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Favorite fast food chain?

What is the meaning of life?

I absolutely think you're a good person, thett. One of the best. 

Another question. Do you recognise that a lot of the right around you are fairly fucking vile persons? Strong words, but I mean em. 

The left then are mostly divorced from reality.

There's little of politics comes from a place of actual compassion. 

I forgot completely about dylancatlow who was also one of my favourite DDO members ever.

What's something, if there is anything, false about you? I'm thinking lies mostly I guess, but throw your doubts out there also if you like. Contradictions in your nature, that sort. Have you ever had any violent thoughts, even? 

I still see you as a kid hugging a duck tbh haha. 

Also where are Skep, and bossy, and Seventh? 

I'm half afraid to ask what happened with Wylted, but that too, if you fancy. 

You can tell this is a gun problem, not just a bad person problem as the gun lobby says

Besides, you have not anticipated my point: if consent to sex is consent to use of one's body by a third party - that would apply to both men and women. Should men be forced to forfeit tissue, blood, organs, etc during pregnancy? What about after birth - after all, according to you, consent to sex is consent to use of one's body by offspring, right?

Making a 'yes' to sex into a 'yes' to anything that might happen because of it is silly. If you unknowingly moved into a neighborhood frequented by a serial killer, you don't consent to being murdered. You have the ability and right to protect yourself. There is no obligation for you to rollover and die because 'consent to live here is consent to being murdered by serial killers' - thats absurd. You consent to live in the neighborhood - nothing else. Likewise, consent to sex is only *consent to sex* - nothing else.

I am a left-leaning libertarian.  Though, if I am choosing between either of the two main parties in the United States, the Republican party certainly seems to be the less insane one these days.  

The DNC is unhinged.  

I find you can always put anti-immigration thinking with conservative Christianity also. I mean there's something going on there right.

I remember you writing stuff about watching your old neighborhood disappear, be overtaken completely by the Chinese or something lol. That'd give anyone the politics. I reckon Australians must have their own big existential thing about the Chinese, same thing. That's just a dam ready to to burst, right? Or that's the sort of thinking anyway. Fuck it, I have nightmares sometimes about those gobblydegook death march bastards joke joke lol. I dunno thett, but good to see you anyway buddy.

What I've been thinking about lately, is a sort of padded room politics. A politics of the agey where there's no sharp edges anymore, everything's been rounded off by experience of it, nothing can hurt me anymore.

why?

Again, you are either extremely bad at reading studies, or being dishonest. 

the light blue indicates "male children", and that has reached nearly 1800, in contrast, "female children" are marked in a tannish color and reach 1600. Clearly the unrepresentative graph doesn't agree with your conclusions. Also... this isn't a study... this is an anecdotal example as far as I can read - if you can find some other source that backs up your data then I'll accept the data. 

 Hm? I'm curious to know - furthermore - you've completely dropped the point that there are nearly as many old people who are transgender, like, you've just brushed that aside - even though you asked for it. 

While regret is possible, it is rare. Lack of access to affirming care has been shown to have more concrete risks.Another study looked at surgeons who offered gender affirming procedures. Looking at 46 surgeons who had worked with 22,725 patients, there were only 62 documented cases of regret (0.27%)."

Regarding the study - you are misrepresneting it - it is the suicidation of halocaust surviors AND WWII veterans - please do not misrepresent your own data like that - furthermore - it IS CERTAINLY not representative. Did you know that your study only measures 374 halocaust surivors? 

Oh my god - no - you are quite literally ignoring everything I've said, cutting out swawthes of context, and not overall repeating yourself. The reason trangender people do that is to feel that their SEX matches what is percieved of their GENDER - because guess what? People judge them BASED ON THAT! Gender dysphoria is a reaction to people, it is not, however, a status that transgender people have neccessarily. I do not think you are arguing in good faith, if you are, you are quite.. well ignorant. At least very bad at reading studies. 

What the actual hell man? This data CONTRADICTS YOUR ARGUMENT - the highest rate in this graph are adolescent boys - or should we say girls, and yes we should - because that graph identifying them by sex isn't very consistent with an epistemological position of expression. Furthermore, we've been talkin' about America - that's quite explicitly what my numbers have been referring to - that's what the previous study you presented was about, why the sudden shift to UK graphs? Also can you even source that graph? Because right now it has no data to actually support it. And... yes! Because that's exactly what it is! It's not just "more opened minds" i guess you could say-  now not as many people want to find and kill people for being trans! Cause ya know hate crimes! 

 you could try to compare the discrimination to today's other minorities, but the fact of the matter is that transgender people are discriminated more than ANY OTHER MINORITY TODAY -

You are not reading a single thing - GENDER and SEX are two different things - people go through transitioning to feel comfortable with their sex, to make their sex match their gender-  which I ALREADY EXPLAINED...What does the sky have to do with anything? Why are you using that specific example - its not any one individual experience ITS A WAY OF EXPERIENCING THINGS, just like gay people, I've explained it all to you - you repeating "I don't get it" when you've been dishonest in the same post really doesn't give me much hope that you actually are trying to understand. 

In high school, I worked at Pizza Hut starting at $7.25. After a year and a half when I left, I was still only making $8.65. The term “living wage” gets thrown around an awful lot, but honestly, do we expect businesses to be giving out living wages for flipping burgers?

I agree, I think a $10-12 dollar minimum wage is reasonable enough. I would be fine with that deal

I think my issue with people staying home is that it enforces lazy habits. Sitting at home collecting checks never feels satisfying or good in anyway and you soon fall slum into laziness. Who knows, maybe they become too comfortable in the life they have and just collect checks. I was taught that hard work is good for you to become a better person.

Um... no -because the only DATA you've given has supported MY ARGUMENT, what data do you have to support that claim? 

 gender is a way that your brain perceives and interprets data - a fundamental set in fact...The difference is that male-ness and female-ness are already abstract enough, so the only people who can really identify which is the way they perceive things is themself, same way as gay people only being able to identify their feelings - the mere fact that its more complicated doesn't mean its not valid.

As for the last thing - whenever that system perpetuates poverty through ideology, heck yeah its indicative of the system.

But also... I have no access to the study - even if I were to grant that the methodology is good (which I can't confirm given only access to a news story and vague explanations) - it literally explains in your source how the conclusion you come to is definitely not supported by the data. And again, this is assuming your study is valid. As for the disproportionate level of mental health emergencies that trans people go through? Well no duh - these people are literally oppressed on a daily basis, told that their identity doesn't exist, and that their existence is a "mental illness", yeah, no freaken' duh they have higher rates of suicide.,

the basics are that gender identity is a neurological connection between how you perceives things and your experience (how data is input, and how you interpret that data as a human) 

Um... because despite the fact that we aren't in repression - there are still millions in poverty, regardless, its about the principle of the matter - you shouldn't have to pay for things you need to live. "If it ain't broken don't fix it" is certainly a nice expression, it does delay progress though. 

though more specifically to increase the density of educated people in the US. So, I would just say it's a case-by-case basis, same as it is now. 

though - it actually isn't by much - where 0.7% of adults identify as transgender between the ages of 18-24, 05% of people over the age of 65% identity as trans - like - you do realize that this is the exact argument had against gay people right? The comparison is blinding with how obvious it is. 

And this is a big question that a lot of cis people have, and the answer is simple, what defines or distinguishes gender is your experience, unless you have a specific way of measuring neurologic connections with regard to interpreting data, it is literally the only way you can distinguish, so you know how you do that? You just ask the individual, its the same thing as being straight or gay. 

Though the confusion is understandable you being an admitted bigot isn't - that's just being a dick.

Um... you do realize that you need a job to pay for.... anything? Right? Like, do you think that if these workers COULD get a better job they wouldn't? Like what the hell? People HAVE to pay for rent, for food, for water, for electricity, all of the above - of course they agree - a lot of times its the only work they can find!

The age of majority should be 21.... that's all. Pretty easy it is.

you would be ostracized from all of your friends, family, work, etc- if you came out as trans - nowadays, that happens much less- hince more trans people in the public eye.

having a different gender identity than what you were assigned at birth is a neurological, psychological, and concrete scientific possibility.

To call a trans identity a "mental illness" is transphobic btw - like - almost definitionally so. 

 but even as their product increases their profit annually - the workers get metaphorically shafted with the exact same wages - and in some instances - this happens with people who don't make nearly enough money to live. 

eh - 25 is over-generalized, but regardless, my point was that its core functions are done - technically speaking, the epigenetics of your brain are always developing, I'm talking about the stability of your frontal cortex, and that happens at 21

I am extremely aware: its the intrinsic discomfort and experiential pain of having your sex not match your gender.

Profit motive perpeautates poverty, and it has for hundreds of other economics systems

Its mostly because you frontal cortex isn't finished developing - a lot of traumatic events can still permanently affect your brain, as well as alcohol and all of that - that's the main argument. Its the same reason why you shouldn't be able to drink till' your 21. 

So you know how transgender people get hormone therapy or even treatment in general? Yeah that

Because fundamentally speaking, you shouldn't have to pay for stuff you need to live - I believe that to be a right, to live, not a privilege.

The answer to the question is obviously NO for the same reason that geocentrism can't sue Galileo for damages: only people and never ideas have standing before the law.  The question itself demonstrates ignorance regarding the subject and its conditional.

CRITICAL RACE THEORY (CRT) is "an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine the law as it intersects with issues of race and to challenge mainstream liberal approaches to racial justice"

CRT is loosely unified by two common themes:

1. First, that white supremacy (societal racism) exists and maintains power through the law
   
2. Second, that transforming the relationship between law and racial power, and also achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination more broadly, are possible.
   

In law, STANDING or locus standi is the ability of a party to demonstrate to the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that party's participation in the case. In United States law, the Supreme Court has stated, "In essence the question of standing is whether the litigant is entitled to have the court decide the merits of the dispute or of particular issues."

There are a number of requirements that a plaintiff must establish to have standing before a federal court.

1. Injury-in-fact: The plaintiff must have suffered or imminently will suffer injury—an invasion of a legally protected interest that is (a) concrete and particularized, and (b) actual or imminent (that is, neither conjectural nor hypothetical; not abstract).  The injury can be either economic, non-economic, or both.
   
2. Causation: There must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained of, so that the injury is fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant and not the result of the independent action of some third party who is not before the court.
   
3. Redressability: It must be likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that a favorable court decision will redress the injury.
   

Here in America we neither put ideas on trial nor recognize the capacity of any idea to suffer concrete injury.

• Fauxlaw argues that a theory must proven true before it may claim injury before a court but that's quite wrong-headed, ideas may not claim standing.
  
• Fauxlaw further argues that "what the average person may think, and act upon, is not evidence of systemic, or CRT," apparently ignorant of the fact that CRT makes no claims regarding the average person and is, by definition, exclusively interested in the law and legal institutions. 
  

 Sometimes a voice doubting your conclusions, actually always, is necessary, but those voices which attack your character as a reason for your arguments being wrong is no help at all. It fundamentally hinders my ability to reason, as I have to take the time to address inherently irrational rebuttals.

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