Bill passes to restrict trans-athletes from women's sports

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Only 2 Democrats voted for the ban -- even though most blue states want the ban. (But when the Democratic citizens want biological men out of women's sports, and the genocide in Gaza to cease, the "left" establishment ignores them).

So the Democratic party is killing itself. (Me being me, however, I still smell a rightwing psy-op):

 

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Trump threatened to pull federal funding for Maine if the state doesn't comply with the ban. Maine Governor Janet Mills responded by saying "See you in court."

I'm sure Trump doesn't have the legal authority to pull federal funding from a state, nor would it be fair to the residents, but I like the pushback against these "woke" policies.

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If that defiant jackass governor keeps it up, she's going to find out, as will Healey in MA. It will likely end up with SCOTUS, and since Maine would be violating Federal law, their decision will likely be that the funding can be withheld until the governor complies with Federal law. I agree that it's not fair that the residents have to suffer because their governors are being defiant jackasses, but it's up to them to vote them out.
 
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The percentage of trans people in the USA population is miniscule and the number who participate in sports is even smaller. The amount of time and energy that the USA has given to this issue is way out of proportion to the issue itself and is more about exploiting a problem for political means rather than dealing with an issue that affects most people's day to day lives.
 

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The percentage of trans people in the USA population is miniscule and the number who participate in sports is even smaller. The amount of time and energy that the USA has given to this issue is way out of proportion to the issue itself and is more about exploiting a problem for political means rather than dealing with an issue that affects most people's day to day lives.

The trans population is indeed tiny, and yet it went to the very center of All Things Leftist, at least in the States, for a while. Splitting (pardon the expression) the feminists into "TERFS" (the ones who wanted to protect female spaces) and the Woke(r) feminists (who declared open-season on all gender distinctions).

The collision was the ultimate in intersectionality.

But as I've said for years (and for which I was accused, quite predictably, of being a "conspiracy theorist") that the entire Woke thing was an un-organic rightwing, deep state plot to undermine the Left -- to turn it woke, to turn it stupid, and bring it down. And it worked...

And now the USAID files (available on, ironically, Malcolm Twitter) verify this: the Woke stuff was designed to sow chaos and, among other things, destroy the Left while pitting the underclasses against each other (presumably to deflect public attention -- and anger -- away from what the rulers are really doing with all the money). And this got started, or put into overdrive, after the 2014 Occupy Wall Street protests, which really did frighten the elites (just as Luigi Mangione's shooting of that Healthcare executive frightened them, causing mainstream corporate media to suddenly care about murder).
 

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At some awards show the other day, Jane Fonda, 87, gave an acceptance speech, claiming (as she always does in her smug, back-of-the-throat, pseudo-ethereal tone as she explains to you how the world works) that "'Woke' only means you care about other people!"

Of course, Woke-ism was used to destroy the Left, to fuel the Right, and Woke's continued supporters in fact care about nobody. That's almost the point.

Not that I was particularly surprised by her commentary.

To think I used to be something of a fan, and even defended her over the North Vietnam anti-aircraft gun photo session, because she'd "apologized" for it. And seemed to apologize for, more or less, the correct reasons.

But she won't be around long. And, given the state of the world (which Biden's team is more responsible for even than Trump's -- at least, so far) most of us may not be around for long.


Two idiots, now on supposedly-opposite sides of the ideological fence, who were once in a really good movie:
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"Woke" is nothing new. In the 1990s they called it "politically correct." The diffetence is now ee have social media which haa added a new layer to it, as well as an avenue for it to become distorted.
I agree with much of what @Snarky Oracle! says. I don't think the basic ideas are bad. For example, being more aware of how systemic issues may still affect marginalized groups to this day is a good way to start rational discussions. However, "woke" has been taken over by extremists who are more interested in sitting in self-righteous judgrment of others rather than advocating for the ones about whom they say they care. It's a power trip to point the finger at someone and call them "racist" or "phobic" if the person doesn't agree with everything they say.
 
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"Woke" is nothing new. In the 1990s they called it "politically correct." The difference is now ee have social media which has added a new layer to it, as well as an avenue for it to become distorted.
I agree with much of what @Snarky Oracle! says. I don't think the basic ideas are bad. For example, being more aware of how systemic issues may still affect marginalized groups to this day is a good way to start rational discussions. However, "woke" has been taken over by extremists who are more interested in sitting in self-righteous judgrment of others rather than advocating for the ones about whom they say they care. It's a power trip to point the finger at someone and call them "racist" or "phobic" if the person doesn't agree with everything they say.

On the contrary, it is something more. I was around for '90s political correctness; I'm familiar with it.

Woke is a psy-op. It's literally a psy-op -- I've said it for years, and now even the USAID files admit to it.
 

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The movement lost its way once the acronym started to look like someone's cat walked across the keyboard. "No LGB without the T" has always been more of a threat than a rally. LGB is based on attraction to biological sex. The others ... are not. The LGB should never have been paired with the rest. The T in particular parasitically latched onto the movement and then had the audacity to rewrite history to include them.
 

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The movement lost its way once the acronym started to look like someone's cat walked across the keyboard. "No LGB without the T" has always been more of a threat than a rally. LGB is based on attraction to biological sex. The others ... are not. The LGB should never have been paired with the rest. The T in particular parasitically latched onto the movement and then had the audacity to rewrite history to include them.

And many who were saying "there is no LGB without the T" were also saying "there's no LGB, you're all just really T."
 
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