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Trump administration investigates Smith College for admitting transgender women
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Trump administration investigates Smith College for admitting transgender women
Civil rights inquiry claims policy may breach Title IX as administration escalates attacks on trans rights
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lostroadrunner22 May 5, 2026 +4795
Smith College is a private university. So, what trump is saying is the government should control private business.
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CletusCanuck May 5, 2026 +104
Well yeah, that's what fascism does. It's pretty much a key tenet. It's state-controlled capitalism, where 'The State' = 'Dear Leader'. Private Industry is bent to His will and whims. He picks favorites, punishes companies out of favor, doles out patronage, and grifts at every opportunity.
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Venator850 May 7, 2026 +3
If it's State controlled then it's just a command economy at that point. Which is basically modern day China. 
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I_only_post_here May 5, 2026 +1959
That's ludicrous statement. Trump doesn't want the government to control private business. It's absurd you'd even make such a statement and shows you haven't paid any attention to what's really happening in the world. Trump wants Trump to control private business.
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PussyFriedNachos May 5, 2026 +198
The government is aiding him in this.
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pocketjacks May 5, 2026 +37
The government thinks they're a helper, but they're more like the guys behind the Home Depot that jumped into the back of a pickup with thin blue line and don't tread on me stickers.
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frejling May 5, 2026 +70
My thumb was heading to the reply button halfway through that. Damn you
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Daniel_H212 May 5, 2026 +17
Honestly it was really obvious sarcasm or a joke and I was waiting for the punchline. Was not disappointed
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DeliciousAnt9096 May 5, 2026 +52
Trump wants Republicans to control private businesses, if the government in general was allowed to control private business that would mean that Democrats would get a say. They might do horrible things like demand they treat their employees well instead of noble goals like forcing businesses to torture minority groups.
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nyscene911 May 5, 2026 +21
L’état, c’est moi \-Donald Trump, probably (but definitely not in French)
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lookieherehere May 5, 2026 +23
Had us the first half, not gonna lie
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Creative_Ad_8338 May 5, 2026 +46
☝️he's right, you know
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yamiyaiba May 5, 2026 +7
In fairness, to Trump, Trump and the government are one in the same. That's how it works when you're a king. They just let you do it.
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Malaix May 5, 2026 +116
He's always said this as long as he's been in control. Didn't he basically demand Nvidia pay him tithe? not to mention him trying to personally hand select who is allowed on TV or what is said.
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Whole_Pain_7432 May 5, 2026 +144
True fascism requires this. Private industry Its the obvious next play in the playbook for the wealthiest elites to cement their deathgrip on American society. “Private property is henceforth not an absolute right; it may be subordinated to the interests of the people and the state.” Adolph Hitler - Speech at Reichstag 1933 https://www.worldfuturefund.org/reports2013/hitlerenablingact.htm
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the-sleepy-mystic May 5, 2026 +21
Which has always been true. Consrvatives will swear up and down that government should stay out of our business, but suddenly when they're in power they want to be the one in others businesses.
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D4nnyp3ligr0 May 5, 2026 +14
"The worst part is the hypocrisy" - Norm McDonald
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crookdmouth May 5, 2026 +4
Patton Oswalt said that part.
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nyscene911 May 5, 2026 +12
I think it’s the raping.
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IntelligentStyle402 May 5, 2026 +21
In a totalitarian dictatorship, everything is controlled.
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Rezeox May 5, 2026 +6
The party of "small government."
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EsotericMysticism2 May 5, 2026 +11
Private educational institutions have been under a bunch of federal regulation regarding protected classes like race since atleast 1976 from *Runyon v. McCrary*
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miikro May 5, 2026 +7
We already saw that with the first Kimmel situation and the cancelling of Colbert.
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UbiSububi8 May 5, 2026 +7844
No complaints from the school or its students. Just a hate group and its allies in the hate house saying there’s a witch on campus and demanding to dunk her.
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lystically May 5, 2026 +1589
It’s hard to argue it’s anything but hate. 
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BetterWithAge27 May 5, 2026 +668
It always has been. Hate and hypocrisy is the only fuel they (bigots) run on.
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rif011412 May 5, 2026 +173
Which is funny, because whataboutism is the number 1 response to real criticisms, because the entire goal is to pretend they are not hypocrites. Me: “Trump is a massive corruption scandal, and he is stealing our taxes!!” Them: “Well, what about Biden?  He is a demon lord who helped get his kids get jobs.  He is more corrupt!” Me: -_-
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ImpulsE69 May 5, 2026 +91
I used to be anti-violence, but it's like that's the only language those people speak anymore. You can't have a conversation because there is no logic nor any pretense that they care about logic.
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Amber_bitchpudding May 5, 2026 +53
I have been trying to explaine this for years and nobody listens they call me a radical you cant reason with someone who does not want to reason with you and only wants to harm you
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BetterWithAge27 May 6, 2026 +25
I know what you mean. It’s def frustrating since none of this information is new. Ran out of breath over the years arguing with “Christians” on how greed is the root of all evil whilst being the fuel for the “holy grail” we assigned to capitalism. No one is prepared for what happens if we all return to truly acting individually/selfishly.. thats anarchy.
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Danny-Dynamita May 6, 2026 +7
They use psychological violence all the time (gaslighting, manipulation, hypocritical criticism, etc.). And their whole purpose is to make you look bad while whitewashing what they do. Before you know, you’re confused as f***, and making yourself look bad due to anger and impotence. Tbh, violence is the only way of breaking such a loop. You’ll look bad once, but at least you can obtain some result out of it, and your bad look will have a real reason. Playing their game you end up looking bad, angry, confused, getting nothing and empowering them.
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jimgolgari May 5, 2026 +33
And it’s hard to overstate the hypocrisy of an administration trying to position this as being about women’s safety with a notorious sexual predator as their figurehead.
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Syncopia May 5, 2026 +88
You see enough fully deranged anti-trans memes from right wingers and that's the only possible conclusion left. I've got a whole folder on my phone of anti-trans psychosis to show people who doubt the severity of the issue. People posting genuinely fucked up stuff, gore, murder, talking about wanting to throw trans people, even young ones like kids, into woodchippers. Sodom and Gomorrah references, talking about burning them alive. A few really mental ones going off about how they want to capture and experiment on them like the Nazis did. I don't think the average person watching comedians cracking jokes about them has any idea how deep and dark this hate movement really is.
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waffle_iron_maiden May 6, 2026 +34
All you really have to do is show people how frequently bigots try to cite suicide statistics of trans people as some sort of gotchya. That should be enough for anyone with a heart to stop and say hold on that's pretty fucked up Citing suicide statistics, and essentially sticking trans people in a box insisting they need mental help while also reminding them of suicide statistics to make them feel worse and worse about themselves. It's pointing out suicide statistics and directly pushing those statistics to get worse, being part of the problem due to a lack of basic empathy. I have seen people proudly tout online how they need to crank those numbers up. It really is vile. I'm not willing to argue with people who left their heart in the dirt rotting a long time ago
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Syncopia May 6, 2026 +16
Yeah I've got screenshots of a lot of that. "42% lol" "We gotta get that 42% up to 100%. Those are rookie numbers." The number changes all the time from a****** to a******, and then you get those concern trolls who pretend they just want to help them not commit suicide. I've linked the studies showing that transitioning lowers suicidality and they'll walk right past it and continue gaslighting by insisting that transitioning is the reason they're doing it. Fully deranged, fully dishonest, fully malignant. It's sick.
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waffle_iron_maiden May 6, 2026 +4
It's hard to wrap my head around that kind of hatred towards people you have never spoken to, even though this happens so frequently in human history. It should not ever be considered normal to celebrate their deaths. That should be the bare minimum. That's just human decency. But hey, there's a lot of very indecent people out there unfortunately. And they hide behind screens saying the most vile things imaginable to entire swathes of people they've never interacted with outside of trying to talk shit to them
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Poison_Spider May 6, 2026 +3
And the 42% is the amount of trans people who have thought about it at least once, right? They never say what statistic it actually is.
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Status_Apartment6559 May 9, 2026 +3
Maybe it's the people harassing transgender people who are contributing to their suicide rate .
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TheRappingSquid May 6, 2026 +16
"Both side aw bad 🥺 twans on twitter mmean once in 2016 🥺"
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Kaarl_Mills May 5, 2026 +24
They want to murder trans people, that's it, that ***all*** this hysteria has been motivated by since the begining
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scrotalayheehoo May 5, 2026 +60
What stance do any MAGA people have that isn’t fully set in hate?
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Whovian2024 May 5, 2026 +13
To be fair, MAGA’s also take stands rooted in stupidity.
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vikingwif May 5, 2026 +5
And greed. But mostly hate.
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Goldenrule-er May 5, 2026 +18
Stoking the hate keeps the masses redirecting their repressed rage to a useful scapegoat. This way the folks striking the scalegoat can continue to foment the rage by the continue impoverishment of the people. On the one hand, eventually that rage tears down the oppressive system, but on the other hand; this guaranteed end of authoritarian fascism destroys the entire social structure *and* its provisions. (At least by every historical example of it anyways.) Tragic irony par excellaaaance. Sad.
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st-shenanigans May 5, 2026 +63
You say that, but the conservatives sure will make it look easy
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waffle_iron_maiden May 6, 2026 +5
Of course, and none of the people making these decisions have ever spoken to a trans person for their perspective. Not that they would be willing to
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Aleksandrovitch May 6, 2026 +5
Bullies always need victims.
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ToolTimeT May 5, 2026 +359
I guarantee you the highest percentage of people who can't get into any accredited 4 year college have the most complaints about trans people going to college.
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dorkofthepolisci May 5, 2026 +217
These are the same people upset about the concept of DEI in general “They took my job/university spot” - these assholes were never competitive applicants anyway
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ToolTimeT May 5, 2026 +75
When I was watching a black pilot take Artemis II further into space than mankind has ever gone before, I thought to myself... thank goodness charlie doesn't have to worry about this for ten days straight.
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Lena-Luthor May 6, 2026 +4
well they got a call from trump midway through so unfortunately he definitely still did 😩
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OK_x86 May 5, 2026 +12
When you tie for fifth place and still complain
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erissays May 6, 2026 +12
The people upset about DEI are the funniest people to be involved in this conversation specifically because Smith is a women's college (or rather, a "historically single-sex institution" that hasn't officially gone co-ed); that's why the investigation is happening in the first place. You'd think that the DEI haters would hate the concept of women's colleges (like HBCUs) and not be trying to "protect the sanctity of women's education" or whatever bullshit they've come up with.
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ender727 May 5, 2026 +47
The Riley Gaines of academia. If they didn't want to come in 5th place they should have worked harder.
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PdtNEA1889 May 6, 2026 +3
It needs to be remembered that the Riley Gaines thing was even dumber than that. She TIED with Lia Thomas. If Thomas had not been allowed to compete, Gaines' finish would have gone from fifth to...still fifth.
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Poison_the_Phil May 5, 2026 +120
Some of the first books burned by the nazis we’re about trans people. It’s literally the same playbook
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Particular-Ice4615 May 6, 2026 +3
It literally is isn't it? RFK wanting to create an autism registry should have rang the alarm bells.  The first group given identifying arm bands and then purged by the Nazis before it got to the Jews and gypsies were people with mental and physical disabilities and mental health issues and homosexuals which was deemed a mental illness back then.  Hence why they want to loosen restrictions on school councillors and conversion therapy camps across several Republican states. Its clear as day what their ambitions are and it's not alarmist to say so.  The difference they know explicit drafted policy and legislation is unpopular across the board so they instead work through interpretations of existing law, and leaving it to the private sector and private citizens with services to enforce instead of using the state directly for plausible denialbility. 
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Jekkjekk May 5, 2026 +89
They have to make people hate trans folks instead of pedophiles
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UbiSububi8 May 5, 2026 +49
It’s deeper than that. If enough people hate transgender people enough - they’ll forget that their own lives have only gotten worse at the hands of those directing the hate.
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ignoreme010101 May 6, 2026 +13
that line about *"if you can convince the lowest white man that he is better than the best black man, you've got him"*
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Hairy_Concert_8007 May 5, 2026 +18
Same way I feel about the trans people in sports "issue" The NFL, NBA/WNBA, etc would have taken action and made various public statements about trans people creating issues in their sports. There is more than enough power among them to handle this if it is needed. And of course they haven't and they don't. It's always only ever government officials proclaiming there is a problem.
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NewsCards May 5, 2026 +1529
> A rightwing education group, Defending Education, filed a complaint in June 2025 to the education department’s office of civil rights against Smith, urging the department to investigate the college. The group goes after schools and teachers unions nationwide over diversity policies and perceived biases, saying it wants to “fight indoctrination in classrooms and on campus”. Oh yeah, because this is obviously a TOP PRIORITY issue we as a country should be focused on, not like we have anything else that we have to deal with.
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archlich May 5, 2026 +364
As always this is a distraction from the fleecing of America by the administration. They flood the field with reprehensible shit to steal billions from the tax payer.
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Alarming_Head_4263 May 5, 2026 +87
It is a distraction by the admin. The group is not a distraction. These people need to start to be named and shamed.
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Acceptable-Bus-2017 May 5, 2026 +22
Follow the money! Counter sue and demand financial records for who is funding them. Dollars to donuts it leads back to some rubles via republican PACs.
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BeanstheRogue May 5, 2026 +46
I mean we can keep calling things distractions but they do hurt if not kill people so I think it's better to get into a mindset where one can hear as much as they can and find a group of people to focus on one of the topics (trans rights, the nps, whatever your interest is, be the helper)
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archlich May 5, 2026 +9
Absolutely. They do not give a f*** about people, their health, their rights. They will hurt whoever they can to gain money and power.
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Al2718x May 5, 2026 +24
I think that it is much more than a mere distraction. Higher education teaches students to reflect on tradition, question authority, and be open to a variety of viewpoints. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous for the livelihood of an exploitative regime that values obedience over competence. As an aspiring college professor, I hate the constant attacks to cripple higher education, but I also totally understand them from a strategic standpoint.
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DTFlash May 5, 2026 +104
“fight indoctrination in classrooms and on campus” I believe they mean “To control indoctrination in classrooms and on campus”
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jwilphl May 6, 2026 +8
It's always projection.  They want right-wing (white washed or fascist), Christian-based indoctrination only.
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sfled May 5, 2026 +18
* Make Bondi testify. * Release the full Epstein files. * Prosecute the pedos.
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grimacedia May 5, 2026 +9
I checked out that group's website and they have a map of supportive organizations; I encourage everyone to look up local ones and get involved, especially if you're a parent. This shit is not okay and we need to be loud about it!
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RoundSmart8020 May 5, 2026 +14
american right wing college students are the worst kinds of people. beyond obnoxious, zero empathy for anyone they can't relate to, and they truly believe that they're completely right and probably informed by childhood religious indoctrination more than actual politics. it's pathetic.
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yamarashis May 5, 2026 +24
dragging teachers unions into "woke" civil suits is straight up evil wtaf 😭
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Automatic-Echidna870 May 5, 2026 +9
They are literally fighting against truth for the right to indoctrinate it’s beyond comprehension 
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IndubitableMatt May 5, 2026 +10
At first, I read it as Defunding Education and I was like, at least they’re not trying to hide their ultimate goal.
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Al2718x May 5, 2026 +6
Crippling higher education is absolutely a TOP PRIORITY if your goal is to minimize resistance to authoritarianism
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RandomStuffGenerator May 5, 2026 +17
And if you guys had time to focus on this, then the next step would be to discuss how can you possibly "fight indoctrination" by telling people what to think instead of exposing them to the real world.
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Bullyoncube May 5, 2026 +7
I think it’s actually called “defending against education“.
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DrakeTheCake1 May 5, 2026 +608
There is a reason why China calls trump their nation builder. While we bicker about stupid shit like this and defund eduction they pull ahead in pretty much everything from medicine, electric vehicles, infrastructure, robotics, and physics just to name a few. Even what they don’t discover or make themselves they eventually steal and produce is mass scales at an insane rate.
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str85 May 5, 2026 +227
Granted, this is anecdotal evidence. But yes, a lot of Europeans, including myself feel more comfortable with trusting China nowadays than the U.S.
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QbertsRube May 5, 2026 +214
What sucks is we can kick ass in the mid-terms to somewhat restrain Trump, and then kick ass again in 2028 and put a respectable, competent president back in the White House, but the world will always know we're one election away from putting Kid Rock or Erika Kirk in charge. Meanwhile, the clowns who voted for Trump genuinely seem to believe that "the world respects us now like never before" and they'll never acknowledge otherwise.
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sopheroo May 5, 2026 +101
What actually sucks is having your southern neighbor threaten your independence and saying that you would be better as a state than as a free country. It might take a whole generation to forget what was said.  It's gonna take way more than an election cycle.
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zaaaaa May 5, 2026 +45
It's going to take systematic reform which will only happen once the ownership class is fully divested from their wealth.
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QbertsRube May 5, 2026 +29
Understood and deserved. As a Michigander, I will say that there are a lot of us who feel more kinship with Canada than with MAGA, and that number would tilt even more if he actually starts taking actions beyond ill-advised tariffs and late-night tweets. I'd be amazed if any type of military action against Canada had more than a 5% approval. All that being said, the threats are shitty enough and my apologies for the next 3 years of chaos.
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sopheroo May 5, 2026 +12
Oh, I could say we have 9 NHL teams in Canada. :) Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Detroit and Buffalo. I'm no longer mad at actual Americans, I'm mad at the lack of accountability, I'm mad at the system
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the-sleepy-mystic May 5, 2026 +12
They're confusing "respect" with "fear"-which to an authoritarian whats the difference really?
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fevered_visions May 5, 2026 +12
it's really sad that people somehow believe Trump is "Making America Great Again" as he actively destroys the country. as long as he puffs out his chest and looks manly and punishes the people they don't like
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Raptorex27 May 5, 2026 +7
That’s why we need actual, systemic reform in order to move on from this. We’re talking massive Supreme Court reform, Constitutional amendments, uncapping the House, killing the Senate filibuster, creating the Electoral College Interstate Compact, and (above else), prosecuting and convicting every one of these criminals currently serving in this administration. Anything less and the rest of the World won’t take us seriously for generations.
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QbertsRube May 5, 2026 +3
For sure. My top priorities for 2028 candidates will be 1) Justice for the crimes of Trump, his administration, and his family, and 2) massive reforms to campaign finance and checks & balances to prevent another Trump. None of my other priorities (decrease wealth gap, affordable housing, healthcare, and college, etc) will happen without those foundational changes happening first. We can't be run exclusively by and for the ultra-rich, and can't move forward with a government that operates above the law.
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Yuukiko_ May 5, 2026 +6
Any sane person can see that Trump is only a symptom, you can't easily get rid of all the senators, reps, and SC judges enabling him, and all the people that voted for him are still there
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QbertsRube May 5, 2026 +3
We have a government that's been 90% captured by the wealthy, and their preferred party who has decided they're above the legal system. Nothing else gets fixed as long as those two statements stay true.
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censuur12 May 6, 2026 +3
The rot in America doesn't start and end with the president is the issue. You're not "one bad election" away from this kind of mess, you're several amazing elections away from even coming close to fixing it in the first place, and it's not just Trump's mess either, it's the fact that your country is run by people who don't represent the populace, that big companies have effectively bought their way into far too much of the government and have rendered it *at best* extremely ineffective.
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Strangelight84 May 6, 2026 +3
I think they're perceived as more predictable. An increasingly attractive partner for long-term planning, perhaps.
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WhichEmailWasIt May 5, 2026 +12
We're in the middle of enshitifying the US. Cutback everything, run it into the ground, and those on the top fly out on a golden parachute, ie running the country like a business.
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Present_Estimate_131 May 5, 2026 +40
I work at a defense contractor. A multi-billion dollar army project that hasn't even rolled out yet has already been copied and flown by the Chinese. But nooooo, the bigger threat to our country right now is girls going to college with classmates that didn't even complain about them in the first place 
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SolidSnek1998 May 5, 2026 +398
These people think about trans people more than trans people do.
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aeon_son May 5, 2026 +82
Makes you wonder who’s _really_ shoving “the whole trans thing” down conservatives’ throats 🤔 Hint: It’s not trans people.
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The_Turtle_Moves_13 May 6, 2026 +9
It's amazing home much conservatives think about other people's penises i.e. do they have one, are they using it for that sex,?  I don't think a trans gay man could think about penises more then conservatives do.
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AmmenDegen May 6, 2026 +6
I say this frequently but it keeps proving itself true: There are more trans people in Republican fantasies than there are living in the US.
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DrowningKrown May 5, 2026 +44
Our country is the biggest shithole
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jwilphl May 6, 2026 +6
So many broken brains.
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CycloneKelly May 5, 2026 +39
Who f****** cares? They’re allowed to exist and go to college.
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yhwhx May 5, 2026 +540
Republicans should really try to stop obsessing about what's in strangers' pants.
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AudibleNod May 5, 2026 +220
V***** is a gender affirming drug.
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sriracha_no_big_deal May 5, 2026 +13
If god wanted you to be able to get an erection, he wouldn't have given you erectile dysfunction. Anyone who takes gender affirming drugs like V***** are directly going against god's will.
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kingsumo_1 May 5, 2026 +43
It's just an extension of conservatives obsession with children's genatles.
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KimJongFunk May 5, 2026 +54
I have never once needed to know what genitals another person had and it’s bizarre how these people hyperfixate on it.
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fiestafan73 May 5, 2026 +21
GOP: Genital Obsessed Party.
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SoulRebel726 May 5, 2026 +5
I'm pretty sure MAGA is all just a bunch of closeted gay dudes at this point. Every time they have a convention, Grindr crashes from overuse. And they just cannot stop thinking about other people's genitals and sex lives. It's honestly f****** weird.
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AudibleNod May 5, 2026 +304
It's important to point out that an [executive order Donald Trump issued turned everyone into women](https://mashable.com/article/trump-executive-order-sex-female-male-gender).
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ZeusHatesTrees May 5, 2026 +36
I was really hoping a trans woman would fight that in court, arguing by the order she is, and always was, female. Hasn't happened yet.
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dave8400 May 5, 2026 +50
Lol I was thinking they made it so everyone with an X was female, but this is somehow more ludicrous. Really hammers home the stupidity of any "x begins at conception" bullshit.
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AudibleNod May 5, 2026 +25
I'm waiting for someone to challenge the Selective Service with this bullshit.
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upvoter222 May 5, 2026 +151
There are LGBQT students at Smith College‽ Now I've seen everything. Next you're probably going to tell me there are football enthusiasts at Alabama.
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daze23 May 5, 2026 +51
LGBQT students at a school in Northampton, MA?
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thatweirdguyted May 5, 2026 +15
Football is a weird way to say "cousin"
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RLewis8888 May 5, 2026 +67
Exactly what MAGA voted for: Big Government interfering with private businesses.
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Flash_ina_pan May 5, 2026 +249
This is probably just a backdoor into shutting down a women's college.
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MuNansen May 5, 2026 +112
Ding ding ding. Same with why they're targeting liberal colleges for "anti-semitism."
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AudibleNod May 5, 2026 +62
Nonsense. The GOP is in favor of women in education. >“Interestingly, I think there’s an argument to bring back the ‘M-R-S degree,’. ..“But if you’re going to find your life partner, that’s actually a really good reason to go college.” > \-Charlie Kirk
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MercyfulJudas May 5, 2026 +38
What an interesting take. Try as I might, I can't find any holes in that argument. Charlie, on the other hand...
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Johannes_P May 5, 2026 +7
And thsi isn't the worst statement Kirk ever made.
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slowro May 5, 2026 +31
I don't think you are allowed to quote Charlie Kirt or something something context.
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freedfg May 5, 2026 +46
No, it's more straight up than that. It's about making sure Trans people physically not exist. Not that it was ever a secret. Because it was never about bathrooms, or women's sports.
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NaziPunksFkOff May 5, 2026 +94
\> Smith’s admission policy allows for “any applicants who self-identify as women”, including “cis, trans and nonbinary women”, according to the college’s [website](https://www.smith.edu/admission-aid/apply-smith/first-year-applicants#who-is-eligible-to-apply-to-smith?-1). The college opened in 1875 and counts among its alumni multiple first ladies, elected officials and civic leaders. So this is well within the bounds of the college's admissions expectations. It's only the Trump administration that cares. Cool. Very normal. Sane.
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gotohellwithsuperman May 5, 2026 +82
Republicans cannot stop thinking about dicks.
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Crallise May 5, 2026 +139
Where are trans people supposed to go to school? F*** anyone that supports this dehumanizing bullshit. Magas want to inflict suffering on others. That is their only goal.
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GildedDreams25 May 5, 2026 +79
they aren’t. remember before the election that one dude was saying they want to exterminate “transgenderism” from public life
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jfsindel May 5, 2026 +15
Which is what I'm asking. So transgender people aren't allowed at a college THEY'RE paying for? There is no rules that say anyone can't attend a college - we got rid of segregation of education.
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Usual-Language-745 May 5, 2026 +11
You are at war without congressional approval and your entire party is hemorrhaging support. Maybe leave the school admissions to the administrators that you gutted funding for. 
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zybcds May 6, 2026 +11
Haha but they are NOT investigating all the pedophiles and sexual harassers exposed by the Epstein files, that’s for sure.
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XennialQueen May 5, 2026 +82
Wtf. It’s a private institution. F****** party of small government, right?
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AmarildoJr May 5, 2026 +15
As if right-wingers care about consistency and hypocrisy? They don't even care about the constitution anymore (perhaps never did).
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DizzyFrogHS May 5, 2026 +22
I’m sorry, what? I missed the part where Smith College isn’t allowed to decide who to let in. They are a private institution. They get to decide what genders are allowed in. Aren’t republicans supposed to be for small government? What is this shit?
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gibbojab May 5, 2026 +9
Why has every person with an ounce of power decided to roll over and suck this guy off. I’m so sick that no one is trying to stop this guy when it has become apparent the midterms are being fixed and every day they bleed more money from this country. Someone needs to actually do something to put this moron in his place instead of rolling over. He isn’t smart, it wouldn’t take much to make him lose it.
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pabodie May 6, 2026 +8
How can you be investigated for not breaking the law?
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vikingwif May 5, 2026 +10
These MAGAs don't ever just mind their business. They all failed that kindergarten lesson.
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Voodoocookie May 6, 2026 +7
Could they just... Investigate the Epstein Files instead...?
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Bruce_Hodson May 6, 2026 +9
Isn’t Smith a private institution? WTF from them cares what 47 thinks? F*** this timeline in my life. His coffin won’t be filled nearly in time for my tastes.
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Last_Book_589 May 5, 2026 +13
Oh my God, do these people have nothing else to do????
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randomvictum May 6, 2026 +7
Very important to be doing this right now. Since there's nothing else going on in the world. Where them files at?
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OuijaWalker May 5, 2026 +6
I had to pay $4.25 for gas today. Republicans need to rethink their goram priorities. Hey MAGA explain to me why you guys spend sooooooo much time worrying about how other people have sex? I'll wait
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BertBert2019GT May 6, 2026 +6
lol i know harvard has all the money but go ahead and pick a fight with a bunch of smith women and see what happens from a man raised by a smith graduate
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Dragonic_Overlord_ May 6, 2026 +6
A pointless waste of time and money. I hope Allah (SWT) destroys the Trump administration soon.
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Rob1965 May 6, 2026 +7
I didn’t realise that transgender women weren’t allowed to get an education.🤷‍♂️
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Hadrian23 May 5, 2026 +15
Investigating for what, exactly? That's the thing I'm always confused by, there's no legal law or precedent they can invoke to sue these schools, though may-hap the intention is intimidation and wasting their time and money in court in the hopes they just capitulate and do what they want.
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malinablue May 6, 2026 +11
A private college can admit whoever they want. Wtf are they "investigating?"
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Ill_Bench2770 May 5, 2026 +22
So now they can’t even attend school?
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SadMediumSmolBean May 5, 2026 +23
Epstein's pals want us socially ostracized and forced in sex work.
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SCP106 May 6, 2026 +3
yup. the republicans wanna ban us from public life and education while we're usually their top p*** categories by state. So; No education, and just seeing us as sex objects... Sounds familiar- And they say they don't see us as women!
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Salt-Initiative-8159 May 5, 2026 +5
We should all know by now that the process of investigations and legal action is ALL this administration can do - the punishment is the process. Hold the line. Fascism will crumble under its own weight and we're watching that happening in real time.
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Googlyelmoo May 6, 2026 +4
No, that couldn’t be a distraction from what the files, Iran, the bureaucracy that they broke. No, it couldn’t be that! /s
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panaceaXgrace May 6, 2026 +5
I can't help wondering how much longer this country is going to allow this stupidity to stand. We have to get our young people away from these online hate groups before we have a generation fine with segregation as long as they get cheaper gas prices.
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RandomPlayer315 May 7, 2026 +5
Cool so trans people just aren't allowed to go to school anymore? Gee I wonder where this is going
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BoosterRead78 May 5, 2026 +10
And it’s a private college too.
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captinhazmat May 6, 2026 +9
Once again treating rapists far better then trans people. Release the Epstein Files
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thegoatmenace May 5, 2026 +31
Pretty much every women’s college started referring to themselves as “gender minority” colleges over 10 years ago. They all let in trans women. They also let in trans men. Like the only thing they don’t accept is cis men. This is not at all new. They’re also all private institutions and can do what they want. There are still mens only colleges as well.
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Army_Exact May 5, 2026 +14
my understanding is smith does not allow trans men. I'm a grad student at smith who is trans, but the grad programs are co-ed
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thegoatmenace May 5, 2026 +9
Wellesley definitely does. I grew up in the area and knew more than one trans masc person who went there
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Army_Exact May 5, 2026 +5
Yeah it depends on the school 
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NovelStrict5281 May 6, 2026 +13
Alum here. When will all this trans-phobia stop? Trans people have existed since the beginning of time! Why are people so hateful and fearful? I have never understood any of it in any way. It is so ignorant and primitive.
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shadygamedev May 7, 2026 +3
People have [scapegoated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory) since the beginning of time you know. >The scapegoat mechanism has one requirement for it to be effective in restoring the peace; all participants in the removal of the scapegoat must genuinely believe that he is guilty. It is also essential that the scapegoat cannot strike back afterwards, so it is common for him to be killed. Once he is gone, peace will quickly be restored, further confirming his "guilt". However, the scapegoat is chosen arbitrarily. The resulting peace is borne from violence, and this form of violence controlling violence has existed since the beginning of civilizations.
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ThiccGingerRat May 5, 2026 +23
I attend a women’s college similar to Smith. I share housing and bathrooms with trans women on campus. It’s such a non-issue.
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JimiForPresident May 5, 2026 +20
Nothing says “civil rights” like keeping people out of schools
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Rosaadriana May 6, 2026 +11
As a woman, I consider trans women as women. They are welcome to join me in the bathroom or the dorm or in the woods with the bears.
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Jazzlike-Vacation230 May 5, 2026 +4
Leave people alone, wth
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Siggy0721 May 5, 2026 +5
How can they determine what a college can or cannot do?
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Illustrious_Owl5352 May 6, 2026 +5
busy snails like doll imagine important sable hat spotted many
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Neither_Transition_7 May 6, 2026 +4
Wow, what’s next? Mar-a-Lago Womyn’s Festival brought to you by MAGA ?
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DDisMe56 May 6, 2026 +4
Its amazing how much hate there is in this administration.
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IGDetail May 6, 2026 +4
I keep forgetting what decade we're in under this administration.
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beastwood9498 May 5, 2026 +19
Because we all know transgender people are running amok and endangering society.
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ThouMangyFeline May 6, 2026 +6
Smith was already admitting trans female students back in the 2000s when I was in school.
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podkayne3000 May 6, 2026 +7
Seriously: For now, we should all be transgender. If Trump’s people are acting like this, no decent people can say we’re cis.
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CharlesBrown33 May 5, 2026 +8
I'm glad my tax dollars are being used to bully what amounts to an infinitesimally small portion of the population, great work guys! /s f****** clowns
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outerproduct May 5, 2026 +13
Having solved the problems in America, Republicans continue to focus on less than 1% of the population.
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Life-Sun- May 5, 2026 +6
It’s not illegal to allow students to attend College. The US has become a Hell hole.
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ChronoLink99 May 5, 2026 +11
Got time for this, but no time for: \- epstein files \- DoD budget auditing \- IRS tax enforcement \- school lunches for kids \- etc etc
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Malaix May 5, 2026 +3
Or the global catastrophe war.
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Naive_Market_9688 May 6, 2026 +3
Of course they are, why would anybody expect any less from them?
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Intrepid_Ad_9751 May 6, 2026 +3
He really can’t focus on something more important
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hashtaglurking May 6, 2026 +3
Doesn't he have another war to start?
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Chemical-Time-9143 May 7, 2026 +3
There’s a cost of living crisis, operation epstein’s fury is causing an oil shortage, inflation is out of control, the Epstein files are being redacted/protected, and trump is focused on schools admitting trans people. Trump is one of the worst world leaders this century.
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Miserable-Lettuce14 May 7, 2026 +3
Why is his administration so focused on non issues? Literally no one cares. This isn’t an issue. The issues are within the Oval Office and around Washington
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Status_Apartment6559 May 9, 2026 +3
This should be all you need to know about trump. All you need to know about why he is a vile scumbag. There's many other reasons but this is a good one. He's a guy who wants to hurt transgender people for no good reason than he doesn't like them, or his stupid base doesn't like them, so why not just try to make their lives miserable. Or better yet just erase them from existence. This is what trump wants apparently. But I know a lot of MAGA are vile scumbags too unfortunately. They hate transgender people too just because they dare exist. Just leave them be. These MAGA idiots are such losers. They must lead such lame empty lives that they have to take it out on a bunch of innocent good people. How about just let them live their lives without you MAGA assholes terrorizing this group of people who NEVER did a goddamn thing to you.
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Pablo_is_on_Reddit May 5, 2026 +12
What is with the republican obsession with transgender people? Leave them alone & just mind your own damn business.
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Mockturtle22 May 6, 2026 +5
When is that big beautiful obituary happening
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epochwin May 6, 2026 +6
With Trump talking about the ballroom all the time we should investigate if he’s a queen. Switch the No Kings protests to No Queens. Get under his skin.
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Flicksterea May 5, 2026 +12
This is just ridiculous. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. You're only threatened by them if you're insecure within yourself and the rest of the world doesn't care. We're all just trying to live.
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_Schrodingers_Gat_ May 5, 2026 +11
I wouldn’t f*** with a bunch of Smithies.
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