Yep. They drain the feeding trough, but demand the livestock to breed. I think the planet and society would fare a lot better if we let the population slip to about half what it is now. Better for all species, including us. It's estimated that would take about 80 years.

Cagey bees. 🐝

Is it OK if I go walk around there, though?

This makes me think that it's projected self-loathing aggravated by others judging them. As a person with no experience with trans-life in particular. Just how that comes off.

Now that Biden has been diagnosed with cancer, I'm sure the Trumpers will display their usual grace.

I agree.

Psychiatric treatment. Inpatient, mandatory, live in long term aggressive. Rather than tent cities under overpasses, panhandlers on every corner, and rampant crime. Undo what has been attributed to Raegan. I also think the left should lead with universal basic income.

The left needs to be far more centrist regarding things like crime and illegal drugs, also. Though incarceration obviously doesn't solve it. In Albuquerque I have seen the very blue city go steadily downhill over decades. I really think we need a lot of investment in hardline rehab as well as

Environmentalists, those who care about living things, should be the focus of the left. A better, saner, more just and sustainable world is entirely possible. But not through Project 2025, etc.

There is a lot to work with motivating voters in what Trump and his ilk are trying to pull, now much entangled with the courts. I think the cause of identity politics is fine but should be removed from democratic identity as much as possible. Working people, intellectuals, scientists,

Being gay, straight, white, black, Mexican, Asian, male, female do not make you a great person or a terrible person. Both come in every form.

I appreciate AOC and Bernie regarding wealth inequality and oligarchy. Wealth based classism is the real underlying issue.

It alienates the majority who are not transgender with a weird guilt trip. Allowing school staff to tinker with the gender identity of young children behind their parents backs justifies right wing paranoia. All white people are not racist in every sense. Systemic racism is not the only kind.

Leading with transgenderism is a strategic albatross. Absolutely, transgender people should be accepted. Trying to ram down people's throats that a biological man who identifies as female is interchangeable with a biological female is transparently insane.

Truth to this. Populists have a visceral marketing campaign. It has little to do with any external reality, ir truth, and everything to do with obsessive xenophobia, paranoia, and rage. And they have gotten plenty of votes from the working class who will not benefit in anything beyond lip service