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  • You’re right! Big money and big tech are largely to blame for this! They turned the most used/viewed apps, platforms, and cable tv programs into breeding grounds for disinformation and rage bait and steadily increasing dehumanizing rhetoric.

    The fall of democracy via cronyism, eroding of checks and balances, and disillusion of trust in institutions — most benefits corrupt oligarchs and aspiring autocrats.

    Our country is being gutted by antisocial robber barons and power tripping rapists.

    The villains are in control.



  • I’m aware of all of that.

    The Arab-Israeli civil war of 1948 (Arabs call it the Nakba) actually started because of the first rejection by the Arabs of a peaceful two state partition.

    In the Palestinian mind, right from the start of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, the British and the European Jews were seen as an invading force, and the formation of Israel was seen as the entrenchment of that invading force.

    Prior to the Balfour Declaration and British backed migration of the European Jews, the Arabs outnumbered the Jews 10 to 1 in that region, and it was unofficially considered to be their lands. They saw the mass migration as an invasion and a threat to their sovereignty and culture, as peoples generally do.

    Today only 44% of people living within the territory of Palestine are Arabs, and 52% are Jews.

    Based on these numbers it would seem they were right to be afraid.


  • Actually, technically, officially

    “Israel” (declared may 1948) existed before “Palestine” (declared 1988).

    The Jews and the Arabs have both been there for millennia, and the land has been contested since the dawn of recorded history.

    It was originally called Canaan in the late Bronze Age (1500 - 1200 BCE).

    Then in the Iron Age it was called Judea.

    Then the Romans conquered the land and called it Syria Palestina (the land of Syrian “Phillistines”, aka uncultured/uncivilized people.)

    Later that evolved into Palestine, which wasn’t codified until 1988, 40 years after the formation of Israel.

    Both peoples have been there for millennia, both peoples have been committing atrocities on one another, and both peoples have a legitimate claim to the land.

    This isn’t a simple black and white issue with good guys and bad guys. Claiming Israel is the bad guys because they’re the current aggressors, is like walking in on a fight and accusing the one who’s currently winning of being the whole reason for the fight in the first place.

    You have to know the whole story, unbiased, looking from both sides, to understand a current conflict.

    These lands and these people’s need outside arbitration.

    They’re incapable of coming to a peaceful solution on their own. They’re too proud and they both feel too entitled and righteous.

    One of them is currently more monied and has more support from imperialist governments, but they’ve both done horrible things to one another and ended millions of eachothers lives over millennia.

    Israel is trying to put an end to it forever in the most effective way they can think of.

    Violence.

    It’s not fair.

    If you study history, you will see not much about us is fair.

    In recent times we have become abnormally civilized, but only just barely.













  • So there’s something called Hormone Replacement Therapy.

    It’s where doctors refer you to endocrinologists who measure the hormone levels in ng/DL or nanograms per deciliter in your blood.

    The endocrinologists then recommend a dosage of estradiol and progesterone, or testosterone if the child is transitioning from “female to male”, in order to bring their hormone levels into a healthy range for someone their age of the opposite sex.

    The body is surprisingly flexible especially during development when your bones and ligaments are still forming and your epiphyseal plates are still porous and malleable. When they go from blockers to HRT, their body will make puberty of the opposite sex happen, and they will look completely natural as a member of that sex, with the exception of their gonads/genitals.

    These are almost always the trans people “you can’t tell” with. It’s easy to blend in when you never went through “the wrong puberty” so to speak.

    That happens after the blockers, and is basically the final decision before permanent changes happen, usually at 14 - 16 years of age after having the child on puberty blockers and regularly therapy sessions.

    No medicine will be prescribed until puberty begins, and no surgeries will be prescribed until adulthood in most cases. There are some rare exceptions in some states, but it’s still at the parents discretion.

    If the child and you decide transition isn’t the right choice, the child can simply go off the puberty blockers, and regular puberty happens in line with their assigned sex at birth, with a minimal change in development.

    If your child is showing signs I absolutely recommend talking to multiple doctors and therapists about all of this, and if it seems right you may end up wanting to schedule some pediatric therapy for them to really investigate and potentially diagnose… or simply to learn that it really is just a phase, which is also worth knowing for sure from professionals, that way you don’t have to second guess yourself as much.

    Professionals make mistakes which is why I recommend seeking multiple opinions just to be sure.

    If you make the child feel safe and give them options, they will show you their true unfiltered nature, whatever that may be.

    Some little girls are tomboys early in life but grow up and remain female and live as women, because it’s not about what toys they like or how they interact with others… it’s about whether or not they have clinical gender dysphoria and feel sad or scared at the idea of growing up and living as their birth sex.

    Doctors are your friend. They became doctors to help people. Let them try!