit far-fetched at this point, but the USA leaving NATO doesn’t if the “boots on the ground” talk from UK PM Herr Starmer turns into reality. Although people like my mayor may say they will “match Ukraine’s courage”, you have to realize that he’s a socialist who use a different dictionary than you or I. He won’t fight or send a check.
I’m guessing roughly 1 percent of the USA actually “Stands with Ukraine” to the point where they’d be willing to make some kind of sacrifice to retake the land Russia now holds. It is just virtue signaling, digital jewelry people wear to fly a flag for others to see.
Peace talks right now seem eminently sensible, as did peace talks for most of this war.
This is the conundrum. Is it an illness that is managed or “cured” via sex change? This is why many parents agree to giving their kids hormonal treatment; it’s preferable to having their child commit suicide or something. These are not simply whacko woke parents. They are desperate and worried.
Another problem is calling those who claim to have gender dysphoria, mentally ill. People don’t like to be called crazy. Some people have OCD, some PTSD, some ADHD, etc. There are a lot of conditions that people have to live with and society has to accommodate in some way. We don’t marginalize these people and make them feel like they are less than human.
If gender dysphoria is real, and I don’t believe all those who claim to have it really have it, then we need to learn to live with them.
The thing that would hurt the US is the thing that helps the US. We would need to cross an ocean to get to Europe. This is why we have bases in Europe. Russia needs to cross an ocean to get to us, but we are already there.
I doubt EU would go to a direct conflict.
Starmer referred for security measures/peacekeeping.
I doubt they would either, but I wouldn’t put it past them. The Mad Dogs of Europe really seem to want more war, along with Putin out of power.
The idea people who wave Ukraine flags in the USA seem to be expressing is that anything short of total victory for Ukraine is morally unacceptable to them.
In reality, it is just another way for these nuts to construct a reality in their minds where Trump is still a Russian asset who works for Putin. Just the latest mental gymnastic that allows them to remain the hero in their own story,
In other news, more Epstein files have been delivered to Pam Bondi.
I almost want to pinch myself. Trump 47 is almost too good to be true.
I agree
Habing a suicidal child would be terrifying, I can’t imagine the sense of loss a decent parent would feel from losing a child
There was recently a study done on gender affirming hormone therapy in adolescents and children
It was found the hormone blockers and/or androgen therapy didn’t improve mental health related outcomes in these kids
Granted it’s one study… I think most adolescents are too fragile to be given this kind of treatment
For adults…. Rates of detransitioning back in the days of sex changes being harder to get were less than 1% and it was essentially a “cure”
Now esp for those who transitioned young it can be upwards of 20%
Big problem
And yes, I do see it as a “cure” for the illness but these people whether due to how they feel perceived bt society or due to mental health issues esp if they’re on the spectrum continue to have problems
I don’t think society is “super transphobic”… Eben most people who can’t stand the idea of and think of a sex change as degenerate generally won’t give a fuck if they see some FTM person who easily “passes” in public so long as that person isn’t going on and on about it and is just casually living as the opposite sex
But it’s a problem in dating… most people understandably don’t want a queer/homosexual relationship… and if the person is dishonest about it beforehand
I can’t imagine how angry I’d be if I was witj a woman only for her to tell me “bt the way ten years ago I was a man”
Yet current narratives say potentially pushed at my university will say no one needs to know
The very left are like “it doesn’t matter as sex csn change and a girl is a girl”
I’d be SO angry if I found this out I might even want to smack the person before telling them I never want to see them again (if suing or pressing charges for sexual coercion wasn’t an option)
Mentally we know what happens to guys and girls who have zeeo chance in the world of dating who yearn for long term connection
I imagine the same might apply for MOST trans peoole
Eben the most beautiful looking MTF or FTM person (esp FTM As you often don’t have fully functioning genitalia) on earth will struggle to find dates witj members of the opposite sex