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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 30 May, 2022 @ 05:30am

  Gay male sexual perversion spreads a great deal of disease, and I was reading to the (probably gay) anal vore story comment. And although I will now be labeled as homophobic too, that's not what I meant - I'm androphobic, not homophobic. All men are pigs, and even those that aren't have what we used to jokingly call "pig potential". There are a certain percentage of men who will have indiscriminate and promiscuous sex in weird and inventive ways with anyone who will have them. For straight men, this behavior is tempered by the much smaller percentage of women who want to associate with such men, so that partners are more difficult to find. But when those men are gay and find each other, all bets are off, and when disease takes hold, it spreads rapidly among those men.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 01:35pm

  https://japantoday.com/category/features/health/expert-monkeypox-likely-spread-by-sex-at-2-raves-in-europe Also https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sam-brinton-kinky-joe-biden-puttin-on-the-dog/

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 01:32pm

  It's been a long time since I saw The Crying Game. Anyway, "he".

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 01:26pm

  No one is entitled to force anyone else to act to alleviate their suffering. The bum in the street might feel better if he could force me to buy him a bottle of whiskey, but I'm not going to do that. I don't have to demonstrate that someone else's beliefs are lies in order to call them lies. We are all allowed to believe as we like, and we are none of us allowed to coerce the beliefs of others. So I can call Hindu beliefs about the sacredness of cows a lie, and even though Hindus and vegans might be distraught over the plight of beef cattle, I am under no obligation to stop eating hamburgers.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 01:15pm

  Yes. I'm glad you understand. This is why I hope the platforms voluntarily react to criticism by more fullt supporting the free speech rights of their users.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 01:11pm

  https://retractionwatch.com/2018/08/29/reader-outcry-prompts-brown-to-retract-press-release-on-trans-teens/ https://retractionwatch.com/2021/11/02/paper-on-how-trans-youth-come-of-age-is-retracted-following-ethical-board-investigation/ https://retractionwatch.com/2020/04/30/journal-retracts-paper-on-gender-dysphoria-after-900-critics-petition/ There can be no science done on transgender issues in this climate. It is purely political.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 01:00pm

  There's a reason why we have the adage that the truth hurts. Physical reality is not kind to people who believe lies about it. A Superman costume does not let a man fly whne he jumps out the window. A woman costume does not turn a man into a woman. One common aspect to all of woke ideology is that the favored victim classes must never be confronted by harsh reality, only ever cocooned in the soft batting of comforting lies, even when the effect is to destroy them.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 08:52am

  Chuck Tingle? Is that you?

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 01:13am

  My politics lead me to disparage those people who are trying to take away other people's freedom and ability to live life in peace. So I disparage woke ideologues who demand affirmation of lies, ad woke gender ideologues who want to force women to allow men into their single-sex spaces. So I disparage woke ideologues who are soft on crime, and refuse to prosecute arsonists, rioters, looters, and thieves, do not keep arrested criminals with long records locked up before trial, do not allow judges to use discretion about who might be dangerous, and expend enormous effort to prevent convicted murderers from being executed. So I disparage crazed, stinking, drug-addled, possibly dangerous bums and their advocates, who turn city streets and subways into filthy, crime-ridden cesspools. So I disparage the Republican filth who would deny women (only!) the ability to abort their pregnancies as they choose. So I disparage the Republican filth who would censor books in libraries and bookstores based on their viewpoint. And so on.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 01:01am

  "He".

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 01:00am

  I hadn't hit it before. I guess it's more proof that "moderation at scale is impossible" even at this small scale.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:59am

  Yes, everyone should have the freedom to believe and act as they wish, provided it doesn't interfere with other people doing the same. That means that men who delusionally believe they're women should not be allowed to force their way into women's single-sex spaces. Woke gender ideologues should not be allowed to teach their ideology as truth in public schools. Public (and ideally, also private) employers should not have political officers that enforce ideological conformity on pain of firing.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:52am

  I neither voted for Trump nor believe that he won the election. I believe that Republicans are filth, and those who voted against certifying the election the night after the insurrection are traitors. And yet, woke ideology is obviously and ridiculously wrong. It's a funny old world.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:49am

  That is a ridiculous argument. If I were say that white people should not involve themselves in Black Lives Matter because they are not Black and so are not personally affected, I doubt that you would accept that premise. A society that affirms lies is corrosive to everyone in it, regardless of whether the particular lie affects them personally. And of course I do not want trans people to suffer. I simply do not want them to be permitted to impose their false beliefs on people who do not share them, in the same way that religious people are not allowed to force others to affirm their false beliefs. But if the only way a trans person can avoid suffering is by having everyone around them affirm their beliefs, I'm afraid they're going to be in for a bad time. And even if the people around them do affirm them, physical reality won't.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:39am

  If it gets resolved such that a speaker is silenced, then that speaker has been censored.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:37am

  They are no more facts than are recovered memory or facilitated communication or phrenology. Psychology is full of just-so stories, wishful thinking, bad science, and politically motivated results. (As is anything involving fMRI.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psikhushka

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:33am

  It would be nice if truth was not considered abusive, but whatever. Keep flagging, I guess.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:25am

  I will not let them stand in my living room to speak, and I will be infringing on their free speech rights by doing so.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:23am

  Until last year, California required that farm owners allow union organizers onto their private property. That's a very nice manifesto, by the way. Are you related to Cliven Bundy? He also thought he could do whatever he wanted with his property. And are you going to be visiting an elementary school anytime soon?

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:18am

  Correct. For all values of 'you'.

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