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hamsterjill

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22. Yep.

Reply to Redleg (Reply #13)

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 03:46 PM

Sep 4

And it's really their Christian Nationalists beliefs. They don't care how they get there; they just want to get there. They will call it whatever they need to call it in order to get it done.

As someone mentioned upthread, next it will be another group. Women, etc.

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WTF Pachamama Sep 4 #1

they want to blame mass shootings on trans folk, immigrants, etc Skittles Sep 4 #10

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Name and gender changes are fairly easy to track on FBI background checks. The other stuff isn't. LeftInTX Sep 4 #30

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How about banning Trump voters from owning weapons? C_U_L8R Sep 4 #5

I would like to see stats on rampaging transgender people, Bayard Sep 4 #6

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The solution is the absolute right of any citizen The Mouth Sep 4 #27

And it's a short step to involuntary commitment. TommyT139 Sep 4 #8

They are doing that now with homeless Nigrum Cattus Sep 4 #17

Yep TommyT139 Sep 4 #24

If that's hildegaard28 Sep 4 #9

But not angry young Incel men... Chasstev365 Sep 4 #11

Cuz they're real 'Mericans. Redleg Sep 4 #15

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Yup orangecrush Sep 4 #29

They will claim that it is a mental illness Redleg Sep 4 #13

Yep. hamsterjill Sep 4 #22

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Per CNN, in the last decade, there have been 5000 mass shootings. Staph Sep 4 #16

voting for trump is a mental disorder moonshinegnomie Sep 4 #18

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How about if the transgender person indicates she'll return to being a full-time, dyed-in-the-wood male? Vinca Sep 4 #20

Looking at a few cases TommyT139 Sep 4 #26

This fascist obsession with less than 1% of the population is beyond neurotic. If they do this, it will set the Karasu Sep 4 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author LongtimeAZDem Sep 4 #23

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Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union muriel_volestrangler Sep 4 #25

Precedent...... First, they came for::: Norrrm Sep 4 #31