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  • Another old joke:

    A polish man finds a magic lamp. He wishes for a horde of Mongolians to come to Poland, pillage, and go home.

    The genie thinks this is odd, but obliges. The mongolians arrive after many months, pillage, then return home.

    The man refuses to make another wish for a few months. Then, as his second wish, he wishes for a horde of Mongolians to come to Poland again.

    The genie, really not understanding this man at all, snaps his fingers, and then another horde spends many more months travelling to Poland to pillage once more.

    The pole, after a few more months of waiting, makes his final wish: another Mongolian horde to pillage Poland.

    The genie, completely dumbstruck, complies.

    The genie asks, “Why? Why would you want Mongolian hordes to come to your land to kill and pillage?”

    The pole responds, “If they came to Poland three times, it means they went through Russia 6 times.”









  • This is propaganda. Regret rate of GAC is less than 1%. If, as this person claims, this is “experimental surgery” performed “unnecessarily” to enrich doctors, how are they getting some of the lowest regret rates in the field of medicine?

    WPATH standard requires 3 years, if I remember correctly, of therapy during which the patient is insistent, persistent and consistent in their gender identity to even BEGIN to be allowed to access care. There’s reasonable evidence that the current requirements might be depriving some children of care they need. Acting like medical professionals acting extremely cautiously on the best evidence we currently have is some crazy experimental cowboy shit is about as bad as vaccine denialism.

    Let’s look at the flip side of the coin: without access to GAC, trans people have hugely increased risk of suicide and self-harm. It is absolutely not an overstatement to say that trying to further restrict access to GAC will cause the needless death of children.



  • Helicopters with anti-tank munitions did not cause the end of the tank, it just led to the development of better supportive anti-air elements.

    Drones with anti-tank munitions is not causing the end of the tank, it will just lead to the development of better supportive anti-drone elements.

    Also, I don’t think you could ever “win a war” with just tanks. They always had been and always will be one piece of a broader combined arms system.