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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 6 days ago +4795
Smith College is a private university. So, what trump is saying is the government should control private business.
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CletusCanuck 5 days ago +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 4 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +198
The government is aiding him in this.
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pocketjacks 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +70
My thumb was heading to the reply button halfway through that. Damn you
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Daniel_H212 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +21
L’état, c’est moi \-Donald Trump, probably (but definitely not in French)
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lookieherehere 5 days ago +23
Had us the first half, not gonna lie
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Creative_Ad_8338 6 days ago +46
☝️he's right, you know
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yamiyaiba 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +14
"The worst part is the hypocrisy" - Norm McDonald
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crookdmouth 5 days ago +4
Patton Oswalt said that part.
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nyscene911 6 days ago +12
I think it’s the raping.
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IntelligentStyle402 6 days ago +21
In a totalitarian dictatorship, everything is controlled.
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Rezeox 5 days ago +6
The party of "small government."
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EsotericMysticism2 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +7
We already saw that with the first Kimmel situation and the cancelling of Colbert.
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UbiSububi8 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +1589
It’s hard to argue it’s anything but hate. 
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BetterWithAge27 5 days ago +668
It always has been. Hate and hypocrisy is the only fuel they (bigots) run on.
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rif011412 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 1 day ago +3
Maybe it's the people harassing transgender people who are contributing to their suicide rate .
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TheRappingSquid 5 days ago +16
"Both side aw bad 🥺 twans on twitter mmean once in 2016 🥺"
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Kaarl_Mills 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +60
What stance do any MAGA people have that isn’t fully set in hate?
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Whovian2024 5 days ago +13
To be fair, MAGA’s also take stands rooted in stupidity.
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vikingwif 5 days ago +5
And greed. But mostly hate.
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Goldenrule-er 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +63
You say that, but the conservatives sure will make it look easy
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waffle_iron_maiden 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +5
Bullies always need victims.
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ToolTimeT 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +4
well they got a call from trump midway through so unfortunately he definitely still did 😩
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OK_x86 5 days ago +12
When you tie for fifth place and still complain
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erissays 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +89
They have to make people hate trans folks instead of pedophiles
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UbiSububi8 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +8
It's always projection.  They want right-wing (white washed or fascist), Christian-based indoctrination only.
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sfled 5 days ago +18
* Make Bondi testify. * Release the full Epstein files. * Prosecute the pedos.
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grimacedia 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +24
dragging teachers unions into "woke" civil suits is straight up evil wtaf 😭
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Automatic-Echidna870 6 days ago +9
They are literally fighting against truth for the right to indoctrinate it’s beyond comprehension 
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IndubitableMatt 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +6
Crippling higher education is absolutely a TOP PRIORITY if your goal is to minimize resistance to authoritarianism
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RandomStuffGenerator 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +7
I think it’s actually called “defending against education“.
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DrakeTheCake1 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +12
They're confusing "respect" with "fear"-which to an authoritarian whats the difference really?
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fevered_visions 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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_ 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +3
I think they're perceived as more predictable. An increasingly attractive partner for long-term planning, perhaps.
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WhichEmailWasIt 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +398
These people think about trans people more than trans people do.
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aeon_son 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +44
Our country is the biggest shithole
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jwilphl 5 days ago +6
So many broken brains.
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CycloneKelly 5 days ago +39
Who f****** cares? They’re allowed to exist and go to college.
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yhwhx 6 days ago +540
Republicans should really try to stop obsessing about what's in strangers' pants.
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AudibleNod 6 days ago +220
V***** is a gender affirming drug.
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sriracha_no_big_deal 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +43
It's just an extension of conservatives obsession with children's genatles.
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KimJongFunk 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +21
GOP: Genital Obsessed Party.
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SoulRebel726 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +25
I'm waiting for someone to challenge the Selective Service with this bullshit.
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upvoter222 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +51
LGBQT students at a school in Northampton, MA?
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thatweirdguyted 6 days ago +15
Football is a weird way to say "cousin"
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RLewis8888 6 days ago +67
Exactly what MAGA voted for: Big Government interfering with private businesses.
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Flash_ina_pan 6 days ago +249
This is probably just a backdoor into shutting down a women's college.
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MuNansen 6 days ago +112
Ding ding ding. Same with why they're targeting liberal colleges for "anti-semitism."
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AudibleNod 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +7
And thsi isn't the worst statement Kirk ever made.
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slowro 6 days ago +31
I don't think you are allowed to quote Charlie Kirt or something something context.
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freedfg 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +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 6 days ago +82
Republicans cannot stop thinking about dicks.
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Crallise 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +82
Wtf. It’s a private institution. F****** party of small government, right?
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AmarildoJr 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +8
How can you be investigated for not breaking the law?
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vikingwif 5 days ago +10
These MAGAs don't ever just mind their business. They all failed that kindergarten lesson.
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Voodoocookie 5 days ago +7
Could they just... Investigate the Epstein Files instead...?
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Bruce_Hodson 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +13
Oh my God, do these people have nothing else to do????
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randomvictum 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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_ 5 days ago +6
A pointless waste of time and money. I hope Allah (SWT) destroys the Trump administration soon.
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Rob1965 5 days ago +7
I didn’t realise that transgender women weren’t allowed to get an education.🤷‍♂️
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Hadrian23 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +11
A private college can admit whoever they want. Wtf are they "investigating?"
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Ill_Bench2770 5 days ago +22
So now they can’t even attend school?
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SadMediumSmolBean 5 days ago +23
Epstein's pals want us socially ostracized and forced in sex work.
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SCP106 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 4 days ago +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 4 days ago +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 5 days ago +10
And it’s a private college too.
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captinhazmat 5 days ago +9
Once again treating rapists far better then trans people. Release the Epstein Files
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thegoatmenace 6 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +5
Yeah it depends on the school 
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NovelStrict5281 5 days ago +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 4 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +20
Nothing says “civil rights” like keeping people out of schools
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Rosaadriana 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +4
Leave people alone, wth
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Siggy0721 5 days ago +5
How can they determine what a college can or cannot do?
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Illustrious_Owl5352 5 days ago +5
busy snails like doll imagine important sable hat spotted many
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Neither_Transition_7 5 days ago +4
Wow, what’s next? Mar-a-Lago Womyn’s Festival brought to you by MAGA ?
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DDisMe56 5 days ago +4
Its amazing how much hate there is in this administration.
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IGDetail 5 days ago +4
I keep forgetting what decade we're in under this administration.
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beastwood9498 6 days ago +19
Because we all know transgender people are running amok and endangering society.
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ThouMangyFeline 5 days ago +6
Smith was already admitting trans female students back in the 2000s when I was in school.
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podkayne3000 4 days ago +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 5 days ago +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 6 days ago +13
Having solved the problems in America, Republicans continue to focus on less than 1% of the population.
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Life-Sun- 5 days ago +6
It’s not illegal to allow students to attend College. The US has become a Hell hole.
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ChronoLink99 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +3
Or the global catastrophe war.
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Naive_Market_9688 5 days ago +3
Of course they are, why would anybody expect any less from them?
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Intrepid_Ad_9751 5 days ago +3
He really can’t focus on something more important
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hashtaglurking 5 days ago +3
Doesn't he have another war to start?
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Chemical-Time-9143 4 days ago +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 4 days ago +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 1 day ago +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 6 days ago +12
What is with the republican obsession with transgender people? Leave them alone & just mind your own damn business.
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Mockturtle22 5 days ago +5
When is that big beautiful obituary happening
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epochwin 5 days ago +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 5 days ago +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_ 6 days ago +11
I wouldn’t f*** with a bunch of Smithies.
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