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  • Donald Trump says he'll revoke Joe Biden's protections for trans people 'on day one'

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  • Yeah, that is scary. Chosen by whom? I'd imagine if anyone reading this paused and thought, "If I was that baby, who would I want to make that choice?" I think everyone would pick themselves. Men reading this would wanna pick male and women reading this would wanna pick female.

    Anyway it's fun to think about. But I'm done thinking.

    I'm really stoned and ranty. Bed time.

    Thanks for the chat!

  • Donald Trump says he'll revoke Joe Biden's protections for trans people 'on day one'

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  • That seems so cruel, I don't get it at all. Sorry you triggered another rant, I'm not shouting at you I'm just shouting, lol.

    Using conservative logic, should the babies, made by God, not be left as He made them?

    It also seems cruel to mutilate a child born between genders before they have the opportunity to come of age and know who they are. I've heard multiple accounts of intersex people, who the doctor removed one of their sexual organs then become suicidal when they reach adulthood because they essentially feel like a castrated man, or the female equivalent.

    Just imagine you were born and had your sexual organs removed as a baby, how would you feel? Pause and imagine living life castrated. If I invest 3 seconds of thought into that, I conclude, "Nah, best not risk doing that to someone, if I was born that way I'd certainly prefer a choice. Let's let them grow up first."

    Does being conservative simply require a lack of imagination about these things? It seems so obvious.

  • Donald Trump says he'll revoke Joe Biden's protections for trans people 'on day one'

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  • I don't get it. Well I do. But I've yet to have a satisfactory conservative response to the following :

    Intersex people exist. That is, at least 1 out of every 1,750 babies are born with both sexual organs. Therefore by their existence we know that there is a blurred line between genders and those people exist there. Even if I go along with them that transgender behavior is a mental illness (it's not, this is just a thought experiment), what exactly do they propose we do about intersex individuals who are literally neither male nor female?

    1 out of 1,750 would put the intersex population in the United States at approximately 194,000 individuals. For reference, that would be about 10% of the population of Nebraska or Idaho. That's how many people I am discussing and who seem to always be left out of the conversation.

  • Stand Up Comedy - A place for stand-up comedy videos, gifs (with audio,) news, and discussion.

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  • I need my Jeff Arcuri clips without visiting Reddit.

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  • You should have stolen their gender and held it hostage.

  • U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicle - Considering rates of 100%

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  • Being an open country has upsides and downsides certainly. The same could be said for Russia/China's information war exploiting freedom of speech on those not educated in critical thought.

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  • I like this. It's exactly right.

  • Remember...

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  • One of the reasons I value autistic traits, literally everything seems arbitrary to me.

    The invisible fabric of society that everyone seems to revere appears to me as a heavy suffocating blanket with no rhyme or reason.

    Idk, or maybe I'm an egotistical know it all. Always gotta leave room for being wrong.

  • U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicle - Considering rates of 100%

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  • Yea, it's the subsidies. The government of China funds questionably profitable companies such that they can sell their products at what would be a loss by any other company, undermining the values of competition in Europe/States.

    What does China get out of it? Chinese products distributed globally running Chinese software and sensors which are beholden to the whims of the Chinese Government. They also get to weaken the economies of the target countries.

    The United States does similar things with intelligence, but citizens of that country can at least condemn, research, and publish findings against it's own government. What can a Chinese citizen do? Very little except obey.

    The United States is also massively flawed when it comes to competition but at least there are theoretical methods for the citizens of that country to change things. If they can destroy the corporate plutocracy currently strangling democracy.

  • Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests: ‘When there’s so much attention, they show up’

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  • When they have no words to use, or words reveal them to be hypocritics, they turn to violence. I'll never respect a group who cannot state coherent ideas backed by reality and evidence.

    They say kids are being groomed, what kids? Where? When you look into it, they mean that kids are being listened to, and instead of being slapped and discouraged like previous generations, we allow them to be themselves. Listening is apparently grooming.

    They also have a habit of focusing on outliers. If there are 1,000 teachers and 2 behave inappropriately what is the rational response? To discipline those 2, instead these people hyperfocus on the actions of the 2 then blanket declare the remaining 998 groomers because of the unanimously agreed on bad actions of those 2. No one is defending bad actors (actual groomers who attempt to sway children), of course they exist and should be denounced. But the 998 who are listening and allowing children to be themselves are not "groomers".

    It's incredibly stupid at best, and disingenuous at worst. Some of them are actually stupid enough to think they are doing the right thing, because they don't understand the ideas I'm presenting, but many are intentionally misunderstanding in order to hurt people they are bigoted against.

    It's all hate. Hate and violence. You never catch them listening and sharing ideas. Always shouting. Always angry. Anger and fear are the tools of the bigot and the fascist.

  • Trump told oil executives and lobbyists that he would undo Biden’s climate policies

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  • You must support ranked choice voting then?

    That would destabilize the two party system into more parties and more representation.

    If not then I don't understand your motivation.

  • Need advice on new sensory friendly office shoes

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  • Please do, it seems like every time I commit to a brand the owners say or do something distasteful. In expectation of that, these days I have a habit of exploring in advance. Shoes are one thing one can always use more of.

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    ‘It wasn’t a big deal’: secret deposition reveals how a child molester priest was shielded by his church

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  • A person is on this earth and decides to abandon a church they see as evil, electing to go to hell because it's the morally correct thing.

    They die, find out they still exist, go to receive judgement and say, "Well I abandoned the church send me to hell I guess."

    Judge says, "Lol no, you passed the test. You chose to go to hell instead of overlooking morally corrupt demons who claimed divinity, all the people who knew and stayed in the church are in hell."

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    ‘It wasn’t a big deal’: secret deposition reveals how a child molester priest was shielded by his church

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  • Need advice on new sensory friendly office shoes

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  • Kinda off topic but I hate standard shoes because for whatever reason it's widely accepted that we should not use our whole foot, crush the pinkie toe, and deform the foot for life. I don't get it. No wonder so many people have foot problems later in life.

    I wear shoes that allow my toes to spread out completely. Xero is what I use for now but since this is a shoe discussion I'm interested if anyone knows of others. I only wear "barefoot" shoes for reasons above. I don't want the accessory muscles that support my foot to atrophy.

    Shoe rant concluded. That said Xero does make some professional shoes I think. I wear some around the house that have no laces and are just black, cozy.

  • Report: Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1 billion

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  • I mean sure if you only have the Justice System subscription but Trump has Justice System Premium with extra perks like indefinitely delayed trials, arbitrarily reduced fines, and treating insane statements as if they are coherent.

    Take note kids, two justice systems, one for you, one for them. Oh and a murder system with ads if you're a black male.

    If we're ever going to fix this system, step one is rip out the old infrastructure.

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    Root Vegetable Abuse

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  • This makes my carrot so hard.Wait, carrots are normally hard.This makes my carrot remain in the default state so hard.

  • Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal

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  • Just.. 

     
            $ sudo su

    ..bam, no more sudo. And likely no more system within a few sessions 🫣

    Solution? Just don't make mistakes. Ezpz. /s

  • Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal

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  • Yeah the search tool isn't the greatest, tho I expect third party maps of communities will spring up at some point.

    Thanks.