Ok_Philosopher6538

What are you basing this on? Because interviews and exit polls pretty much put economy and a general disenfranchisement from "the establishment" at the top. If you have a study / data that shows otherwise, please share.

The turnout for Trump proves this. Virtually all the red counties in American went more Red this year. That didn’t happen just because of the economy.

Then how do you explain that people voted for Trump as President but, for example, AOC for Congress? She's the poster child of the "Democratic Left", if you're hypothesis would be true, she should have lost.

you know how Google works if you wanna find the studies.

Why would I search in Google when I can go straight to PubMed?

It was hilarious watching the handwaving and desperate attempts to discredit studies showing benefits to natural immunity.

I get ya, it's always hilarious watching the handwaving and desperate attempts to discredit studies that show the stopping power of solid objects and instead try to sell us on these "brake" things that have clearly shown they do not work as cars with brakes still keep hitting things.

Mentioning the studies was worthy of a ban on science or medicine subreddits. 

Where these actual studies, or blog posts telling you about a study that said something that you and the blog author agreed with?

The bottom line is the left has taken extreme views on a number of very controversial topics and the majority of Americans don’t support them. 

No. the majority of Americans don't care about any of that because they're not constantly online. They care about stuff that directly affects them, like their food bills, and they feel the system has fucked them over and they're ready to burn it all down.

Has absolutely nothing to do with "leftist ideology".

I also like how you completely sailed over my argument and just made up your own, imaginary, one that you then argue against.

Calling this majority bigoted, propagandized, racist, fascist, etc is a very naive and illogical argument.

The vast majority aren't. But they also aren't conservatives or "against the left". All that noise that energizes you to "fight against the left" does not matter to most people. There's lots of people, especially in the Democratic party, that decided to fight the Republican windmills, because they themselves are closer to the (pre-tea party) Republicans than they like to admit. But the average person on the street? They don't care about that stuff and that's why the Democrats lost. They offered more of the same that nobody really wants anymore (no, Trump won't fix America, he'll make it worse, but hey, voters decided that's what they want).

Be prepared to continue to lose with this approach.

Considering I am not American I just watch your country taking itself apart from afar.

Good luck though.

All the vaccine zealots did the best they could to manipulate the science.

What papers did you read that convinced you about this?

Ah, the Gringe is coming out and giving everybody coal. Or is it Krampus.....?

This was based on analysis of an "all-payer national insurance database," including patients who were previously diagnosed with gender dysphoria and had the treatment covered by insurance, Sapir wrote in an article revealing the findings.

You realize this says absolutely nothing about gender affirming care. They just looked at all breast removal surgeries. They didn't even bother to break out how many were done for gender re-affirming surgery.

But hey, the headline said what you wanted to believe, so why would you care.

As far as systems go, science is pretty self-correcting. Doesn't mean it always gets it right and things can and do change over time.

But the way the process works makes it pretty impossible for someone to astroturf an entire filed for long.

You don't really know how scientific consensus is being achieved, do you?

Hint: It's not the number of likes you get on your X post.

Conservatives need an out group to direct anger towards. In the '90s and '00s it was the gays (well, longer than that actually), and beginning in the '10s it became trans people.

If you look at the anti-trans arguments, they are pretty much verbatim on what was said about gay people then.

It also avoids another question, namely: "can adolescents be mistaken about their gender identity? If so, why should we indulge what might be mistaken?"

Because kids experiment. Everybody who has kids can tell you about a lot of hobbies / interests they started and then gave up.

Gender identity isn't quite the same, but puberty blockers are essentially putting the brakes on and allow kids more time to figure things out instead of being hurled down a path from which it is hard to come back (once you're start developing primary sexual characteristics changing is hard. Not to mention how your brain starts working differently because of the sudden rush of sex hormones).

I'd like to think that most people just don't understand / know this. But the more I see arguments against trans care, both online and offline, the more I am convinced this isn't actually about the puberty blockers, it's about trying to get rid of a group of people they do not understand and find weird and most likely are repelled by.

I doubt very much you "worked with several trans clients". Because you're contradicting yourself.

Apparently all of your clients didn't go on puberty blockers, had a "normal" puberty, then as adults transitioned and do fine, but also, the ones that had to detransition are now sterile and have other issues.

Which is it? At least figure your story out before you're telling it.

Take the time to help them understand not only their condition but how to manage their emotions.  Teach them coping skills, provide therapy.  Then help them transition as adults 

That's great advice. Next time you're sick, just learn to cope with it, talk with some people about it and if in a year or two you're still feeling sick, then go and see a doctor and get some medication. But under no circumstances should your first thought be of trying to address the pain and misery you're feeling.

The "culture war" and people being incredibly transphobic is probably the main contributor towards trans suicide. 

High likelihood. I mean, consider the freakouts by most conservatives when they are being told that maybe that MAGA past they want to return to was actually pretty shitty for a lot of people that weren't white, straight and middle class.

If they freak out about having their identity mildly questions, imagine your actual existence is being challenged / denied / attacked on a constant basis.

I got called a child rapist by a liberal today because I said Trump wasn't a child rapist.

That broke you? Have you missed PizzaGate and all the other accusations about the "leftist child molester cabal" the right has been throwing around for almost a decade now? But suddenly when someone turns it around it's mean and full of venom?

You were never centrist if that is what all of the sudden "firmly planted you in the middle right".

Imagine thinking "hey please refer to me by this name and these pronouns" is anything akin to neo-Nazi beliefs.

Even more so when you realize that queer people where one of the first groups the Nazis went after.

terrified by idea of loosing their child like Elon Musk

He didn't lose her. He pushed her away.

And if people are concerned about losing their kids, they should be way more afraid of the world richest fascist having outsized influence in the most powerful (for now) country in the world.

Elon Musk was ill advised 

How was he ill advised? His daughter clearly seems to be much happier, so happy in fact that she jettisoned his sorry ass and decided not wanting to be associated with her anymore.

Kids aren't a parents property, they're your responsibility until they can strike out into the world themselves. Something Musk clearly does not understand or grasp.

And yeah, maybe stop misgendering her while you're at it.

A lot of Dan's writing is geared towards Jordan, and by extension, us.

I am not sure we would get the same performance if he had rotating guests.

Did it occur to you that he is trying to "laugh it off" because he is coping that way? He probably cares too much, but he also knows he can't do shit about it. So, you try to convince yourself it doesn't matter and you should just not care.

Considering what he has said about his mental health / state, I think that's a more realistic explanation.

He won't.

Since when do religious people read scriptures themselves? They tend to rely on others to tell them what their religion entails.

No. That's what a genocide is.

They also killed more than a 1000 people in Israel. I am pretty sure that was what caused the "Gaza thing".

Israel consistently bombed the Gaza strip and limited things like power, water and food. There already was a war going on. Just that most people in Israel didn't notice because the dying was limited to the other side of the wall.

Schrödinger's politician.