The vast majority of human history operated on gift economies. Oppressive systems of government (and governments in general) are much more of a recent invention in the grand scheme lf things.

If it's any consolation, psychopaths have suffered serious setbacks these past 500 years or so.

Well clearly it's my trans neighbor with no money and no power who is making me not have free healthcare, unions, and a house and not billionaires.

Any transphobe I've had the misfortune of talking to has met a trans person. Most of them don't notice. One of them repeatedly hit on me.

I always equate these things just to human rights and the fact that someone is trans doesn't automatically negate their right to live or be happier or prosperous. The fact that they're trans should have no effect on basic human rights.

Most of them probably have, but didn't notice.

Lose the gun talking point.

Dems be Beto O'Rourke'ing every election

This is the moment that O'Rourke lost texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMVhL6OOuR0

2nd amendment can serve an important purpose, kill traitors who are violating the constitution.

Unfortunately, dems managed to convince people left-of-center to disarm, while the far-right have become the majority of gun owners.

Thanks, Democrats. You did the job for the fascists.

Gun are great. End fascism where the idea begins 🧠 by using the 2A

And it shouldn’t be political for people to have rights but here we are.

It kinda is if you start with the premise that Trans people have an agenda other than please let me exist.

it's not 2014 anymore. we aren't canceling anyone. we're getting canceled. JKR is doing victory laps. NHS has banned HRT for minors, as have 27 states. we're kicked out of the military, and forbidden from security clearances. teachers in Florida can't even use their own pronouns. Medicaid/Medicare/ACA funding for HRT for adults is stripped now. we can't get passports with the correct gender marker. Sarah McBride has to use the men's bathroom in Congress. Newsom calls us freaks. conservative media is calling us groomers and every time there's a mass shooter they spread the rumor the shooter was trans. "gender ideology" is the new Satanic Panic. NYT keeps running op-eds on why Dems should throw us under the bus. Nancy Mace shouted "tr*nny" three times on the House floor and wasn't censured for it.

you really think we're the ones holding the cards?

This, so much. There're very real and important discussions in the medical field that (very candidly) go into these types of topics that become impossible to have (at least in the public discourse) due to these types of behaviours.

Wrong place wrong time.

You're vilified because you're acting like a villain. People don't want to debate your neckbeardedly presented well ahcktuallies while they're fighting for the right to exist.

We don't have this fight when it comes to other medical matters. Like if kids with cancer should get treatment even though chemo and surgery could have long-lasting repucussions. The alternative is they die. People who don't get proper medical treatment die. Trans kids die of depression and suicide without treatment. Those are real things, there are real risks to not treating a medical condition. It's not a matter up for public debate just because some dickwads are trying to distract everyone by making healthcare for a specific group of people political. It's medical, we have facts and data that say trans people need healthcare to support their transition to live healthier longer lives. There are fucking doctors out there with years of practice who say yes, these kids need medical intervention. And here you are bitching that no one will debate you in a place where, again, people are fighting to exist. And you're bringing up tired arguments because you gotta be that guy.

We have data on trans performance in sports and there is no clear advantage.

Besides, if you're a world-class athlete, you already have a way different kind of body than most people. There are plenty of biological advantages that are celebrated in sports rather than weeded out. Want to start making sure everyone is the same height and weight for every sport, too? Same lung capacity? Reaction time? Born in the same country? Live at the same altitude? Same race? If you want to get advantages, there are clearer divisions along racial lines than trans status. No, I don't advocate for segregation in sports because I'm not a goddamn monster of a person who can't think for two seconds about why that's idiotic.

Fuck off. Stop being a moron. Show some goddamn empathy.

The what agenda?