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It's done on a whim: a man acts like a woman because he wants to; it's desire-based.

He deals with none of the biological burdens of being a woman: periods, risk of pregnancy, giving birth, risk of death and injury from pregnancy and birth.

He retains the muscularity of a man and can easily beat women in sports. 💪🏻

When people do this with race, we call it blackface.

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It dawns on me: those who follow the media, despite being shown evidence, suffer from a syndrome of the "teacher's favorite pet".

They pride themselves on understanding what the teacher is saying – and later, what an article in The New York Times is saying.

They do not have the capacity to think beyond the content and question why they're being told those things; what they're not being told; why the magazine editor wants them to have the beliefs that the articles reinforce.

If you point out that the article is lying or misleading, this threatens their pride that comes from understanding the authoritative source. Like good students, they think their ability to comprehend instructions is an achievement that makes them worthy as people.

This is why "being educated" means so much to them. It's the pride inherent in the ability to follow!

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I've deactivated my account on Facebook for similar reasons: my and my wife's posts were being censored. Among other things, I couldn't even post a link to Patriots.win.

It's nice that we have Gab (replacing Twitter) and .win (replacing Reddit). What are our replacements for other social networks, including Facebook (for friends and family) and Nextdoor (for neighbors)?

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Something important for everyone in these times. 🙂

https://innovationandcreativityinstitute.com/stockdale-paradox/

Collins told the story of Admiral James Stockdale who was a POW during the Vietnam War. Collins notes, “It just seemed so bleak—the uncertainty of his fate, the brutality of his captors, and so forth…how on earth did he deal with it…?”

When Collins asked that very question directly to Stockdale, he replied, “I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.”

Collins followed with another question: “Who didn’t make it out?”

“The optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, ‘We’re going to be out by Christmas.’ And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they’d say, ‘We’re going to be out by Easter.’ And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart….

This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose —with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

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