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Sometimes I have to remind myself this whole thing isn’t some sick April fool’s joke that’s dragged on for too long.

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For those who feel inclined, if you click away from 'EssenceofThought's video after a minute or so, without interacting nor watching an ad, the algorithm gods will cause his channel to tank.

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Way ahead of you, he sounded bored by his own voice.

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So was I! He really is an insufferable prat.

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Jan 18, 2022Liked by Graham Linehan

I'm reminded how many people discovered Magdalen now just because of what she said, but how she said it. Damn she was funny.

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Jan 19, 2022Liked by Graham Linehan

That’s why they hate(d) her so much.

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Every other TA video on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNK4VKeoBM

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Where is Toto when we need him? Would love the little fellow to pull back the ever-thinning curtain giving cover to the anonymous boys operating the misogynistic gears of twitter reddit instagram etc. All smoke and mirrors and hatred and usurpation of true moral authority. Disturbed boys, not real men. And yes, there may be a few handmaidens too.

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Wow, "Ethel" -- the state of him! I am reminded of Earl Spencer's wonderful line:

"Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum."

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Ahh Crispin Blunt. Remember on 22nd June 1998, he spoke in the Sexual Offences Bill debate, (before he came out as gay in 2010), where he believed the age of consent for gay boys should not be equalised to 16, because predators might get them. (Which is crazy - why should 16 and 17 year old gay males miss out on sex because predators exist??) Now to atone for his internalised homophobia he's pro self-ID where ACTUAL predators can use a legal loophole to pretend to be "trans" to access female prisons etc.

His logic in 1998 was that boys are less emotionally mature but recent events might point to him just not giving a shit about females.

Blunt also said being gay was a choice and "there is a much greater strand of homosexuality than of heterosexuality which depends for its gratification on the exploitation of youth. I am sorry if Labour Members do not like the truth, but I do not intend to run away from the difficult issues."

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It makes me sick, a gay man perpetuating the myth that gay men rather than hetero are more likely to be into underage people. As the majority of children sexually abused is female, how does he explain it?

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And if anyone exploits the youth, it's the Gender Cult

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Didn't he also give us the lovely insight into his sex life in Parliament - his use of poppers? WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW CRISPY!!

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I meant he gave us the insight in Parliament; not that his sex life is in Parliament. Although thinking about it...

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Eww. I think I've heard about that before and tried to bleach it from my brain... hahahaha

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxAi4WxZccA

Here you go. Bless him. He's so proud of his late-blooming gayness.

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This needs publicising far & wide.

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Rarely have I seen a more delusional video and heavily edited "evidence". I was actually laughing through as much as I could bear. Jeez, these people are mental. Unfortunately they are also dangerous.

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What is this phrase 'vile bigot'? It came from nowhere. I don't believe I'd ever heard it before TRAs started chucking it around. Anther accusation that just makes me yawn now - Oh the hyperbole!

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Not saying it applies to Graham at all but saying 'vile' in front of 'bigot' suggests there might be lovely cuddly bigots out there?

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Exactly!

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I only manage a few moment of Ethel's video. That voice... I'm worried I'll be pulling the same face as Graham all evening now.

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Graham ignore Ethel you are a national treasure

👑

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Wow. They've really started the counter attack in earnest.

Heads down and keep going Graham and all decent women and feminist allies. It is likely to get worse before it gets better. They have the weapons but we have the truth.

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I’ve seen a lot of Jill Bearup videos. She seems lovely and very clever. I’m not sure how I’m missing her ‘sordid history’.

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Ohhh these weak, weak people ... yes you ‘Ethel’...wimp!

Men can never become women.

You lot fold when you are called out as men.

"And God went on to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27

Many died rather then listen to propaganda of the Nazis...

Concentration camps son...

They Wore a Purple Triangle

https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/experiences/faithful/they-wore-purple-triangle/

NAZI PERSECUTION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-persecution-of-jehovahs-witnesses

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I'm not religious but I do like to refer to Genesis and say that God did not create man and a menstruating body but man and woman.

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Many different religions, peoples and organizations were persecuted in Nazi Germany, why single out Jehovah's Witnesses, a deeply misogynistic and homophobic cult? A religion that within it's own doctrine will happily look forward to the annihilation of gay people in a way that Hitler would be proud of?

A better link here:

https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/gay-people/

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I have been a Jehovah's Witnesses for 37 years...we are not misogynistic or homophobic or a cult!

Jehovah's Witnesses are still being persecuted in different parts of the world today.

And from your link

"The Nazis found Jehovah’s Witnesses’ refusal to swear allegiance to the Nazi regime or to participate in military combat a threat to the Nazi state.

Unlike other victim groups, Jehovah’s Witnesses were given a choice, albeit an impossible decision. They could secure their own release by renouncing their faith. Most refused and faced continued imprisonment or execution."

https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/jehovahs-witnesses/

Young and old stood strong...not like men pretending to be women and crying.

Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe by Liebster, Simone Arnol

"The Nazis made a great effort to impose their own social and political views upon the people of Alsace. They believed that their dream of building a great German nation, with lands across the whole of Europe, could only be achieved by the exclusion of “Undesirables”, people who did not conform to their rules. Jehovah’s Witnesses were regarded as “Undesirables” because they refused to obey Nazi laws which went against their conscience and beliefs"

https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/simone-arnold-liebster/

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CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM IN NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Criminals were marked with green inverted triangles,

political prisoners with red,

"asocials" (including Roma,

View This Term in the Glossary nonconformists, vagrants, and other groups) with black or—

in the case of Roma in some camps—brown triangles.

Homosexuals were identified with pink triangles

Jehovah's Witnesses with purple ones.

Non-German prisoners were identified by the first letter of the German name for their home country, which was sewn onto their badge.

The two triangles forming the Jewish star badge would both be yellow unless the Jewish prisoner was included in one of the other prisoner categories.

A Jewish political prisoner, for example, would be identified with a yellow triangle beneath a red triangle.

The Nazis required Jews to wear the yellow Star View This Term in the Glossary of David View This Term in the Glossary not only in the camps but throughout most of occupied Europe.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/classification-system-in-nazi-concentration-camps

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'Jehovah's Witnesses not homophobic or mysogionistic' - that is a baldfaced lie, you know it and I know it. Also, completely off-topic. Your preaching is not welcome here.

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Hi Matthew, I'm fourth generation atheist and I don't find Sianrose's posts preachy but only expressing her views (in fact I would never have guessed she was a Jehovah's Witness). In return, she tends to agree with even my more outrageous comments so it's quid pro quo. We all go off topic on the Glinner from time to time but seriously, we don't want to start cancelling people we don't agree with on some side issue. Let's just rally round the big man.

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Thanks - I don't have a problem with her being here, but I do have a problem with propaganda. One of my best friends was raped as a child by a Jehovah’s Witness elder. It was hushed up and he continue to abuse young girls in the congregation. Twenty years later she got justice and he’s now thankfully in jail. Jehovah’s Witness elders were told to contact headquarters instead of the police when abuse was reported. This is rife among the Jehovah’s Witness religion. Also, as a child I went to a convention where a Jehovah’s Witness leader (Tom Maltby) stated that it was perfectly righteous to be homophobic, as they were “Sodomites” and deserving of death. Forgive me for being a bit miffed about her claims that they aren’t homophobic or misogynistic. This is my last comment on this, I don’t want to argue with her!

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Are you banning me from this site then?

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True and a great website but let's hope trans activists don't see it or they'll start claiming they were also persecuted by the Nazis and claim that Primo Levi's 'If This Is Man' is trans exclusionary

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Yes, the worst way to treat doomsday cults (inc TRA's) is to persecute them, this just strengthens their resolve, and give them even more of a sense of exclusivity and belonging, 'them v us'. The thing they hate the most is being ignored! When that happens, they start throwing their toys out of their crib, if they can't find any evidence of persecution, they'll simply make it up. They don't care if they get called out on their lies, as long as the true believers are on board, they are happy.

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Yes, that's also the case with any person with narcissistic personality disorder. It's best to ignore them although at the moment, it's very difficult for many people to do so.

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So what is a cult then?

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Remember you are now part of a cult for following Graham...

anonymouswoman

@anonymouswoman

Just Now

Glinner Cult Activate!!!!

They're heeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrre!!

Or... Glinner is making a LOT more sock puppet accounts.

Apparently...

His abuse of women is justified... if those women aren't submissive enough.

Glinner's Cult scares me sometimes.

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Yes, there's some pretty vile crap out there, isn't there? I've never been the submissive type and yet, apart from respecting Graham for all he's done for our cause against the tra menace, I also confess to having been an ardent fan of his writing and a devotee of the Father Ted series.

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Interesting that transwomen have to fight men in Thailand. The Thais haven't lost their marbles at least.

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Alice Dreger of Galileo's Middle Finger (part of my terf collection I haven't got round to reading yet)?! WTF??

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Talk about slander ,libel and defamation of character !! Every honest person knows that speaking the TRUTH and standing up for women and children is the opposite of bigotry and Graham is definitely not bigoted ! Thank God for men like him who have sacrificed a lot to support us ,while the cowards suck up to the woke brigade ! Well done ,Graham..👍👍👍

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If anything I think Graham needs to be a bit more bigoted some of the time.

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Trigger warning for those who make long videos:

If there anyone other than me who quickly tires of long videos? I will actually watch/listen to them if they are gripping such as Collapse in a Nutshell. But all too often it feels like men just having oral diarrhea and expecting others to not mind the smell. Unless you are purveying significant information/education, keep videos short!

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