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XsjadoBlayde

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Is the B shapps a reference to him going off about WAP on air?
May well be, wasn't aware of a connection while typing, but could've been subconsciously picked up, as it did feel rather familiar in a déjà vu sense as if it's from somewhere else 😇
 

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Ummmm, no. I don't think so. You're assuming the bill would make good things happen, and dumping trillions more into an economy that already has too much currency chasing to shortages of goods without even enough labor to unload to ships on time is not destined to be a political success the way you are imagining it. The government cannot spend its way out of an everything shortage, and dumping a huge pile of money on projects during one just adds more people competing for the same depleted inventory.

Do people understand there's an everything shortage going on? Like, funny enough coming from me, the child care portion of the big bill makes more sense to pass at this moment than almost all of the physical infrastructure projects. Like, people are trying to build houses because they have the money too, the economy has tons of money flowing through it, but the shortages have been so bad that a few months ago construction companies were cancelling projects and eating the contractual penalties because the price of materials was so inflated that completing the project would have been the greater loss. Why would we want the federal government to jump in right now and compete for goods in that market space?
Because if you don't do anything regarding legislation. The American people will vote you out. Even Trump passed multiple Covid bills, and a tax cut bill. You cannot just sit in the oval office, and do foreign policy all day long.
 

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Ben Shapiro, arguing that women are not people:

Super weirdly, this seems to be the new petty outrage amongst the "Gender Critical": organizations having the unmitigated gall to refer to women as people.
 

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Ben Shapiro, arguing that women are not people:

Super weirdly, this seems to be the new petty outrage amongst the "Gender Critical": organizations having the unmitigated gall to refer to women as people.
Such a weird tweet... I guess he's attempting to be transphobic here, right? Like that's the point he wants to make, something about pregnant women vs pregnant people. Instead he entirely pulls the mask off with straight up misogynistic crap.
 

XsjadoBlayde

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Such a weird tweet... I guess he's attempting to be transphobic here, right? Like that's the point he wants to make, something about pregnant women vs pregnant people. Instead he entirely pulls the mask off with straight up misogynistic crap.
Yeah, am super confused as to what he's trying to say. Like where is he getting "trust the science" from too? It's not even in the tweet he's quoting! Oh B-Shapps, could never get his point across clearly through bars neither.
 

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Just a quirk of a phone browser if I switch it to reading mode before it fully loads the page, though the timing is small and uncertain like a dark souls parry window with no fixed spot. 😉
Hitting stop before the page fully loads seems to work too.
 
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It's a brain rot, you know? It's got a bunch of people who claim to be feminists demanding that medical institutions refer to girls as women when they get pregnant. Because they are women and not people.

It hurts my brain.
 

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It's a brain rot, you know? It's got a bunch of people who claim to be feminists demanding that medical institutions refer to girls as women when they get pregnant. Because they are women and not people.

It hurts my brain.
Well this started when people objecting to the term Female being used before by some online often in the context of "Female characters" because it was deemed dehumanising (Which welcome to most scientific literature but whatever) so is anyone really shocked by this move especially as this move is being done for 0.1% of the population. (I'm going with 0.1% because 0.6% according to a Gallup survey are reported as trans but I'm saying a generous 15% of them are people who aren't interested in fully transitioning to live as their true selves and are the reason for terms like feminine penis etc and would be offended enough to kick up a stick over stuff.)

Honestly there's a bit of a point to the arguments as it's making the 99.9% cater to the 0.1%.
To put it another way I have Coeliac and it would be like me making it so everywhere had to serve gluten free food only. Now it would be nice for me as I'd actually stand a chance of being able to get food more places because oddly enough I can only actually eat in maybe 10% of places that serve food these days but I don't expect everyone to have to change for me because seriously gluten free food in plenty of cases tastes worse.
 

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Well this started when people objecting to the term Female being used before by some online often in the context of "Female characters" because it was deemed dehumanising (Which welcome to most scientific literature but whatever) so is anyone really shocked by this move especially as this move is being done for 0.1% of the population. (I'm going with 0.1% because 0.6% according to a Gallup survey are reported as trans but I'm saying a generous 15% of them are people who aren't interested in fully transitioning to live as their true selves and are the reason for terms like feminine penis etc and would be offended enough to kick up a stick over stuff.)

Honestly there's a bit of a point to the arguments as it's making the 99.9% cater to the 0.1%.
To put it another way I have Coeliac and it would be like me making it so everywhere had to serve gluten free food only. Now it would be nice for me as I'd actually stand a chance of being able to get food more places because oddly enough I can only actually eat in maybe 10% of places that serve food these days but I don't expect everyone to have to change for me because seriously gluten free food in plenty of cases tastes worse.
So... let's be clear on your analogy here.

You think trans people want to determine everyone else gender?
 
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Well this started when people objecting to the term Female being used before by some online often in the context of "Female characters" because it was deemed dehumanising (Which welcome to most scientific literature but whatever) so is anyone really shocked by this move especially as this move is being done for 0.1% of the population. (I'm going with 0.1% because 0.6% according to a Gallup survey are reported as trans but I'm saying a generous 15% of them are people who aren't interested in fully transitioning to live as their true selves and are the reason for terms like feminine penis etc and would be offended enough to kick up a stick over stuff.)

Honestly there's a bit of a point to the arguments as it's making the 99.9% cater to the 0.1%.
To put it another way I have Coeliac and it would be like me making it so everywhere had to serve gluten free food only. Now it would be nice for me as I'd actually stand a chance of being able to get food more places because oddly enough I can only actually eat in maybe 10% of places that serve food these days but I don't expect everyone to have to change for me because seriously gluten free food in plenty of cases tastes worse.
I didn't mention trans people. The CDC didn't mention trans people.

Is a 14 year old girl a "women" as soon as they become pregnant?

Are women people?

And are you really relitigating geeks using "feeemale"

Brain rot
 
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So... let's be clear on your analogy here.

You think trans people want to determine everyone else gender?
No I think part of the issue is the idea of the world being changed not for Trans people as a whole but a tiny portion of Trans people who are vocal about not wanting to transition but wanting to be recognised as masculine or femme as they are in their entirety so macho boobs and feminine penises etc etc
 

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I didn't mention trans people. The CDC didn't mention trans people.

Is a 14 year old girl a "women" as soon as they become pregnant?

Are women people?

And are you really relitigating geeks using "feeemale"

Brain rot
Well All lives don't apparently include Black lives or something..........
 

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Short term. Sure... We will see.
I cannot help but feel that as a conservative, you should have more faith in the capability of the capitalist economic system to adapt and provide. Otherwise, what's the point of it?
 

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I cannot help but feel that as a conservative, you should have more faith in the capability of the capitalist economic system to adapt and provide. Otherwise, what's the point of it?
I'm not a loony free market libertarian, I understand and value the ability of the government to manage economic downturns. During the early pandemic recession, governments did a pretty good job enacting policies that stabilized the economy through the downturn. Well now the economy is ready to rise back up, and they're continuing to stabilize us in the pandemic economy. With a freer market, things would be a lot more hectic right now, but I do believe we'd be booming back and rising to meet the existing demand. We are not in a freer economy though.
 

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I'm not a loony free market libertarian, I understand and value the ability of the government to manage economic downturns. During the early pandemic recession, governments did a pretty good job enacting policies that stabilized the economy through the downturn. Well now the economy is ready to rise back up, and they're continuing to stabilize us in the pandemic economy. With a freer market, things would be a lot more hectic right now, but I do believe we'd be booming back and rising to meet the existing demand. We are not in a freer economy though.
I can certainly get the concept of "crowding out", that government expenditure denies resources to potentially more productive private sector expenditure.

On the other hand if key elements of US infrastructure on which the economy is heavily dependent are inadequate, then it heavily loads the equation to supporting infrastructure investment. Crowding out may occur, but is likely to be more than compensated for by productivity gains from better infrastructure. Delaying investment may facilitate short-medium term growth, but significantly worsen a longer-term drag.
 

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I never really understood the panic about a ''great reset''. What exactly is there to fear? Everyone from the fringes to the center seems to recognize that things aren't functioning correctly anymore and that at least some change must be made. And in some areas we really should have had a reset ages ago. Global warming for instance. The current solution of either ignoring it or at best implementing half measures is a dead end. The current economic situation of wealth inequality, privatization, mechanization and the stripping down of social safety nets is a dead end.
 

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I never really understood the panic about a ''great reset''. What exactly is there to fear? Everyone from the fringes to the center seems to recognize that things aren't functioning correctly anymore and that at least some change must be made. And in some areas we really should have had a reset ages ago. Global warming for instance. The current solution of either ignoring it or at best implementing half measures is a dead end. The current economic situation of wealth inequality, privatization, mechanization and the stripping down of social safety nets is a dead end.
Pretty sure it's the same "New World Order" Panic from the 1990's under a different name. Or maybe about the UN taking over the world because....that's apparently something the UN can do but they just suck at so far.
 

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Well All lives don't apparently include Black lives or something..........
Perfect example actually: The CDC is talking about specific problems involving specific people, in this case pregnant people, and weird folks like yourself have decided that the nomenclature is the problem while not caring about the actual problem.

The fact that "gender critical feminists" are also taking the position that a girl becomes a woman as soon as they become capable of pregnancy, a position popular with pedophiles and powerful patriarchs, is bonus stupidity.