Annoys the hell out of me when people treat sexism as "identity politics." Sex isn't a feeling of identity, it's a class, and a far more sharply defined class than any of the economic or relationship-to-production ones Bomber might feel are proper classes.
This isn't about removing people's right to choose anything, the Cass report is an evidence-based medicine review. It's effectively found serious problems with the "informed" part of informed consent and with standards of professional therapy and medical ...
What Tickle's doing to Sall Grover is a real test of our integrity, I think. A transsexual replied to a tweet in which I called Tickle a man, pointing out that Tickle's a fellow transsexual, ie has had the surgery and has a birth certificate that says ...
Appalling medical misadventures that don't affect us are easily dismissed as a "minor issue." They're not so minor to the people who are affected by them. We aren't "concerned about the genitalia and hormones of others," we're concerned about alleged ...
Perhaps, before describing me as "an ignorant tool who just spews forth propaganda," you could consider that a greater number of minor parties involved in a coalition government only further dilutes the power of those individual parties, rather than ...
New Zealanders, of all people, should understand that minor parties in a coalition aren't running the government. But sure, far-right fuckwits have a minor role in the Israeli govt. Now consider that far-right fuckwits are the entirety of the Gazan govt. ...
We aren't on the brink of war Robert, but our country is conducting on children the same experiments described in the Cass report, and with the same appalling lack of evidence for any benefit for the recipients. It's a lot more significant to us than ...
If the goal of the "Zionists" were to raze Gaza and kill as many Palestinians as possible, forcibly removing Israeli settlers, leaving it to self-rule and enduring continual rocket attacks while watching Gaza's population double was a very odd way of going...
We already saw it. US only became a significant ally in the 1970s. From the history books, it still sounds like a way better place back then than any of its neighbours.
Not interested in heading off down any sophistry rabbit-holes, thanks.
We don't even know which side destroyed Christian buildings, let alone why (if there even was a 'why', ie it may have been accidental - see your linked article). However, we do know that Hamas, an Islamist terrorist group, is the government of Gaza, so ...
The body count is a propaganda claim by a terrorist group, and it would be useful to consider why the invading force is treating hospitals, schools etc as military installations of the defending force. Hint: it's not because Israelis have some bizarre ...
This is just taking Hamas as a given again. Israel's fault for not correctly assessing forces of nature that no-one should consider as involving any human agency. Please apply the same level of scrutiny and expectations to Israel's enemies that you do to ...
Also your triple standard only holds two. That's not how it works. Holding Israel to a higher standard than other govts in the region = double standard. Holding them to a higher standard even than other liberal democracies = triple standard. If you're ...
Good point. I don't recall anyone suggesting war crimes by Aus soldiers were 'Australian' atrocities, that it showed a general incompetence, lack of discipline or murderous intent of the Aus military, or that the soldiers were murdering civilians at the ...
Certainty that your opinions are facts and contempt for people who don't share them might feel good, but they don't help persuade anybody of anything. I used to see Israel the same way you do, until recently. Like most on the left, I shared the delusion ...
Then all three of them are sitting there talking about the dynamic of why the left now think it's ok to call a woman a cunt... I can't even express how depressing it is to watch right-of-centre interviewers explaining to left-wing men that using 'cunt' as...
Friendly fire incidents are relevant here because a military will be even more protective its own troops and even more familiar with their locations and movements than with third parties, and yet killing its own troops by mistake sometimes happens. "Well-...
... reverse I declare that Pyscho Milt is guilty (by association of...
When militaries that don't consist largely of Jews kill their own soldiers in 'friendly fire' incidents, do you immediately assume in those cases also that it appears they don't particularly care if they kill their own comrades, or do you do them the ...
The escaped hostages was another good example. Leftist analysis consistently treats Hamas as a given - Israel has responsibilities, intent, accountability etc, but Hamas doesn't, it's just a natural phenomenon like an earthquake or a cyclone. No point in ...
They were killed by deliberate decisions to target them despite their having previously obtained IDF approval and travelling in a supposed safe zone. Another fine example of the triple-standard that gets applied to Israel. People of the left, please take ...
"But I am always thinking of my friend, Alexandra. She's a wonderful human being, a very talented artist, and just happens to be a trans woman. And the latter to me is completely irrelevant to who she is as a person." Unfortunately, transwomen are adult ...
The Lange govt was doing a lot of obvious harm to our society, particularly to hourly-rate workers (which I was at the time). A lot of us thought like Chloe (don't leave politics to the politicians, mobilise, participate, fight back) to defeat their plans....
As someone who lived through the damage the 4th Labour govt did to our society, I know first-hand that Chloe's approach of "It just needs everyone to care enough to get out there and stand against the govt" is a recipe for complete and dismal failure.
It's a challenge alright. If you make Brooke van Velden look like the person who's talking sense and has everyone's best interests at heart, it's way past time to go back to the drawing board.
I still have my doubts about her ability to go beyond activist rhetoric. She was asked about whether she could live up to Shaw's ability to work with people who fundamentally disagreed with to reach sustainable compromise agreements and in her answer she ...
I don't see how it does the neurodivergent any favours to say neurodiversity makes you more likely to punch people who are weaker than you if you get angry with them.
It's easy to sneer at talk of high-tech weaponry, but keep in mind Ukraine didn't need any high-tech weaponry either - until suddenly it did. We may not have a land border with a large, psychotic neighbour like Ukraine does, but we shouldn't turn our noses...
They're huge protests because Britain now has millions of Muslims in it. The previously existing useful idiots of the antisemitic left wouldn't have made a very big protest at all.
They did seem very even-handed in their murdering.
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