Do you have any examples?
#8 | Posted by BellRinger

Here you go:

US takes on European industrial censorship complex

" We are the free world now." Those words from Raphael Glucksmann, a French socialist member of the European Parliament, captured the pearl-clutching outrage of Europeans after the Trump administration did what no prior administration has ever done " stand up to Europe to defend the freedom of speech. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio barred five figures closely associated with European censorship efforts from traveling to the U.S. This includes Thierry Breton, the former European Union commissioner responsible for digital policy.

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Repeal Obamacare!

It's the Deplorable *chef's kiss* level brain rot.

It's the Republican version of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown.

How many times has the House voted to repeal Obamacare now? Sixty-two, Seventy-five, are there even any Republicans who can count that high?

"and that have a sunset provision written into law by Democrats?"

The answer is in your words.

I put them in bold, because otherwise you're too stupid to figure out which words.

"that we were told weren't needed when the bill passed"

They weren't needed when the bill passed.

Here's something else you were told:

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

After Ukraine, what country is next?
My guess ... Poland.
#1 | Posted by LampLighter

They'll do even worse in Poland than they have done in Ukraine.

If I were Poland I would be developing nuclear weapons starting in 2014, after Crimea fell.

"97% of all breast reduction surgeries on individuals born male were on cisgender males"

JeffJ says that is mutilating children.

JeffJ says boys with breasts can just live with it. Fixing that through a common medical procedure is a crime against the state.

Just like JeffJ wants a pregnant girl to just live with it. Fixing that through a common medical procedure is a crime against the state.

JeffJ is a fascist, and like all fascists, it particularly shows in his attitude towards children.

Does he stand up for Little Marco and Sleepy Joe?

I see him standing up for foreigners like Elon Musk and the drug dealing President of Honduras.

Americans, I don't see him doing that.

"he stands up for and represents Americans."

Like who? Name some.

As in: If charity could deliver us a pre 1975 wealth gradient, we wouldn't be talking about the post 1975 wealth gradient.

If I were a major player I would simply stop doing business in Florida, like the major home insurance companies are already doing.

Hostile business regulations bad for business? Republicans don't get it.

"Could still be a zero sum game, though, as that household goes away when the parents go."

"Statistically impossible."

But also statistically negligible.

If you disagree, just tell me what percentage of households in the top 20% got there thanks to gifts from unrelated households in the top 20%.

I'm sure it happens. Kids that get scholarships and such. But it's not a structural remedy to a structural problem.

"Gotta keep sterilizing and surgically mutilating minors as much as possible."

^
Words that need no apology because they are sincere.

Democrats want to lop your son's dick off.

Don't apologize for something you know is true in your heart, JeffJ.

That's another reason your apology doesn't ring true.

"I apologize for saying your solution is lopping off an 11 year old's dong."

You voted for a man who rapes teenage girls.

Your apology rings hollow.

Your apology is nothing more than a troll's excuse to repeat their favorite transgender talking point.

We're discussing generational shifts in the economy, mostly implemented at a time when a certain generation was in power.

It's not wrong to examine what those people were thinking, and why.

They were the ones who largely brought about the oligarchy that was grown up in this country, since 9/11 or so.

You can take that personally, or take it as blame, but its also simply what happened.

The moral of the story - diversify your news sources.
#9 | Posted by BellRinger

How is that the moral of the story?
How does that get the media to do their job?

You don't know what "moral of the story" means.
It's probably a symptom of not having morals.

"How the Press Utterly Failed Us in 2025"

As a business, isn't most of our free press owned by The Oligarchs?

Travel bans for transgender care, you'd support that right JeffJ?

"stand up to Europe to defend the freedom of speech."

By denying Europeans entry into a country with a First Amendment.

Can I see the math on that one?

Was "travel bans" for how we should ramp up criminalizing abortion, now that it's up to the States, so a woman can't evade State law by going to a different State?

It's interesting, I've seen our beloved high school teacher go from Conservative that hates Trump to Conservative that loves Trump in the span of a decade.

I ask what happened; what changed.

Crickets.

Posts easily falsifiable and patently ridiculous accusations against Democrats (like we see here), gets called out, acts contrite, then does the exact same thing three days later.

There is a part of the brain that Trump tickles particularly in old white people.

Me personally, I think it's the sense of group inclusion part that society used to sort of segregate into existence. Boys didn't used to have long hair, girls wore dresses, that kind of think.

Not explicitly racist and sexist, but nostalgic for a simpler time -- simpler for them by virtue of the racism and sexism that they were blind to as children and acknowledge but won't introspect on as adults. Like the way we can enjoy Mad Men but not actually agree with the politics of that era. They just want things to be their normal, for boys not to have long hair, for girls to wear dresses, and so on.

One thing I'll say about transgender people.

The earlier you transition, the easier time you'll have passing as your identified gender.

I know one trans woman fairly well; it's basically a dude with big tits.

She would be a whole lot more "ladylike" if society had enabled this individual to be themselves as a child.

Based on the homophobic comments from people who deny trans existence, I see it as some kind of Munchausen thing.

It's pretty much just straight guys who use gay as an insult who have a problem with trans existence. Those straight guys are worried they'll sleep with a really hot chick who was once a man, and that makes them gay.

It's obviously not public safety or safety of children they're worried about, seeing as they voted for a child rapist for President.

"regulation would only apply to minors"

Do we have stats on minors who killed themselves with firearms, where did they get the gun?

I bet Republicans made it illegal to research that.

"uninsured motorist"

We went from "motorcycle rider without a helmet" to "uninsured motorist" so quick, think I missed a step!

Another example is smoking. Smokers die sooner and cost less, compared to non smokers. Even with lung cancer factored in.

So if the only metric is economic, we should want people to transition, because supposedly people who transition have a higher suicide rate, and that saves a ton in downstream health care costs.

You and I pay for the uninsured motorist. That's always been a fact.
#161 | Posted by Danforth

I'm not actually sure it's more expensive though.

Motorcycle crashes tend to be more fatal when you're not wearing a helmet, right?

Like in war, a dead soldier takes one combatant off the field. An injured soldier takes two able bodied soldiers off the field to tend to the wounded.

I doubt it's a big swing either way, with maybe 1% of MVA involving a motorcycle.

"(all between 20-28) are in the 80%"

I'd expect most are, at that young age, and in this "Since 1975" death throes of Capitalism age.