On fucking point. My mom, who has seen me deal with my MS and all it’s myriad of symptoms has still told me time and again I should try yoga to help with things that are just how my brain is damaged. I fucking hate cherry picked evidence and wish education was more accessible so more people with disabilities could more easily become doctors.

My thought as well. I totally get if you want it replaced with Medicare for all (I do), but no actual Democrat wants that shit repealed outright without a universal healthcare replacement.

Something interesting, according to this survey 27% of democrat non voters want Obamacare repealed. 27% think women are too easily offended. 20% are pro-life.

As the article suggests, however, we shouldn’t really take this data as a defining reason for why democratic voters didn’t come out to vote. Even more so, the data literally shows that the majority still broadly support progressive policies. Portraying this as “oh the Democrats were too progressive or too far left” is BS. The articles first couple paragraphs focus on portraying things from this perspective but it does get better.

I think you should just look at the graph though. That’s the data. And it shows that non-voters were still majority supporters of progressive policies. That’s what matters.

Something important, these two were “defeated” through warfare. Showing how that’s likely how this will end.

No no, he doesn’t drink the blood of children, he uses an IV of it. They call it plumping.

This is what Alex Jones says as well so you know it’s legit.

I think one of the biggest issues standing in the way of widespread acceptance of trans people is generally not understanding what we actually do or are like.

So like, most people completely misunderstand how hrt works. They think that you do it and only really get a better mental space. But that’s not true at all. Everyone I have known on hormones get so many changes. Our hairlines can change, our bone density decreases or increases to match the gender your hormones match with, our bodies redistribute fat, our skin changes, even our body smells change, we lose or gain muscle mass to again come in line with whatever our hormones match. Our body chemicals change. Estrogen can decrease the size of your feet by a size and can literally make your hips grow and change how your weight is distributed. Testosterone can make you grow a full bushy as fuck beard and a such a deep voice you’ll never know the person ever had a higher pitched one. Everything changes on hormones and cis people just don’t seem to understand that at all. I’ve known many trans people who transition so well that other trans people don’t believe they’re trans and think they’re cis.

Add on that they don’t understand bottom surgery and it just gets annoying as fuck. The fact that cutting dicks off is still how so many cis people think femme bottom surgery works is so fucking infuriating and it happens when leftists reference it too.

I think if more cis people simply knew trans people and were willing to discuss with them about what being trans is like then there would be more general acceptance.

So the plan for this competition is having 3 scoring categories, apparently. So a “biological male”, a “biological female”, and a trans category. So trans men and women will compete against each other.

Or, they would, if there was any more than the one athlete that is competing. Which means she will win, even if she fucking walks. This is insane and is the bullshit “separate but equal” thing people keep talking about being the supposed “solution”.

Trans people don’t dominate sports and there aren’t enough for them to have their own leagues. If you think they do dominate then you’re obviously misinformed. Trans people have been allowed to compete in sports for a long time and there has never been a problem with it, until fucking Republicans needed a new boogeyman to galvanize their base.

Fuck Newsom. Fuck Trump. And fuck anyone who refuses to actually try to understand the reality of being trans and the reality of just wanting to play sports like everyone else.

There aren’t that many trans folk who are athletes. There definitely won’t be enough for a team at colleges, in communities for kids teams,and professional wise thatd be impossible. Add on that that would mean at competitions, with how few trans people are doing sports, the very few people would always get medals.

Theres also the matter of putting trans women against trans men is, if you go by the supposed rules of fairness these people argue for then, incredibly unfair (especially if it’s not separated by weight class which is next to impossible since again there aren’t enough trans people who do sports) and means that trans women would usually lose because they lose all their muscle mass after transition. Estrogen does that.

There’s also the matter of securing funding. Women’s sports are already under funded so how would q sport team that is too small and an unfair competition secure any funding?

The reality is that trans people having an unfair advantage is fucking BS. Trans women lose all advantages they might have had over cis women when they transition. Once they get in the same hormones level they only could have the same kind of genetic advantages that cis women could have. Like height and wing span and all the other shit that cis women can have just as often.

This also ignores trans men who, if being forced to compete against cis women, would dominate because they are actively taking testosterone.

The best, and only solution is to allow trans folk to compete in matching leagues to their gender identity as long as they’re on hormones. Which is already a rule in every single sport trans people compete in.

Yeah, so the gaffe in this speech would just have been in the present tense instead of past tense since he had already had that skin cancer removed. Which was stated in the article but still.

Edit: fixed I’m to in

I highly doubt Biden knew he had this specific cancer back then just because it seems incredibly unlikely he would find that out and just not get any treatment for it until he was out of office. It just doesn’t feel likely. You don’t just get told “hey you have cancer” and then not do anything about it at all. Especially when you’re rich and have the money. And when you’re the fucking President and have the best medical care available to you in the entire country all for free.

Course if we find out he was on chemotherapy back then then I’m obviously wrong. But I think that’s the only thing that could directly point to him knowing he had cancer back then.

Biden is known for his gaffes so it’s just more likely that’s what was going on in this 2022 speech.

Oh come on they can’t be racist! There’s people of color in that base! What are they, racist against themselves? Please, that makes no sense. That’s like if there were Jews that supported the Nazis! Or black folk that fought for the Confederacy!

/s if that’s not obvious

In Highschool I took health and it was the diagrams of the different junk, pictures and videos about STDs, saying most birth control doesn’t actually work very well (e.g. Condoms have a 36% success rates at prevent STDs or pregnancy) so it’s best to sign a card swearing you’ll be abstinent until marriage. Only one person signed the card since we were, thankfully, given a choice. No talking about being gay, since it’s a red state. They spent more time on a bunch of different drugs than sex.

Before high school there wasn’t really “sex” ed, just showing videos about puberty and ways to check for cancer/lumps. But I went to a Catholic school before highschool. There also might have been stuff about how Masturbation is bad in the Catholics “sex ed”.

Sorta like this but with citizenship?

Well we all know that Fascism experts are the least important people to have around when Fascism takes over a country.

Technically you can criticize from afar but it’s good to have fascism experts on the front lines.

This is also an incredibly privileged thing to be able to do and one that the vast majority of the most vulnerable and likely to be on the camp list are stuck here and would like some experts to help fight back.

I was going to comment a joke saying that it must have been “Iminacult1234” only to find out that it was actually a reference to her cult. She shouldn’t be anywhere near power.

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll add it to my pile of books!

While true, it’s still a fact that the leaderless movements don’t usually get anything done and movements with leaders do. Sure the leader will likely have to face being targeted but it still makes it more likely to be able to achieve the movement’s goals.

I read a great book recently called If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. Great book. It mentions Occupy Wall Street in it. Basically talks about how leaderless movements like Occupy never really get anywhere. When anyone can talk for the movement it means that any person who happens to be kinda shitty about some things can represent the entire movement. This also extended to how some movements tried to have all the decisions they made be a unanimous vote by everyone who was actively at an encampment. This meant that one person who is a dick and disagrees about something minor could stop the entire movement in its tracks. It also means said movements can be co-opted by people who want the exact opposite.

For instance, it talked about a protest movement in Sao Paulo Brazil that was leaderless and actually managed to get what it wanted done. It was about stopping the raising of the bus fair in the city. Shut down the fucking city to make sure it didn’t happen. But once that was done, the same energy was then co-opted to help protest to get Bolsonaro into power. Something that the original organizers of the original movement didn’t want.

Essentially, you should read this book, it’s really helpful for understanding the flaws with a leaderless movement like Occupy and how maybe the best way for progress isn’t to be leaderless but to have a fucking leader.

Edit: the most successful movements in history have all had leaders. Every single one. Being leaderless isn’t actually very helpful.

Edit 2: changed flawless to flaws

The article leads with saying he did nothing, which is misleading because he did do things even if they didn’t work. Saying he did nothing is misleading.

Just so everyone knows, this article is kinda misleading. The original source is an Israeli news organization hour long special, 60 minutes style, where they talked to people who worked in the Biden administration. The thing this article is discussing is how Biden essentially never came to BB and said “ceasefire right now”. But that doesn’t mean there was no pressure involved.

For instance, the same special talked to people who were aware of plans in the administration to do a speech that, they hoped, would trigger elections in Israel and force out BB so that a pro-ceasfire government could come into power and get it done. It would have been a speech about Biden telling Israelis have two choices, continue the killing or work towards lasting peace. Those plans didn’t amount to what people wanted and Biden ended up giving a much more mild speech that didn’t do shit. To the dismay of many in the state department and the White House.

The report also talked about how multiple times throughout the administration was talking to BB to get a ceasefire and they’d come to an agreement and then at the last minute BB would pull out to prolong the conflict past the election. It happened multiple times. Remember when Biden said they had come to an agreement several times and nothing came of it? That’s because the agreement they had come to was dropped by BB and it made Biden look like a senile old man who made it up.

Edit: To be fair, this article speaks of this about 2/3rds of the way through and then addresses how Biden was also trying to broker a deal between Israel and the Saudis that would have lead to peace and international recognition of the Palestinian state. To which BB didn’t want to do because it would give him a win. Gotta lead with the most sensational stuff and hide that there’s much more to it than “Biden did nothing”

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BB was doing everything he could to prolong the conflict and make sure Biden and eventually Harris were not elected.

Should Biden have been more forceful and come to Israel and said “hey, ceasefire right fucking now?” Absolutely. But to say they did nothing is disingenuous.

If you don’t believe what I’m saying then you should really question this article too because I’m just using the same source they are, an Israeli news special.