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  • Don't play the privilege card on my.

    I absolutely will. Because you are ignoring yours. Being a part of a disadvantaged group doesn't mean you don't have privilege elsewhere. In fact, sometimes, that is the reason why you might ignore your privilege.

    You are able to be calm with your friend because you do not see there is a danger. People like your friend haven't hurt you. But would everyone else do the same? Your friend supports people that will hurt people like you, but do they think they can stop those people from hurting you?

    I would rather lose a friend who didn't want me hurt but supported people who would hurt me because that is not a logical view, no matter how calmly it is spoken.

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  • it's not a central theme for either of us, but even when we talk about it we have never argue, just talk differences calmly and with respect, we never insulted each other because politics.

    This is a privilege you have that others do not.

    If, for whatever reason, you were under the threat of violence every day, do you think you could be calm and rational? If that threatened violence against you hanging over your head was perpetuated by members of a political party, would you be calm and rational about that party? If this was because of something you couldn't change about yourself, like being queer or black or a woman, would you be calm and rational? Do you think everyone could? Do you think a child could?

    I know I couldn't. I see these people breakdown over and over again. For something they did not choose. Sometimes for not being calm or rational.

    It is silly to expect people to act calm and rational in the face of overwhelming prejudice, in the face of threats to your self, family, and friends, in the face of adversity--or worse, ennui--to your situation.

    Let me steal an argument from a video I saw. Pretend you are having a party, and someone comes up to you and says that your friend Amanda should be kicked out of the party, that she doesn't deserve to be here, that she is drinking too much of your beer, and that if she goes, everyone can have more beer. You like Amanda because she is your friend and you know she is kind and funny. Let's say you calmly and rationally debate this guy, but he adamantly repeats these things, over and over again. Do you think Amanda feels good at this party? Should you keep debating this loser? Or would you kick him out of the party, by force if necessary, because Amanda did nothing wrong? Now imagine this person says this about ALL Amandas. Do you think this changes the situation? What if someone else told you that this guy just really hates Amandas but he's cool otherwise, even though he really harps on how Amandas are ruining this party. Do you think Amanda likes that second guy? Should Amanda be calm and rational to either of those two people?

  • Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository

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  • Don't hide behind the shitty half-assed news reports, you coward. Just name the actual Democrat that fired their vaccine board, so we can end this. Just name the actual Democrat that banned abortion federally, instead of posting fifteen useless articles. Just name the Democrat that kept child marriage protected because it's easier. Just name the Democrat that deported my neighbor, specifically, since you seemed to have known him. Just name the Democrat that implemented a voting suppression measure, assuming you can find one within the last 25 years, instead of you saying that's the same thing as ranked choice, which have been challenged by Republicans in every single instance (and this is the only instance you found for Democrats, if you could call it that, lol). Just name the Democrat that called queer people slurs openly and wants them tried for child sex crimes.

    It should be so easy, right? If they're the same, just fucking name them.

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  • I don't remember when the Democrats deported my neighbor or when they called self-proclaimed Nazis good guys or when they wanted to take away food stamps from single mothers or when they wanted to make voting harder or when they didn't want to ban child marriage or when they wanted to take away the only source of food and housing for children, people with disabilities, and the elderly or when they wanted to ban vaccines or when they wanted to ban abortion or when they wanted to make being queer a child sex crime or when they ignored all of science, but I guess they were just too smart to do any of that.

  • Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’

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  • And for clarification, the Minnesota protests weren't cancelled. The governor merely told people to stay home while the police searched for the assassin, but they showed up at the Capitol anyway. Some of the government officials cancelled, but there were still some who showed up and spoke anyway, because Minnesota doesn't let MAGA terrorists dictate what they do.

  • The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025

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  • I always get extra disappointed by the Outer Worlds, because I always confuse it with the Outer Wilds and would rather play that game.

  • Did they cut a kid for each movie?

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  • There are 23 movies in the Air Bud cinematic universe. Everyone always talks about the first Air Bud. The basketball one. The dog does a trick and boops the basketball into the hoop. Whoop-de-fucking-doo. If I'm on the losing team to that, I can applaud that. That's fine, whatever, I'd hurt my nose doing that. Cool. The rest of the team played well, too.

    Now imagine being a kid on a sports team six years later. You arrive to your beach volleyball court and see you're playing against a dog. You might think, woah, the dog is just gonna boop the ball with his nose, right? Cool fucking trick, he's old as shit and has no new ones. Wrong. In Air Bud: Spikes Back, the fifth Air Bud movie, the eponymous Air Bud jumps up to the net and spikes a ball down on the opposing team. If I'm on the losing team to that, I fucking quit volleyball forever. There's no going back. Your dad doesn't ask how the game was, he saw the dog spike that shit on you on ESPN. What were you supposed to do? My fucking bad, our libero is a piece of shit who can't dig it up from a FUCKING DOG??? Where the FUCK is our middle blocker??? Which one of you pieces of shit let's the dog go unmarked after that??? Slam the fucking ball into him, holy shit! No wonder we lost, they were too busy laughing their asses off while we floundered to get the ball over the net! Holy fucking shit, Andre, if you set the ball up so the FUCKING DOG GETS A CHANCE TO BLOCK ME WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU THE SETTER?!? No way, there is NO WAY anyone plays volleyball on that team again. Half that team kills themselves from the ridicule after that. The other half moves across the country and changes their names and faces. That dog ruins their lives. All to win a volleyball game.

  • Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court

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  • Yeah, see, anyone that has the money to fly here to have a baby is probably someone the people who oppose birthright citizenship don't have a problem with. Because that doesn't happen unless you're rich as fuck.

    But, personally, as an American, I don't see the problem. If you're here long enough to have a baby, then it's very likely you've been here for at least a year on a student or work visa, and you're not likely leaving anytime soon. You don't just pop in and have a baby, lmao. Seriously the number of kids you could possibly refer to is in the hundreds, if that, and applies mainly to the wealthy, who aren't affected by this. Just spout some white replacement theory, and we can go to ignoring you faster.

    This shouldn’t even be a “left vs right” or “progressive vs conservative” thing.

    Things that are said by a right-winger, likely an extreme right-winger.

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  • An intersex person is typically assigned a gender at birth, but so is everyone else. Being intersex just means you aren't biologically male or female (though I think this might also include people who have sex chromosomes that develop as though they were the other binary sex, but I'm not an expert). Most intersex people don't typically know they are intersex, and thus they would count as cisgender so long as they identify as the gender they were assigned at birth and transgender if they do not. Thus, if someone had, say XY chromosomes, but was assigned female at birth, they would probably be cis if they identified as female.

    However, trans can be a bit of a self-identifying label, and thus someone in that situation might just as well consider themselves trans. There's a lot of different definitions for trans. Many non-binary people would consider themselves trans since they don't identify as their assigned gender at birth.

    Long story short, gender is complicated. Sex doesn't change (put a couple asterisks here), but gender is super flexible (also asterisks here.)

  • Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban

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  • Trans people were always joining the military at higher rates, and the reasons why are obvious. They were only able to be openly trans recently, but they have been able to be closeted trans since always. Just like gay people. Don't ask, don't tell, amirite?

    When the government literally advertises the military as super masculine, you're gonna get a lot of people that are either really into being ultra masculine and people that feel like they aren't being masculine enough, which are certainly attributes that are likely to fit with people that feel gender dysphoria.

    The other reason, of course, is that LGBT people are far more likely to be homeless from being cut off from their friends and family and have few alternatives, and the military is certainly one of the more effective ways to improve your economic situation.

    This ain't rocket surgery.

  • Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban

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  • What does Trump's executive order do other than say trans people are not allowed to exist then? I forgot the part where there was a carve out for trans people.

  • Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban

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  • Imagine calling some a "virtue signaler" and then saying the words "Do I care? Nope." Lmao.

    So, what's weird to me is that these people seemed to do just fine in the military, and are now being booted for being trans. So, what's the problem? I mean, the obvious flaw is that not all trans people have to take hormones, and this ban targets people who don't take hormones the same as those that do. But even if they did have to take hormones, they were doing fine before, so what's the issue?

    It seems silly to me that the military, with record low recruitment, would ban a population that has a far higher degree of joining them due to a lot of really shitty factors.

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  • The second one. It is always the second one.

  • AI will replace programmers

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  • Everyone has and is that client.

  • Top virologists sound the alarm on bird flu and plead with world leaders to prepare for another pandemic

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  • Do you want people to eat less meat, or do you want to feel superior to people because you eat less meat? Because it feels like the latter from all your comments here.

  • Trump Says Voters Signed up for His Tariffs When They Backed Him

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  • Sure. We don't necessarily have concrete evidence one way or the other on advantages due to numbers, but of the trans athletes that currently exist, the dis/advantage is unlikely to matter beyond a couple percentage points. With more trans athletes, we can get more determination into what effects transitioning has on athletic ability, but for the most part, it's not a real issue.

    The issue is that the average person thinks there are cismasc athletes registering as transfem, which isn't a thing.

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  • I agree with him that physical men must not be allowed to compete in women sports against other physical womans. Its completely unfair to woman who have no chance to reach the physical level a man can reach in strength-based sports. And it kills all motivation for a woman to be an athlete when they cant reach that level.

    That doesn't happen. Men play in men's sports and women play in women's sports. If you mean trans people, trans athletes follow some pretty strict guidelines to play in most leagues that don't give them an unfair advantage (though, to be fair, there may be some physical differences between trans and cis athletes that might affect performance, but studies have shown that these differences do not make for more than a very slight advantage at best (and potentially a large disadvantage at worst!), and I'd argue that most cis athletes would be way better off just doing steroids than spending literal years transitioning to get this fabled advantage that doesn't exist.)

    But trans women do play in women's sports and trans men do play in men's sports. Your argument is that trans women should play in men's sports, yes? Should trans men play in women's sports? If you don't believe they should, then you don't believe they are women (which is valid, because they are, you know, men). But what is different about trans women? It is entirely feelings based, because the evidence doesn't show that trans athletes crush their competition. It doesn't even show that they win more often. Because they don't! They win just as often as you would expect a cis athlete does.

  • 'Did I Miss Something?': Online Shoppers Shocked as Trump Tariffs Jack Up Prices 145%

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  • ... Are you suggesting Republicans can't coordinate or that they're too stupid or unaware to fix any problems?

    You are moving away from the main point, though, which is that all of this is the Republicans' fault. They can stop this at any point, and if they don't, then how are there any good ones?

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  • At any point, Republicans could step up and stop any or all of this. It would take very few of them, and if there are good Republicans, as you say, then how many of them are there?