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The case for military interventions in Belarus and Ukraine We very much want to limit the area Russia can use to launch nuclear weapons while me maximize the area we control. Being able to launch nukes into Russia from Ukraine is of significant strategic value. There is also value in having...

For profit companies are required to build a good economy currently. There still isn't any great alternative to that. What you can do is to have the government control for society key companies/assets such as media and infrastructure. Unfortunately even with the most efficient form of elite...

Intersex study: gender identity is 40% environmental The intersex children with Cloacal exstrophy identified as female 40% of the time when they were raised as female. They developed a male gender identity 100% of the time where they were raised as male...

The case for territorial expansion In modern European societies there is basically zero appetite for territorial gains, you can just travel to some other European country without being subjected to any check at the border, you might not even notice any border. When you have full democracy you...

Effects of testosterone of breasts When people born male take high dose T they often develop pseudo-breasts due to some of the testosterone being converted into estrogen. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11715139/ But in the case of people born female the effect seems to be in the other...

Are men treated better than women? A trans man's point of view. The following story was written by an FtM individual thinking transitioning to male was a good idea: I've always thought that sexism, be is misogyny or misandry, can best be understood through experience. I am transsexual which...

That's the wrong approach. You should focus on specific issues rather than listing a bunch of aligned ideologies. There are many issues with naturalism when taken too far. Humans are dominant now thanks to the embrace of technilogy and medicine often allows us to drastically improve the...

Sex and relationships Humans especially males value sex a lot. We want to create a society where people can have fun sexual experiences. https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1016/j.jsxm.2016.08.011 What matters fundamentally is not things like consent but how good lives people have on average...

Imperialism It's typically in your interest that a government that is beneficial for your interests expands their reach to new areas. If you yourself has significant power over said government (such as being 1 of 15 senators governing it) then it's very likely a good thing if said government...

Authoritarianism There currently isn't any established definition of what authoritarianism means but the essence of it seems to be that an authoritarian society is governed top-down rather than bottom up. A country is fully authoritarianism when the political power is completely centralized to 1...

Formal study on tavistock data The study confirm that suicidal trans people are more likely to get access to medical treatments. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02287-7 This is for people seeking care in general and hasn't been adjusted for any confounding factors (such as...

Facial feminizaton surgery studies I have not been able to find any study that directly look at the quality of life but we do have some other data. https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1097/PRS.0000000000000545 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5815130/...

Bone feminization from HRT HRT will affect the bone mineral density changing it to the female norm. This is not a problem since cis females are doing just fine. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29630732/ Other studies: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18835591/...

Refuting "it's never too late to transition" It seems like early full HRT is the only effective treatment, surgeries doesn't really help. I used to think that if you started before 24 you would probably be fine but unfortunatily that does not seem to be the case. While hip bones...

Why SRS is a bad idea Last year i was in contact with a trans female that pursued SRS, she had spent years researching this and had finally found a surgeon she was confident in. She even gave special instruction to the surgeons to make sure she got the best result (she mentioned that another...

About "irredentism" Often when a country loses territory that will cause significant bitterness among the population and this is something you can weaponize to justify a war. The issue is that often the territory you lost in the past is not the most strategically important territory right now...

John J. Mearsheimer doesn't understand societal survival of the fittest He has recieved a lot of attention lately where he basically blames the west for the Ukraine disaster, this is only partly correct. https://uacrisis.org/en/9283-reply-john-mearsheimer-putin-realist So far the war has been...

People transitioning is not just about medicine I very much understand the desire to treat medical transition as merely a medical question like "how do we reduce sex/gender dysphoria" but the reality is very different from that. Having people be able to transition will obviously have...

Stereotypical masculinity = being dumb If you look at masculine stereotypes it's basically being dumb such as dying for vladimir putin in Ukraine. This is not something that's innate male, it's something societies instill in males to make them act against their self-interest (such as...

Transmaxxing and war As i expected Putin has now initiated a full invasion of Ukraine. The main thing i got wrong is that i expected a lot more deaths by now, so far putin has not resorted to genocidal warfare. Ukraine has already banned males between 18 and 60 to leave the country, only...