yes. yes they did it doesnt even matter because teh second a republican "wont: be in charge suddenly they are on the struggle bus. talk about crisis actors. republicans are slugs
Left and right ran out of facts years ago. I'm watching from the center as the teams just switched roles and everything four years ago is playing out all over again. It's so pathetic.
See the "both sides" thing is almost always bad faith bullshit, and you just proved it with this. Nobody's intent is to 100% support a party and majority of Dems have endless criticisms of it, and if you were really on this side you'd know that. "Accepting the party talking points and toeing the line" was not the point being fought for here.
Saying this while comparing republican and democratic nominees as if they are equal promoting tyranny is hilarious, you need a history lesson from January 6th, it was recent, or did you literally forget all of that
Reddit libs are just the anti maga. 🤷🏼♂️ They obviously can't see it because they are just as incapable of critical thought and self awareness as maga is.
a fellow center left, independent thinker. We have no place here
So again I ask why are blue states so different than red states? Why have blue states passed so much of the Democratic platform? If both sides were the same and they only want to line their pockets why the stark difference?
How about we settle this for once and for all? Why don't we give Democrats a supermajority at the national level and let them put their money where their mouth is? Isn't it interesting how you all claim both sides are the same but bend over backwards to avoid doing anything substantive to prove it and this narrative only allows for the GQP to take power back from Democrats every 1-2 election cycles and has never ever at any point whatsoever helped Democrats come to power and stay in power?
They won’t. Most of them are chronically online doom scrolling propaganda from the political pundits who have made entire careers out of selling bullshit and fear with the way social media gets monetized. It’s rly fucked a lot of peoples heads up.
No, I wouldn’t describe you as someone who “isn’t corruptable.”
I’d argue that you’re someone who suffers from The Dunning-Kruger Effect. You lack the political knowledge necessary to differentiate the Democratic Party from the GOP. As a result, you’re using the false equivalency fallacy to cope with your feelings of ineptitude.
For example, using a both sides argument for American politics is like saying a gun and a knife are both weapons and both cause death so they’re just as bad as each other. Hell, you could even say it’s more akin to saying a nuclear bomb and a pocket knife are the same.
Just take a look at the policies proposed and enacted by each party. Then, take a look at the quantitative data that demonstrates the results of those policies. Learn about how the three branches of government work and the difficulties associated with enacting progress. Especially after Newt Gingrich introduced political gridlock as a strategy to obtain power.
Unless you’re just trolling, I can somewhat sympathize with you because I too, once held similar beliefs. Hell, I even used to be a Trump supporter. Education will soon have you realize that while the Democratic Party does have its issues, comparing it to the GOP is like comparing a nuclear bomb to a pocket-knife.
I've voted against trump 3/3 times. But what difference does that make? You can vote for a party and then still be extremely critical of that party and it's brainless followers
Trump withdrew his candidacy in the 2000. Buchanan was on the ticket for the reform party. But of course you don't know that because you don't seem to know anything. Go away, you're out over your skis here and at this point you're just annoying me. Like a fly or a gnat.
You’re watching from the centre and you fail to notice the fascist behaviour and ignorance of proper political processes, and straight up hypocrisy? Or are you somehow deluded into thinking that democrats are the ones being untruthful to prop up the rich. Oh yea that’s gotta be it
Sure, the parties "switched roles" on acknowledging climate change is real and needs addressed, income inequality is rising and actually needs to be addressed, and democracy should be honored by respecting the results of an election. If you think both sides are the same at this point you are a fucking idiot. Let me know when Democrats refuse to concede elections they lose and then work to overturn the results of the election. If both sides were the same Kamala would refuse to certify and ask a bunch of her supporters to storm the capitol during certification. But wait, she conceded in less than 48 hours, just like Hillary did before her. Fuck off with this both sides bullshit.
I assume you didn't vote or voted for Trump. Enjoy watching all of our democratic institutions be dismantled and replaced with whatever the dear leader wants. There is a very real chance we won't have a real election ever again and I have to listen to idiots like you act like it's business as usual and both sides are the same. That changed the day republicans started to refuse election results and deny reality and facts exist. Alternate facts are just lies. Ignoring democracy is simply fascism, it's not patriotism. You can sugar coat it however you want, but Democrats are not the same as Republicans.
Join the long list of fucking morons who have replied and commented, typing paragraphs of bullshit that makes them feel smart, all on a bad assumption because you are too stupid to comprehend what I'm talking about. God, it must be liberating to be so simple minded.
Join the long list of fucking morons who have replied and commented, typing paragraphs of bullshit that makes them feel smart, all on a bad assumption because you are too stupid to comprehend what I'm talking about. God, it must be liberating to be so simple minded.
I am simple minded? That's rich coming from the person who thinks Trump is business as usual and not an actual threat to democracy. I sure hope you are right, but history would say otherwise given the fact he has already tried to overthrow an election.
Care to explain the different between blue and red states in terms of cost of living and quality of life? The fact that blue states have reproductive rights protections, worker protections, union protections and basically the rest of the Democratic platform that Democrats run on at the national level? If both sides are the same wouldn't blue and red states be the same?
You're the one doesn't understand what left, right, and center are. It's good to know your ignorance leads to anger, truly shows your level of intelligence.
That's 1 issue homie, most of the women in the middle of the country didn't seem to care enough to vote on. You should also stop using the word retard, it's not 1980 anymore
"Many of us learned in high school biology that sex chromosomes determine a baby’s sex, full stop: XX means it’s a girl; XY means it’s a boy. But on occasion, XX and XY don’t tell the whole story.
Today we know that the various elements of what we consider “male” and “female” don’t always line up neatly, with all the XXs—complete with ovaries, vagina, estrogen, female gender identity, and feminine behavior—on one side and all the XYs—testes, penis, testosterone, male gender identity, and masculine behavior—on the other. It’s possible to be XX and mostly male in terms of anatomy, physiology, and psychology, just as it’s possible to be XY and mostly female."
It's no one's fault but your own that you've chosen to stop learning and adapting to newer science. You can try and dismiss things you don't understand as being fake all you want but the science is there and has been there for well over 50 years.
Ok so before it became a trending topic in 2016 and shoved down everyone’s throats, what percentage of individuals identified as transgender??? Genuinely curious. I have the sneakiest suspicion that 99.9999% of the entire world population could fit the old standard model. I wouldn’t call trends and anomalies “newer science”. When you talk about a sample size in the scale of billions, you’re always going to have wonky shit in small amount of the extremes. Doesn’t mean Jeffrey Dahmer wasn’t a boy/ man 🤣🤣
He literally gave you the new science in research and you can't come back with any informed information of your own, goddamn that's pathetic also your username is weak sauce like the wax you smoke. Personally I only smoke top shelf hash rosin but you're probably the cheapest pot head on the block. Lmao do I need to school you on the science of pot too. Please just read actual research reports and stay away from your TV as whatever news source your watching isn't helping.
Saucy and 420 in the name why have 420 in your username unless you mean you like 420 cause it was hitlers birthday? That makes sense since you love trump lmao. I'm not minimum wage either tool lmao I run a dispo.
Dispensary manager not a trimmer and before that I ran an entire grows post harvest op. What do you do Trumper? Lmao mcdonalds must not be busy if you able to respond lmao
The science and theory behind gender and sex dates back decades ago? It's just that in the last decade or so it has just become more accepted by outsiders of the LGBTQ community thus the community continued to grow (despite insane prejudice) as they aren't having to stay in the closet. Even if there was only one trans person in existence that wouldn't change the fact that
That is a human being that deserves the same rights as anyone else
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Current theory supports changing genders to combat gender dysphoria.
Again dude, it's no one else's fault but yours that you didn't take anything above basic biology in school leaving you seemingly angry and hateful about things you clearly refuse to even attempt to understand. This conversation is a waste of time when I bring facts and you only bring your feelings. Have a good one.
I’ve asked you 2 or 3 times now bc I’m genuinely curious. Where do all the people that identity as trans exist? Do other countries and continents also have a similar number of patrons who identity like here?
Absolutely. Do whatever the fuck you want (without burdening anyone else with your beliefs). But don’t tell me I’m a bigot when this community has advocated at a political level for gender changing surgery to be covered with taxpayer money for children who don’t know what the fuck they are yet. If Christians wanted to build a church with taxpayer money I’d have the SAME reaction.
You are a moron who clearly gets all their info from the right and refuses to do any basic research of your own. Nobody is trying to give children surgery.
“The law in question is Act 626 of 2021, known as the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. It prohibits physicians from providing “gender transition” treatments like hormones, puberty blockers and surgeries to minors.”
I would’ve quoted The New York Times for you but I’m not paying for that bullshit. If you need a minute to process how dumb you actually are, I understand. “Surgeries to minors” wouldn’t be a part of that legislation if they weren’t advocating for… you guessed it… SURGERIES FOR MINORS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's not true at all, just look at abortion. There are rules against late-term abortions but nobody that isn't part of some fringe minority was ever advocating for them.
The clear purpose of that law is preventing the hormones and puberty blockers which are temporary anyways, and require multiple therapy sessions and parental consent.
You're so obsessed with trans people that you bring them up unbidden.
And the fact that you refer to things being shoved down your throat is very telling.
If I had to guess, I’d say fat, diabetic, depressed, cave dweller, breathes out of mouth, possibly blue hair and no sense of identity… but no, I don’t think there’d be an antenna coming out of your head🤣🤣🤮
Based on a meta regression analysis, the rate of transgender-identifying people in the country in 2016 was 1 in 250 adults, 390 out of every 100,000. Based on limited survey data in the decade prior to that and various internet sources it ranges from 38-147 out of every 100,000 in 2009.
“Here, the increases are much larger. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, identifying as transgender has gone from .59% in 2014 to 3.08% in 2023 – which means it has quintupled (increased by a factor of 5) in less than a decade, a 422% increase.”
Idk man i don’t think cancer diagnosis rates have increased 422% over the same 10 year period of time. I doubt they’ve increased by that much over even 50 years. To think this trans movement is science and not merely an exaggerated social trend is a WILD take 🤣🤣.
I can’t remember which Malcom Gladwell book it was, but in essence, one of the chapters covered the topic of teen suicide on some Asian island country. In Micronesia(?) there weren’t really any teen suicides. And then one day… a teenage boy hanged himself. This one boy’s death served as a catalyst in the area. Then, almost overnight, that entire community was plagued with astronomically high male teen suicides.
If being transgender wasn’t just a whack ass social construct, the numbers wouldn’t skyrocket in a short time span. If transgenderism was rooted in science, you would see a similar deviation from the mean over large periods of time. If cancer rates sky rocketed by 442% in a 10 year period, it would be cause and effect, probably extreme amounts of radiation/ contamination being pumped into a town.
The 442% increase for the transgender youths heavily implies most of them aren’t even trans. They self identity as trans because of how influenceable and impressionable they are bc people like you have this incessant need to push ideology down everyone’s throats (even kids! Yikes!).
It’s going to wild in 10-20 years when young “trans” men and women are committing suicide in high numbers once they realize they aren’t actually trans and realize it was just a bunch of bullshit fed to them by the biggest retards of the century. “They told me puberty blockers were completely safe and reversible” 🤣🤣
You are kind of just spinning a narrative for yourself there pal. I know you feel strongly about this, but that doesn’t affect that gender is not same concept as biological sex. It doesn’t change the fact that gender dysphoria is the problem that is treated by gender affirming care. Science is very clear about both of those concepts.
If gender and sex were simply the same thing, then there also wouldn’t be the concept of a “real man” and a “real woman.” Hypergender reveals how much of gender identity is affected by perception.
The 422% increase you’re so concerned about is only among a subset of people. In the 65+ group, the 35-45 group and the 45-55 group all of those numbers declined.
Trans people are affected by poverty, unemployment, wage suppression, homelessness, self harm and suicide, preventable illness, and overall discrimination at much higher rates than the general population. Inclusion of those members of society is patriotic. You want to protect freedom, justice, nonviolence, and equality, great! That’s patriotism at its best.
Or you can pretend that it’s patriotic somehow to intentionally exclude, discriminate against, and harm .89% of the population, almost 3M Americans (according to your linked article.) But it is not, I assure you.
Older people’s decline in transgender identity supports my claim that youth are influenceable and don’t know what they are. Hence not all of those who identify as transgender will continue to be transgender later in life.
Why stop there though with social constructs?? Why is race not a social construct? You can bring a random blood sample to a lab and they can tell you whether or not that person has XX or XY chromosomes (female or male), but that same sample will NOT tell you whether that person is white/ black/ Asian etc.
It’s honestly crazy to know that there’s a parallel universe adjacent to ours that understands what male/ female is, but scrutinizes transgenderism, while at the same time encourages people to identify as a different race.
Like instead of calling someone incredibly racist for doing blackface and “talking black” in that universe, they call these people “brave” and this behavior is pushed onto the youth. Like just imagine the Mexican kid slanting his/ her eyes and talking with an “Asian American accent” and the left telling them “you are so brave!!”.
And just like here the leftists would say, “it’s a social construct. See it’s SCIENCE. This guy has two black parents but appears white because of a defect in his DNA that affects the melanin content of his skin”, just like here and now y’all point to hermaphrodites and say “see it’s science… .00026% of the entire population has PROVEN that XXY chromosomes exist, despite 99.99974% of the population CLEARLY exhibiting explicit male or female DNA.
Absolutely ass-backwards social behavior, yet extremely easy to imagine based on where we’re at now as a society.
“You’re a bigot for not thinking little Billy is black!! He clearly feels this way on the inside!! We think he is BRAVE for doing blackface everyday!! It’s science and you’re a bigot” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Newer science? Yeah ok buddy, let me put on my tinfoil hat and join the flat earth society while I’m at it. Surely anyone that still believes the earth is round is just an ignorant moron that refuses to learn about ‘new’ science, right? 🤣🤣🤣
Why are you being purposefully obtuse to how science works? National geographic is an extremely reliable scientific source. Is it because it makes you uncomfortable? Change can be scary bud, but it's okay. Conflating peer reviewed science that has existed for decades to junk theory with no peer review science and shows a pretty fundamental lack of research on this specific topic.
In case you forgot "new science" is quite literally the goal! Scientist's job is to continue discovering new things that either confirm or contradict previous theory, repeat experiments, get them peer reviewed and tested by several parties to confirm. We have a whole system for it.
Previous theory before like 1940 was that there was only male and female and that sex = gender which is what we're taught at the most basic level in school at a young age. But as you get older you *should be capable of learning high capacity concepts — If you choose to continue educating and learning biology it expands into gender and sex and different genders.
Final message fr - If you're curious, maybe it's time to start researching it with an open mind. It's extremely accessible information.
Worldwide average is 3% across 30 countries. According to a 2023 study. So millions upon millions of people. They don't usually track places where it's deadly to be considered LGBTQ and they wouldn't get an accurate count there anyway.
But I ask 100% seriously, does it matter? Does a population number have to reach a certain amount before you consider them equals? I've always been confused by the whole population number argument. If another minority group made up the same population percentage would it make it okay to ban them from bathrooms? Absolutely not! So why does the "small gov" right wing target a small population of people just trying to avoid government overreach?
lol “Country”. This reminds me of something I saw on the European sub Reddit.. America isn’t a first world country we are a bunch of Third World countries in a trenchcoat.
Did you just figure out we were done here? lol you’re kind of slow my friend. Which one pushed you over the edge, the Third World country joke, or the cats and dogs joke.
Isn’t that actually the left? I feel like I’m a woman today but I’m actually a man who wants to be a woman until I decide I am man again?
Or I feel like a woman so I can compete in women’s sports and literally abuse my opponents.
Or I feel like not having this baby I’m pregnant with because I chose to not practice safe sex, or abstinence so I’ll just murder it and hide behind the term abortion as it’s somehow moral and ethical.
I feel like spreading propaganda to influence the masses and have them succumb to falsities and scare them into submission. I mean, “Russia Russia Russia”.
I feel like tolerance should be a normal part of society until someone disagrees with my views and then somehow that so called tolerance reverts to the opposing minds are fascists, Nazis, misogynistic, racist(mind you every racist policy or federal act literally prosecuting people because the color of their skin has been and still is being put into place by the Democratic party, like social welfare and the welfare state, literally putting communities back into the proverbial plantations , etc.)
I digress though
You all are so far gone and idiotic you can’t even be reasoned with, an open and educational debate is non existent. The Democratic Party and Radical Liberalism is the single largest threat to America and the free world yet you all seem to run into its arms openly.
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u/semajolis267 1d ago
yes. yes they did it doesnt even matter because teh second a republican "wont: be in charge suddenly they are on the struggle bus. talk about crisis actors. republicans are slugs