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It's vile isn't it? I wonder how many women and children he and his units were personally responsible for killing. His privilege knows no bounds. The military industrial complex has morphed into the trans industrial complex. Pritzker Group.

An example is the Sacklers and how they got away with what they did for long enough at a cost of how many lives. I think many were too afraid of claims of being antisemitic - to look at pharma and a few tightly controlled, very influential and powerful families and their capture of politicians and regulators. They write the laws and water them down.

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There are times when I think everything’s going to be ok. And then there are times when I think, nope… we are fucked… as a civilisation.

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There were fish that climbed out of the sea smarter than this. Who signed off on this…

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Well said.

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*What* “Trans Genocide”??!! More language of non-existent catastrophe. People have been groomed so greatly by this men’s rights movement, they have lost almost all sense and reason. Let’s hope that “… but it just feels wrong” occurs to more & more & they then come to realise that that wrongness has now pervaded & infiltrated all walks of life.

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T-shirt says, "End Trans Genocide". What? Where? When?

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Only one in England that I've heard of ,a few years ago. TIM murdered by his male lover . None in Scotland ,I'm sure .Some in other countries ,where many more women than TWs have been murdered . Governments must know this but they prefer to support the false narrative of mass murders of transwomen ! Shameful !!

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38? There it is again. Like Laurel Hubbard, got too old to compete against their own sex so switched to beating women. The must win mentality of extremely toxic masculinity

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Well, happy weekend Graham. Thank you.

You do not let people past the wall, the boundary, your defence or give them the opportunity to access your weak spots and potentially do harm. This is what women know and have been taught over history, and across cultures. Men know this too. So it's also funnily enough the core of military tactics. It's taught at Sandhurst. To special forces. It's the basis of all police tactics. It's also the basis of safe systems across the world in many industries.

It's never been women who have attempted to use physical force, to strangle or choke me. Men. And men I was in a relationship with and loved, hence why there were in a position of trust and close enough to do so. Every one of the thankfully few occasions it was attempted it was men. I was caught off guard. I trusted these men. They had been granted permission into my safe space.

Reading this and seeing those images is horrifying. But familiar. I am only here now because of luck. Perhaps because I grew up in a violent house and can smell it a mile off. I am hypervigilant to it. On the last occasion a recently ex boyfriend (a very dangerous time after the break up of a relationship at my behest) got very drunk and presumably got the courage up to do it. He'd been rude all evening and making odd misogynist comments about 'how he would never hit a lady, a gentleman doesn't'. I should have realised. When we got home, to a very large, gated house, in its own grounds, in a very nice part of England (see above), he couldn't stop arguing and followed me into my room. Started shouting and refused to leave. I asked him to leave the room and leave me alone. He shook, then balled his hands up in his pockets, and I knew something bad was about to happen. He threw himself at me like in a wrestling match.

It took me a few seconds but then I kicked and fought for my life and continued to after I nearly passed out. My head got fuzzy and my eyes blurry. I could hear my heart beating very loud in my ears. I felt funny and spacey and in shock I realised just in time what that was, the lack of oxygen and pressure on my neck and head and that unless I really concentrated hard and stopped him, that I would lose consciousness. So I mustn't stop fighting back. I must get very angry. It took a while to realise, no time to delay, act now! NOW! Wake up. This is also how I feel reading this post and many of them.

These men are being encouraged. How is that 'entertainment'? Oh in the same way boys and girls are watching extreme and violent porn and it has become so normalised that girls and women and other men are accepting it. No. Power and control. Dominance for weak men.

How many reports of women choked and strangled to death have there been this week? Just like this? How many fought back, and just like this? Defensive injuries noted. Women mysteriously found dead alongside their male partners. No supposed history of violence, or a well-known and public record, it's all the same. It's not a crime is it? So it's a sport. Great, thanks, glad we got that sorted. In the next Olympics?

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Thank you.

Me neither. Many of us already are, and are self-isolating and withdrawing or not taking and fighting for opportunities. I'm never sure if writing like this is appropriate. This is like riding a wave at the moment - we're all trying to stay upright and there are sharks and jellyfish in the water! I didn't put a trigger warning on it, as that's part of the problem, and I know you are all hopefully adult enough on here to stop reading if you need. And know you are not alone, and your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, neighbours and friends aren't either.

Male VAWG has been a feature of the entertainment industry - the press, and crime fiction, and Hollywood for a long time. I think it's the thrill and very deeply buried beliefs. And the relief it's not you. That comes out in the Criminal Justice System - other women on juries and in public polling assuming the woman victim 'asked for it' and must have 'done something' to 'wind the man up' or 'been a nag' or 'difficult' or 'deserved it'. The she wore a short skirt defence. Or the rough sex defence and 'all women want it' and their own subjugation. Extrapolating from their own personal views, experience and internalised sexism and misogyny. Apologists.

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Well, I found something to say. I cancelled my subscription to the Guardian and sent them a long explanation why. I know they don't care about this (yet) but it will be good to get this on the record for future.

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Good move Kate👍. It seems we have so little power as citizens living in a totalitarian regime masquerading as a democracy but one thing we do have is our voice and (at least) some remaining choice in who we support financially. Money is everything in our end-stage capitalist society. When we pull our subscription/license fee/other they quickly start to sit up and take notice.

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Interesting. They’re ex military. So is Bradley Manning who now calls himself Chelsea. There’s a few explanations for the military connection but I think it’s to do with hyper masculinity and military discipline causing a personality schism. Men have enough difficultly connecting to their ‘feminine aspect’ ie Their emotions without being bullied and traumatised by military discipline.

Theoretically this is what leads to the shift to a female identification when they leave service and try to reidentify as civilians.

Also they probably watch too much porn and are creepy misogynistic autogynophiles.

Or maybe they’re just psyoperative agents working knowingly or unknowingly for the American government to further this creepy patriarchal trans agenda.

Whatever it shouldn’t be going on and it’s disturbing that more people can’t see that.

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Fallon Fox and Alana were both special forces. Armed to the teeth with a licence to kill anyone they want. In civilian life, they miss that power - so the bastards become transgender fighters licensed to destroy women. Yellow all through.

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They are THUGS. They were military thugs and now they're trans thugs. Americans utterly adore thugs and criminals, as long as they're BIG criminals. Little criminals, you know, the person who steals a pair of socks, they should be imprisoned for life.

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Interesting. I have no idea why there is a military link but I wonder too if they enter the military in some sort of denial or to ‘cleanse’ themselves of pesky ‘feminine’ traits and of course at times bi or homosexuality. Then the only way they can find an outlet is to trans. I don’t pretend to understand it but it is fascinating.

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I could be wrong - often am - but I believe in the US military schools are more of a thing than here in the UK. So fathers horrified by their 'cissie' sons send them to those schools to 'make a man of him'. Then s logical progression into the armed forces. With all sorts of fucked up results.

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US military schools are basically viewed as elitist institutions that produce well-behaved, educated, responsible, highly successful kids and, I believe, are expensive to attend and difficult to gain entrance into (? I could be wrong about that part). They began as institutions mainly for wealthy parents who want their kids to succeed in life. There are kids of military parents or relatives who strive to attend these schools, to get an early start on their military career goals and for clout. Then there were the pot smokers/ ‘troubled’ youth whose parents lack ability to deal with (or just don’t want to), who got sent to these schools as an attempt to reform them/ prepare them for adult responsibilities, etc. Nowadays, I believe military schools rightfully refer troubled kids to rehab facilities and/or reformatory schools instead.

The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is offered at many US high schools & colleges. ROTC trains students prepare to become officers in the US Military. ROTC targets minority and/or impoverished students with the lure of money for tuition & other expenses through scholarships. BTW, if these monies are accepted, the student has a contractual obligation to join the Military upon graduation. Pretty sure these kids are not told that if they choose not to accept scholarship $, they have zero obligation to join the Military (but will be pressured to do so anyway), and if they DO accept monies, they MUST serve 8 years, 4 being in Active Duty. 😬

As for adult men joining US Military, I’ve only known males who had rocky

-ish or “troubled” youths, kids from unstable/ broken homes or young men who believe they have no opportunities on horizon to enlist. Or if their parents view joining military as heroic and they want to please them.

IMHO, the whole ‘Stern father sends sissie son to military school to make him more of a manly man’ plot line was developed by Hollywood and appears sooooo frequently in movies, musicals and television, etc., that we believe it to be common and factual. There have been plenty of gay youth and men desiring to join Military, hence the eventual ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy being implemented by US Military (that historically disallowed gays).

Very interesting link between Military & Trans Identified Males…

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Very similar in the UK. Eton, Army, Parliament. Army often in trouble for targeting poor communities but when formerly industrial or coastal and remote communities had their employment prospects destroyed by successive politicians, it was and always has been a route out, to a pay packet, training, travel and progression, if you manage to stay alive. Same old. Aldershot (referred to as Aldershit by snobby Officer Class types) has been developed into one big housing estate - the level of new development on former MoD land is phenomenal.

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We had acquaintances, a female couple, and the father had basically abandoned his sons. The butch lesbian had regularly abused both boys with her partner's acquiescence. Both boys joined the military and I then realized that what attracts many males to the military is now they have a Big Daddy.

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Same in the elite ones in the UK. Same all over the world. It makes me think so much more ideology is buried so deep most of us haven't a chance. And this is children trained, and minds shaped from very young ages. The forces are their home, so they are loyal and many are utterly lost outside it. And after it. Searching around for a purpose, no wonder many struggling with what they are and have seen and done have an identity crisis. They are often not valued or respected in civilian life, and to adapt or integrate with limited support to adjust. Major mental health issues. Transing can be the way, hit all those at once.

And they are trained to get their way, to get their voice heard by any means. And people support veterans, so that confuses this even more.

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I wonder if the link between military/police and transgenderism is as strong in the UK. The only one that springs to mind is PC Mad-eye McTaserface.

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:-) Or how they approach it in their policies - in an attempt to be see as moving with the times they seem to have swallowed the line about inclusivity and diversity but not quite understood what they mean. The armed forces have been in turns fairly forward thinking, and yet regressive in an odd way. It's difficult to find out about levels of abuse and rape of female (and male) recruits and widepread bullying as it's dealt with 'internally', with their own parallel justice system. It's still fairly if not overtly toxic for many. I met one RAF Officer who seemed shocked that I had 'spotted' him and he was the most put-upon and marginalised, very tall, well-off woman I'd ever met. Well, that was until the next one. They cannot hide their entitlement and that is what you can spot. Many, often more senior men, learn to handle it with more grace or wit. I've met a few senior women like it, if you can't beat 'em join 'em types, but it's very socialised male behaviour. And expecting others to pretend along with you.

There is a link with mental ill health and also with trauma. I think this MMA fighter described himself as a 'runt' and had a particularly nasty upbringing. So he beefed himself up, and went into the most violent environment he could, again I think he was apparently a medic dealing with the outcome of IEDs. That is traumatic. How do you deal with that? #BeNice apparently by letting him 'transition' and beat up women for money. He had the power to heal, he now has the power to destroy. His choice.

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Abigail Austen was a British officer who transed. Last seen 4 years ago on Channel 4 News claiming that he was heading for the airport where a US general was waiting to take him on a special mission to Afghanistan. Hasn't reappeared in the present crisis. At one stage his Wikipedia page stated that he was working as liaison on North Macedonia's application to join NATO. That's been deleted but there remain a lot of unsourced claims on the page. His current whereabouts are not given. No journalist takes any interest.

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No, they join the military in order to harass, intimidate, and harm other people LEGALLY. When a veteran wrote about his terrible experiences in the military online, one commenter pointed out that he knew it was wrong to kill people for money when he was ten years old.

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I know it will be hard, but women in sports must be brave and stand up together to say in one loud clear voice NO MEN IN WOMENS SPORTS. It is their fight and they can no longer remain silent.

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And they should be boycotting sports and events where they are pitted against violent men.

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This scares the life out of me. I would be very wary of people that watch this stuff for entertainment, it says a lot about their mentality.

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America , self styled " greatest nation on EARTH " has been severely mentally ill for DECADES ,and sadly some of that has been imported to Britain over the years !! It's completely abhorrent that any sane person can watch a woman being almost killed in a " sports contest " by a MAN claiming to be a woman and actually believe he IS a woman !! worse still how can they watch brutality like that without being horrified ,applauding him instead !! Totally incomprehensible to any normal human being and as for the " press reports " ,they just leave you speechless !! Totally Unforgivable !!à

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Totally agree, except that they don’t believe he’s a woman. It’s cognitive dissonance - some kind of mass suspension of disbelief. Gaslighting. And women are more susceptible to it. IMO

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You're probably right ,but I just can't understand why anybody other than the most delusional or sadistic person can accept this as being ok !!

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I know. It’s terrifying. It’s like a dystopian, futuristic movie. I don’t know whether it’s better to have one’s eyes open to it, or closed.

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Open. It's hard, we must protect ourselves, but open. As Graham's are. Keep yourself safe, and protected and self-caring.

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History will record this time as The Great Bullshit.

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Can someone please arrest this prick?

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More then one prick to arrest. Anyone who agrees with this insanity needs to seek mental support. The worlds delusional.

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We are in the grip of a mass psychosis: a very vocal minority bearing on its shoulders the semi-comatose majority, whose well-meaning wokeness blinds them to the reality of the travesty that they are unwittingly supporting. Madness, absolute madness.

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Yes. People are so scared of being seen to be anti-trans that they swallow the Kool Aid and keep on drinking. Or they profit from it in some way. The Stonewall agenda is still be furthered where I work. I see people making it something to achieve and they get reported on in their appraisal so they push it no matter what. No integrity at all. My boss has his pronouns on their signature block and I see it more and more. I'm not being forced to do so yet, but I am sure it will come.

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The transgenderists' own ridiculous code, the Yogyakarta Principles, forbids putting pressure on anyone to reveal their gender identity - they can't enquire after your pronouns.

"6 THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY

Everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, is entitled to the enjoyment of privacy without arbitrary or unlawful interference, including with regard to their family, home or correspondence as well as to protection from unlawful attacks on their honour and reputation. The right to privacy ordinarily includes the choice to disclose or not to disclose information relating to one’s sexual orientation or gender identity, as well as decisions and choices regarding both one’s own body and consensual sexual and other relations with others.

States shall:

F:ensure the right of all persons ordinarily to choose when, to whom and how to disclose information pertaining to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and protect all persons from arbitrary or unwanted disclosure, or threat of disclosure of such information by others."

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No-one seems to know this, bear with me: men have a longer ring finger than women (more precisely, it's a high ring/index ratio). Wondering whether...? Check their right ring finger. Reliable guide. Anways, although I can't see much on the matter besides it's being noted, my opinion: it makes a solid fist unit paired with middle finger. Women cannot make such a fist withtheir middle finger out on its own. Check it out. Compare fists. Men, tey retracting your ring finger and note what it does to your fist I assume it diminishes dexterity though which women do better at, a trade-off. It means a man can always beat the shit out of a woman; he is biologically equipped with more efficient weapons. Please share this more widely. It needs to be shared more before women get killed. It's important. It is a dangerous built in biological advantage (apart from all those we already know, brow ridges and chin size too). Tell Joe Rogan for example. Sorry if this seems nerdy. It isn't. (from a friendly genderism trashing transsexual here xx)

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Not nerdy, it's a great point. Testosterone. Evolution. Men are built for violence from their head to their feet. Physiology, with organ size and function, fat desposits, bone structure and density, hormones, height, size, weight, speed, strength, it's the whole damn lot. Women are built for childbirth and nurturing. Some are further towards one end or other of the curve for their sex. We can make individual life choices in addition to this, and we are socialised depending on the cultures and societies we are born in. Hard to escape these facts looking at twisted our societies are.

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God I feel so angry. And of course, I'm reminded of the leniency towards stranglers in the UK too. There was this recent case https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a37509505/man-killed-woman-strangling-sex-sentenced-four-years-prison/

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The Attorney General is now acting. I think the weight of outrage was noted and now they are being seen to do...something. Watch this space.

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Hopefully !! This should NEVER be allowed again !! World Rugby banned men from playing in women's rugby teams INTERNATIONALLY ( because of the very obvious risk of serious injury to females ) but then bottled it by allowing each rugby club to decide for themselves at National and local level ,so some of them apparently have males in women's teams !! Well done ,there !! That of course was their cowardly response to howls of protest from transactvists !! Great to hear there were complaints ( hopefully very loud ones ,from men as well !!

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The AG is a woman, Suella Braverman, who has been in hot water for Tweeting. It is Tory women and a Tory Government who appear to be a bulwark against this. At the moment.

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Yes, it's quite crazy to have the Tories on the right side here

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I think the PM may sometimes do things because he is very good at spotting public moods. Many in the Tory party and their supporters are. It will and has won them votes, as the Opposition and other Parties appear to have forgotten.

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Party of LawnOrder after all...

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True and I just wish there was a Scottish election due soon (sadly there isn't) because I would be voting Tory for the first time in my life. The left wing parties have all lost their ability to reason as well as any sense of justice or fair play. However ,the council elections are next year ,so a swing to Tory might send them the message that they keep refusing to hear . If only more people would engage in this fight ,especially the media who for the most part have been pretending not to notice ,quality news outlet excepted of course and all praise to them for speaking the truth

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I'm relieved to read this. Thank you.

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Courage speaks to courage everywhere :-)

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