RationalMadman

MBTI is detectable in the words you use.

Good luck identifying anyone's "biology" over the intarwebz.

MBTI is fundamentally distinct from other "self-identification" labels, such as "male" or "female" (which are beyond our epistemological limits, because that information is specifically hidden underneath your clothes and skin).

MBTI is fundamentally distinct from other "self-identification" labels, such as "christian" or "muslim" or "deist" or "gnostic" (which are also beyond our epistemological limits, because sincerity cannot be quantified).

This would be like me telling someone they appear to have beliefs that are similar to Taoist teachings (even if they don't choose to self-identify as a Taoist).

Two more Washington, D.C., police officers died by suicide in the months after defending the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot by Trump supporters, bringing the grim tally of such deaths to four.

One of those cops, 43-year-old Gunther Hashida, was found dead at his home last Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan (D.C.) Police Department.

Hashida, joined the MPD in May 2003, and most recently was assigned to the emergency response team within the Special Operations Division.

Hours later, the MPD confirmed that another officer from the same department, Kyle deFreytag, died by suicide, and was found July 10.

DeFreytag, 26, had been with the department since November 2016.

A crowdfunding page set up Sunday to pay for a memorial service for Hashida, and to support his family, as of Monday night had raised more than $68,000 from more than 1,500 donors.

The GoFundMe page, which has a $250,000 donation target, said Hashida “leaves behind a loving wife, sister, 3 children, and a wonderful family.”

An online obituary for deFreytag said he “liked hiking, camping, riding his motorcycle, he liked traveling and playing the drums, he enjoyed trying different ethnic foods and always knew the best places to eat.”

“Kyle was kind, he had a quick wit and a great sense of humor & kept us laughing for 26 years,” the obituary said.

The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful: Officer testimony today

So far, five police officers have died in connection with the Jan. 6 riot.
Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who collapsed in his office after responding to the riot, died Jan. 7 from two strokes. Washington’s chief medical examiner has said that “all that transpired” during the riot played a role in Sicknick’s condition.
Two other officers who responded to the Capitol riot died by suicide within a month of the attack. 
Those officers, Jeffrey Smith of the MPD and Howard Liebengood of the Capitol Police, both had been with their departments for more than a decade.

The riot began after then-President Donald Trump urged attendees at a rally outside the White House to march to the Capitol, where a joint session of Congress was meeting to officially confirm the Electoral College victory of Joe Biden as the next president.

Hundreds of Trump supporters invaded the Capitol grounds and buildings, disturbing the proceedings.

More than 500 people have been arrested for alleged crimes related to the invasion.

About 140 officers from both the Capitol Police and the D.C. department were injured in the melee.

 At a congressional hearing last week, four officers described being attacked, berated and threatened with death by throngs of people, many of whom were wielding weapons.
“I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm, as I heard chants of, ‘Kill him with his own gun,’” MPD Officer Michael Fanone testified.

Another cop, Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, vented frustration at the hearing at some members of Congress who have downplayed the danger from the riot.

“The same people who we helped, the same people who we gave them the borrowed time to get to safety, now they are attacking us, they are attacking our characters,” Gonell said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, issued statements of condolence for the deaths of Hashida and deFreytag.

“The loss of fallen officers who defended our democracy that day is devastating, and each life lost is a tragedy that America mourns, deeply,” said Pelosi, who used the words “hero” and “patriot” to describe the cops.

Mobs of Trump supporters attacked police officers, threatening their lives and hurling racial slurs as they stormed the Capitol, law enforcement witnesses told House lawmakers Tuesday in the Jan. 6 select committee’s first hearing on the insurrection.

“I was grabbed, beaten, Tased, all while being called a traitor to my country,” Metropolitan Police Department Officer Michael Fanone testified.

“I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm, as I heard chants of, ‘Kill him with his own gun.’”

Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone listens to testimony during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021.

The four officers’ testimony painted a picture of a vicious, weapon-wielding mob that was willing to assault police in pursuit of its goal of stopping Congress from confirming Joe Biden’s electoral victory over then-President Donald Trump, who had spent weeks falsely claiming the election had been stolen from him.
“They literally were there to ’Stop the Steal,” said Capitol Police PFC Harry Dunn, referencing a phrase Trump employed repeatedly after his loss to Biden, including at a rally right before the invasion began.

Dunn, who is Black, also described being berated with racial slurs by a group of Trump supporters when they found out he had voted for Biden.

Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Harry Dunn listens during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021.

“One woman in a pink ‘MAGA’ shirt yelled, ‘You hear that, guys, this n----- voted for Joe Biden!’ Then the crowd, perhaps around 20 people, joined in, screaming ‘Boo! F------ n-----!’” he said.

Dunn later testified that he “wasn’t able to process it as a racial attack” at the time. “I was just trying to survive that day and get home,” he said.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who is leading the panel and chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., stressed at the start of the hearing that the problems that led to the invasion have not been solved.

“This threat hasn’t gone away. It looms over our democracy like a dark cloud,” Thompson said.

Earlier Tuesday, Cheney suggested that the investigation might subpoena Trump and House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy. “It could,” Cheney told ABC News. “The committee will go wherever we need to go to get to the facts.”

Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges testifies during the opening hearing of the U.S. House (Select) Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021.

Some of the officers also expressed incredulity at the continuing efforts, including from lawmakers who were present on Jan. 6, to downplay the attack.

“We were all fighting for our lives to give you guys a chance to go home to your families and escape,” Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell told the lawmakers, “and now the same people who we helped, the same people who we gave them the borrowed time to get to safety, now they are attacking us, they are attacking our characters.”

Gonell also described being crushed by a group of rioters pushing their way into the building.

“I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself, ‘This is how I’m going to die, defending this entrance,’” he said.

U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell looks down and covers his eyes during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021.

The officers spoke after lawmakers on the panel called for more facts and accountability, including from the Trump White House.

Investigators must figure out “what happened every minute of that day in the White House — every phone call, every conversation, every meeting leading up to, during and after the attack,” said Cheney, one of two Republicans on the nine-member panel.

“Honorable men and women have an obligation to step forward. If those responsible are not held accountable, and if Congress does not act responsibly, this will remain a cancer on our constitutional republic, undermining the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democratic system,” Cheney said.

U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) listens to testimony from Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges recall how he was assaulted during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, during the opening hearing of the U.S. House (Select) Committee investigating the attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021.

Before the mob broke into the Capitol, Trump held a rally outside the White House and heaped pressure on Republicans, including Vice President Mike Pence, to challenge key states’ Electoral College results. He exhorted the crowd to march to the Capitol, telling them, “If you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

As throngs of rioters broke through lines of law enforcement officers and streamed into the Capitol, Trump initially lashed out at Pence on Twitter for refusing to reject electoral votes. Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done,” Trump tweeted.

He later posted a video urging the attempted insurrectionists to go home, adding, “We love you. You’re very special.”

The House committee, whose members were all appointed by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was created after Senate Republicans voted down an independent, “9/11-style” commission to study the invasion.

U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger gets emotional as he speaks during a hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021.

Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, both vocal critics of Trump in the wake of Jan. 6, are the only Republicans on the panel. House Republicans voted to strip Cheney of her House leadership role after she refused to stop criticizing Trump for spreading the lie that the 2020 election was rigged to favor President Joe Biden.
McCarthy submitted five Republicans to be added to the select committee, but withdrew all their names after Pelosi rejected two of his picks. One of those rejects, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, may be a material witness in the probe, Cheney said last week.

In opening minutes of the hearing, Thompson played a video that spliced together footage from in and around the Capitol during the siege. The video showed rioters attacking police, shooting sprays and throwing objects, breaking windows and other property, threatening lawmakers by name and calling for the election results to be reversed.

Some of the officers looked away from the video as it played.

In his closing remarks, Dunn likened the insurrectionists to hired killers.

“If a hitman is hired and he kills somebody, the hitman goes to jail. But not only does the hitman go to jail, but the person who hired them does. It was an attack carried out on Jan. 6 and a hitman sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that.”

J6 victims returning to work as usual: about 4 hours.

What you are told is that the riots were some funny event and when it originally happend your shitstained news outlet tried to blame antifa for it (don't deny it, Fauxlaw participated in this disinformation campaign and maybe GP did too).

I wouldn’t be surprised if ANTIFA were behind it. I believe it was staged by the FBI. Where’s the 40,000 hours of footage if you have nothing to hide. Why did the J6 committee selectively edit out Ray Epps.

Then, they switched tone once it was utterly irrefutable that they were all diehard Trump supporters who had followed his word.

Yup and they’re rotting in solitary confinement while looters and rioters during the summer of love walk around scot free.

I mean, if I got paid to defend Democrats, I might kill myself too.

RM thinks he owned me lmaooo. Man needs to pull up to inner city Chicago, and then we’ll see who gets owned.

You have actually got to be drunk to think the summer of love riots were not more violent than J6. They were far more violent, far more widespread, cops were beaten, liquids were thrown at them, rocks were thrown at them. Give me a break.

Hundreds of peaceful protests happened last summer. One violent protest happened last week. Those attempting to equate the protests last year with the storming of the Capitol are collapsing hundreds of protests aimed at police brutality into one homogeneous and violent event. In reality, as analysis has repeatedly shown, the vast majority of protests which occurred over the summer involved no violent acts at all.

“[T]he Black Lives Matter uprisings were remarkably nonviolent,” one analysis published by The Post explained. “When there was violence, very often police or counterprotesters were reportedly directing it at the protesters.”

With the 2020 election looming, there was an explicit effort by Trump and his allies to suggest that the Black Lives Matter protests were necessarily violent. Fox News ran footage of the same violent incidents for weeks after they occurred to bolster the idea that the protests all ended the same way. Trump released campaign spots suggesting that such violence was a necessary component of left-wing politics.

It wasn’t, any more than violence is necessarily a component of right-wing politics. It is true, though, that the protest promoted by Trump in the weeks before Jan. 6 did result in violence, with hundreds of Trump supporters attacking police and vandalizing the seat of federal legislative power in the United States. Simply on a percentage basis, rallies centered on Trump’s lies about the election being stolen have far, far, far, far more often devolved into deadly violence than did Black Lives Matter protests last year.

There were deaths during the protests and violence last summer, but, as of late August, almost none were actually a function of the protesters. Most were either unrelated to the protests or a function of individuals reacting to vandals or other criminals. A retired police officer, David Dorn, was killed as he sought to defend a business in St. Louis, a rare exception. His alleged assailant was arrested for murder.

During a speech as the protests emerged, Trump painted a stark picture of what was occurring.

“A federal officer in California, an African American enforcement hero, was shot and killed,” Trump said. “These are not acts of peaceful protests. These are acts of domestic terror.”

That killing in California was later linked to a right-wing shooter.

many older (and or taller and or overweight and or muscular) women (who are born as women and also identify as women) can be routinely mistaken for men and face repeated harassment in public restrooms

That is demonstrably false. I’m laughing at the fact that you think J6 caused cops to commit suicide 1.5 years after it happened while cops during the summer of love haven’t, the latter of which were far more violent.

Now if a rioter killed a former cop like David Dorn, I would be mad.

Correlation doesn’t equal causation. If it were, far more than 4 cops should’ve committed suicide after the summer of love.

Sometimes humans are born with tails. Not sure of hamsters.

It's one-way respect. Society mocks furries and wouldn't call a person who thrives and enjoys roleplaying as a dog or chimpanzee as being identified that way, nor would they ever allow a person to engage in a lot of plastic surgery and use face paint to transition race and ethnicity. They would never allow a 78 year old who wants to feel like a young woman or man to identify as that age in any official capacity... In constrast, we are the devil to hold people to the same standard with their gender (which was always meant to be 'sex' it was male vs female, you didn't list 'man' or 'woman' and still don't list that next to this slot called 'gender' on official forms).

Gender is simply related to people's identity in a fundamentally different way from any of those other facets.

No, that is logically fallacious in both ends of the double standard. 

We cannot simply compare across them and apply the same rules.

We can.

For example, ethnicity is inherently tied to both heritage (family lineage) and biology

Actually, that is a biological-normative social construct. Research the actual definition of ethnicity and contrast it to race, we as a society do to ethnicity what conservatives do to gender.

, as well as one's entire cultural surrounding,

Eminem grew up with predominantly african american cultural surroundings. Is he that ethnicity under your understanding?

while species and age have important ethical connections to one's level of agency.

Not the one you like other people to call you, just the one you really are, like a male person roleplaying as a woman 24/7 and vice versa telling us to respect that roleplay as if it were real.

Gender, on the other hand is linked to one's self-expression,

Furries blatantly want to self express their fantasy to be a species they are not. Same with the age thing.

to their sexual life,

There are kinks linked to furry and/or age regressive play. There are all sorts of parallels here actually.

and the interplay between the genders is a dynamic which is internal to the particular culture - it is a category which you can't simply compare to any others which apply cross-culturally to an extent. The difference is in being different - they aren't the same thing.

Are males the same as females? I am curious where you draw this difference focus from if you are saying we should ignore differences when people get offended.