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This is another excellent review of right-wing bigotry, this time towards transgender children. Using the quote from Lincoln's Letters was apropos, nicely done. Now, I'm just waiting for when a suit from Texas comes up, because I am certain that once it does Texas' trans children medical care ban is also doomed. And it can't happen soon enough, because these damn bigots are out of control.

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It seems like Conservatives view culture war issues as abstract concepts, things that impact other people. A friend from North Carolina told me about a Republican politician who'd opposed legalizing marijuana until he had cancer and discovered that it helped him with the nausea from chemotherapy. Now he's introducing a bill to legalize weed. Imagine that.

Until it impacts them directly, Republicans are incapable of imagining that something might impact other people. Whether it's a lack of compassion or and absence of self-awareness, the end result's the same.

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