The Post-Partisan Emporium

We’re Lesbians on the Autism Spectrum. Stop Telling Us to Become Men J Peters If there was ever a case for a trans child, I was it. Let’s take a look at the  DSM-5 guidelines  and its diagnostic definition of gender dysphoria, followed by descriptions of my own experience: A strong desire to be of the other gender or insistence that one is the other gender. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher called home to express serious concern that I was developmentally confused, due to my insistence on lining up with the boys to go to the bathroom. Well into adolescence, I went to great pains to “pass” as a boy and even got reprimanded for going into women’s restrooms. I liked this, considering it a sign of my success. A strong preference for wearing clothes typical of the opposite gender. When I was in first grade, I began refusing to wear my hair long or to dress in anything other than boys’ blue jeans and polo shirts, or similar attire. This “phase” lasted through my junior year of ...

the dangers of propaganda to propagandists stare too long into the big lie and the big lie stares back into you el gato malo 21 we have all seen the big lie in action and the effects of its relentless repetition and of the ruthless suppression of any narrative but THE NARRATIVE.™ we have seen what it does to those at which it is aimed. but what of the liars themselves, for if the endless hearing of a tale can so ingrain it into the perceived reality of the listener, what must its interminable narration do to the storyteller? Aimee Terese @aimeeterese "We have to break through this idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families". January 20th 2022 3,067 Retweets 7,760 Likes telling is more potent persuasion than hearing. performative repetition will flat out brain wipe you. you depart from consensus reality and move to something entirely hallucinatory. it’s how you wind up sounding like melissa above and literally lose the plot to the point where ...

Mass Psychosis Formation - Ukraine, Russia, Covid Feelings don't care about facts. Chris Waldburger Some forgotten moments in recent Russian-American relations: When Obama became president, his Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a big red button to symbolize a great reset of the American and Russian relationship: After Republicans like Bush and John McCain had sabre-rattled after the Georgia-Russian conflict in 2008, the Obama administration sought a new harmonious relationship. After all, Putin had been the first foreign leader to call Bush after 9/11, had offered him access into Afghanistan via Russian bases, and had even expressed hope to join NATO - the same organization that may come to war with Russia in the coming weeks, and which had been founded to resist Soviet aggression after World War II. The relationship chilled further after Bush invited Ukraine into NATO - which would make a territory which had been part of Grea...