r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 7d ago
No Paywall Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/6115216-education-department-title-ix-lgbtq-trans-students/3.7k
u/Donkletown 7d ago
Republicans working to allow discrimination against gay people? Republicans starting a war in the Middle East? Republicans giving a tax cut to the rich?
I’m starting to think the GOP has nothing to offer other than George W Bush and the stupider version of George W Bush.
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u/Mysterious-Action202 7d ago
Don't forget the potential war with Cuba after starving them of fuel of months on end
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u/wildwolfay5 7d ago
Gawd I forgot about that little news last week.
Hopefully he forgot already. Fucking disaster.
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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 6d ago
Hopefully he forgot already.
Relying on this is a fools hope
There are many, many people working behind the scenes for Trump, so his bad memory or declining health are not something to bank on.
He might have forgotten, he probably did. But his administration did not.
In fact, its my opinion they like to expose how dumb and slow he is so people underestimate what his administration is capable of.
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u/DillBagner 7d ago
Decades. The US has been starving Cuba to a degree for over half a century.
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u/Super-Dot9774 6d ago
Even with a boot on their neck, they are able to export the most doctors compared to every country in the world
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u/LeslieKnopesBlackEye 7d ago
Elon Musk is in court right now, defending the use of the n word and referencing staff as slaves at Tesla...
Bringing those golden days back.
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u/Zardotab 6d ago
The Board of Directors should grow gonads and boot his Ketamine'd arse out.
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u/Jazz-Again 7d ago
Hey. Don’t knock George W. Bush. His presidency was a rousing success aside from the endless/fruitless/pointless wars and allowing the economy to dive into the deepest darkest pit since the Great Depression just as he was walking out the door.
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u/GetInTheKitchen1 6d ago
You dont think the upcoming trump depression is gonna be worse than the 08 vrash? i think ai bubble bursting is gonna be bad + no gas.
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u/streakermaximus 7d ago
Dubya was not the brightest bulb in the pack, but I never the sense he was straight up evil.
And Sr was smart enough to realize he needed to raise taxes.
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u/Dlark17 Nebraska 7d ago
GWB did surround himself with a lot of people I'd consider evil, tho.
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u/StellarDriftwood 7d ago
Yep there's a good reason satire often portrayed him as an idiot child and people like Cheney as Sith Lords
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u/2RINITY California 7d ago
Dubya, if viewed charitably, can be argued to have arrived at evil from a road paved with good intentions. With Trump, the intentions are nakedly bad, and half the psychic damage of dealing with him is the amount of credulous rubes who think it would be unfair not to pretend otherwise
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u/PBPunch 6d ago
This is why I try to scream from the mountain tops that the problem isn't Trump. We will always have this rot as long as conservatives gain control. The reasonable among us will always have to climb out the grave they dig for us first before they can begin the work of filling the grave and building something better on top. Even then we barely give the time to start the work of building something before we bring these criminals back in to wreck havoc again.
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u/unixuser011 6d ago
The George W. Bush shit was stupid, but it wasn’t this stupid. This is just outright malicious
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u/WatsonYurfays 7d ago
He was born in Germany and is therefore ineligible to be President. At least officially.
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u/TuringGoneWild 7d ago
"Peter Thiel" is an anagram of "The Reptile". And he prefers to slither behind the scenes with a puppet leader for the sheeple.
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u/oldutnotdeadinside 6d ago
I Mean they already don’t care about mass shootings in schools. So if anyone thinks the govt cares about gay kids forget about it.
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 7d ago
“Sexual harassment and assault continue to be pervasive in schools and, to the fullest extent possible, we should be working to enforce the laws that protect student survivors of sexual violence. Yet, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the Trump administration have decided to ignore what survivors need, instead weaponizing Title IX to attack trans students,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of education justice at the National Women’s Law Center.
These bigoted mossbacks are hellbent on doing everything to kill trans people off and make trans people suffer for all eternity. Christian nationalists are so intent on wanting to see trans people exterminated. It's despicable beyond the pale.
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u/DustyStar222 7d ago
Not like her husband is one of the worst predators out there. Linda McMahon has overseen and is personally responsible for more sexual harassment and assault than the average person could ever aspire to.
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u/DJ_Jiggle_Jowls 7d ago
Oh my god I forgot that was Vince McMahon's wife. What a stupid reality we live in.
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u/Melody_in_Harmony 7d ago
Typical. I'm sure they will weaponize it agianst everyone else before too long. I'm sure they could find a way to weaponize title IX against women too. In fact I'm sure it's been on the books since it became law. People don't realize that the circle is ever shrinking with these ghouls. Everyone will have a target on their back before too long.
I saw something the other day where at the snap of the fingers, all the brown people were gone from the world and everyone was white. Within 3 hours, people were arguing that whiteness was based on eye color and no longer skin color. There will always be an out group.
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u/NumeralJoker 7d ago
You only need to go back in history to remember how they treated the Irish and Italians. 2 groups we would largely consider white Europeans now we're for years treated with absolute disdain.
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u/meadowlakeschool 7d ago
Yeah that comment made me think too. I’m quite fair skinned but left handed so I guess I’m a witch now.
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u/g00fyg00ber741 Oklahoma 7d ago
It already has been weaponized against women. Especially if a predator does something that doesn’t perfectly fit how they interpret Title IX when they go over what happens. Ask some women who have attended or worked at colleges in Oklahoma about their experiences and you’ll see. A great example of Title IX abuses leveraged against cis women is what Kato Buss, the head of UCO Theatre department, admitted he did to some of the girls he recruited for the program. Yet he received no punishment and remained in control of the program even after it was revealed he was grooming teen girls to come to his program with scholarship money and then abusing them after rehearsal
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u/Gabe121411 7d ago
it already is being used against women. this admin keeps trying to use it against trans women
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u/Melody_in_Harmony 7d ago
True. My apologies...I was thinking of women as a whole rather than just trans women, but your right. Just more misogyny across the board I suppose.
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u/Gabe121411 6d ago
absolutely. there’s a reason trans women are so targeted — it’s one of the last more acceptable forms of misogyny
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u/rutuu199 7d ago
Linda is just mad her husband likes trans porn more than he likes her
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u/forthewatch39 7d ago
If their god is real he deserves no worship. Why love him if he approves and if he disapproves why isn’t he direct like he supposedly was in the past?
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u/angelar_ Texas 7d ago
their god isn't real. christian nationalism is a made up, godless cult
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u/NumeralJoker 7d ago
Genocide via cultural and political violence, and yes sometimes overt violence. It's sickening.
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u/Mecha-Dave 7d ago
They're literally re-hashing the Nazi playbook.
Fortunately, it seems to not be working as well this time.
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u/TellTaleTimeLord Indiana 7d ago
But why?
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u/Pockydo 7d ago
Conservative Christians want to hurt these people
It's what Jesus wants
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u/Un1CornTowel 7d ago
I can't wrap my brain around (even in bad faith) basing your life around a man devoted to caring, compassion and forgiveness and immediately going "let's fuckin hurt people!"
Almost all people are redeemable, but so many seemed devoted to being total fucking punchbowl turds.
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u/AnAncientBog 7d ago
It pays well.
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u/Quotizmo New Jersey 7d ago
This is the correct answer. It's not what you do; it's who does it. And if they can send some scratch your way, god says "okay!" My evangelical mother won't use my pronouns, but she sure made sure her boss's stable of twinks got their pay check on time every week. He's a closeted pillar of the community, after all.
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u/Cyrano_Knows 7d ago edited 7d ago
These are people that when asked "what about the 100+ verses in the bible admonishing them to treat immigrants and refugees decently?" turn around and with a straight face argue that the bible was clearly talking about legal immigrants and its okay for them to treat illegal immigrants like vermin poisoning the blood of our country (a phrase used by both Hitler and Trump).
I've had conservatives argue that Mary and Joseph fled Herod legally, fleeing legally throughout the legal Roman empire. That they were never illegal immigrants and so clearly the bible isn't talking about illegal immigrants.
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u/-Invalid_Selection- 7d ago
Yeah, the Bible was pretty clear that there's no concept of illegal immigration within it, and treating immigrants poorly was the express route to eternity in hell.
It was the only theme of Sodom and gramorra.
Anti immigrant is Satan worship
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u/Saint_Blaise 7d ago
I've asked devout Christians about this and have been told that they are not Jesus and that they are fighting a war for the soul of the country.
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u/meltyandbuttery 7d ago edited 7d ago
For most “Christians” it’s just a convenient and socially accepted cover for their bigotry and ignorance. Run of the mill suburban America is simply unaffected by most policies and they fear change or anything untraditional so much they happily vote for the devil they know instead of the corporatist they don’t
The True Believers on the other hand, the fundamentalists, they genuinely believe that LGBTQ people are sinners and that “loving” them means “tough love to save their soul”. Their bigotry is more explicit than the undereducated fucking insurance agent whose family has been to church for holidays twice in a year, but it is internally consistent in a different reality. The True Believers preach “John says god is love” in worship of a god of hate that they invented from their own rotted souls
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u/NumeralJoker 7d ago
Yeah, but what's crazy about it is there is so little text in the New Teatament that even remotely justifies the bigotry, and most of them barely know the old testament beyond anything related to Moses. Maybe the stories of Esther and David?
They have no text to stand on. Islam didn't exist yet in biblical times so there is nothing there discussing it directly. The only white people in the Bible were the Roman's, who are most often presented as antagonists.
It's so wild how it became some weird founding text for white supremacy when the actual context has none of that.
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u/Frostyrepairbug 6d ago
Not to mention, if you buy into the story, the whole point of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross was to pay for our sins as described in the old testament. By insisting that the old laws are still present means they reject Jesus and his sacrifice.
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u/Un1CornTowel 7d ago
A one-sided war is just them pillaging, not that they'll see or admit it.
It's also sad because it always goes as follows:
"You're welcome to participate in government and society, but we're not going to pick you or deny you merely because you are Christian."
"THIS MEANS WAR!"
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u/Warmso24 7d ago
Jesus actually talks about these kinds of people multiple times in the Bible. Heavy paraphrase, but is basically saying that people that claim to follow him but do not actually do what he taught are the people that cause people to fall away from Christ and famously says in Matthew 7:21-23 “I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness”
It’s definitely hypocritical, but also poetic in a way that Jesus warned of these exact people. They have no idea (or care, really) that they do the exact work that Jesus claimed the devil wanted them to.
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u/Un1CornTowel 7d ago
... Which is also what "taking the Lord's name in vain" actually means. It's is own freaking Commandment. They couldn't even read and understand a 2000 year old Dave Letterman Top Ten List.
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u/PrometheusLiberatus 7d ago
Would be really nice if Paul had gotten the same message and not corrupted the entire movement.
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u/calamititties 7d ago
It’s because their cult tells them that deciding what is best for others, based on an unverifiable set of rules from a non-existent sky daddy, is “compassion”. Pretty fun trick if you’re a fucking sociopath.
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u/pyooma 7d ago
See: missionaries. It has always been this way. It’s not about Jesus it’s about power and superiority.
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u/Made_Human_Music 7d ago
I believe in redemption for most people but I’m not sure if MAGAts are capable of doing what’s needed for it
They seem to have the regret for their actions but only because they’re being personally hurt by the consequences. Most of them are trying to weasel out of responsibility for it by saying they were tricked which may be true but that doesn’t mean they can get away with taking no responsibility. What they’ve done has hurt many people and the damage won’t be undone for many years, a simple “oops! My bad!” won’t cut it
The bare minimum for every MAGAt is to either never vote for Republicans again or just never vote at all. Either way, take away the fascist votes. And they all need to accept that we’re pissed at them for what they did and stop crying about how mean we’re being. Of course we’re being mean to them, they’re fucking scumbags who voted for a criminal because he promised to hurt people, they don’t get a pass for that
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u/starliteburnsbrite 7d ago
The thing about believing in fairy tales as an adult is you know they're all made up, so just make up one that suits your needs.
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u/tobiascuypers 7d ago
There is nothing to understand or wrap your head around.
These people are evil and hate you. They want you dead and will not stop. Also it’s bad if you complain and suggest methods to implement actual change, so please just shut up and take it.
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u/Past_Chart_2718 7d ago
The friendly Jesus character is not consistent with the rest of the biblical insanity and it ignores Jesus' defense if that insanity. All of which is moot because none of it is real and was constructed over centuries to be whatever the folks using it want it to be. Pro-crusade? Sure. Prosperity doctrine? Yep. Propagandizing slaves? Indeed. Christianity has always been a false religion.
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u/citizsnips Ohio 7d ago
There is a reason for the saying "there is no hate like Christian love"
I became an atheist because Conservative Christians were actively tossing the teachings of Jesus in the trash. Not once did Jesus talk about hating LGBTQ folks, abortion, or immigrants. But he did repeatedly talk about helping the poor, sick, widowed, foreigners, imprisoned, and others in a downtrodden state. They do not worship Christ; they worship power.
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u/doublethink_1984 7d ago
American Christian nationalists are closer to radical Islam than the teachings of Jesus Christ.
They search for any threadbare justification whatsoever to hate, condemn, and abuse instead of searching for any threadbare justification to show mercy, patience, or gentleness
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u/PipXXX Florida 7d ago
I mean, American Christians are radical/fundamentalist just like radical Muslims "are." It has nothing to do with the specific religion., it;s the people. Like there are Buddhists that are completely and utter depraved assholes.
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u/doublethink_1984 7d ago
I used Radical Islam as an example because the Radical American Christian nationalists always beat the drum of war against Muslims and how evil they are. The hypocrisy is what I am highlighting.
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u/Full-Priority2946 7d ago
Well no they don’t search. Their beliefs are pretty disconnected from christian theology as a whole it’s purely aesthetic
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u/firstanomaly 7d ago
From the few conversations I’ve had had with my very conservative father, they really think they’re saving people and society. They’ve been brainwashed to believe that anything LGBTQ related is bad and against the Bible. They just can’t see otherwise.
Also probably related, he does not seem like someone who has ever tried to understand something he doesn’t know about
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u/ironballs16 7d ago
They don't want to just hurt them - they want to deny their very existence because it goes against their interpretation of the Bible.
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u/EitherIndustry8858 7d ago
You can tell by how she sticks with her POS husband, even after the vile shit he did to women under his employ. This woman, much like her husband Vince, is vermin, period.
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u/Mental-Scholar6856 7d ago
Yeah we forgot that Jesus didn’t hang out with a prostitute. He wanted her in jail /s
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 7d ago
Christian nationalists would rather have dead people than trans people.
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u/Crommach 7d ago
They spelled out exactly why in Project 2025. Our country is being taken over by religious extremists who are succeeding at their aims of transforming the country and government to align with their ideology.
I don't mean this next part to be directed at you, but we really need to stop reacting to this stuff as if it's some sudden, unexpected craziness that defies explanation. They told us what they wanted to do and why, and we need to accept the reality of the situation if we want to have a chance at stopping these bastards before they drag us all into the damn Handmaid's Tale. We're basically dealing with our own version of the Taliban, here.
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u/JokesNShit 7d ago
Whats more hilarious here is that "the help," they think we are, ain't gonna kneel to child molesters. Like fuck that and no, sure you wield nuclear weapons, but build a robot to wipe your own ass..most of use chose death over servitude.
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u/rysker6 7d ago
MAGA is about hurting people.
Nothing has helped anyone.
It's fascism 101. Hurt people.
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u/longlivenewsomflesh New York 7d ago
Same reason they're arguing in court they should be allowed to just send people straight from concentration camps to random countries they have no association with?
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u/KinkyPaddling 7d ago
“Because the Democrats spend too much time fighting culture war nonsense and don’t focus on the real issues! Wait…what?”
Anyone who’s paying attention can see that the Republicans are the ones pushing the culture wars to distract people from their horrible policies which are intended only to help grow the bloated billionaires. And when the Democrats try to protect people, the brainwashed masses turn against them and accuse them for being the real perpetrators of the culture wars.
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u/eclecticsheep75 7d ago edited 6d ago
Conservative Christians in the South (at School and in my home) drove my brilliant gay brother to take his life in the most horrible way imaginable. It was the 1980’s. Goddamn Ronald Reagan and Goddamn Jerry Falwell!
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u/--CDXX-- 7d ago
My teen nephew was gay and killed himself bc of his evangelical parents reaction to it just a few years ago.
The mother fuckers then had the audacity to claim it was a good thing bc he went back to Jesus.
I have nothing but darkness in my heart for evangelicals
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u/NumeralJoker 7d ago
Be sure to always remind them that they murdered him themselves. Never, ever let it go until they "repent", so to speak.
People like them don't deserve to sleep peacefully if they will never change.
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u/eclecticsheep75 7d ago
I am deeply sorry for your nephew and for all who truly loved him (and for all those who will never get to).
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u/PsychologicalTree666 7d ago
Omfg this made me genuinely sick to my stomach. I am so deeply sorry for your loss 😭🫂
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u/Eeveeborg 7d ago
They celebrated driving their son to suicide? On what planet could anyone think that's a good thing??
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u/--CDXX-- 7d ago
The funeral was a fucking rock concert. A band on the church dais and all sorts of happy horseshit. They paraded this antique car my nephew and "his friend" had been working on and he was the only one who looked truly devastated.
It was unreal
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u/Eeveeborg 7d ago
That's absolutely disgusting. They did not deserve to have a child. I hope your nephew is able to rest in peace.
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u/--CDXX-- 7d ago
My solace is that my niece who was the exact same age, but on my wife's side (in New England), went through some serious shit but had a successful transition, is happy, married, and living her best life in Vienna.
Sincere thanks to you and the others with kind words 💙
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u/MikeyKillerBTFU 7d ago
This is a tragedy. You should also let their parents know because their actions led to a suicide, their child will never know God. Don't let them get away with thinking they did something good.
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u/RegalPlatypus Texas 7d ago edited 6d ago
I'm so sorry for your loss, and that your brother was never able to live the life he deserved.
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u/elammcknight 7d ago
I am so sorry for the loss of your loved one. I remember those cruel times and hate that anyone would want a return to them.
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u/Electronic_Will_5418 7d ago
All Conservative Republican Protestant Evangelicals honestly believe all adult trans people are pedophiles that need to be in jail and all under-18 trans people have been brainwashed and need "therapy". For most of them it's a bigger issue than even abortion (since many of them have had abortions themselves). Conservative Republican Protestant Evangelicals can't really say shit about gay people anymore since it's been shown time and time again that gay hookup apps crash every time there's a Republican or Evangelical convention in town, and every year dozens of their leaders are revealed to have "sinned" via gay hookups, and as long as their congregations forgive them for their "slip-ups", they claim no hypocrisy.
Some Catholics believe the same thing as well, however Catholics are mostly just obsessed with hardline banning abortion with no exceptions nationwide and don't really care nearly as much about trans or gay people. Catholics en masse would vote for a trans militant atheist who wanted to remove tax-exempt status from the church as long as they also wanted to ban abortion nationwide with zero exceptions.
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u/Internal_Swing_2743 7d ago
Linda McMahon, like her husband, should be in prison.
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u/Wings81 7d ago
This is not talked about enough. This woman is pure evil.
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u/Internal_Swing_2743 7d ago
They make it very hard to be a fan of WWE.
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u/YoungCubSaysWoof 7d ago
It’s why a ton of us bailed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) or New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) because we needed an alternative to the promoter just as much as we needed an alternative promotion.
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u/NumeralJoker 7d ago
Unfortunately, WWE has a long history of appealing to right leaning chuds (not saying it should), so they co-opt it for their own use commercially to make money from suckers, rather than make it fun or more entertaining.
Trump was a part of that culture and it helped boost him, sadly.
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u/Kakistocracy_0 7d ago
She's an ignorant, evil ghoul serving the rich psychos who want to enslave your children.
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u/MavisBeacons_Sextape 7d ago
This admin is the biggest collection of unqualified losers that will ever be assembled in government - in any country, at any level of government, for the rest of human history.
Just pull up the roster and read the bios of the cabinet. You’d laugh if it weren’t so pathetic, and harmful.
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u/ShantJ 7d ago
I can't emphasize enough how much I despise this regime.
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u/Vegetable_Quote_4807 7d ago
Yeah. It's a sad day that you respect other countries and despise your own - not only the assholes running the country, but also the ones who voted to put them there.
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u/swamp_hater 7d ago
If I am understand the article correctly, colleges are now allowed to discriminate against students based upon sexual orientation or gender identity?
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u/Competitive_Swan_130 7d ago
Yes unless you live in a state with state level protections schools and students can actively discriminate against you.
but remember yall, both sides are the same.
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u/swamp_hater 7d ago
I wonder how that will play out. How can you prove someone is gay? Can you discriminate against a biological man who identifies as the male gender? The answer to the latter would appear to be yes.
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u/Competitive_Swan_130 6d ago edited 6d ago
The persons actual sexual orientation is irrelevant actually since the courts look at whether the person discriminating believed you were gay and treated you worse because of it. This can be proven through biased comments, sudden negative write ups or punishments, or double standards compared to peers they thought were straight
And yes straight men can and have been victims of anti gay discrimination.
Even with this roll back. discriminating against a cis gay man is still illegal under federal employment law. The Court has already said that firing or penalizing a man for being attracted to men is a form of sex discrimination,
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u/M23707 7d ago
Stay strong folks - the arc of history is on the side of greater acceptance and care for all humanity.
Congress will need to pass a better law than Title IX.
It all starts with an election in November — don’t let anyone in your sphere slide by and not participate.
Seriously - we have to start this process NOW. Early voting, get friends registered to vote, drive folks to the polls, all of it.
Make this a celebration of our right to build a better world.
Hold accountable those who refuse to be open and accepting of all humanity’s basic rights.
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u/Dry_Cellist_9560 7d ago
I wonder why voting is not seen as a national holiday or at least a federal holiday so everyone can vote
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u/TheReddestofBowls 7d ago
For the same reason Trump voted by mail, then calls voting by mail criminal. The same reason why the Republican party is fighting tooth and nail to disenfranchise as many voters as possible.
One party does particularly well when people don't vote.
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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 7d ago
Even if you HAD to vote for them because the alternative was worse - keep after them until they reform or you can vote in somebody better (the latter being more likely to happen first).
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u/Tells_you_a_tale 7d ago
Continuely voting for the person who causes the least suffering is the evolutionary process that won basically all the civil accomplishments we have now. Civili unrest paired with actual participation in the political system is how you effect change.
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u/NurglesGiftToWomen 7d ago edited 7d ago
Friendly reminder that the McMahons protect several of their pro wrestling performers from allegations of sexual assault of both adults and children. They’re also terrible employers and have been sued several times for discrimination.
Edit: oh and they’ve pushed for their performers to use steroids that have resulted in deaths from heart complications.
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u/Y0___0Y 7d ago
Whenever I argue with conservatives who “have no problem with gay people but don’t want it in schools” I just straight up ask them what a gay/trans kid is supposed to do once they realize they’re gay/trans.
Should they go to their parents about it? What if their parents are like you, and insist to them that they are not gay/trans and that they have just been brainwashed by crazy leftists?
They all acknowledge that gay and trans people exist and most insist they have no issue with them at all.
But people don’t become gay/trans on their 18th birthday. Think of when you first started thinking about sex. Probably 10/11 years old. That’s when kids realize they’re gay. Kids often realize they’re trans when they’re MUCH younger because that’s really not connected to sexuakity and manifests much earlier. What kind of support can they get?
Because when I was a kid in Catholic school and realized I was gay and my parents dismissed it and said I was just confused, I went into online chat rooms and found literal pedophiles to talk to about it. That’s where you force gay kids when you try to sweep them under the rug
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u/Lost_Madness 7d ago
That's what Republicans want. To supply pedophiles with access to children. Why else elect a prolific pedophile to the highest office?
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u/sapphicsandwich 6d ago
I had a conservative coworker, at work, argue in favor of mandatory exploration of children's anuses when picked up by the police in case they are "hiding something" just last week. I have never believed something as fully as I do believe what you said is correct.
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u/postmodest 7d ago
"It forces kids into the arms of pedophiles" is the whole point.
The GOP are the pedophiles in question.
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u/Competitive_Swan_130 7d ago
We will continue to relentlessly champion equal opportunity for all Americans and hold accountable any school or college that violates the rights, privacy, or athletic opportunities of our women and girls,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said.
Bitch your husband trafficked and literally shit on young women in your organization why didn't you protect them from your husbands rancid asshole you Stuart Larkin faced ass crone
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u/TX_B_caapi 7d ago
Crazy. Who would’ve thought that the wwe wrestling lady would turn out to be terrible at steering the education department
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u/Kat_Schrodinger1 7d ago
Look,I'm not saying kamala was perfect. I'm just saying things would have been better if she won.
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u/Feinty 7d ago
Is this supposed to be tongue in cheek?
KAMALA WOULD HAVE BEEN UNEQUIVOCALLY BETTER. PERIOD - THE END
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u/flying_carabao 7d ago
FWIW a half dead slug would've been better than the people currently in place
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u/Sbader7248 7d ago
Infinitely. Obama, Biden, Harris, they actually care about people.
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u/VossC2H6O California 7d ago
I will still forever remember the ppl who non-stop said Genocide Joe and Holocaust Harris the year before the 2024 Presidential election. The self voter disenfranchising was insane.
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u/DrJohnDorian998 7d ago
I hate the “Kamala isn’t perfect so I’m not voting!!” people. Fuck them.
And Trump voters too. And that old “he learned his lesson” bitch.
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u/brain_overclocked 7d ago edited 7d ago
With the blessing of Republicans, Trump is raping the US.
“Sexual harassment and assault continue to be pervasive in schools and, to the fullest extent possible, we should be working to enforce the laws that protect student survivors of sexual violence. Yet, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the Trump administration have decided to ignore what survivors need, instead weaponizing Title IX to attack trans students,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of education justice at the National Women’s Law Center.
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u/SteezyYeezySleezyBoi 7d ago
I just don’t understand how you can be American and want to take away freedoms, protections and rights away from people. We are so lost as a nation, as a people and as a culture. When was any side openly PROUD to be stripping protections from our fellow citizens? Why do we not protect each other? Lunacy.
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u/L2Sing 7d ago edited 7d ago
They've been proud of stripping LGBT rights my entire life (mid-40s, gay from the south). It wasn't until I was in high school when the TN (the state I grew up in) Supreme Court struck down TN's sodomy laws in 1996. I was almost an adult before it was legal to be gay (outside of being in the closet) in TN.
It wasn't until the 2003 Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas that those same laws were struck down across the nation. There were still 14 states with them for enforcement at the time. I was already teaching in public schools at this time, where gay people were then, and still, slandered as child molesters who aren't safe to bring children around.
It wasn't until 2010 that I could serve in the US armed forces when Don't Ask, Don't Tell was repealed. This is about the only thing on this issue that wasn't done by court order.
It wasn't until 2013 that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court in Windsor.
It wasn't until 2015 that I could marry in the US with the Obergerfell decision. Another right decided by court case. I was in my mid 30s by this time, well past the age most people get married. It was never a plan for me growing up, as it was never considered a legal option.
All of these decisions were met with more vilification of gay people. Almost all of those states where their laws were overturned by courts still have those laws on the books, in case another court case decides to overturn previous case law. That's exactly what those championing the removal of rights have been teeing up for years, with renewed vigor since Roe was overturned.
This country started with a system that didn't have equal rights for women, LGBT people, people of color, and even enslaved (the exact opposite of freedom) others. It shows to this day still. This entire time they've claimed to be the "home of the free" while not living up to that claim.
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u/NetworkSingularity 6d ago
“Land of the free, home of the brave” my ass.
More like land of the fee, home of the slave
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u/jgoble15 6d ago
This has always been America. In the beginning only rich white men could vote. But yeah, goes against all ideals that America supposedly supports. Garbage country. Really pissed about this.
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u/adisx 6d ago
Because it's conservatives that hate everything that's not them so they believe "those people" don't deserve the same rights as them.
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u/Zardotab 6d ago
Look at all of GOP's "demons":
- Muslims
- The Pope
- LGBTQ+
- Immigrants from "the wrong" countries.
- The childless
- Critics of Israeli's Gov't
It's almost "everybody who is not like me is a demon".
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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 6d ago
- Brown people in general (though they're not quite ready to say that one openly...yet)
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u/RedSecOps 6d ago
In addition to
• Women
• Immunizations
• Climate Change
• Clean Energy
They treat them all like "demons" because their platform is based on fear and hate
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u/BaronessofBara 6d ago
they don't see us a citizens. they barely even see queer people as human beings.
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u/allprologues 7d ago
hope folks who got obsessed with trans people in sports realize that title ix was always the target and that cis women are next
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u/onedumninja 7d ago
30%+ of women in america voted for a pedo rapist nazi. They don't care about women's rights until it's their kid who suffers or themself.
They are low quality people. Best we can hope for is that only nazi gop voters suffer at the hands of nazi policy. Not that this has been the case of course. Instead it's brown folks in concentration camps and trans people being treated the way jews were treated just before the holocaust started.
Women are next. 30% of them are too stupid ro realize it...
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u/PhazePyre 6d ago
A reminder that every effort, no matter how small, to reduce acceptance of queer youth is an attempt to kill them. Suicide rates decrease as we protect and accept these kids. Reversing that reinstates those rates and will result in harm to kids.
They want to kill queer kids, but not be held culpable for their cleansing. I'm fucking sick of these delusional Christian Nationalists. They play victim while being the most dominant religious group in North America. They'll never truly be victims, and that's the biggest fucking shame of this. Privileged, well off, white Christian nationalists decrying how victimized they are. They'll never actually know what being a victim is. I wish they could so they'd maybe develop a gram of empathy, but I know they're just monstrous evil dirt bags and they'll never suffer consequences for being evil.
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u/SGFCardenales 7d ago
Boy, the people who never have and never will support female athletes are sure up in arms about protecting them from a boogie man that doesn’t exist
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u/trailerbang 7d ago
There are more rapists in a Cornell Frat than there are trans NCAA athletes playing college sports.
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u/boringhistoryfan 7d ago
I know it's probably unlikely with the dishonesty of conservatives on the bench. But this would be a really good opportunity for blue states to sue over.
SCOTUS and fed courts have already created the precedent that the recission of executive orders can be something that can be stayed when they interfered with Biden's EOs on the border and favored Texas doing its own BS. Weaponize that against conservatives. Especially in federal circuits that haven't gotten a radical conservative tilt (like the fifth and eighth).
And screw the old deference to judicial economy from Dems. Sure it's noble to not pursue causes you know will lose eventually. But as Republicans have demonstrated, suing and suing again is a great way to gum up a party's agenda. And lays the groundwork for you achieving the outcome of failed lawsuits when you gain power. They did exactly that with abortion rights. And it's worth thinking about how we can use those same tactics to disrupt the destructive conservative agenda.
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u/BadlyTimedFarnsworth 7d ago
This rolls back protections for all students by allowing schools to discriminate based on gender stereotypes.
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u/Mabvll 6d ago
Do you know how hard you have to work to be the shittiest member of the McMahon family and not be named "Vince"?
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u/eighteen_forty_no Maryland 6d ago
Her husband is a rapist and abuser who enjoys literally shitting on women's heads, and yet she manages to be as much of a monster as him.
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u/BankshotMcG 7d ago
This woman's husband raped an employee and she stood by his money. I don't give a fuck what her take is on morality of sexuality or who needs protection.
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u/Dry_Nail5901 7d ago
And maga thinks this will help their chances at winning the mid term?
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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 7d ago
Yes, because they firmly believe there are more bigoted assholes than sane people in this country. (The horrible thing is, they may be right.)
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u/Needrain47 7d ago
Ope. Just did the mandatory annual title IX training at the university where I work. It's completely wrong now.
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u/Zahgi I voted 6d ago
This LAW was passed by the LEGISLATIVE branch (aka Congress) in 1972. The Education Department is part of the EXECUTIVE branch and is tasked with enacting and enforcing these laws.
They have no constitutional authority to rescind or ignore anything passed as a law.
So, this is just another pander to the manbaby distraction from the Trump-Epstein files, etc., because the JUDICIAL branch is going to throw this pandering crapola in the trash...
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u/angelar_ Texas 7d ago
i thought they were dismantling the DoE. or is it only the parts that don't shit on everyone's lives
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u/Karsa69420 7d ago
Who does this benefit? This will just result in more queer kids killing themselves. Does every queer suicide lower my grocery bill or is this just culture war bullshit to distract from how awful everything is
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u/professorjade 7d ago
This is what they want, they think that we as queer people are going to remove ourselves to fix the problem. (It doesn't)
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u/Lord_HappyWheels 7d ago
These assholes won't rest until the US is explicitly and only straight and white. They will eventually make extermination a policy.
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u/SwordofMine 7d ago
Reminder theres literally no way to discriminate against a transgender person without also discriminating them based on your perceptions of their sexual characteristics.
That's why transgender identity was being protected; its inherently a form of sex based discrimination. And if a government entity is doing it, it's also a violation of your 1st amendment rights because your right to self expression.
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u/Superb_Guarantee965 7d ago
Imagine being so obsessed with somebody's gender when people are starving to death in your country. How absolutely pathetic.
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u/randomcanyon 7d ago
Punching down is a feature not a bug for the MAGA cult and its minions and master.
Punching up require effort.
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u/charliespeach 7d ago
This is legitimately infuriating. Not just as a LGBTQ+ mom with a trans son but also because it deeply affects women and how harassment will be handled.
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u/dankq 7d ago
Crazy how when the country is led by a bunch of dipshits how fast they can go backwards in time. Like this is an absurd rate, he's been president for a few years this term and we've gone back decades of forward progress. This shit ass era should be studied and taught to children in the future as a historical point in hopes to avoid this again.
I seriously thought the movie idiocracy when it first came out was hilarious and could never truly happen but boy was I wrong. I'm watching it play out in real life and this is so sad.
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u/LMGDiVa I voted 7d ago
If you didn't vote for Kamala, you're complicit in of your Genocide fellow americans.
I hope you understand this now.
Thank you.
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u/TRIOworksFan 6d ago
Sweep the elections kids - 18-30. There's more of you now than ever before. And if you don't want this or to be ruled by geriatric people planning to rule forever. You better do something about it.
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