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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 1d

College students who famously live off champagne and foie gras… clearly an untapped source of billions.

George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 2d

There’s certainly “journalists” working for the Guardian and The Age who consistently platform and amplify trans vilification and trans hate activists.

George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not worse, but choosing one trans hostile country after another… is a choice. I’m a York alum and I love the city … but the UK is openly and actively hostile to trans people.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 4d

That location is a pretty clear sign they want a lot of people not to attend.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 7d

And indeed often the surviving documentation is very incomplete even at that… and in Europe many records were destroyed at some point.

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 8d

Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 8d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 14d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

Mamdani has made a video about trans rights … so what’s your point?

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

Nothing you have reported a percentage. Come back when you got one with evidence.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

Based on what data? You seem not to understand the difference between evidence and impression.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

You didn’t answer the question; you swapped it for one you had rather I asked. Any polls you want to point to? I’m not sure surprisingly is the right word, for a variety of reasons.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

lol I’m just calling out that you’re denying the very thinking borne out clearly in every post. Your posts are transphobic and like any weak kneed compromiser you lash out rather than trying harder.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

Do you wanna be clear about what proportion of the working class is immigrant? Transgender isn’t a product of neoliberal identify politics either. As elsewhere you’re making false dichotomies.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

You again are entirely misrepresenting my critique. You’re also explicitly all over the place attacking people who you call trans zealots. Quit trying to hide that tenet of your argument. Nice ad hominem again : amazing how you never do it but it’s always there.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

But you can be materialist about something undefined. You’re claiming nuts and bolts about a foe you cannot and will not define. This reads more like a grievance about neglect by dem leadership in favour of a group; but you are badly misdiagnosing the problem if that’s what your concern is.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

So why pin this specifically on trans rights issues? I don’t think the trans community’s experience is at all what you seem to imagine it to be: met with uncritical and zealous support, by the sound of it. Tbc I do think people have lost the eye on the economic ball in general.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

There’s plenty evidence that isn’t academic in just about any issue you can mention. However you can’t produce anything that substantiates the claims you yourself are making. As it happens, there is a fair bit of evidence around but it doesn’t support your argument well. Your beloved graph doesn’t.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

You understand that your argument is fundamentally that something, which apparently you can’t define, exists because you say it does, is literally a case of circular argument?

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

That’s policies not ideology… what’s the ideology and what’s your evidence for it? Policies can be arrived at from multiple ideologies.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

Still no evidence : you do understand what evidence is?

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

You’ve provided no evidence to support any of that. I might have thought a rational point would be how broken the current economics are might just be uncorrelated with anything to do with trans issues.

George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

You still can’t define what that agenda is ideologically; so this is meaningless.

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

And your evidence for any of this is what?

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George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

That graph still does not evidence anything you say.

George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social · 9d

You’re the one claiming these things. I’m not disagreeing with the details / the entire premise is the problem.

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