I am harping on this because you and your ilk are, broadly speaking, so fundamentally immune to ever seeing yourself as the asshole and so absolutely convinced that you just being a prick on the Internet all the time is some kind of badge of courage
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As an English person, I'm very happy to say that your reading of this very simple, easily comprehended, anecdote, is not somehow being totally deformed by you being an American.
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Replying to @HickeyWriter @arthur_affect and
Despite what many other English people in this thread (and many, many, insufferable people here generally) like to think, there is no such thing as a "uniquely English" sense of irony that's untranslatable.
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For some reason, whenever someone gets weirdly aggressively provincial at me, like actually angry that I'm an American and saying that means I don't understand British stuff, they are a TERF One click to their timeline and there's always a transphobic tweet right up top
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and
Such a strange, strange correlation It literally never fails It goes the other way too, like when I was trapped in a TERF hellthread and this lady first accuses me of "paedophilia" out of nowhere then snarks at me Americans can't spell that word
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and
That is so bizarre. “You murder puppies and you wear white socks!”
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Replying to @PyesMusings @HickeyWriter and
Transphobia has at this point fully become a toxic British identity thing, like it's a specific feature of their right wing in particular they take pride in It's like Americans and gun rights
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PyesMusings and
Lack of healthcare makes Americans more vulnerable to pseudoscience and quackery promoted by money-making charlatans. We’re far from perfect but we’re much more robust at standing up to it because we don’t have medical bills to worry about.
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Replying to @Athers1977 @PyesMusings and
I think "trans people are trans because they don't have health insurance" wins some kind of prize for TERF takes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Athers1977 and
I think you understand the point being made. Without universal healthcare people search for affordable alternatives. This creates a culture where snake oil salesmen flourish and science gets pushed to the side. You're a country that believes in TV evangelists and creationism FFS.
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Nobody transitions because they don't have health insurance and are looking for an "affordable alternative" The "skyrocketing" number of trans people, including trans children, across the developed world is because health insurance started covering transition
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Athers1977 and
Only the US requires health insurance, other countries have universal health care. Kids that transition in the UK do it through the NHS. The US is an outlier. Trans ideology prevents doctors from looking at causes (Asperger's, ADHD etc) as its 'conversion therapy'.
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Replying to @markmair @Athers1977 and
So if transitioning is less of an economic barrier to people in the UK because of mandated access to universal healthcare, why would there be more trans people in the US than the UK? You're not making any sense
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