thett3

have you considered running those same statistics specifically for "economic status" ?…Indeed. "Fact-based truth" should include all relevabt facts and not just those which confirm a preferred conclusion.

I disagree. If anything I’ve seen more and more people realize that Trump may have been an asshole but he was great for their finances and the economy. At the end of day, feeding your family and being able to afford gas is what matters.

Remember when Trump said gas would 5,6,7 dollars. Even I thought he was exaggerating. Turns out he was was right. Democrats are a disaster for the economy. A rematch today would have Trump regain GA, WI, MI, AZ, and gain NV

To the contrary. The Midwest will likely have GOP Governors and GOP legislatures for the most part to pass election integrity legislation. Democrat Governors won’t be able to change the rules this time to benefit themselves

You talk about the surge starting in the late 2010's, which is exactly when Trump put all of this under a global spotlight. I'm not sure how you conclude anything other than his rhetoric having a significant impact on creating the problem you are crediting him with fixing.

But beyond that, people do not abandon the only place they've ever known as their home to trek across an entire country in order to *attempt* to get into a country completely foreign to them just because our policies are more lenient than they were before. They do it because their situation is dire, so if you really want to know why the numbers are so bad you should start by looking at that.

So yes if Biden's policies were more inhumane like the former president i'm sure that would make an impact, but to act like his policies are the cause of it I think ignores the bigger picture.

You are actually conforming to the very archetype which I condemn in the post. The very fact that you say "shouldn't have gone out larping" is merely to proselytize your political agenda to others. The debate about Rittenhouse isn't whether he should have "gone out larping", it is "was Rittenhouse in the right when he fired at addressing protesters". The only reason this whole "larping" thing has come out is because those who believed Rittenhouse was wrong (a belief which I argue as one based on ridiculing their opposition and furthering their own position) have realised that they were terribly mistaken and thus, in an attempt to salvage dignity, argue that he is still in the wrong for "larping". You would never tell someone who gets viciously raped in front of their children that they "shouldn't have been larping", because the elephant in the room is the rapist. Yet in the world of politics, we go to such disgusting lengths to preserve the integrity of our ideology. 

Me, whiteflame, blamonkey, Barney, ramshutu, oromagi, bones, misterchris, you, benjamin, wylted if he actually tryhards and a few others.

Well, at least this new ruling will create a lot of jobs for illegal aliens.

 The Cato Institute has reported some implausible numbers, such as that over 42000 physicians in the United States are illegal aliens.

Why exactly does it matter if it is not mentioned in the rights that what? Seven seriously privileged men at the time put together based on their morality at the time; hardly the pinnacle of idol to follow or adhere to the whims of.

I can understand the pro-life perspective, I cannot understand blind constitutionalism to the point it's like a religion.

While it didn’t seem obvious at the time, fifty years is after all a long time, it was inevitable that eventually there would be a majority on the Supreme Court that respected the law and the constitution, which clearly is silent on abortion. Live by the judiciary die by the judiciary basically 

Releasing from the statigic oil reserve, an executive order removing regulations on the same of E15, supported an anti price gauging bill the republicans killed, and is considering a tax holiday.

What's your point?

He is releasing oil from strategic reserves, further proving Biden doesn't understand the Oil Market runs on future supplies, not present supplies. He fucked the oil economy in 2020, not 2022.

Do you even know what absolute moron is largely responsible for the entire escalation and then deterioration of Taliban activity in Afghanistan? Does 'mother of all bombs' ring a bell? Save the US from Islamic Extremists was it?

https://www.bbc.com/news/58271943

It turns out that the buck stops with the guy at the top.  So, the default assumption is that if you're in charge, you're responsible for what happens on your watch.

Trump sure as hell isn't perfect, but at least he didn't promise to decrease oil production and then followed through on that campaign promise with hundreds of executive orders.

There's a lot of pressure to conform in grad school, too.  A *lot* of pressure.  My colleagues were the pre-woke.  Identity politics had not yet come to replace classically liberal Western values, yet.  But those horsemen were on the horizon.  I remember the first time in 2012 when our department designated a "safe space" for "marginalized groups."  So called "ally" stickers and buttons started showing up.  I was reading Dostoevsky at the time, and this passage has always stood out to me: 

I disagree that inflation is primarly fuelled by global events. It seems like federal reserve policies affect inflation the most directly, for example attempting to get inflation down to a steady rate of 2% per year.  Why do you argue that global events are the primary driver as opposed to national policy and events? 

You can't.

I was on DDO for a few years (username Heineken). I went back last month to see if I can fill some newly found free time, only to see that it was a spambot hell. I tried contacting Juggle LLC, but after a registry search found out that Juggle LLC was disbanded and now belongs to a babysitting business.

However, the CEOs names are still listed on the old Juggle website, so I found them on LinkedIn and wrote them specifically for the reason of buying the domain "as is". I also offered to take over the role of webmaster (for free).

Within 24 hours, the notice appeared that the site was getting shut down. I'm thinking they weren't interested in a buyout or a revitalization.

But again, ignoring this, and going on from a raw social perspective while ignoring the inconsistencies: if that person experiences a "white" experience fundamentally, what part of them if fundamentally African? Their skin tone? Again, keep in mind this is an extremely non-comparative example, but even if it was, I wouldn't see your point. 

In trans people there is a dichotomy, the name for which we give physical characteristics, and the experience of the individual: i think what you kinda' have to realize, is that that name it doesn't hold some sacred right, its a tool we use a humans. But if someone doesn't find that tool helpful, than I care about that person - and, as I have shown before - most people are a lot better at identifying their own experience than we are.

You would consistently find that the macho and/or butch lesbian or bisexual/pansexual living her life as a woman is often far happier and content with what she is than the trans man who is still trying to feel comfortable that his body allows him (well, originally her) to act and be seen in the way that he wishes. I would love for this to be looked into and a positive angle taken on the parenting of cis masculine females and cis feminine males. This really has to be looked into.

Drag queens and sissy-kink men are often much happier with their actual male identity than trans women who never switch back or address what they really are.

Maybe it's just that I've gotten used to all the weird ideas, but I do feel like people were just more interesting back then. That rbelivb guy feels like a bit of old DDO. 

When I joined DDO in 2016, people were already saying the site was dead. 

So this leads me to a question for the older users: What exactly was DDO like in its heyday?

The last statistic I saw on that was that the US accounts for 31% of the world’s mass shootings, despite accounting for 5% of the world’s population. I’d Google it but am not interested in a Google battle since there are countless sources with “studies” to affirm either position. What is definitive here is that this is not a problem anywhere else in the eyes of their own citizens. The rest of the world looks at us like we’re crazy, so that right there says it all. Or at least it should.

I never understood the opposition to an assault weapons. Of course we can cherry pick little things wrong with the bill, that’s a reason to amend it, not get rid of it.

If guns are about self defense, no one needs an AR15. If guns are about sport, then I would love to see someone explain to the parents of the Uvalde victims that our love of sport is more important than their child’s life.

I believe that gender identity is not a choice for the same I don't believe a black person might become offended at some exploitations of culture, not that its exactly the same, but hear me out for a second. From the moment your born you are socialized as something: male, white, black, female, smart, dumb, etc, etc - each and every part of your life contributes to a narrative which builds a social perspective of your identity, how the world sees you. Places which do this early on in development and significantly contribute to this are called social institutions, some examples would be: church, school, even your home, each of these places contribute to how people see you - but also - how you see yourself. The values you might aspire to, the values you might reject, the friends you consider part of your societal ingroup and outgroup. 

For example, I've dated trans men who have had no problems with their natural body - they just wanted to be called by their preferred name and associated as a man. This is the fundamental flaw I see in your ideology, that for every 1 trans woman who is having surgery, there are 10 others who do not, perhaps they go on hormones? A lot don't though. And while some of it is for money or laws, a lot of it is because they don't want to. 

Wasn't the mass shooter already known to the police? How would you reform the police so that they can be more effective with existing gun laws?

Is the US the only nation on earth with mentally unwell citizens? If not, then please explain, since this is the problem, why these sitting only happen here.

Oh, I see the separation here: There are different parts of the body, some cause dyphoria - for example a trans man breasts or other stereotypically phenotypical female traits - and others identify gender - such as the part of your brain where consciousness is emergent from. 

When I say experience, I am talking about the epigenetics of your brain and body, in other words, how your genetics interact with the stimuli from your surroundings. 

Although it's called the female hormone, a man's body also makes estrogen. A healthy balance of estrogen and testosterone is important for sexual growth and development. When these hormones become imbalanced, your sexual development and function may be affected.

Perhaps I wasn't clear, so I'll give you one more explanation. I am not making the claim that there is a difference between a female and a male mind intrinsically, there are some slightly different structures which don't impact too much in regards to brain matter in stereotypically considered male and female (which I've went on in length in a debate or two), but besides that that isn't the point Thett.

The point is how people experience gender, which you have seemingly missed.

The problem is mental health

Setting aside the notion that there is only one problem here to address as if we could not try multiple solutions at once, the US does not have a mental health issue significantly worse than any other developed nation. We do have more guns however. Way more.

Also, has any republican ever put forward a mental health bill aimed at addressing gun violence? I haven’t seen it.

But it’s even worse then that, because every time democrats propose making healthcare of any kind more accessible republicans are against it, so this might actually be the most disingenuous.