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What do you mean they existed first? That's not how equality works. Intersex people always existed. You said that we should not care about trans people and various other minorities feeling safe and accepted, that they don't deserve special treatment.

Doesn't matter. You said nobody should be given special treatment, but heteronormative individuals are getting special treatment by having gendered toilets. What about intersex individuals? If every sex should get a toilet, intersex individuals should get one too. Otherwise this is just a farce to justify majority domination.

Then you should be for abolishing gendered restrooms.

I don't see any misunderstanding, I think you simply are not aware that the principles you aspouse directly contradict some of the conclusions you draw from them.

People always use predators to justify their existing predispositions towards a certain marginalized groups. We did the same to race, homosexuals and now the same occurs with trans people and individuals who engage in consensual incest. You can even see this occuring in relation to animal rights, where various forms of animal rights (like banning slaughtering and enslaving of animals) are made out to threaten social order. A conservative is like someone who sees the invention of cars as a threat. "People will die in accidents if we allow people to drive such machines!" But the conservative does not see that there are solutions to the problem that will mitigate such risks without hindering progress, namely the invention of traffic laws and safe car designs. The conservative is primarily interested in maintaining the world view and cultural context which he is comfortable with.

This directly contradicts this statement: We are not treating everyone equally. If we did, we wouldn't have gender seperation in regards to restrooms in the first place. Why do women deserve special treatment, just because they may feel uncomfortable? If you want to be consistent about your stance you ought to advocate for the abolishment of gender-separated restrooms, given that it is giving special treatment to a majority class and therefore does not fit into the liberal democratic principle of treating everyone equally.

Freedom from responsibility? Have you looked at the actual former president, the actual representative of the right? Where is the accountability there? Where is the morality there? Where is even the decency? You are insane for focusing on some mildy cringe outbursts of the left instead of seeing the obvious and glaring and world destroying ideologies of the right. They live in complete Lalaland, in complete fantasy, and you think people being accepting of trans people is the issue here. The people who behave in the most inhumate, idiotic and irresponsible way are the right, by a long shot. And it's not some cringe college students who make up a small percentage of a political orientation, but the majority of the right is completely off their rockers. They are immature children who elected a complete baffoon for president. This culture war bullshit is frying your brain my dude. If the right did not resist so much to basic human rights, and basic compassion, then the extreme left wouldn't be so unhinged. They are so unhinged because not much more than a decade ago we humiliated and completely dehumanized trans people and other minorities, and the right wishes we could go back to that kind of "common sense".

I want to see actual data in the form of studies, or an article.

I'm profoundly sick of having to walk down all the steps to garbage-tier low consciousness just so that I can engage in politics. It's like I have to intentionally limit my intelligence just so I can fathom what is going on in this country. It's an actual clown world.

Show me the evidence of lobbying spenditure in relation to policy outcomes and compare that to voters desires.

This is a made up problem. If you want to live a conservative lifestyle, go move somewhere where people like that want to live. It's america. You can do whatever the fuck you want. You can find yourself some radical religious cult if that's what you fancy. MAGA people have utterly no standards. The left has too many standards, if anything.

That won't do anything. The problem today is that those with influence and money can shape the opinions and values of the population. You don't have to corrupt politicians so that they don't act against climate change. All you have to do is convince the masses that acting against climate change is an excuse to steal away their freedom. In that case, the people will vote for the politicians who will do the bidding of the corporations, because the population has been embued with values in line with the corporations goals. This has been how corporations have influenced politics for decades now, lobbyism is pretty meaningless in comparison.

My emotions calmed down but I feel very unmotivated for life now. I feel like my goals in life are meaningless, and that there are no meaningful goals in life.

Still better than beef, although you can choose much healthier options than a Beyond Burger.

https://x.com/sultanqaboosuni/status/1848585510626754606 This is her Obituary. It's strange to see people talk about her on instagram and wondering if she committed suicide or not, and whether or not she would go to heaven. It's unfortunate that she was born in such a country, she had a truly beautiful mind, a very rare kind of mind. Which is especially surprising given where she was born and raised. Her family does not know about the reasons and I feel like it is not my place to tell them. Yes, I have been thinking about this, wondering if death is real or not.

I think if there was an attempt by the western world to genocide your entire race of people, succeeding in eradicating half of your entire world population, you might change your mind, especially if you had been born more than a century before today. If you had the option to go back to africa, buying some land there, I don't know if you could really be blamed if you did it. Remember, the jews had no state. There was no place where they would truly feel safe, especially given anti-semitism was not unique to germany at all.

Although to be fair, it is not really save for jews to live anywhere in the middle east but in Israel. Arabs and Palestinians in Israel can live peaceful lifes, you have major TV shows humanizing palestinians and jews in Israel, and both can live along side each other, be coworkers, lovers, friends and so forth, for the most part.

There is no genocide occuring in Israel.

What is unreasonable about this? There is good reason to be concerned. North Korea and Russia are in a defensive pact, and I am not sure if Russia is currently conduction joint military exercises while in a state of war, with tens of thousands of north korean troups. Ukraine ought to be supported, and using such news to drum up support is a very good idea.

It will take time and effort for you to build up the skills to emotionally process this kind of toxicity, but you can do it if you apply yourself. It is challenging in your situation because of how much trauma you seem to have experienced. Siblings should support each other, not abuse and sabotage one another. I had similar problems in my early childhood with some family members and even friends, and I also lacked the confidence to act. I was so timid that I would allow them to physically abuse me and pretend it didn't bother me, because I was so scared of conflict and their disapproval. It would be better if you could remove yourself from this situation. But as long as you cannot, you have to learn to remove yourself emotionally from them. In the end, their words can only affect you because of how you relate to them, if you change your relationship to your experience, you will also change how much you suffer from them. Maybe this video can help you: Do you have some meditative practices that you do daily? What kind of actions are you taking to improve your situation, and yourself, at the moment?

Can you describe an interaction you had with one of your family members and what it made you feel? You can learn to process these feelings and not suffer from their toxicity as much as you do, and even develop to such a degree that you would be above their pettiness. Would you want to be able to achieve that?

Yes, but better days might come too. One more day depressed will not change much, given how long you were already enduring this, but making a decision like this would not be something you can just reverse. One day you can gain independence and then find deeper meaning in your life than just avoiding suffering. What in particular do you fear in your interactions with your family members? How do they make you feel when they do something hurtful?

What do you think will happen if you bear the suffering for one more day?