Saw this today, and … well, I’m not going to be so forgiving to people suggesting to vote Third Party rather than vote for Biden. If Trump wants me to do something, and you want me to do that same something, that tells me you’re aligned with Trump.
You morally should vote as effectively as you can EVERY TIME. EVERY vote on the left moves the conversation left.
What you’re advocating is a disastrous take, and you’re falling for classic voter suppression tactics. If you vote for Trump he backs Israel AND Russia. If you don’t vote at all, or throw away your vote, you’re helping politics move towards the right. It’s like a game of tug of war and you’re giving up before it starts.
Rush said it best “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”
Hmmm they’re blocking parking on the street and suing to stop making the parking lot bigger than 8 cars. Tell me again how that isn’t “rich fucks trying to stop people from accessing the public hot spring”
It’s literally the only branch of law where ignorance if the law is a valid excuse. How can anyone seriously get in trouble when “sorry I didn’t know” means you’re not guilty. All criminal penalties are for “knowing and willful” violations of FECA.
Go ahead and try to prove that Ted knew that by volunteering his time this would lead I heart media to donate the revenue of his talks into his own superpac, and that he knew this was a violation of campaign finance laws.
According to the organisers of the five-page statement, around 600 civil servants have voiced support for the initiative, which has slowly been gathering traction for months through professional networks and word-of-mouth across a range of ministries....
Don’t try to use your power to make things better, RESIGN so only the corrupt have power. Then you can say “I did the right thing” as things get worse and worse as every ethical person no longer has any power or authority.
I love how you can’t even begin to understand the concept that “if all the people who feel bad about hurting others LEAVE positions of power, the only people left with power are those who don’t feel bad”
It’s not blind support. It’s an educated guess based on the fact that those 3 people tend to froth at the mouth in rage against laws that are good for society and support laws that are TERRIBLE for society. So far their track record has been good enough that if they’re mad about a law, it’s probably a good law.
I don’t know why this needs to be explained to you. I’m going to log this as a donation to aid the mentally impaired on my taxes.
Yeah, but also support green (ish) transportation. The intersection of people who believe in global warming and are anti LGBTQ+ rights is a small ass market for Tesla.
Foster Care is TERRIBLE for kids. Only the most severe cases of abuse and neglect should cause removal. In these cases adoption should be looked at because the instability of foster homes causes measurable damages
LMAO, hey I know you’re struggling with inflation on your 50k income, but that nice neighbour just gave you 2.5k to fix up your car so you can get to work. Certainly that’s just 5% of your income, so you won’t be swayed to do them any favors later.
WASCO, Calif. (KBAK) — A man has been arrested after being suspected of taking the leg of a pedestrian who was struck by an Amtrak train in California and eating it.
For someone who thinks they’re so smart you sure have a lot of strongly held, dangerously outdated views.
We don’t correct mental disorders by “forcing people to be more ‘normal’”, we treat them so that the person with the disorder can have the most fulfilling life they can.
The reason we don’t let someone with anorexia stave to death is that they would die, which is not the most fulfilling life they can have. The reason we let someone with gender dysmorphia (after assessing that transition is the best solution for them) transition is that this lets them have, what is now statistically proven to be, the most fulfilling life they can have.
Forcing a square peg (neurodivergent individual) into a round hole (neurotypical behaviour) doesn’t make anyone happy. Instead we help them round their hardest edges and find the most ‘square hole’ shaped lifestyle they have access to means everyone is as fulfilled as possible.
I like your response. You responded politely, you took apart every portion of their frankly ridiculous comment and highlighted how it diverges from sound health care practices and ideas. You responded with what the current, science backed approaches are and why they work. If they were trying to learn and make themselves a better person they would have thanked you for the information and updated their views.
So of course they’re not going to respond anymore because they’re just a right wing conservative troll looking for a fight over “wokeness in medicine”.
Good job anyways, very informative and respectful!
Oh yes, the people who had surgery and regretted it and are now forced to live with the side effects, please tell me more about how no other surgery but gender affirming care has risks and side effects. Ridiculous.
I was BARELY paraphrasing your story about how antisocial people should just be made to socialise and be more normal instead of letting them be antisocial. That’s HARDLY the strawman you make it out to be. I also love how you get all up in a tizzy about barely being misquoted then do the same thing to me in your post.
Your incorrect use of the word “reinforcement” in this context has been corrected by others so at this point I can see you’re simply incapable of learning and improving yourself.
As for your claim to being “sick of people… fail[ing] to see [trans] people need fucking help”, if you really cared to help trans people you’d know that every reputable long term study of mental health from gender dysphoria shows the best long term outcome is from gender affirming care. Not from the neo-conversion therapy type approaches you’re clamering for. THAT’s why gender affirming care is now MEDICINE, and not forcing them to forget about being trans and just be normal or in your words move away from their dysmorphic view. Gender affirming care doesn’t mean surgery, it means letting them live how they want, and present themselves how they feel. This would have been the natural state of society of we didn’t have such rigid Christian gender norms. Certainly everyone else presents themselves how they feel. We know of several societies past and present where gender divergence was widely accepted with no issues so this isn’t even a new concept, it’s just letting the Christian cultural hegemony die.
“gender affirming care is supported by science as providing the best life outcomes for people with gender dysphoria”
“You’re a monster, the real solution is clearly my idea because it matches my view of culture and reality regardless of what science and studies say”
And of course I’m the one “making this political”
I applaud your logic and reason sir.
PS shock therapy is now scientifically supported as a treatment for treatment resistant depression with excellent short and long term prognosis, so in the end you got one thing right: when used as prescribed by medical professionals gender affirming care and shock therapy are effective treatments for gender dysphoria and depression respectively. You didn’t intend to be right, but I suppose that’s the only way you end up on the correct side of any discussion.
PPS I missed the best irony in your comment. Christians used shock therapy as a dubious scientifically unsound treatment to stop gays from being who they are and go back to accepting their “normal” sexuality. And you’re trying to advocate for dubious scientifically unsound treatments to stop trans people from being who they are and go back to accepting their “normal” gender identity. Truly a gift of a comment!!
Left vs Right, to me at least, is the way we look at people who aren’t the same as us. Left wing ideology is basically that each person should be viewed as an individual and, to the extent possible, be allowed to live their best life and pursue happiness. Right wing ideology is that society is a hierarchy and there are better people, who deserve the freedom to pursue their goals at great social cost (proportional to their position) because their innate greatness will improve society far more than the cost. Then there are worse people who should be restrained (proportional to their position) from pursuing their goals because their “degenerate” goals can only harm social progress.
If you listen to what he thinks about trans people I think it’s easy to see he thinks they should be restricted while people like him should be free to impose “treatments” not backed by medicine to make the world “right”.
The U.S. is concerned that targeting Russia’s energy facilities will impact the Kremlin’s oil production capacity and drive up global prices — ahead of a knife-edge presidential election where prices at the gas pump are bound to be a contentious topic....
Well it’s not nonsense. If Ukraine does something that helps Trump get elected everyone’s fucked. He’ll immediate stop supplying Ukraine and start sucking Putin off.
The US isn’t saying we’ll punish you if you keep doing this, they’re just warning them that this can have undesired effects.
Personally, I think we should all accept some pain and just do a full trade embargo on Russia and Israel until they put their military back in their countries where they belong.
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....
Greta Thurnberg a young woman appalled by politicians watching the world burn and doing nothing, unwilling to make even the smallest sacrifice for future generations.
Kyle Rittenhouse racist proud boy who murdered black [lives matter supporters] people for fun and profit.
Yeah, I can see how they fit the bold young activist figurehead role for each side, but the juxtaposition REALLY highlights how disgusting right wing politics are.
Yeah, I understood what you were saying. I don’t get the downvotes you’re getting. I was just adding that it’s a sad reflection of reality that those two people play the same role. Goes to show how fucked up the right wing has gotten.
I don’t agree with everything you just said but we vibin’
If your extrapolate a line during the run up to ANY recession you’ll create a line that never gets hit again. Your extrapolation theory reminds me of this Trump “extrapolating” a hurricane path
Oh my god, it’s even worse when you zoom out. We’ll never catch up to the trend lines set by the years of unsustainable growth before the recessions in the 70’s. Oh the permanent damage we caused. It’s an absolute tragedy that after a recession we never get back to the trend line that was set by the bubble before it burst. I’m not patient enough for the slow and steady fundamental growth of humanity through time, I want continuous fast exponential growth so the shareholders can he happy all the time!
Hating the rich is like hating murderers, it’s not a feeling you should hide in polite company like racism. Every minute of their breathing lives they choose to take more from society than they give back. That’s how these dragons of modern times create their unimaginable hoards. No knight in stories of old hid their desire to slay the foul beasts, because doing so is always virtuous and worthy of praise.
I only linked it to support OP’s point that doctors are just normal people but tend to be very overconfident. Your point is correct but I don’t think it detracts from what I’m using the video to illustrate.
The whole video is a fun watch to see how people behave in tense social situations with strangers.
Trump allies launch secretive scheme to divide Biden support: report (www.msn.com)
Saw this today, and … well, I’m not going to be so forgiving to people suggesting to vote Third Party rather than vote for Biden. If Trump wants me to do something, and you want me to do that same something, that tells me you’re aligned with Trump.
Residents in wealthy California town block access to public hot springs with boulders (www.theguardian.com)
County officials alert Montecito homeowners that they face prosecution, including daily fines of $850 if stones are not removed...
Ted Cruz’s Cringe Podcast Is About to Get Him in Serious Trouble (newrepublic.com)
The Texas senator may have violated campaign finance law with his podcast....
German civil servants demand ‘immediate’ end to Israeli arms supplies (www.aljazeera.com)
According to the organisers of the five-page statement, around 600 civil servants have voiced support for the initiative, which has slowly been gathering traction for months through professional networks and word-of-mouth across a range of ministries....
Canadians waiting longer for surgeries and other procedures compared to 2019: report (www.ctvnews.ca)
JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law (www.politico.eu)
It was no April Fool’s joke....
Elon Musk’s reputation is falling — and it’s taking Tesla with it (www.theverge.com)
Musk’s behavior may be contributing to Tesla’s declining sales.
When the Number of Bedrooms in a Home Keeps Parents From Getting Their Kids Back (www.propublica.org)
Republican fears Democratic speaker as Fox News reporter reveals GOPers eyeing exit for “big payday” (www.salon.com)
More “fed up” Republicans may leave before the election in hopes of cashing in on the private sector, reporter says...
Man arrested for allegedly taking leg after California train incident and 'eating it' (wpde.com)
WASCO, Calif. (KBAK) — A man has been arrested after being suspected of taking the leg of a pedestrian who was struck by an Amtrak train in California and eating it.
relatable meme (i.redd.it)
US has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure (www.politico.eu)
The U.S. is concerned that targeting Russia’s energy facilities will impact the Kremlin’s oil production capacity and drive up global prices — ahead of a knife-edge presidential election where prices at the gas pump are bound to be a contentious topic....
Kyle Rittenhouse storms off stage after being confronted by students (www.newsweek.com)
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....
Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable (www.bloomberg.com)
A Navy SEAL was convinced exposure to blasts damaged his brain, so he donated it to science to prove it (www.nbcnews.com)
“We’re really at an infant stage in terms of our clinical ability to assess traumatic brain injury,” a medical expert said....