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It's like being mad that women can vote or that blacks can go to white schools, just time shifted. Why spend your life being mad about social progress that's going to happen whether you want it to or not? What's the value proposition? (I mean for the people buying it, not the people selling it.)

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The value proposition is that the people selling it are telling the buyers that trans and gay people will corrupt their children. Not that it might turn out their children are trans or gay, but that trans and gay people will cause them to be trans or gay. Amp this up with hoaxes like schools having cat litter boxes for children who identify as cats.

They're being sold fear, and they're buying it.

There are people out there afraid to learn or change and are keen to blame and keep things the same to protect themselves

You can listen to their thought process by asking them if they got their way politically for 15 years what would be better about living in their country

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