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Willa Rogers posted:^^^ It also controls the narratives & avoids any pesky unscripted questions. I don't think anyone ever does an unscheduled Q&A or has a press pool right in front at their announcement speech. So, it is probably not for that.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:According to a new WSJ poll today, DeSantis has plummeted in the Republican primary, but still beats Biden in a general. So a year and a half out, DeSantis is in a statistical tie with Biden despite having probably the best press he will ever get?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I don't think anyone ever does an unscheduled Q&A or has a press pool right in front at their announcement speech. So, it is probably not for that. Yeah, Clinton's was after her video, in an Iowa "kickoff event."
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Overall crime has gone down in the U.S. from 2021 to 2022, but shootings and murder are still at record levels following their large rise in 2020. Even though overall crime is down, violent crime is still up significantly. Mass shootings and killings are also up dramatically for the first 3 months of 2023 compared to the first 3 months of prior years. 2023 is averaging a mass shooting with 4 or more deaths every 6.5 days in 2023. Despite mass shootings/killings being way up, they still represent only a small part of the overall violent crime and shooting deaths. Most shooting deaths involve 2 or fewer fatalities and those drive the overwhelming number of gun homicides in the country. The U.S. is currently at 12,806 gun deaths for 2023 and on track to exceed the number of gun deaths in 2022. The total non-suicide death by gun rate in 2022 was roughly 25% higher than it was in 2016. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1649403029349597184 quote:Once-a-week nightmare: US mass killings on a record pace
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OneTwentySix posted:Does anyone have any good articles about why transgender athletes should be able to play in sports? I'm trans, my partner is trans, but she is mostly on the side of trans athletes have an advantage and shouldn't play, but has expressed openness to the alternative. I used to be in the same boat, but then I read some things and changed my mind, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to talk to her about it without potentially remembering incorrectly and I don't have any data to go along with it. Other people already posted links to studies proving trans athletes don't have the advantage that critics claim they do, but my kneejerk reaction was "Well if you concede that trans athletes shouldn't be allowed in sports, then you're tacitly admitting that you are not a 'real' man or woman, that you are some sort of Other." and that just seems like ground you shouldn't want to give up.
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Mooseontheloose posted:So a year and a half out, DeSantis is in a statistical tie with Biden despite having probably the best press he will ever get? Once he actually announces he stops being Governor, so the news stops being about how he's currently getting beaten by Disney and is super sore about it. In fact, if the dumbass would just transition from actively being an rear end in a top hat to running to be an rear end in a top hat his press would dramatically improve to levels at least comparable to when he was being touted as the front runner/hope of the GOP. DeSantis is and will be at his strongest when he's not publicly doing anything. Letting everyone make up their image of what and who he is, before he inevitably takes the debate stage and eats poo poo to such a degree that Perry, Walker, and JEB! look like competent contenders.
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the_steve posted:Other people already posted links to studies proving trans athletes don't have the advantage that critics claim they do, but my kneejerk reaction was "Well if you concede that trans athletes shouldn't be allowed in sports, then you're tacitly admitting that you are not a 'real' man or woman, that you are some sort of Other." and that just seems like ground you shouldn't want to give up. To my knowledge there is not a single case of someone going through gender-reassignment surgery just to benefit in sports. In fact I think there was an East German athlete who was actually kept from transitioning to a man. The East German athletes were also doped with enough steroids and other illicit poo poo to sustain a decade of Mr. Universe competitions. I feel like any person who was willing to undergo surgery or even simply lie about their identity, just to win in a given sport would probably have crossed that particular disqualifying bridge already.
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The under oath UFO hearing in the Senate took place. Still no confirmation of aliens, but they did reveal a few more things: - The new UFO director is collecting UFO data and information from all the various U.S. agencies to assemble into one spot and declassify sometime later this year. - The U.S. has recorded a large increase in UFO sightings in the last few years (assumed to be related to the increase in drone usage, but...) - The U.S. has only been able to confirm/debunk a little over 50% of the over 650 UFO cases. - Most of them turned out to be drones or balloon-like objects, a few were errors in scanning equipment, and about 300 of them remain unidentified. - Most of the remaining unidentified UFO sightings are because the objects were only seen briefly and they have no additional evidence or method to confirm anything for sure in that limited sighting. - Unfortunately, in reviewing all the UFO data from the 1940's to present, they have found "no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics." (But, that is also what they would WANT you to think if they did...  )- Senate Democrats have promised an additional hearing in the next year after all the historical information is unclassified. quote:US government tracking more than 650 potential UFO cases, Pentagon says https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/poli...&utm_term=video Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Gyges posted:Once he actually announces he stops being Governor, so the news stops being about how he's currently getting beaten by Disney and is super sore about it. In fact, if the dumbass would just transition from actively being an rear end in a top hat to running to be an rear end in a top hat his press would dramatically improve to levels at least comparable to when he was being touted as the front runner/hope of the GOP. You actually keep your job while your actively getting your next one. Nobody notices because they don't actually DO that much at the end of the day. He would be the governor of Florida the whole time hes running, and would keep the position if he lost. He isn't up for election until 2026.
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haveblue posted:Just remember, if the investigation turns up nothing, that just means the conspiracy is more powerful than you thought This is actually the best of both worlds because the investigation has both turned up nothing so far AND is also unable to confirm/debunk about half of the sightings. It is almost 50/50 a coverup and a situation where nobody can explain what it was or knows if those were really aliens or not.
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the_steve posted:Other people already posted links to studies proving trans athletes don't have the advantage that critics claim they do, but my kneejerk reaction was "Well if you concede that trans athletes shouldn't be allowed in sports, then you're tacitly admitting that you are not a 'real' man or woman, that you are some sort of Other." and that just seems like ground you shouldn't want to give up. It's a very toxic debate due to the current trans panic. I think there is a reasonable discussion to be had about the influence of some conditions, including but not limited to being transgender and specifically having undergone male puberty, on the fairness of certain women's sports at an elite level. Reasonable people can disagree. That's, emphatically, not what's happening here with the larger public debate, which is about eliminating trans people from the public sphere as much as possible, and I believe you're correct that until the terms of the discussion are changed, there's no reason to involve oneself in the discussion, because the other side is not operating in good faith.
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PT6A posted:It's a very toxic debate due to the current trans panic. I think there is a reasonable discussion to be had about the influence of some conditions, including but not limited to being transgender and specifically having undergone male puberty, on the fairness of certain women's sports at an elite level. Reasonable people can disagree. That's, emphatically, not what's happening here with the larger public debate, which is about eliminating trans people from the public sphere as much as possible, and I believe you're correct that until the terms of the discussion are changed, there's no reason to involve oneself in the discussion, because the other side is not operating in good faith. Even beyond all of that, professional and Olympic-level sports all have tons of crazy eligibility rules that filter out different people and testing requirements. Yet, none of the anti-trans laws ever attempt to regulate those areas. There is some evidence that there are small boosts to performance at the elite level in certain sports. But, there is no logic or evidence that it makes much of a difference in high school or middle school sports (which is what all of these bans are targeting). I don't think the vast majority of people consider "the point" of middle school and high school sports to maximally crush your fellow students either way. The fact that there are so many qualifiers ("small boosts," "at the elite level," "some sports") and trans athletes make up such a small number of participants means that even if they were 100% concerned about competition equality, then blanket bans on all sports and bans focusing on high school and middle school don't address any of their concerns. It's just an emotional trigger that riles up a lot of people because a decent percentage of people are explicitly anti-trans and a very large percentage of people just don't care one way or the other, so "unfairness" is a good fig leaf for people who really don't care/know much about the issue, but also don't consider themselves anti-trans/would oppose a ban whose reasoning was explicit discrimination.
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the_steve posted:Other people already posted links to studies proving trans athletes don't have the advantage that critics claim they do, but my kneejerk reaction was "Well if you concede that trans athletes shouldn't be allowed in sports, then you're tacitly admitting that you are not a 'real' man or woman, that you are some sort of Other." and that just seems like ground you shouldn't want to give up. Being able to play in a specific sport is not what I'd consider the defining feature of a "real" man or woman considering most men and women cannot actually play most sports, largely down to genetics and chance, and sports themselves are an entertainment industry that exists primarily to ensure the highest likelihood of "fair" (usually somewhat balanced), entertaining games. That's the whole reason there's a man/woman split in many sports at all - to make things more entertaining and "fair". It's also why some sports split people into weight classes instead, or in addition to, a gender split, because again - the goal is to get entertaining somewhat equal matches between people. So no, I don't think you need, or should, to associate "realness" here with sports participation. Although a lot of the current anti-trans environment is using that as an excuse to try and Other-ize people, and they're the ones pushing things and reality doesn't line up with them, but there are plenty of pro-trans folk who see them as real men and real women that can still be convinced to buy in by their bullshit logic as a result. Edit: Also, at the local/school level I'm pretty sure you could convince most parents to ban anyone they suspect might be better than their own precious child from playing, for purely selfish reasons, which makes them susceptible to this sort of argument as well. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Even beyond all of that, professional and Olympic-level sports all have tons of crazy eligibility rules that filter out different people and testing requirements. Yet, none of the anti-trans laws ever attempt to regulate those areas. It also doesn't account for the fact that in a lot of sports and in the Olympics specifically, those rules have already been in place for years and zero of the doomsaying scenarios have happened. I'm sure the current rules aren't perfect and can continue being refined, but they're already largely in place and already functional. If the transphobic arguments had any legitimacy to them at all, their predictions should have already come true on a mass scale, and they obviously haven't.
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This is a really silly poll question because there will never be a bill in congress called the "The Either Combatting Wokeness in Schools and Businesses or Saving Social Security (You Have to Pick One) Act of 2023," but the results are still pretty interesting. Even though that specific binary choice will never directly exist, it does illustrate how much of the conservative movement is really based around cultural issues and the culture war now. Especially interesting is that they are almost at 50% support for keeping Social Security where it is right now, so there is a decent amount of overlap of Republicans who oppose Social Security cuts, but would actually trade Social Security cuts to end wokeness. https://twitter.com/axios/status/1649421888718766086 quote:Poll: GOP voters say fighting "woke" ideology more important than stopping Social Security cuts
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The obvious part is that most of the public legal battles are around school sports. A highschool lacrosse game is not and should not be a thing that needs "sanctity" beyond if the kids are safe and having fun. The reason for this is that professional sports bodies are actually private companies and can do whatever they want, so Republicans can't pass laws banning them from having trans athletes and instead complain loudly about schools. So that alone is stupid. But to answer the question more directly, biological sex is more complicated than people think. There was a good (Vox?) video on it a few years ago that I can't find right now on my phone but it boiled down to there being at least 3 medical definitions for sex and they disagree more often than you'd think, meaning people can be intersex and not even know it. And it turns out that female professional athletes are already intersex at greater rates than the general population. This makes sense because it turns out having a Y chromosome tends to make you taller and stronger, even if you were born with a vagina. Go figure. And that's the real point - sports are already unfair. They're literally a genetic lottery. Nobody complains that it's unfair to let tall people compete in basketball. The viewpoint that transgender athletes are making sports unfair only makes sense if you think of being transgender as an unnatural thing you are doing to your body instead of something you just are. Lastly - sports is entertainment. We ban steroids because it's going to lead to a race to the bottom of overdosed and disabled athletes with destroyed bodies. It's literally destructive and dangerous to their health. There isn't some holy scripture of sports that we have to keep to. There are no natural laws of athletics. The rules of sports can be changed with the goal of being inclusive while keeping them entertaining and profitable.
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Barrel Cactaur posted:You actually keep your job while your actively getting your next one. Nobody notices because they don't actually DO that much at the end of the day. He would be the governor of Florida the whole time hes running, and would keep the position if he lost. He isn't up for election until 2026. Not in Florida. He has to resign once he officially announces he's running for President. The legislature could change the law, but they haven't so far and they seem to be getting annoyed by having to keep driving up to Tallahassee and passing whatever nonsense he's come up with today. Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:There is some evidence that there are small boosts to performance at the elite level in certain sports. But, there is no logic or evidence that it makes much of a difference in high school or middle school sports (which is what all of these bans are targeting). I don't think the vast majority of people consider "the point" of middle school and high school sports to maximally crush your fellow students either way. They're also dealing with ridiculously small sample sizes in a field where non sex related differences also make noticeable differences. Maybe it's the original hormones from before the transition, or maybe some off standard body ratio that is advantageous to the sport was present regardless. Testosterone probably isn't the base level cause of Michael Phelps having the proportional torso of a man 4 inches taller than him and the legs of a man 8 inches shorter.
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Barrel Cactaur posted:You actually keep your job while your actively getting your next one. Nobody notices because they don't actually DO that much at the end of the day. He would be the governor of Florida the whole time hes running, and would keep the position if he lost. He isn't up for election until 2026. Florida has a law saying that if an elected state official officially runs for federal office, they have to resign from their state position. As soon as he officially announces his campaign, he's legally required to resign the governorship. He's pushing the FL legislature to change that law to allow him to stay in office while he runs, and they probably will, but those recent rumors that they're starting to get sick of him must be pretty alarming for him and his staff. Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:This is a really silly poll question because there will never be a bill in congress called the "The Either Combatting Wokeness in Schools and Businesses or Saving Social Security (You Have to Pick One) Act of 2023," but the results are still pretty interesting. Even though that specific binary choice will never directly exist, it does illustrate how much of the conservative movement is really based around cultural issues and the culture war now. Voters don't directly vote for bills or laws. They vote for candidates, each of whom has their own issue positions and priorities. It's very plausible that an election might be between a candidate who wants to fight wokeness and cut Social Security vs a candidate who wants to protect Social Security and isn't really concerned about "wokeness". If voters consider "fighting wokeness" to be more important than saving Social Security, then they might very well lean toward the former candidate, because his issue positions and priorities are more aligned with what they consider important.
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Very disappointing news out of New York. Most housing policy is done at the state and local level and Kathy Hochul was one of the few Governors who proposed huge statewide housing plans and zoning reforms to try and dramatically increase housing in New York (and with New York's huge dearth of housing construction and moderate population increases, a dramatic increase in housing would still have barely started to make up the deficit) and the plan is officially dead. It died due to the same reasons that most housing plans die: Opposition by local governments and residents to taking away local zoning control. Putting it into the state budget to pass was assumed to be the only way to get is passed. They could technically take it up on its own, but it is unlikely to pass as a single stand-alone bill. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1649196521923985408 quote:A Plan to Force More Housing Development in New York Has Failed
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Colorado also gutted a similar bill yesterday, along with killing an assault rifle ban and stricter pollution rules. Dem trifecta baby! https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/colorado-democrats-drop-stricter-permitting-rules-from-ozone-pollution-bill/ https://coloradonewsline.com/2023/04/19/colorado-land-use-bill-touted-as-democratic-priority-scaled-back-to-survive-committee-vote/ https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/colorado-house-committee-kills-assault-weapons-ban-after-12-hour-testimony/
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Very disappointing news out of New York. Most housing policy is done at the state and local level and Kathy Hochul was one of the few Governors who proposed huge statewide housing plans and zoning reforms to try and dramatically increase housing in New York (and with New York's huge dearth of housing construction and moderate population increases, a dramatic increase in housing would still have barely started to make up the deficit) and the plan is officially dead. Zoning, and housing policy in general, is one of those things where it’s easy for moneyed interests to use the fear of a 60-65%ish majority of losing what they have to keep the other 35-40% totally hosed. (The other big example that comes to mind is health insurance.) Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Overall crime has gone down in the U.S. from 2021 to 2022, but shootings and murder are still at record levels following their large rise in 2020. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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The problem with local housing policy reform is that the people who it benefits most typically cant actually vote on it. Just like everyone is in favor of a top of the line nuclear waste disposal site somewhere else, almost everyone is in favor of affordable housing somewhere else. Here of course it would subtract from the natural character of cookie cutter cape style houses in neat, even, white picket fenced rows. Also the new York legislature is captured by the neoliberal end of the dem party machine. No hope anything good comes out of that. especially when you have upstate slamming fingers into the pie.
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My city has been making some strides toward affordable housing but unfortunately it's all tied up in continuing to make things more friendly to businesses and ongoing gentrification. I have a feeling that "affordable housing" is going to become "more housing" instead and we're just going to keep pricing people out of their homes and apartments. Unrelated, why are there so many homeless people now??? They must be getting bussed in from somewhere!
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KillHour posted:The obvious part is that most of the public legal battles are around school sports. A highschool lacrosse game is not and should not be a thing that needs "sanctity" beyond if the kids are safe and having fun. I agree with this in principle but it does not match up at all with the current reality. I don't know if you have kids or not, but youth sports is increasingly defined largely as a path for children to get scholarships or acceptance to a more prestigous university than they would otherwise manage. My 11 year-old daughter's soccer team has kids transferring clubs so they get to play in front of more college scouts. I don't think this is real, in that there aren't a lot of college scouts watching 11 year-olds play soccer, but holy cow is it a huge part of the marketing for the various leagues in which these kids play. They are selling a dream to well-off parents and their kids, it's like selling water to a dying man in the desert. This has also escalated significantly in even the past decade. pthighs fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Gyges posted:Not in Florida. He has to resign once he officially announces he's running for President. The legislature could change the law, but they haven't so far and they seem to be getting annoyed by having to keep driving up to Tallahassee and passing whatever nonsense he's come up with today Speaking of things that annoy the FL legislature, how are they dealing with Ft. Lauderdale still being underwater? Seeing as how DeSantis is currently more-or-less running without announcing, they should be able to tell exactly how he's going to handle any issues or disasters that crop up from now until Nov. 2024 if he commits to actually running (ie., he's not gonna bother). If they were smart, they'd either not bother changing the law so that they could keep DeSantis on hand and focused on his day job, or they'd insure that he had a very short leash if they allow him this benefit. I think all he's done is just proven that the legislature just giving him carte blanche to run around doing rallies for non-Floridians is of no real benefit to them, personally, so I can't see a reason why they should, at this point.
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OneTwentySix posted:Does anyone have any good articles about why transgender athletes should be able to play in sports? I'm trans, my partner is trans, but she is mostly on the side of trans athletes have an advantage and shouldn't play, but has expressed openness to the alternative. I used to be in the same boat, but then I read some things and changed my mind, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to talk to her about it without potentially remembering incorrectly and I don't have any data to go along with it. This is long and from 2019, but it’s usually what I refer to https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/shades-of-gray-sex-gender-and-fairness-in-sport/
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lil poopendorfer posted:The issue that I hear regarding trans youth in sports is the idea of a trans woman changing w cis women in the locker room. the possibility of trans women having unfair advantage over their cis competitors never really comes up I think the advantage thing was their initial thrust a couple years ago, until they decided that sexual deviancy was the angle to really work. Basically to them, if you're young and trans, then you're either a boy wanting to perv on the girl's locker room or just trying to get an easy softball scholarship, and if you're an adult and trans, then you're a groomer who wants to watch toddlers use the bathroom.
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Mellow Seas posted:Ugh, New York Dems are so lovely. Too many rich-rear end constituents in their districts. Yes, that's more correct. It should be "record levels for the last 25 years" and not "record levels" to be more precise.
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Federal prosecutors are considering charges against Hunter Biden. The charges they are considering are: - Two misdemeanors for failing to file taxes. - One felony for tax evasion. - One felony for a false statement on a firearm application (he said he had never used or abused illegal drugs when applying for a gun). The IRS and DOJ investigations have both finished, but no final decision has been made on whether to charge or not. Biden has already paid back the taxes and penalties he owes and the misdemeanor tax charges are generally not criminally prosecuted once they have done that. However, felony tax evasion charges are generally prosecuted even if the money has been paid back. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1649216541903278080
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DarkCrawler posted:10-15% of the population. There are non-white people here, including myself. Isn't there a bit of a difference in accounting when comparing a multi-party parliamentary system and a two party system? If Finland had a two party scheme then plausibly the white nationalists would be part of the right-wing umbrella and therefore anyone who voted that big party would be a fascist, inflating the numbers. I think that might be a factor.
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If you want to know what it's like to try to build public housing in New York, I recommend the "Show Me a Hero" HBO miniseries by David Simon about seven years of the ultimately 27-year fight to create just 800 public housing units in Yonkers
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Biden's new nominee for Secretary of Labor may go down for being too friendly to labor. Every Republican is so far opposed over concerns that she can't be a "neutral arbiter" as the Secretary of Labor because she was a union activist and her public calendar as Deputy Secretary of Labor showed that she had meetings with union and labor officials, but never took a meeting with business leaders. Joe Manchin has also "expressed concerns" about her nomination, but has not given any specific reason why: quote:A former Biden administration official said that Manchin’s hesitation on Su’s nomination probably had more to do with appealing to constituents in West Virginia than any specific qualm on how she would lead. Jon Tester and Krysten Sinema both say they are "undecided" and Diane Feinstein is not able to vote. With Feinstein gone, only one Democrat needs to oppose to kill her nomination. quote:Complicating matters further is the absence of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D), who has remained in her home state since February while recovering from shingles. Feinstein, 89, has missed dozens of votes since then, stalling confirmation proceedings for Biden judicial nominees, and now potentially a Cabinet secretary. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1649191120469934082
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lil poopendorfer posted:the possibility of trans women having unfair advantage over their cis competitors never really comes up I don't know where you're getting this from but competitive advantage is the main argument for current transphboes and TERFS. The argument is the classic "we must protect the children" from the impending domination of female sports by AMAB athletes, that girls sports are under threat. EDIT: The other big argument from the phobes is "protecting the children" from parents who want to railroad them into transitioning out of excessive wokeness. Jaxyon fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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A particular article sticks in my mind that was basically "this girl had her win STOLEN by a trans girl" and I feel like it's not the only time I've seen it framed as a "this person would have won if not for the unfairness of trans people in the sport/competition" with never the consideration that, uhh maybe they just lost because they weren't the best? It's big main-character-syndrome whenever they find someone to act personally aggrieved about the presence of transwomen in sports. like gotta think about all the sports I would have won if not for the unfairness of letting people taller then me compete, letting people stronger then me compete, people who care more then me compete, people who are more fit then me compete, people who had access to better nutrition then me compete, people who had better sleep then me compete... that said it almost feels like a waste of energy pointing any of it out because it's always such transparent concern trolling.
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Apr 21, 2023 20:21
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