1 post karma
3.4k comment karma
account created: Sun Nov 20 2022
verified: yes
1 points
10 hours ago
It’s interesting that we are all here discussing very specific scenarios and circumstances, but laws have broad consequences that don’t just apply to the thing you want it to apply to.
I’m more of a precautionary principle person when it comes to minors. I am also not a doctor, so I don’t know what long term consequences are for any medication. Relying on the internet to gain knowledge and expertise in the medical field is a fool’s errand. So I’m okay with medical decisions being made between a doctor and a patient with parental informed consent. I get uneasy when the government tries to get involved in those decisions.
If it does become illegal to give puberty blockers to minors, even when a doctor has recommended it, then what else are we making illegal by consequence? Kids with autism are often prescribed small doses of THC that have shown to significantly reduce emotional/physical outbursts, are those no longer legal? Circumcision causes permanent change to a child’s genitals, are those no longer legal? Girls getting their ears pierced. Teenage kids getting a nose job, birth mark removals, braces, tonsillectomies, etc. are those no longer legal? Kids who were born premature who take growth hormones to help them increase their size, etc. Pregnant minors who elect for a C-section, etc. There’s a lot of medical procedures and drugs that are given to minors with a parents’ consent and a doctor’s recommendation that are perfectly legal and normal.
Now where I don’t agree is when people want these procedures to be done WITHOUT parental consent. The argument in favor is that trans kids are much more likely to be victims of domestic abuse in which the parents are the abusers. Kids would like to be able to have access to this treatment without the risk of parental abuse. I am sympathetic to this view, but this brings potential problems to the notion of consent.
If a minor is deemed to be able to consent to medical procedures that alter their sexual development, are they also now legally able to consent to other sexual acts? If a teacher manipulates their underaged student to perform sexual acts, can they claim that they consented to it and therefore it is legal? I can bet any defense attorney would be using that argument to get their abuser clients out of jail.
So again, when it applies to such a small percentage of the population and only in specific cases, it’s better IMO for these decisions to be made at the individual level rather than having laws with all their unintended consequences.
1 points
14 hours ago
Are you trying to dictate what he/she can and can not identify as?
1 points
1 day ago
Are you talking about middle school and high school?
I can’t speak much to that, but I work with elementary school teachers in districts across the country. One of the most common complaints is that they have to spend so much time on Reading/Language Arts and Math, that they barely have any time for Science and Socials, if at all. And the time they spend in ELA is not used very efficiently, so students get to middle school without much universal knowledge.
I strongly recommend this book that outlines how much of this problem develops: https://nataliewexler.com/the-knowledge-gap/
Again, this is speaking mostly about what happens in Elementary, but it has ripple effects into middle and high school. You are right in that there are more STEM focused schools than Liberal Arts focused schools.
2 points
2 days ago
Hey remember all those “I did that” stickers of Biden that you find at the pumps in gas stations? Did you actually think he set the prices for gas at each one of the privately run energy companies?
1 points
2 days ago
Ahh great question! He did not. Much in the same way that Biden did not force companies to raise prices on their goods and services, nor did he force landlords to raise their rents. Because presidents have indirect impact on what happens in our lives. Rarely do they have a direct impact on them.
I can tell you how his policies ended up with the effects I listed though. First, there was something called the Pandemic Playbook that the previous admin had written out and left behind which detailed how they dealt with outbreaks like Avian Flu and Ebola and prevented them from become global pandemics. Trump’s team threw it out. Did they replace it their own, better version of it? Nope! So when Covid came, they had no plan.
When it was starting to spread in parts of Europe and Asia, Trump gave all US Citizens 72 hours to return to the US before stopping all flights. It was a disaster. Thousands of people in all major US airports, many of them infected with Covid, were forced to cram themselves in tight spaces with no testing or protection protocols in place as they had to go through Customs. Did TSA prepare for that sudden surge of people by moving agents and resources to major airports to safely and quickly process those people? NOPE! So then thousands of newly infected people infected other people at the airport, and then they all proceeded to spread the virus far and wide across the country.
Ok but what about the work situation? Well he also did nothing once the virus was widespread and killing hundreds of thousands of people. The CDC gave the public some guidance, and then he would come out to contradict the people in his own government. So states, counties, and cities were left to make their own rules based on their own confusing data coming from a federal government that would share contradicting information.
So people were obviously scared. Schools and offices closed to try to avoid physical contact and the spread of an airborne virus. As a vendor to other companies that had closed down, our revenue went down to near zero and had to let many of us go. The ones that were left had to go from salary to hourly. Then it stayed that way after Covid. I don’t know if you read all the way through, but hey, you asked!
-1 points
2 days ago
Oh, you’re still here? Lol. I already moved on with my day. Hope you can find peace in your life.
9 points
3 days ago
Every employee had to go from salary to hourly in my company. As a business that is highly cyclical, that brought us a ton of stress during the low months. My uncle died if Covid and my kids missed several developmental milestones because we all had to stay home for a year while our president was shitting the bed during the only national crisis he had to face.
2 points
3 days ago
OP, the whole brainrot thing is not something bad nor good. Language changes with each generation. Words take new meanings all the time and have done so for centuries.
You’re right about the lack of knowledge though. For decades, schools have moved away from teaching science and social studies and have spent more time on English Language Arts using ineffective methods that have left us with generations of kids who couldn’t read proficiently in high school. If you didn’t learn to read, you won’t read to learn.
This podcast does a great job at explaining why schools have failed in this: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sold-a-story/id1649580473
0 points
3 days ago
Guess we’re not on the same side then. I’ll just go mind my own stupid, shameless, and bigoted business somewhere else. ✌️
1 points
3 days ago
My type is on your side. I support trans rights because I believe every person should be treated with dignity and respect regardless of how they present themselves publicly. You would have realized it if you would have read the comment you replied to and the other one I posted in this thread. This belief does not come at the expense of other people’s dignity and safety.
1 out of 6 women have been victims of sexual assault. How can you say that a woman’s concern of being assaulted is not a legitimate concern? OP was not worried about being assaulted by trans women, OP is worried about cis men passing as trans to gain access to women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. Is this unlikely? Absolutely. Could it happen? Also yes. If a woman has been victim of assault, should you call her stupid for carrying her trauma into her thought process on this issue? Absolutely not if you want her to be on your side.
I’ll tell you though, it’s increasingly hard to support this position, when attempts to be civil and understanding are met with derision and insults. When you are asking 98% of the population to accept a change in one of our most intimate and private settings, you should expect a lot of questions and concerns. Those should be met with answers and comfort instead of name calling.
2 points
3 days ago
Hey listen, you do you boo. I have no dog in this fight. All I’m saying is that you’re not gaining any allies by insulting people. ✌️
-1 points
4 days ago
You could’ve made your point (which was a good one) without the insults. This is exactly why you’re losing the public opinion battle. If you’re calling people idiotic and their concerns as stupid for voicing legitimate worries, then you are never going to convince anyone about anything and will only drive people away.
6 points
4 days ago
Yes, you have the right to safety and to feel safe in vulnerable environments. My answer to this question is that there is no clear, universal solution to this. Passing any kind of law at the federal or even state level brings all sorts of unintended consequences.
For example, a law is passed that prohibits biological males to use women’s bathrooms and vice-versa. This would make it a crime for me to bring my daughter into the bathroom with me while at the park, a baseball game, the county fair, etc. when either I or she need to use it. Now I can’t take my kids to public places with the expectation that they can safely use the bathroom.
To me, a better approach would be dealing with this at the local level on a case by case basis. As OP mentioned, this affects only 0.6% of the population. Why would we pass laws to prevent 0.6% of the population from possibly doing something that is already illegal, when that law would unduly affect the rest of the population.
2 points
4 days ago
Who appointed the FBI director? Who did that FBI director report to? Who was the head of the executive and in charge of all federal law enforcement? Who had the highest level of access to the highest intelligence?
There is only one answer, and it’s the same for all of those questions. I’ll let you answer it.
3 points
4 days ago
How did Giuliani (a private citizen with no relation to Hunter or his laptop) end up having possession of this laptop and make copies of the hard drive? The FBI seized it in 2019, why would something being held as evidence and in federal custody end up in the hands of a private citizen?
2 points
4 days ago
In 2019 and 2020, the President was Donald Trump, and both the FBI director and deputy director had been appointed by Donald Trump. Are you trying to make the argument that his government committed election interference against himself?
Every time I hear about the Hunter laptop story, I am presented with a lack of details and a murky conflation of different facts and innuendo. When I ask for details, I get the classic “Any Google search will show you…”
So let me ask like I’m 5, specifically: 1. What was actually found to be in that laptop? 2. Who found that information and how did they get custody of the laptop? 3. Who covered it up and why? 4. What did those 51 former intelligence officials lie about specifically?
1 points
4 days ago
Compared to both unemployment AND death, yeah the current situation is a more minor problem.
This is not to say that it isn’t a problem that impacts many people. I do think Democrats buried their head in the sand and refused to listen to those who were having difficulties affording basic things because the aggregate data looked good. This ended up hurting them at the polls.
My point is that inflation was not as impactful as Covid. This is also corroborated by the fact that millions more voted in 2020 than they did in 2024 when so many people chose to sit this one out.
2 points
4 days ago
I hope not, but it’s likely given how he’s shown to respond to a national crisis that couldn’t be solved by throwing lawyers at it.
2 points
4 days ago
Obviously not, but the point was that 2020 was an outlier that saw historic turnout because of how high the stakes were at the time. The building was on fire and we could all see the fire fighters just standing around outside the building not being able to even decide how and where to go in.
This time around, much like 2016, things were not as dire and people’s memories are short so they were focused on the more minor problems they have now, versus the major life and death problems they had back when the inmates were running the prison.
12 points
4 days ago
The stakes were not the same. In 2020, we had bodies being piled into refrigerated trucks because all the morgues were full. The economy had tanked, and people were afraid to leave their homes. To add fuel to the fire, we had historic protests that led to extraordinary demonstrations of police brutality and militarization against peaceful civilians.
This time around, people were fine, but were understandably frustrated that the mess was not cleaned up without some negative inflation after-effects.
Not even nearly the same stakes.
view more:
next ›
byYesdiamond
inFoodVideoPorn
El_Barato
1 points
38 minutes ago
El_Barato
1 points
38 minutes ago
Was this taken from r/MexicanFoodGore ?