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Americans....and people around the world believe that America is a democracy. Yet it's not possible to have a democracy when there are only 2 choices. 2 choices.... 2 competitors.... 2 groups servicing one market definitively means 1 choice.... 0 competitors.....1 group servicing the market. That's why market economy nations have anti trust laws.............. because what I wrote above is a truism, not an opinion. issues like "trans rights" are not meant to debate..... they are meant to polarize. To give the appearance of political discourse. They are enflamed to polarize sides so they become so extreme there is the illusion of competition. Meanwhile issues like education, poverty, war, economics, government graft, budget deficit never rise to the level of this passionate discourse because the polarized sides are emotionally blinded by minor issues like "trans rights"......minor when compared to the issues that directly affect everyone like the ones I listed above. For those major issues..... the same trajectory continues no matter which party is in office. Education becomes increasingly for the elite..... poverty increases....debt increase.... wars continue.

An interesting new poll on how politics plays into the trans battle in the far right's broader culture war. https://rollcall.com/2023/03/31/republicans-fixation-on-trans-issues-could-backfire-pollsters-say/

I agree. Of all the issues Americans should be discussing trans is about the bottom one. It is a polarising issue in which both sides take extreme dogmatic positions designed to inflame the other. Straw man arguments are thrown into the battle all the time (both sides) ... Perhaps I shouldn't comment, it's not my country, but to the rest of the world America appears mad. The Democrats - the party of pregnant men. The Republicans - gun nuts and cult followers of Trump. They're both mad though I see the Rep's as more dangerously mad. It's become tribal and unspeakably ugly. In no other Western country / democracy do politicians routinely say they want their opponents thrown into jail, but in America you do. On a ladyboy forum none of us can be anything but pro-trans. (Really strange if we weren't). But it doesn't mean that we have to buy into everything the activist cohort sells us. Are trans women "real" women? I don't personally think so, but I don't think they're men either - their whole thinking, intuitive sense of themselves, and of course commitment to living as women is female and total. I wish to hell people would just embrace the term trans woman. I think it's accurate, respectful of how they see themselves, and it's a happy compromise - neither wholly female but not male either. The fanatics at either extreme end don't like it however.

You can make an equally strong case or stronger that it's the far left's culture war. Refusing to acquiesce to every nutty demand made by the trans lobby does not make one far right or transphobic - a term that's rapidly losing all meaning. Most reasonable people believe in the right of trans people to live their lives as they choose and to be left alone. But not at the cost of all basic common sense and the right of women (real women) to their own identity and rights and spaces.

Starting April 21st, Cebu Pacific will be operating one flight a day from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok to Clark Airport, just a 15 minute ride from Fields in Angeles City. The flight leaves Clark at 7:15 PM (Philippines time)and arrives at Bangkok at 9:50 (Thai time). The return flight leaves Bangkok at 10:50 PM (Thai time)and arrives at Clark at 3:20 AM (Philippines time).

Spot On Sith. It's all a farce. They are ALL liars, The Trans, The Dems, The Rep. The whole system has been exposed unlike no other time in history. I think things are coming to a head, stand by.

She left CIB some weeks or months ago. Sorry, there's no information about her current whereabouts.

Postscript - https://people.com/movies/raquel-welch-cause-of-death-cardiac-arrest-alzheimers-disease/

Well, we all look alike from a distance.

You know what, I think we argued over that as we very rarely argued about anything. I still miss him so much. Will be catching up with Dao in early May.

I dont think Djungjai existed until about 2018