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What do you think about how Donald Trump and Republicans encourage incidences of crossdressing by straight, white, heterosexual males, as a direct result of the societal suppression of LGBTQ+ culture, resulting in psychological repression in the individual psyche (as it ceases to have any healthy outward form of expression), resulting in widespread crossdressing by straight, white, heterosexual males? Do you think the crossdressing of straight, white, heterosexual males would have been less under a Harris/Walz administration?

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In America, it seems like both the left and the right have problems with pandering to their own extremists.  But it seems like the left has a bigger problem with this.  Does this match your experience?

New/Newer cars suck. People should stop pretending that they don't. Because they really do.

If somebody kills a child molester, assuming that it's just some ordinary person living a regular life who did that out of rage for the action and nothing else, what should the proper punishment be for that murderer be, if anything?

A British TV movie that's in the franchise known as 'Unforgotten' touches upon this. The police officers catch the attacker but face a dilemma in which they can't agree among themselves if they want to even arrest the murderer since their motivations were so, so clear and seemingly relatable.

What would you do?

I've been hanging out in the ponychan/ponyville community for 12 years at this point and despite all my best efforts to share my experiences with being transgender the entire time I've been here, it really frustrates me how people here (mainly in /townhall/) will still regurgitate bullshit about transgender people like myself despite everything I have ever shared about my experiences.

I mean, from my perspective the situation is an absurdity worthy of Camus, what I experience is a part of my private subjective experience of being myself and by the nature of entirely subjective experiences, it produces no physical evidence I can share with anyone. It's a feeling of dissonance and incongruity between what seems intuitive in my mind and what I recognize and experience 24/7 with the body I have. I'm not delusional, I don't believe I was literally born female nor do I believe I have a female soul or anything like that. I know I was born male and that I have a male body complete with a deep voice, facial hair, thick body hair and male genitals ... all of which has always been unnerving to me for reasons that I have no explanation for and it makes as little sense to me as it would to you. And yet, those here who would oppose my right to the pursuit of happiness and would demand I produce the empirical evidence to justify what I am doing to mitigate the pain of that dissonance, seemingly unaware or unconcerned that such a standard is literally impossible and instead continue to repeat the most bad faith strawman narratives about me and others like us here that get passed around in all sorts of transphobic echo chambers all over the internet.

I'm not going through transition for ideological, philosophical, or religious reasons. I've been on hormones for nearly 2 years now and the benefits have been much more than 'merely cosmetic', before I went through any visible changes, I went through very welcome psychological changes, it's literally for the sake of my mental health and I don't care if that creeps you out or disgust you cause it doesn't make sense to you.

You aren't omniscient, and maybe people outthere experience things you do not or cannot experience, just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't give weight to your paranoid solipsistic narratives about it, and your paranoid narratives about it don't justify your support for any politician or their policies to rob us of the right to become comfortable in our own skin for thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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I find it more tragic for a 20 year old person to die (assuming they were a good person) rather than say a 5 year old child. People talk about potential and yada yada, but at the end of the day the 20 year old had 20 years of connections and bonding with the people around them and survived the hardships of childhood.

Great now I have to go from tapping the "nothing ever happens" sign to saying that ok maybe sometimes things happen

Are you for team anal, or do you stand by Truth and Justice?

Capybaras and other animals closely associated with South America alone (and like nowhere else) should be fully domesticated and then brought to other continents. I think. At least, well, I'd love for that to happen.

Does anybody else agree?

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I am drowning

Do you ever feel that people get too horny for certain 'Pokemon' and 'Digimon'?

Does that ever make you frustrated? At least, well, a little bit?