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@questionreality Society hurt us even before the 2000's, and this is the response, and if you don't think there should be a response it's because you're afraid of too much personal autonomy and think society can't handle the stress of this new idea. Trans ideology is a response, like any other ideology is, to societal structures that existed prior to our ideology. There were far more instances of the ideology being "shoved down my throat" that I should be happy the way that I was. The reason why you have to go to the internet to find the culture wars is because you don't even see many transgender people in public in the first place! Who is really shoving down it your throat unless you go online? Maybe at maximum one person asked you to call them a female name when they had a deep voice, and that's shoving stuff down your throat? Let's get real, most people like talking in public about pizza, their puppy or garden, or their annoying co-worker, not the fact that they hate their genitals. It's simply weird to talk about this stuff in public which is why everyone goes online to do it! Why should we just roll over on our backs like dogs to whatever you say a woman is? I'm not going to roll over and play dead and act like a male just because it threatens your ideas of how a society should function. You don't have Kallmann Syndrome or the makeup of my mind, and I don't think you'd be willing or perhaps able to imagine the initial conditions that create transgender people in the first place. Trans ideology does share many of the toxic elements that any other ideology has , but this is nothing special. You fixate on it more though because you think it will destabilize or hurt society. Saying it was "shoved down your throat" carries the implication that it came out of nowhere and we just decided to transify society for no reason. And further, the ideology isn't even always spread by transgender people themselves, there are a lot of other things going on. There are people who try to convert people to try to respect trans women, sure, but you're also missing the fact that media narratives concerning trans people are often inaccurate. That in short, whatever you think reality is, you're missing many pieces. I have many critiques of the trans community but you just don't understand these issues clearly.

He didn't say anything about preaching his ideas about gender to the masses. I'm fairly sure he's only referring to the situation where youre alone in your room thinking about gender, as it relates to personal development. Why do you always think we're trying to convert everyone? I don't actually go to elementary schools to convert anyone to be trans, no matter how many times the right says I do.

I think few people want to transition to a "trans-woman" which, for the majority of people is code or cipher for a lesser kind of woman, or even worse, a mentally confused man. (Some people are capable of some nuance to the extent where this label would be fine, but they're in the minority.) If you bake a batch of cookies, you don't eat half baked cookies, and if you transition, you don't want half-baked results. That's why I don't tell anyone I'm trans except online, because to too many people you're just a half-baked woman. Sports -- I've heard different standards brought up. And everyone is different. I heard of some swimmers' association say that you can't compete if you had finished male's puberty. So what if I had finished male puberty 30, 40, 50 , or is 60% too much? I don't know what percentage of it I completed, but I have Kallmann Syndrome and I took testosterone to start it when I was 17, stopped after a little while , then switched to estrogen. I did grow some after taking some testosterone so suppose I tried to compete. There would probably be bickering to say I did complete male puberty, that I undersold how much I took testosterone. In reality it's obscure & hypothetical how much male puberty I did complete, and this is just one of the many examples of how obscure and arbitrary this whole debate can get. You can take it on a case by case basis, but of course on the internet facts always get distorted, and then when you hear a crazy absurd case, that will get all the attention on the internet while all the other trans athletes that compete relatively fairly and normally get a shoe in the face because of that absurd case. Teaching about transgenders shouldn't probably be done in schools. It's well intentioned but probably only backfires, leading to more social contagion of the idea (which is a problem, though likely exaggerated by the right), and it leads the right to go ballistic that they're brainwashing people, which just makes people loathe us more. Also practically speaking being "prideful" about your trans status is only useful in the first stage to give you a confidence boost to complete the transition, or if you're unable to "pass" as a woman in most or all situations, after that it's useless, so the schools in a few instances celebrating pride is just not pragmatic in my opinion. Because outside of these two situations, "pride" is mostly useless and you try to forget you're trans as much as possible because you're just happier if you're really good at bullshitting people about this and hey I'm honest about that.

Trump said his presidency was the greatest 4 years ever, then says Biden immediately destroyed his legacy and now we're in the worst 4 years ever. If he's president for another 4 years, then speculatively, it should be possible for Democrats to ruin it again in 2028/2029 according to this logic ...

I really loved the book series The Wheel of Time as a lens to understand the Nazis. There's a group of villains in these books called the Forsaken. All the Forsaken are based on the Nazis. Our heroes in this story have heard horrific stories about these people on account of their terrible deeds in the distant past, and they have a mythic reputation. But they haven't met them in person, and when they do they are struck by how normal, banal, unremarkable, and in some cases how cowardly and inept they can be. There were thirteen Forsaken to showcase the variety in the Nazis. They are not all equally competent and they don't all think or act in the same way, but they are all still quite dangerous. (And I really like WoT's analysis that some Nazis will eventually be forced to do laundry and normal things and they will be seething and pouting about it)

I didn't mind any of it except that one person on the left where you can see possibly testicles hanging down. That's excessive. Put some clothes on. That's just my bias though.

I hope Kamala picks Mark Kelly too. Everyone in Tucson loves Gabby Giffords. In 2011 everyone here was praying for her to recover, even people living under a rock felt it back then. Having a vice president that has gone to space also sends a message of hope and optimism. Having a campaign that has a theme of space exploration could be a winning strategy because the Democrats in this country wants to move beyond this petty Trump bullshit and what better person to pitch than an astronaut?

He's walked out of interviews before.

Yeah that's true but also remember that in the context of his original statement, "puberty blockers are essentially sterilization drugs". This is strictly not true, at least not entirely. There's evidence to suggest that if you take a puberty blocker for a few years, and then decide to not transition, your fertility is completely unaffected. The body will in most cases attempt to correct for the drug after you stop taking it, as long as the HPG axis is working correctly. While the discussion around trans issues can be at times complicated, I think that people misrepresent the facts around this issue for drama..Sterilization is very scary to people and even the slightest threat to sterilization makes people run around in circles screaming. And for good reason, but they need to think about this issue more carefully. There should be more research to investigate this, but the fact that most Americans ingest plastic and other garbage in their body, and they're still alive should speak to some of the resilience of the human body. Going on a puberty blocker (and nothing else) for a year or two to resolve identity issues probably won't kill anyone..If we eliminate the other issues affecting fertility in the U.S. , such as poor diet, there's probably even less risk to fertility. We know that sperm counts have been dropping forever, and frankly it's easier for them to blame us transgenders than their cheeseburger. I'm being used as a proxy for blame for this plastic cheeseburger. Alea jacta est the die is cast.....

A little off-topic but here's a pretty well-edited video on Musk.. with a slightly horror-esque / meta commentary .

Also, nobody is pointing out that, in all likelihood, when he says he was "tricked" into signing papers for puberty blockers, it's likely that he had one phone in his ear while signing, trying to get to the next thing in his relatively fast-paced life... I've transitioned. The vast majority of doctors in this process do not force anything down your throat, they help you along in a process with your own consent in a professional, non-flashy way. Maybe there are a few "woke" doctors. But I cannot see them being anything but in the small minority. They get paid to do it by their local hospitals. They do not roll out a carpet for you to transition, they do not throw parties for you every time you engage in this process. (In fact in many parts of the country doctors actively try to resist you in this process, although some of that is healthy and normal since the processes are new.) In the case of a parent signing something for their child, you should read the paperwork and not blame the "woke-mind virus". The paperwork for some of this stuff can be very long and thorough. I can understand that transitioning is a new phenomenon. But I don't believe for a second that if he had read his paperwork properly, he wouldn't suffer the way he did. Musk is a terrible father. He has 10 or more kids as I believe. Shifting blame from his failure as a father to the media to misrepresent the system is just irresponsible.

This lines up with how I experienced Twitter when I revisited the site a little, in the past few days. I created a new account and saw constant right wing messaging, even after blocking a few right-wing voices and "liking" one or two left-leaning voices. Maybe I just didn't interact with the platform enough to change my feed, but it shouldn't so heavily be favored to right wing accounts when you first make an account. I had also read a tabloid news article that claimed that users were having trouble in following Kamala Harris' account.

I genuinely think she enjoyed serving as vice-president and I think you can see a little bit of that, more actual joy - plus she's generally around more decent people than Trump so she seems happier than him lol (it could just be me though). It's just that the political discourse is filled with so much filth and perception of filth that people can't imagine that she actually enjoyed anything - right wing discourse makes you think nobody, and especially not women , could ever laugh in Washington D.C. . .. They can't project a worldview or modus operandi of people in Washington D.C. outside of what's been told to them about these people so they just assume the laughter is fake.

After the Winds of Winter gets released most likely.

Ideonella sakaiensis has the ability to break down some components of plastic from what I understand. Waiting earnestly for a probiotic based on it to possibly enter the market.

Wished more people would work in a FDA-regulated manufacturing job for a year or so, might open their eyes a little about how the distribution of medical devices, drugs, etc. actually works. If the "eViL bOaRd members" "don't care" about the quality, safety and efficacy of the products, then why in a blue-collar job manufacturing the things, are you disciplined for not following quality regulations and Good Manufacturing Practices - GPM? Built these from 2015-2018. Trust me - the FDA actually has an influence on medical manufacturers. The FDA does audits on these manufacturers, and so the manufacturers always try to be on their best footing regardless of what internet memes about them say. They're too busy pumping these things out to care about the "FDA being corrupt". The FDA being around actually causes a positive feedback loop within the company. And the people on the ground care about quality too. Why? Partially because they cared about what they make, partially because the board members indirectly told them to. Also, there's a vast "hierarchy" of people that work on the quality of these products. The board members don't use a magic wand to will the products into existence. It's a long chain of events by many different players.

Yes of course, it's frighteningly easy to just jam to music for hours and do light contemplation or introspection, or just mental masturbation philosophizing, thinking you're being meta. But it's not heavy duty stuff; the real challenge is to get that long-term inner peace from non-music sources. So while I love my music, I do feel a little ambivalent about just how rewarding it is to listen to, and you never really did "much" in a sense. Though it's good to just relax sometimes of course.

@Leo Gurabans when?

Basically you can infer that without vaccinations, the "green" line, would go astronomically high and break the graph had vaccines not been administered (alongside other public health measures like masks & social distancing).

The mental collective infrastructure for taking Vaccine version 5.0 literally does not exist unless the mental collective infrastructure ofr taking Vaccine version 1.0 takes root. Version 5.0 might exist, but it'll exist because other people carried your ass and because you placed value on them as guinea pigs in your subconscious psyche in this context. This is a further distortion of what actually happened because in the real world there were trials, which everyone has collectively chosen to forget. It's similar to how you wanna wait for a yacht when your homies are busting their asses on a canoe. The yacht won't get created unless people people hop on the canoe.

If you take just the audio then sure its argument has some merit as an analysis of what happened historically; however, its illustrations lead its viewers to believe that it's hinting at the Coronavirus "plandemic" vapid nonsense. Also taking in the video description, AfterSkool is being a little intellectually dishonest here. AfterSkool has some good content I think, but its clear that they're very hit and miss. It's deeply irresponsible to depict such dystopian imagery in a video where the aim is supposedly to uplift humanity. I never got how is it that they aim to uplift humanity but then depict other people as slimy overlords. Clearly very little foresight or self-awareness.

Climate change is basically analogous to that time when you got an errand to do. You have to leave the house by 11am but you're reading a really good book and want to finish it before you head out in your car to your destination, where the car is flying out of the neighborhood at 35-40 mph, endangering people in the neighborhood because of your poor time management skills. Which I did a lot when I was 16 ngl. And it caused a lot of stress because I knew, subconsciously, that I could run someone over, but I was too engrossed in my book or game. What if I ruined my whole life just because I wanted to finish two paragraphs in a book I would forget 2 years later? The potential exists, but the brain catastrophizes a lot - usually in most cases you'll complete your errand with no problems as long as you're not too stupid about it. And in most cases the brain knows when to leave the front door at "the last moment." while still retaining a sliver of safety. All of life is just dancing on the edge--massive change has no other mechanism to move than a looming catastrophe. And I believe what Leo is getting at is that while the ego likes to fuck around, at the end of the day if its survival is threatened, or if it's 10:59 and you gotta go do your errand, it's time to fucking move and no more procrastination will be performed. The body will move and you'll be on your way. Probably if you could this experiment with the same person with similar circumstances, the person would sometimes leave at 10:52, 10:54 or 10:39, all with different experiences. You could say, the person should always leave at 10:39, but what if reading the book for some additional information was pertinent to the task that you were setting out to do at 11am, and the additional ten minutes of reading helped the person? Given the vastly differing conceptions of what "climate change", "civilization" and "humanity" all mean or signify, I think you can compare the person preparing to leave at 11am as simultaneously doing a mix of donkey shit and legitimate work to prepare what they have to do at 11am (if such a thing were possible in 10 minutes). We're in a collective phase of a knowledge acquisition, nothing new. I'd also add that I think the collective ego has a very buried, occluded element of hubris where it likes to see how far it can push the envelope before getting screwed over. This is definitely in society's shadow that it will never acknowledge. I see a lot of people saying they like to see "what [stupid things] they can get away with". Because if you can get away with something it leads to a feeling of satisfaction and you "win", and if you messed up and you failed, it's ok -- your ego was only messing around after all. So you can tell yourself you won either way. What do you think climate deniers when climate catastrophists do when it comes crashing at their door? Whatever credibility they still possess will be ripped to shreds as the words that they will spew about "not contributing to the problem" will have absolutely no influence. And that will be one more step to fixing the problem.

Yes, this ^ Also while I love the videos I personally wouldn't mind having a 1 (even 2) year hiatus if it meant being able to give $$$ to read that book faster. Books are nice. :]

In this case you are outsourcing the country's decision making to Donald Trump again. What happens if we don't convict and he doesn't want to create this political party? The chances of Donald Trump being succesful in the creation of his own party doesn't seem that high to me. And even if we were to lay this trap so to speak, I still feel it would be a bad idea. After so much walking in slime from Trump & friends it's time to put meaning back into the rule of law. The bandaid needs to be ripped off and he should be impeached and convicted.

Reminds me of that "Modern Educayshun" youtube video that popped up five years ago and that was extremely popular with the right wing Deeply disappointing that these videos are so effective