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| Biography: | I'm 5'2 and 300lbs of sexytime |
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| Occupation: | Being THAT guy... |
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| Registered on: | 10/25/2008 |
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This doesn't settle how we have to treat an adult (or a child) who thinks they are the opposite sex. Do they get to use the bathrooms, compete in the sports, insist other people use the pronouns for that sex?
But it does. Nothing about that says you must join in on their LARP.
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re: If rapid growth is so good, why don’t affluent areas want it?
Posted by Bard on 11/2/26 at 3:25 pm to weagle1999
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Pick the nicest (richest) city or town that you can think of…
Why doesn’t that place want Dollar Generals, DR Horton tract homes, self storage facilities, and an unrelenting flood of people?
Affluent areas want more affluency, all of the options you list draw the non-affluent.
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This is the system we have and it's worked so far, albeit not always great.
The problem with having poor candidates to choose from comes from the ridiculous level of oppositional scrutiny looking for anything that can even be stretched to use against them, their family or their friends in order to hurt their chances or intimidate them out of the race.
Anyone wise enough to do the job well would also be wise enough to never run.
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The Magnolia Cove HOA is run by the community’s developer, Aaron Guess, and his company Story Homes. Just four years ago, dues for the 80-home community sat at a reasonable $158 per month, resident Jill Menson told WSOC. Those fees rose first to $350 and then $1,250 earlier this year.
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That's why our country fricking sucks, dumb logic like this.
The choice often comes down to the lesser of two evils, ignoring that is truly dumb and what leads to all the morons clomping together in party-colored teams to declare their team saintly and the other team in need of killing.
I sure am glad I stocked up on canned goods and water! Whew!
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Circumcision is mutilation.
Only if you're generalizing the definition to such a point that things like the removal of tumors, breast reduction, etc. is also a mutilation. At that vague a definition, it's not even worth having the conversation any longer because nothing has meaning.
Translation: "Don't you dare leave the plantation!"
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Men are already going into women's bathrooms and playing their sports? We've already changed the definition and you are a bigot if you don't align with their views, and at some point, Democrats will make it illegal to call them something different. 100%
I don't disagree. I also don't disagree with adults being able to do to their bodies what they wish. For me, the line is trying to push it onto kids (whether directly through the John Money method or indirectly by just avoiding talking about it being an emotional/psychological disorder) or the demanding that others must buy into a dysmorphic's LARP.
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Do women get circumcised?
Yes, it's called a hoodectomy (reduction of the clitoral hood). While routine male circumcision can be performed for broad public health reasons (such as reducing the risk of certain sexually transmitted infections), there is no medical or public benefit for female circumcision, nor is there any religious reason for it (in at least any religion I am aware of).
In other words, female circumcision is purely cosmetic but it is not done with the goal of lying about biological sexes.
re: DC federal judge tosses case against FBI officials accused of lying about Hunter Biden
Posted by Bard on 11/2/26 at 11:27 am to SlowFlowPro
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The "shadow government" language came years prior to the purported perjury.
If that's the case, then it underscores the party-based dysfunction in DC. In other words, they knew they were going to perjure themselves and expected not to be prosecuted over it because it helped the "correct" side.
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By even allowing this you open up the door to the "what is real" argument. Now, I'm pretty sure you're right leaning, but as soon as you say A male can be a female, where is the limit of THAT statement. Do they share bathrooms? Do you have to acknowledge pronouns? Can they play sports?
I disagree. That doesn't have to open the door at all as long as the definitions aren't allowed to be changed.
A male is a human born with a penis. A female is a human born with a vagina. The end. Anything else is just a mistake of nature (hermaphrodite) or an emotional/psychological issue.
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You don’t agree with circumcision?
The removal of prepuce isn't even in the same ballpark as cutting the penis completely off, removing the skin, inverting it, cutting a hole between where the rectum and where the penis used to be and then shoving that inverted penile skin into it to fake vagina walls.
Your attempt at over-generalization to make a point only underscores the poor rationality of those who support surgery to address gender dysmorphia.
Congrats on being a good "bad example"? :dunno:
There will be plenty of news about it on Wednesday. After I vote tomorrow I'll spend the rest of the day doing yard work. If it rains, I'll just play video games.
re: Dark Matter (AppleTV) Season 2 Discussion - 8/27 8pm Premiere
Posted by Bard on 11/2/26 at 11:05 am to drizztiger
The end of S2 was interesting. I haven't read up on the show but they are definitely winding down the series. If there were another half-dozen episodes this season I would say it was ending this season.
re: Do you play any games on your cell phone during the day?
Posted by Bard on 11/2/26 at 10:58 am to idlewatcher
The wife and I play Words With Friends 2 (essentially, it's Scrabble and a few other daily games like a quick crossword and wordsearch) against each other pretty much every day and we both do Duo Lingo (she's brushing up on Spanish, I'm learning Latin).
re: DC federal judge tosses case against FBI officials accused of lying about Hunter Biden
Posted by Bard on 11/2/26 at 10:44 am to cajunangelle
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A federal magistrate judge dismissed charges Monday against two FBI officials accused of lying to Congress about Hunter Biden’s laptop, saying the case “cannot be described as anything other than weaponization” of the Justice Department.
So they knew about the laptop and lied under oath about the laptop to the point where one of them claimed to be "running" a "shadow government" about it... but the attempt to prosecute their perjury "cannot be described as anything other than weaponization"?
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It’s not blaming. A population who was systematically brutalized and excluded for hundreds of years is going to experience residual effects of that brutalization and exclusion. Acknowledging that isn’t holding anyone personally responsible for that brutalization and exclusion. It’s just using common sense.
It's textbook blaming and you're abetting it. You didn't bring it up as an acknowledgement, in this thread you brought it up as a root cause, blaming "feral" behavior on those past actions. Saying a behavior is the result of something is the very definition of blaming that something.
Now if it were the actual individuals who had been brutalized and we were holding the brutalizers to account, absolutely. But that's not what happens when this comes up, what happens is exactly what you did and that is to use past injustices to one to excuse the current behaviors of others.
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I’ve been seeing Waymos around town lately. I’m having a hard time processing that.
Really? I did not know they had made it to New Orleans yet. I haven't ridden in one, but if it's as nice and easy as the robotaxi, that tech will replace Uber/Lyft/taxis within the next 10-20 years (if the technology keeps moving at its current pace). Hell, if they were to get the geofencing and laws set here I might buy one just to drive me back and forth between home and work.
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I haven't been following this race all that closely... is this a case of America over party for them or is there something else going on causing these democrats to support the republican?
I'm not sure about this one, but for Stephens it was about calling Sayed out for his support from anti-semites like Rebellion PAC (which went so far as to blame rising grocery prices on "da joos") and Hasan Piker. Once Sayed beat her in the election, he pretty much rebuffed her support (which is uncommon among politicians and almost verboten among Democrats) and then his campaign explicitly asked her to not attend a Democrat unity event. Her response has been :doublebird:
No idea if there was something with this gal, she's a friend of Stephens' or just is standing up against the idea of not circling the wagons once the primary is over.
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Ignoring historical limitations placed on populations while blaming them for essentially being feral in modern contexts is not really embracing change. That’s just scapegoating.
Quite the opposite. The scapegoating is the blaming the actions of one on events which happened to others (where in some cases they didn't know, nor even know of, one another) and/or those who caused those events and then passing the responsibility for those events to others based on nothing more than genetics.
Feral behavior is a personal choice. While kids can be excused for having poor role models, as they grow into adulthood their lack of self-awareness becomes more their own failings in refusing to change and just cloaking that refusal in the victimhood stolen from prior generations.
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Are you comfortable sharing what part of town?
No. Just because you and I can have civil conversations, it doesn't mean everyone perusing these threads is able to do so. I'm not interested in becoming a news story about some fricknut coming to my house to raise hell over something they disagree with me about. We have a nice, quiet neighborhood and I want to keep it that way.
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I guess you’ll have to uber to my house when we carpool up to DC for the oral arguments in the Clerk of Court case.
Might I recommend the Tesla Robotaxi? The wife and I rode in one in Austin a couple of weekends ago, it was my first time in a self-driving car (much less one which doesn't even have human controls like pedals or a steering wheel) and it felt strangely natural.
re: Republicans have beat the trans issue to death
Posted by Bard on 11/2/26 at 9:40 am to SlowFlowPro
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If they're isolated and a hyper partisan echo chamber, then only the people within that ecker chamber will have any impact from this. And I included these people when I referenced multiple echo chambers.
Is the WNBA a hyper-partisan echo chamber? They can't seem to define what a woman is even though it's the first word of their name.
Is having a SCOTUS Justice who won't define what a woman is a hyper-partisan echo chamber?
Is the suppression of stories of transition regret a hyper-partisan echo chamber?
Is the belief that the Democratic Party has moved so far to the fringe Left that if they get back into power they won't go right back to promoting (and celebrating) gender dysphoria as a legitimate and healthy way of being a hyper-partisan echo chamber?
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