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Cheers to Dan!

There are some really motivated cancel culture influencers out there. I cannot decide what is worse frankly. The actual attacking of Jesse and Dan by groups of reactive people or the sheer paucity of evidence and research pointing to the accusation at hand.

Its almost as if the Trump derangement syndrome (I say this as someone who identifies to the far left of Marx) has gone viral and created an entire era of destructive entitlement around a monolithic aspect of a person's lived experience (gender, race, religion, ethnicity).

Is it too late to remind everyone on planet earth - that each of us are more than any one category we are ascribed to, by an outside observer in the surveillance state?

Jesus fucking Christ - this is messed up.

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We need some incisive, unsparing journalism into the personal lives of the people who sent these tweets. I for one am very curious to know everything. Everything. Let nothing be hidden any longer.

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Leftist Twitter has devolved into a purity contest and any critical thought is seen as a personal attack. It’s a network filled with zero-sum games. I say this as a far left progressive. Makes me sad.

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Please please please can we get Dan on Useful Idiots!

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Here's Freddie DeBoer's take - and I really like it --- Displacement

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/its-all-just-displacement

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You and Katie are AMAZING!

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People have been inside for too long. Pandemicized.

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I disagree with Jesse and Katie. They use problematic language like ‘concern’ and try to frame their bigotry as morally superior by stating ‘who could be against 12 and 13 year olds getting the best healthcare possible’ while arguing against that very healthcare. They even openly admit that there isn’t an alarming number of de-transitioners or ‘erasure’ of lesbians. And if that’s the case, why are they both so ‘concerned’ for what happens between a 12 year old and their doctor? Bigotry is the likely answer. Again, see ContraPoints YouTube about JK Rowling.

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I stayed in the closet until the age of 30 because the culture wasn’t ready to accept me. Now at the age of 44 I have to go back bc the culture has moved past me and now I’m a bigot. Just ranting - but I’m gonna formalize these thoughts.

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TERFs are bad. Please see ContraPoints video about JK Rowling.

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bizarre. we may hit that whats it called convergence...quicker than we thought.

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Reminds me of an old R. Crumb cartoon of Snappy Sammy Smoot. "Snappy Sammy, this is God, and everything you've been taught is wrong". Someone needs to go up on the mountain and bring back the newest take on the Ten Commandments so I know what the hell is going on.

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I don’t know who these people are but the glee with which others are piling on should give anyone pause.

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Weird that cancel culture warriors never go after establishment figures. It’s nearly always directed at critics of the establishment or people who are already on the fringes. Not to mention, the targets almost never caused real harm comparable to people like Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Bush, David Frum, Bill Kristol, etc. Instead, all of this vicious outrage is directed at people who just mildly deviate from mainstream culture, with the intent to ruin their lives and careers.

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