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‘Hand Jobs, Oral Sex and Anal’: Pete Hegseth's Pastor Wants Gay Men Prosecuted for These Acts

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then one should strive to build solidarity in their local communities

There's this really notorious wokescold in my local organizing community who joins EVERY leftist space and fractures it. I stopped being friends with them after discovering they were trying to blackmail and defraud a local LGBT charity. Although they've been banned from a lot of organizing groups, their method of aggression is to frame themselves as a righteously indignant victim, so it takes a really long time to be able to effectively call them out on their behavior. Their complaints about other organizers would, if repeated by back to a third party who didn't know the context, seem reasonable or sympathetic.

I thought they were making all these accusations due to past trauma or mental illness, and I was already distancing myself from them when I found out about the blackmail. But this wasn't just one person. This is a Type of Person who is allowed to exist unquestioned in most Leftist communities.

Meanwhile, a chapter of one local organizing group has sexual assault prevention bylaws which were written by an alleged serial sex pest or alleged rapist, depending on which victim story you believe. Said individual has allegedly convinced multiple formerly homeless trans women, some decades younger than themselves, into cohabiting with them in their large estate home. After these bylaws were published, most female-born people left the organization, leaving only male-born people and very early transition transfems (who were promptly taken advantage of, allegedly).

The best option in that situation may be, loathe as I am to say it, Reddit.

Um...no? Not only is it full of bots and 4chan psyops but it's a toxic environment even if none of those things were true. That's aside from the fact that Reddit is full of violent transphobia.

There is no Leftist party or organizing space. Not for lack of trying, but you've got to be willing to critically think in order to keep these communities alive.

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I find that leftist spaces have a lot of red flags

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True, but the lived experience of the well-off person is almost never the experience I've seen disregarded. It's usually trans people, especially trans people assigned female at birth and, more rarely, trans women/ people assigned male at birth who have lived as women for decades, people from former Soviet countries, and people living in abject poverty who're told their personal experiences are a psyop.

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get a job you loser

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It doesn't matter how willing you are. Nursing schools do not accept just any willing person. When it comes to actually doing the job... it takes a whole lot more than just being willing. The average person CANNOT be a nurse. It's just a very tone deaf and unrealistic thing to suggest.

It’s easy to complain about how hard something is and only a little less easy to make a change.

Intelligence and emotional ability are not the result of willpower. It's actually more comparable to being athletic or physically strong. Sure, most people can improve their physical health, but there is a threshold for how strong you're capable of becoming, determined by genetics and lifestyle. Intelligence and emotional capacity are the same. It's sort of like you showed open positions for being a bodybuilder or an MMA fighter and then said "see? there are plenty of jobs." This makes no real-world sense.

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I Don’t Think Trump’s Remaining Supporters Realize How Much They Are Despised By Non-MAGA Voters - Above the Law

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The thing that has been most shocking to me about this entire thing is how much foreigners have sided with Trump over the American people. Blaming Americans for Trump completely, even while knowing he is a dictator who ignores the wishes of his own people, and then inviting Trump to their countries to shake hands and make deals. Unbelievable.

I've seen foreign nationals say that we "deserve" to be raided by ICE for "voting for" Trump... the dictator who ignores the popular vote. They're on Trump's side, they want the same things he wants, they just want to feel morally superior.

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I Don’t Think Trump’s Remaining Supporters Realize How Much They Are Despised By Non-MAGA Voters - Above the Law

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You're gonna keep inviting Trump into your country, he's gonna keep shaking hands with your leaders, and even if he kills all of us American citizens all at once in a state-sponsored massacre and you hear about it on the news, your country will not impose sanctions, and you'll see your leader shaking hands with him on television the following month.

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I Don’t Think Trump’s Remaining Supporters Realize How Much They Are Despised By Non-MAGA Voters - Above the Law

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I didn't tell you to do anything. I don't know you.

But yeah you shouldn't be cowtowing to a dictator and then blaming his victims. You are not going to experience ICE raids.

I am telling you now, for the first time, because this is the first time we've ever spoken, to stop blaming the victims of fascism for their own oppression. He's a dictator. It doesn't matter how hard we vote.