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how dare you

how absolutely dare you sir

I just wasted almost a whole day "discussing" on Twitter politics and it tired me out so much I felt I needed to be around some sane people who know how to use critical thinking skills so I finally joined Tim's server lmao

As he says, politics flows in one direction.

idk
I just finished a James Allsup video and he once again made vague allusions to anti-semitism

yeah

natsoc?
national socialist?

@Undead Mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_spectrum

lol

left and right are yin and yang imo

the left pushes forward but if the right werent there to try and keep them back then theyd drive right off a cliff

but of course if the right didnt have the left society would never move forward

so its a balance

werent left and right devised because in like ancient rome or something they organized the senate like that?

or was it just made up out of nowhere lol

oh yeah youre right

french revolution stuff

blegh
yeah left-right isnt exactly productive in actual discussion

its fine for a general label when describing political divides
but in real life discussion and debate its pretty useless

i guess the pursuit of happiness falls under liberty?

I think it's because if the House and Senate are opposed, it's a lot more difficult to get anything done.

Both of them will consistently get in the way of each other.

lol

i do declare, f*ck off

I don't think the process would be nearly that simple, but basically yeah.

Also the Republicans in the Senate might try to pass legislation and then the House will stop them

Imagine it like a constant Mexican Standoff in the government

true lol

I don't know where to bring this, but I was in a godawful Twitter "debate" yesterday with someone who insisted the majority of Americans are for stricter gun control, and then proved it by citing a poll
where they got responses from 1,000 people.
I did the math myself and that came out to approximately .0003% of the U.S. population.
I tried to tell them that's a horrible sample size if you want to represent the views of the entire nation, but then they spent several tweets after that insisting I just don't understand how representative sampling works and I was engaging in the personal incredulity fallacy.
But I feel like I wasn't too far off. I mean, come on.

Liberals need to read a different book

I felt like it fit in here because I feel like they were using statistics in the same way fake news would.

No, it was another poll, like a random call poll done by Gallup

So there wasn't likely a bias to the organization or results but still

Nah

It still isn't a very good sample size I think

To be fair to the poller it was done across all 50 states

*but* it was also done only right after widely reported on shootings

It specifically says the poll was done just a few weeks after the Florida shooting

Let me find it brb

https://news.gallup.com/poll/229562/preference-stricter-gun-laws-highest-1993.aspx

https://youtu.be/WnozSoc5-k0

That 28th amendment thing doesn't seem like a bad idea

Also that nbc article is awful, he literally made a joke that requires you don't agree with Nazis to find funny

"I don't want you to think I'm picking on you because we're part of the master race"

Like when they blamed Trump for the hurricane stuff

Oh nice.

The bipartisan system is kind of slowly eating away at America lately lmao

And any other regions with that going on

**N O**

@Rabbi Shekels what app is that lol

Probably a cluster for warmth or something

But also very not good

Ooo

deplatforming does nothing but increase interest in the person youre trying to silence

I personally think it is worth looking into the effects of being raised by same sex parents since that's certainly a unique situation for a child to be in and it could or could not be bad for them to not have equal influences of sexes.
However, there is ***no*** solid evidence supporting either side of that argument, so until such rock solid evidence appears I see no issue in same sex parenting.

That's wonderful, I'm glad for you ❤

I was speaking to 10th Amendment Cat lol

In my opinion, if having your biological sex recognized on legal documents is simply too much for you to handle, then you need to go to therapy.
Gender dysphoria cannot be relieve simply by denying objective reality, you have to accept what reality is and recognize it does not control your existence to really be at peace.
So if seeing your sex on a passport "triggers" you, that's not an issue with the US government, that's an issue with your inability to cope.

Assuming all the theories of climate change were correct we should have watched The Day After Tomorrow last week

That is a good point, I've never known the legal recognition of gender to serve any real purpose... But I could be wrong on that.

If it doesn't really serve any use, then I'd be for eliminating that factor from the legal system altogether.

The draft is BS anyways

XD mood

Aren't men denied the right to vote and such until they sign up for the draft

I read that on some right wing Tumblr meme

And what if you just
Don't.

If you refuse to sign up for the draft can you get any of those things

So you have to sign up for the draft to get those things, essentially.
If you want to not be included in the draft, you cannot have those things.

<:TimThink:482277772497125378>

Not cool

Oof

I love how she has her PayPal written on the white board too

Clearly from woke twitter

:0

I have to wonder what they're all looking at

That'd be a whole lot of Americans.

I have personal beliefs that prevent me from totally agreeing with transgenderism but I generally respect pronouns and I do agree that transphobes are assholes.
But I also agree that bills forcing people to recognize pronouns are pretty shit.

:v

But aren't you trans

Same.
It does the opposite of normalizing it.

I'm generally for doing more research into the psychology of gender dysphoria so that maybe someday we could find some sort of psychotherapy that can help? Or some sort of psychological medication?

It's certainly far away though

For now I recognize there isn't much else that can be done so I do my best to respect transitioned individuals

It's kind of an ethical question.
Do you risk making people feel uncomfortable to make other people feel comfortable?

Five years ago I didn't know transgender existed

When it comes to the transgender debate, I think there is one thing we can all agree one.
Tucutes are absolute shitheads.

The people who believe you can be transgender without having dysphoria.

They treat it like some sort of game.

Most of them "identify" as trans for attention.

And then they get surgery and fuck themselves up and get real dysphoria.

@DrYuriMom absolutely.

You should be evaluated thoroughly to make sure you aren't otherwise mentally ill or dealing with some sort of severe trauma before being allowed on that stuff.

Me

XD

Yeah