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The Sam Brinton story is a delicious bit of schadenfraude for me. About three years ago, I worked for a company that partnered with The Trevor Project. Sam came to speak to us about the work at Trevor and afterward I approached Sam to ask them questions. The company had an adorable office cat, Henry, who I eventually adopted when we started working from home. Henry is the sweetest cat in the world and is narurally curious with people. Of course, Henry (who also liked to be around me) was walking around Sam and me as we talked, which annoyed Sam to the point that they said "This fucking cat won't leave me alone." As soon as this asshole showed their true colors, I picked up Henry and just walked away. Nothing gives me greater joy than to see this lying piece of human waste exposed as a fraud. One could say the cat is out of the bag about Sam Brinton's horrible ways.

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Dec 10, 2022·edited Dec 10, 2022

Looking forward to hearing K&J’s breakdown; I’ve been reading about this Sam person's background and their behaviour and it seems like they have a lot of baggage.

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Using they/them is ludicrous, just makes it very confusing and difficult to track the story. Also, Sam is not only a public servant, but an SES level - meaning military equivalent to a General. A salary not less than $175 per year and a Top Secret (Q for DOE) clearance. His personal life, behaviors, judgement, mental stability are absolutely material here; he has access to information that is critical to national security.

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Dec 11, 2022·edited Dec 11, 2022

The bigoted Rutgers professor really got under my skin. Normally that kind of race bullshit doesn't bother me; maybe here it was the emphasis on spiritual deficiency.

Now, I'm an atheist and materialist, but I was raised Roman Catholic, and the RCC (for better or worse) is a global institution, so the idea of racism has always been foreign and, frankly, disgusting to me. I was raised to believe that, regardless of creed or birth, every human individual is created in the image of God, and, therefore, has immeasurable worth and dignity.

The idea that all "White people" are racist is abhorrent.

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As our resident self appointed nuclear coorespondent, this infuriates me. He is making a mockery of an important and difficult policy area that needs serious attention. Program directors and appointees have a ton of clout over what gets funded.

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Why do we have to use they/them? The whole preferred pronouns nonsense is bad enough, but they/them? It's so confusing.

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Pretty sure the W in weird stands for "Western." Not white. I think it's that way explicitly because African Americans are still Amaricans.

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This baggage-stealing story is one of those "too good to be true" stories that's actually true.

I don't mean the things he told the LGBTQA+ community about conversion therapy. What's "too good" is that a kinky they-them Biden appointee turns out to be a wack-job. The Right-wing press is having a field day with it, as they should.

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Something about the original psychology paper, the one arguing for greater diversity in the field, that seems suspiciously absent: did Roberts et al break down the “of color” category into Black, Hispanic, Asian, etc?

I would not be surprised to learn that Blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented in psych and psych publications, relative to their shares of the US population, but that Asians are over-represented.

This is one of the problems with the very term “of color” - it obscures a huge amount of diversity.

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“The politics of that says there are superior and inferior beings just isn’t the way to go, and white people just don’t get that, they are so corrupt and morally and spiritually bankrupt” is the most rapid fire cognitive dissonance I have ever seen in one vocalized thought. She says believing certain races are inferior is bad, but here’s why white people are inferior. Just some great stuff

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Reading the NY Post story on Brinton:

"Police were initially unable to identify the thief from the footage and closed the case. But on Nov. 29, when the Las Vegas investigator saw media reports of the Minneapolis accusation against Brinton, the officer “immediately recognized” the Energy Department employee “as the suspect pertaining to this case.”"

https://nypost.com/2022/12/10/cameras-caught-non-binary-biden-officials-bag-theft/

I'm sure if Police were to investigate footage around every baggage carousel on flights that Britton was on, they'd find he's stolen hundreds of bags.

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This Sam Brinton thing is creepy af, the only reason for someone of means to steal a woman's suitcase is because it is used clothing. He didn't want new. I'll leave that to percolate through your mind.

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"Innocent kink situation" - oh Jesse, my sweet summer child.

(In other words, I don't believe in such a thing as an "innocent kink".)

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I don’t think 5 years is too harsh. Imagine you’ve planned a trip to attend an event. You arrive and you have no wardrobe to wear because some Biden bureaucrat with awkward-to-use pronouns is deriving sexual pleasure from fondling your garments. That will ruin your trip. Instead of relaxing you would be running around trying to replace your outfit instead of relaxing and enjoying yourself. I think he should get 30 years.

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Dec 10, 2022·edited Dec 10, 2022

I don’t mean to sound mean and judgy, because you could certainly criticize my appearance but their head is the perfect egg. It’s a little disconcerting and in fact distracts me from everything else in this story.

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