> The worst thing to do is shriek “Nazi” spuriously and increase the tendency of reasonable people to assume that somebody being accused of being a Nazi has simply said something considered problematic using the tortuous reasoning of the Critical Social Justice Left and ignore it rather than have a look to see if they have, in fact, expressed views compatible with a genocidal antisemitic and/or ethnonational ideology.
> Stop it.
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> If there is reason to be concerned about the power, influence and character of Elon Musk (and I suspect there is), the people who will need to be convinced of this will be serious, ethical, thoughtful, American conservatives who care about what is true and what is morally right, who are currently of the view that Musk is beneficial to their great nation (and hopefully the world) and are absolutely sick of the authoritarian irrationality and spurious name-calling of the Critical Social Justice left.
> The typical trajectory of successful parties on the populist right is that they start out extreme and moderate over time. That makes the AfD, whose trajectory has been the opposite, a massive outlier. The party started out in 2013 as a moderately eurosceptic movement animated by economics professors who wanted to abolish the Euro. Since then, its comparatively moderate leaders have again and again been driven out by more extreme challengers. In the process, Der Flügel, the party’s most extreme wing, has gone from being a small faction within the movement to its dominant voice.
> Whether Donald Trump actually believes climate change is a Chinese hoax, or whether he just says it to get under his opponents’ skin, we don’t know. What we do know is that he drips with contempt for environmentalism and those who espouse it. So it surprised no one that, amid the rash of Week One executive orders, many of them—ranging from pardoning January 6 Capitol rioters to overturning birthright citizenship by executive fiat—deeply irresponsible, he made sure to do his utmost to piss off the greens. The executive order titled “Unleashing American Energy” seems built entirely around the maxim that whatever progressive climate activists support must be bad. Environmentalists were suitably appalled, which figures: appalling them seemed to be the whole point.
> This seems like a simple story of a callous administration gleefully wrecking the environment to line the pockets of its backers in the fossil fuel industry. And there’s certainly some of that. But it’s not so simple. The green consensus overturned by Trump’s executive order was badly built around a series of half-baked ideas that create serious problems when you try to implement them. Trump has no idea, but in killing their worst ideas, he’s just done the climate movement a big favor.
> 'Extremely juvenile': Labor accused of endangering US relations after senior Cabinet minister attacks Trump's gender policy for sowing division
> The Albanese government has been accused of picking a fight with Donald Trump and endangering Australia’s most important relationship after a senior cabinet minister claimed the President sowed division with his Executive Order recognising only two genders.
> Peter Dutton has shut down his Nationals counterpart's suggestion that Australia should "lean into" the gender debate, after Donald Trump's executive order rejecting recognition of transgender people in the United States.
To reflect on factors that may have led to the widespread implementation of gender affirming care (GAC) for minors by psychiatric clinical leaders despite the absence of a robust evidence base and the known risks of harm.
Conclusions
The progressive rejection of psychodynamic thinking by the profession of psychiatry may have contributed to psychiatrists failing to question key aspects of GAC for minors. Further, numerous unconscious factors potentially contribute to the foreclosure of thinking about the risks of gender medicine.
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