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Why I Stopped Identifying as a Conservative

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Ben Sixsmith
Sep 25, 2025
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“I identify as an attack helicopter.” This sort of once half-amusing quip was ground into the dust by incessant overuse by right-wing commentators in the earlier years of the gender wars. How absurd it was that men were identifying as women! How absurd it was that women were identifying as men!

Well, if I was laughing then, I should have at least somethi…

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