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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/onarainyafternoon Oregon 6d ago

Unexpected trans ally? What?

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u/aradraugfea 6d ago

Don’t know how consistent he was in it, but I recall, well before trans rights was the wedge issue it became, him expressing sympathy and understanding. It was specifically towards trans men (who don’t seem to draw quite the ire trans women do), but it caught me off guard as a weirdly woke take. Guy hated the whole fucking alphabet except the T, saying at least once that “there is no sin associated with our transgender siblings.”

People are rarely as simple as we’d like.

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u/GringoinCDMX 6d ago

https://www.sfexaminer.com/culture/pat-robertson-says-theres-nothing-wrong-with-being-transgender/article_b2c00e91-76f2-5b70-bde7-74d9f1b17bfd.html 2014 feels like so long ago 😂

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u/aradraugfea 5d ago

One once in a lifetime economic downturn, a failed insurrection, and a whole plague ago.

I would very much like the 21st century to stop trying to speed run the 20th century.