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EnergizedLib

(2,542 posts)
Wed May 28, 2025, 01:16 PM Wednesday

'Affirming someone's delusions'

This is something I’ve seen from people who refuse to call someone by their preferred name or preferred pronouns.

These are the same people who:

- Continue to deny the results and legitimacy of the 2020 election to this very day

- Claim every single election they lose is rigged, while every election they win is legitimate

- Get triggered when Grok won’t affirm their confirmation biases

- Dismiss every poll unfavorable to them as fake, but cite every poll favorable to them as real

- Believes the Second Amendment affords them an unlimited and unfettered access to firearms, but ignores or gnaws at any part of the Constitution they don’t like

- Believes some coverup about President Biden is some earth-shattering scandal and that will decide 2026 and 2028 while Republicans are angering and disregarding their constituents and breaking promises of touching Medicare and Medicaid and SNAP.

No transgender person has ever been a threat to my existence, to how I live my life.

No transgender person denies disaster relief to the very people who voted for them.

No transgender person has me wondering in the back of my mind if they’ll come after me if I like a post critical of them on social media.

As one of the 81 million in 2020, no transgender person tried to overturn my vote.

No transgender person keeps me up at night for fear they’re a threat to our rule of laws, institutions and my country as I’ve known it.

R.I.P. Charlotte Fosgate

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'Affirming someone's delusions' (Original Post) EnergizedLib Wednesday OP
Things are very simple to me... Moostache Wednesday #1
Well said. And Go Bears. EnergizedLib Wednesday #2

Moostache

(10,532 posts)
1. Things are very simple to me...
Wed May 28, 2025, 01:26 PM
Wednesday

HUMAN Rights are for EVERYONE.
Personal choices and issues are INDIVIDUAL.
Society trying to stigmatize and isolate ANYONE is a non-starter.

Trans, Cis, non-bendy line, curvy AF? All the same.
White. Black. Red. Green. All the same.
Religious. Atheist. Out. Not. All the same.

If you are human, you are entitled to the same RIGHTS as everyone else. Period.
We ARE 'the government' and we CAN be better by simply CHOOSING to be better.
The issues are simple. People's excuses for their own bad behavior is complicated.

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