It failed when they failed to capture the Kursk NPP within 48 hours.

same vibes as that cult expert who said sissy hypno videos he found on the internet were CIA-tier brainwashing or something

his butt humper

Can liberals ever bash Putin without resorting to homophobia? Regardless, Trump wouldn't have control over that policy anyway, it's a Pentagon/security state adventure, which is ending in a complete disaster for them even without a president hostile to Project Ukraine.

life altering drugs

Puberty blockers are not life altering drugs and have been used on cis children for decades with no issues being raised about it, let alone of this scale. Any stance other than this, one based in actual reality, is caving to right wing framing of the issue.

permanent surgeries

So exceedingly rare among trans children that it's not worth talking about. Trans children rarely get access to puberty blockers, let alone surgeries. Editing to add: Most surgeries are done to reverse the effects of a wrong puberty. If trans kids got the blockers/HRT they needed, they wouldn't have a need to undergo surgery, except for maybe GRS, which is not a universal desire among trans people.

until they are adults that can make those decisions

This is also caving to right wing rhetoric on the issue. Trans children are not walking into gender clinics and saying "One gender-affirming surgery, please :)", this process typically involves multiple doctors, usually a therapist of some kind, and obviously the kid's parent(s)/guardian(s). Just like the abortion issue, it should stay that way and be free of state intervention, because to say otherwise would be to contradict the overwhelming majority of medical evidence from the past several decades that indicate that transition leads to the best outcomes for trans people.

I want to be able to tell them that the trans issue is being used to divide us and get people to vote against their economic interests.

As Outdoor_Catgirl said, this issue is not a fucking distraction. To be free from discrimination and the very real threat of violence that often results murder should ostensibly be an issue liberals would care about. But even with the most selfish framing, trans issues are directly related to the lack of adequate and affordable healthcare that plagues this country even after it socially murdered over a million people with the lack of COVID response. So, trans issues should not be seen as a "distraction" or a "culture war", because increasing discrimination and stochastic violence against a vulnerable minority should be issues that even liberals care about.

unhealthy amounts of drugs tbh

What do people make of Mercouris' vague allusions to some unannounced weapon capability that Iran has? He seems petty unsettled just talking about it, is he talking about nukes? Does Iran have nukes or the ability to quickly assemble a warhead?

at some point i feel like militaries are going to start screening out WT players because its apparently such an intelligence risk lmao

As much as I love the guy, what gets overlooked in popular understandings of the Institut für Sexualwissenchaft's work was that a great deal of it was the result of trans people coming in and advocating for themselves about what they wanted and the people at the institute working to find a solution. So in that sense, the creation of a somewhat primitive proto-gender affirming care regimine was done in direct collaboration with trans people, despite the fact that, like you say, a lot of cisgender men like Hirschfeld and Levy-Lenz got the credit for it.

Also, I had no idea we finally got a Hirschfeld emote, that rules

i know its preaching to the choir here but the trans = nazis shit is especially insane considering the institute that developed a proto-gender dysphoria diagnosis and treatment was destroyed by the fucking nazis!!!

PROJECTION!! ITS ALWAYS PROJECTION!!!

The Cult of the Automobile has been an unmitigated disaster for the entire planet

when Lenin legislated

I get why people talk about this in this way, but I think it's a mistake to ascribe intent to this when the decriminalization was a by product of doing away with the Tsarist legal code entirely. There are other instances of socialist states actively pursuing a policy in the direction of queer liberation (earlier and more comprehensive than even modern Western states), such as the GDR in the 80's and Cuba with their new constitution, but unfortunately the Soviet Union was not one of them.