This is like a reverse Darwin award... someone else's stupidity killing someone else... Tangential Darwin at least.

I'm pretty sure that based on this discussion the Liberal utopia is now something akin to society functioning on the same level as the purge.

#244 you're right it should and it's not. I have read numerous articles in runners world and other like magazines about the anxiety women feel when men are just nearby when they are out on a trial, or the road. It would seem they should at least have a place to change afterwards without having to have that same anxiety. You jump right to making it a hermetically sealed room which isn't what anyone is discussing. No one sad it had to be panic room level of safe space, you keep going there all on your own. By that logic since no law or societal convention can be guaranteed... why bother with any laws, norms, or conventions at all. It's all pointless right?

#235 We have ideals Snoofy, and sometimes we fail to meet them. Those failures don't negate the ideal. Women should be able to feel comfortable in their own locker/changing rooms. The fact that Trump violated one doesn't mean that we just throw away the concept. Since you brought up rape there, who was even talking about that? A woman should be able to change in a locker room with a biological male body changing next to her if that makes her feel uncomfortable.

You usually don't go off so half cocked. I'm not sure what has you acting so much, as you say, like a stupid bitch.

Gal,

They were just turning 17 at the time. The next year their wardrobe shifted dramatically to dark and dumpy, they started dating girls in a serial fashion one after the other. About 9 months in the last girl was starting transitioning. Shortly after turning 18 they went to the same doctor their partner went to. It's been about a year if testosterone doses.

Everything was very quick

The fact that we know he did it, considered it wrong, and continue to reference it would indicate the opposite

#212 no I'm not going to just listen to the person who is suffering a mental trauma. The most caring thing I can do for them is to challenge them on this. Her once girl now boyfriend ... I'll support them, no trauma, years of therapy, etc etc

Our family friend has destroyed her body, I hope I'm wrong and he never transitions back. If they do they'll have a life of hell. Started by their rapist and compounded by your compassion rcade that empowered a medical community to experiment on kids in the name of acceptance.

#165... "I doubt you have all the facts"

Our families have vacationed together since our kids were in kindergarten age town soccer together, my kids and the other families kids have been friends and are all in the same friend group.

We get toghether about 2-3 a month for dinner and to catch up. We've discussed EVERYTHING she has gone through as it transpired. I knew this girl as a young boy crazed pre-teen. Through first crushes etc. I saw her change on dime immediately after she was assaulted.

Don't tell me I don't know all the facts. [...]

#141 Rcade

I know trans people as well, like them very much, do some web work on their drag show. I also know a teen girl who was sexually assualted and her and she very understandably so has not been doing well. She now says she is a boy. #145 Eberly, She went to a doctor who on their 2nd time seeing her agreed that she was suffering dysphoria. Her mom went to the third appointment and brought up her trauma which was news to the doctor. Regardless of this, the Doctor prescribed her testosterone.

So spare me the -------- that she is the only one and that the medical system is treating the people as anything other than a cash cow Eberly.

That's a noble take Rcade and yet incredibly horrible for people with mental health problems.

In your zeal to virtue signal how accepting you are, you blow right past the fact that there can certainly be people misdiagnosing themselves and missing out on the proper care they need.

Since in your mind the moment someone says they are trans they are trans, how are we supposed to diagnose and help the people that might be reaching that conclusion incorrectly?

This whole thing has snowballed so much I can't claim to be fully up to speed on the twitter war going back and forth with Rowling and the Trans community, but it has definitely devolved.

Looking back to where it started though... I find it hard to call her hateful, at least at the time

"Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who'll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? "

Anything is slur with the right inflection

#14

regardless of his politics here is why no matter what we do to gut our economies we will not put a dent in C02 rates.

A strong opinion but still, just an opinion.
There are no facts in your Clown World. ------- child.

#100 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2024-03-27 01:29 PM | FLAG:
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You were basically talking to yourself there, so before you say too much for me and then attribute it me, I figure I should speak up...

You were obviously trying to lay bait for me based on our conversation on another thread about differing viewpoints being shut out of campuses. You locked hard onto the word opinion there, and were trying to do it here too.

I don't know what to tell you when there are contentious issues the differing sides are referred to as having differing opinions. And in the marketplace of ideas they are debated. Some become clear winners, and those opinions are accepted as facts.

That doesn't mean all things are opinions, and it doesn't mean that's how all facts are arrived at. I know you'll try like hell to take one loose thread on my obvious meaning and pull on it til you can construct some alternate version of what I meant, so I can't wait for that.

Otherwise I'm not really sure what you're trying to get at here other than asking a wide open question, and somehow assigning me some weird definitions of opinion and fact... have fun with that I guess.

Gender and Sex only seem to be different when one doesn't act like the societal expectations... which is funny since there is a whole different argument that we shouldn't ever be judging people that way.

then we debate it out as we are doing it and exposing the weaker opinion.

"I'm not saying it was an act of terrorism, but it could have been and why the rush to claim it wasn't. On 9-11-01 we had operationally a similar event where large planes were used to crash into buildings. Why not a large ship into a bridge?"

Somewhere along the line "I'm just asking questions became okay". Rather than thinking through an issue and then asking questions.

Let's look at the differences...

9/11 done at a time and place to cause the biggest loss of life, and instill the most fear.

Baltimore, done in the middle night, while a major port, not a location that would rattle the populace.

9/11, no communication.
Baltimore, communication allows less loss of life

9/11, who was responsible not immediately known.
Baltimore, Known local pilot actively involved in the communication of what was going wrong.

9/11, Incorrectly labeling the events as terrorism before validation likely to cause a larger panic than leaving it unanswered for some time.
Baltimore, given all the knowns getting the word out about an obvious accident as to opposed to an attack would remove the likelyhood of any panic.

you just have to look at this with a bit of logic and not blanketly equate major accidents with terrorist attacks by default.

This study as Johnny points out is definitely biased in it's approach. However, having argued these exact points I'm just waiting for the "down the road" when we are posting stories on here like this that aren't biased. It will be just like the covid school closures unforeseen impact articles. Everyone here saying we couldn't have known. We knew, you just told us we were wrong.

Them: This wasn't sexual

Wasn't he unarmed though? Wasn't he therefore completely harmless?

#8 Don't ruin the Narrative

what a f'n clown take Laura... that region has been a bloody religious slugfest for thousands of years, but Hamas only exists and acts as it does "cuz Israel"

lmmfao

"Perhaps he was traumatized by snuffing two people and maiming another for life?
"

You really feel for the------------ don't you effe, kindred spirit?

Snoofy and whomever newsworthy'd this...

"You don't even understand what lockdowns were supposed to accomplish.

#74 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2024-03-21 02:30 AM | FLAG:
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I know exactly what lockdowns were meant to prevent... As usual you'll target what I didn't say rather address what I was saying. As Darkvader said above, though I might think he was a little aggressive with the timeline "The US did things better. Some states were chasing the hot garbage model originating in Europe, but in other states COVID was done by May 2020." Yet my kids were doing their 20/21 school years remotely. The discussions I'm referring to were well after the initial lockdowns, people were returning to normal but we held the kids out well beyond. To me this extended isolation of an entire generation is ultimately going to be found to not only caused them harm, but more harm than we avoided in the short term. Just my opinion. but I love the whole there was no way to know, yet somehow there were whole arguments, seemed some in that discussion saw it coming.

Wow, the gaslighting on this thread is strong.

Those that are willing to believe the study are still saying, rough quote ~"well hindsight is 20/20, we had no way of knowing"

Yet there was argument day after day here stating over that exact point. And anyone who argued that keeping the kids out of school was going to have a large, long impact was shouted down and laughed at. Everything was done in an abundance of caution with no critical thinking.

Sorry, but this outcome was blatantly obvious if one chose not to curl into the fetal position over Covid.

You pointed and laughed then, now own the fact that this isn't 20/20 vision... This was warned over and over again, but too many people lost their minds to fear.