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  1. 11 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Two years ago in June, the commencement speech at Northwestern University contained this gem:

    "The best way to spot an idiot, look for the person who is cruel. Let me explain. When we see someone who doesn't look like us, or sound like us, or act like us, or love like us, or live like us, the first thought that crosses almost everyone's brain is rooted in either fear or judgement or both. That's evolution. We survived as a species by being suspicious of things that we aren't familiar with. In order to be kind, we have to shut down that animal instinct and force our brain to travel a different pathway.

    Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being. They require the mental capacity to step past our most primal urges. This may be a surprising assessment because somewhere along the way in the last few years, our society has come to believe that weaponized cruelty is part of some well-thought out Master plan. Cruelty is seen by some as an adroit cudgel to gain power. Empathy and kindness are considered weak. Many important people look at the vulnerable only as rungs on a ladder to the top. I'm here to tell you that when someone's path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society. They never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct. They never forged new mental pathways to overcome their own instinctual fears. And so their thinking and problem solving will lack the imagination and creativity that the kindest people have in spades. Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest."

     

     

    Kindness is not found in standing by silently while we inappropriately medicate children with no sound medical evidence basis. It is crazy talk to suggest that compassion is found in false hope and delusions and wishful thinking. The emotive arguments are the realm of ideological driven quackery. This is not an evolved state of being. 

     

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  2. None of that has anything to do with evidence based medicine. Maybe feels-based medicine is what yall are looking for. In which case you are no different from the ivermectin and HCQ covid lunatics. 

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  3. 2 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

    Our DNA doesn't code in binary. There. Solved it for them.

    Not sure that you know how normative chromosome distribution works, but I am sure that you can explain it to the biologists and epidemiologists. 

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  4. 3 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

    Oh geez, I can't imagine why the numbers would trend up as it's become more socially acceptable to be out as trans. Really going to have to spend hours if not days trying to figure that one out. And we're talking an increase from what 20 to 80 per 100,000. The graph just makes it look way out of proportion. 

    Yeah that must be it. Certainly no other factors involved. Epidemiologists on both sides of the Atlantic have just whiffed on it. 

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  5. Like how literally brain damaged do you have to be to go instinctually from biological distinctions between boys and girls to pivot to ephebophilia and statutory rape. Y'all are some really messed up mofos. Your ideology deserves to be dismissed and ridiculed. 

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  6. Just now, Brisketexan said:

    They're materially greater than zero.   Shutting down PEPFAR, malaria, and tuberculosis programs....that kills people.   And food aid...well, none of that was feeding anyone at risk of death from starvation, clearly.

    Jesus, your beclowning is a limitless font.

    But meh USAID funding is not a particularly compelling counterargument in this setting. The beclowning is real. But you have to look in the mirror. Its a strange religion you have embraced. 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Contrast that with the estimated excess deaths caused thus far by the cessation of USAID activities for just the past couple of months

    Fantasy numbers are fantastical. 

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  8. 1 minute ago, mchookem said:

    i mean at this point humanity being seriously limited and constrained can only be a good thing imo.

    Appreciate the honesty in this worldview. 

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  9. 2 minutes ago, Fastbreak said:

    You are only playing into his sick game when you quote or respond to that stupid motherfucker.

    I may be an asshole, but to ignore the signals and reality around you really defines the stupidity. 

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  10. 12 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

    Trans kids pre-date social media. I'd say stop being obtuse, but that's pointless with you.

    Normal epidemiology y'all. 

    Rates of newly recorded transgender identity during 2000-18, by age group

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  11. I know yall will hate this one. I could post the euro reviews, and we'll hear about TERF island or other dumb shit, but here you go. Economist piece posted as well as AAP for full balance (still waiting on their systematic review, lol). 

    https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/gender-dysphoria-report.pdf

    The economist treatment: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/05/where-the-trump-administration-has-science-on-its-side

    And for good measure to get in front of it, the AAP response, which is lol: https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/32145/AAP-speaks-out-against-HHS-report-on-gender

     

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  12. 5 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    I support hot lesbians and if that's wrong, I don't want to be right.  I mean, I support other lesbians.  And the gays. 

    The trans med management thing is a bizarro world conversion therapy situation. 

     

    It will all work out in the long run. 

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  13. 3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    I mean, there you have it, folks.  Acknowledging that gay and trans people exist, and maybe we shouldn't treat them as subhumans, means that we're all gonna turn gay and stop having sex between males and females.  Yep, that's it.  Gays existing = the end of the species.

    I've never seen someone so utterly debase themselves so quickly as we've seen Ana turn full MAGA around here, and we've seen Derka posts.

    No one is telling you to treat trans as sub humans. That's just political rhetoric.

    But maybe don't funnel undeveloped children that have been brain damaged (their parents as well) by social media contagion into a life changing hormone treatments. 

    You got your altar, brisket. Worship at it. It's a fickle beast. 

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  14. 2 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I'm just gonna say, completely unprompted, that every time a transphobe dies I have a little more hope for humanity

    Humanity literally ceases when this biological absurdity plays out to its natural conclusion. 

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  15. Religions come in all forms. They just worship at different altars. Dogma gonna dogma. The tilt against basic biology is a relatively novel take though.  

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  16. Apparently not. This is certainly the thread for delusional thinking. But we try to keep it stonk centric. 
     

    I understand that you may be upset with the world right now. There are plenty of threads where you can emote your feels. I have plenty of them. I grew up near north loop.  

     

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  17. 3 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    I've been told I have an average dick, so this hits close to home. 

    Sorry about that. My short comings are all related to reading the biotech tea leaves. 

  18. 12 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    I didn't know "Paki" was a slur. TIL.

     

    Yeah, neither did I. After googling seems like its a thing, UK origin. Figured it was more similar to "Brit" or "Aussie". 

    I feel like I need to go apologize to my back yard neighbor now. He is a really good guy and throws cool parties.  

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