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Trans Ideology’s Denialism of Violence

On lies compared with reality

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Donovan Cleckley
Dec 26, 2022
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J.M.W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834, c. late 1834 to early 1835

The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.

- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.

- Donald J. Trump, in Steve Holland and Ginger Gibson, “Confident Trump Says Could ‘Shoot Somebody’ and Not Lose Voters,” Reuters, January 23, 2016

I can honestly say that my sweet serial killer is a lady’s man now. Only if I was [sic] a real woman I could bring about little future serial killers to terrorize NYC like my husband did. How [New Yorkers] would of [sic] loathed the Zodiac Children.

- Synthia China Blast, in John Marzulli, “Zodiac ‘Wife’ Curses Fate: Weird Killer Couple Separated in Prison,” Daily News, May 31, 2004

Why should I get involved when it’s quite likel…

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