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  1. 25 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    Lia Thomas absolutely should be allowed to compete in whatever sports she wants.

    But unless we're only speaking to the mirror, has there been 1 single cogent argument in this thread on why Lia Thomas should be allowed to compete in the Womens division?

    No, and I don't think anyone cares about the transgender thing - they care that she was a D1 level scholarship athlete in the MENS level. 

    I don't give a shit if you take fucking hormones or get into a brutal accident. Once you have been at a D1 mens level you don't just with some pills regress to what is anywhere near fair at a D1 womens level. 

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  2. 28 minutes ago, troph said:

    @Brisketexan it's way more complicated than what the economist says. some trans women respond to hormones in ways that put them clearly in the typical female range on physical attributes.  but for those in that class, it could take 1 year or it could take 5 years. there are at least 4 ways I'm aware of to take estrogen. how a body responds to a similar dose can be different based on how they take the treatment.  even some, despite trying the highest doses and all treatment methods simply can't feminize enough for their liking and in this case to compete.  I honestly suspect that's what's going on with a lot of these trans women who compete for medals. they have the right hormone levels but the hormones themselves did jack squat. I have friends like this. it's brutal for them. I won the lottery that way I guess, I lift weights and can't have manly muscles if I tried.  I've lost friends because hormones worked for me and not for them. sucks but biology is intricate and nuanced, not black and white like the Economist is making it out to be.

    The Economist is a disaster on trans issues, haven't read one editorial that was positive (may have missed one). their statement is gross as a blanket statement, even if true for Lia Thomas. 

    I think this is way less complex than everyone is making this. 

    This person was on the MENS NCAA SWIMMING TEAM of a D1 school LAST YEAR. There is an easy way to do this, if you ever play mens sports in NCAA you can only compete with men. If you never competed before then whatever. 

    I don't think it's weird or unfair or bias or bigoted to have a reasonable "if you competed with men before you compete with the men" rule.

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  3. 23 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    It’s a seriously different vibe, trust me. The genuine suffering and heroism of millions of Soviet citizens is simply a blank canvas to project the grievances and neuroses of humiliated Russians, who are the nation that won the war and then lost the peace that came later. It’s a very different thing than even U.S. sepia toned feelings about the “Good War” or “Greatest Generation.”  
     

    It is a true humiliation that a Russia-led USSR first beat a vastly wealthier and more prosperous Germany that came to the USSR to steal and murder, but 70 years later the same amorphous blob of “fascists” are again vastly wealthier and happier. The cult of the war in Russia involves a lot of self-loathing and resentment that you don’t get at the Memorial Day parade. 
     

    Another note- the Russians don’t talk about fighting the Germans or Italians or any other nation. They fought “fascists.” The term is both a holdover from Communism and a useful device to deploy that enables any enemy past or future to step into the eternal enemy role. 

    It's really not dude, the leaders who have come into power just have different ideals ideologically and we align with the "good guys" more than not. The winners also get to write/dictate history. It feels good to be the good guy. 

    If we pulled a Russia in Iraq how are we any different? We massively succeeded followed by a really stupid and extended insurgency - we staged a false flag, spied on them did everything wrong there and somehow we are just gonna pretend that we are somehow "different" than Russia? The entire global community condemned us for it and we did it anyway (with a few allies). The only difference is the results. Russia lost (there is no winning from where they are) and history will not be kind to them. We won and history is neutral at best to us. 

    I'm not defending Saddam and his shit ass regime who was committing all kinds of atrocities and destabilizing the region, but the parallels are there. We of course did far less intentional killing of civilians and their infra, but it sure as fuck happened.

    Stop glorifying this shit or putting it on some weird fascination with national identity. We are all humans and the animalistic side of humans crave war, its up to the cognitive humans to prevent it. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    Yeah, if you grew up with testosterone in your body during puberty, you're going to have better bone and muscle density and joint strength. Completely unfair for the biological female athlete, no amount of training will ever span that physical difference.

    I do think this problem is unique to M2F transitions, which is doubly unfortunate since that group tends to be the most stigmatized 

     

    1 hour ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Aren't most all top athletes born with a biological advantage? I'm not saying it's fair in the swimmer case as it's obvious its an advantage, but the top athletes do have biological advantages. It's not all about who trained harder or better.  Science has been saying 30-80% can be attributes to genes for a while now.

    It seem like this is a very slippery slope where quickly we will have born "women" who get classified as "non-women" for sports based on biology.

     

    1 hour ago, UTGrad98 said:

    Not a slippery slope at all. This is as black and white, cut and dry as it can be. 

     

    1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:


    That already happens. At least in track, women that have too high of natural testosterone are banned. The highest profile example is Caster Semenya who is technically intersex and was assigned female at birth. It did take years for that ban to occur after she’d won multiple Olympic and World Championships medals.

    The disparity between male and female performance is vast. World class female performances are at the level of average high school boys. Look at track world records for an apples to apples comparison or the USWNT getting destroyed by a random U15 boys team. Odds are very high that any transitioned male>female is going to own their selected sport.

     

    1 hour ago, Don Johnson said:

    The we should eliminate separation between men's and women's athletics and 99.99% of women will just have to deal with the fact they didn't win the "genetic lottery."

     

    1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

    why are there actual competitions anyway.  cant a person simply identify as an olympic gold medalist?

     

    1 hour ago, midtown said:

    You don't go from being an average male athlete to one of the top female athletes without a massive physical advantage.   Let her compete but its insane that she should take a place away from a female athlete.   Award two firsts if you have to.   

    what if I told you this same person was competing for the MENS SWIMMING TEAM AT PENN last year? 

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  5. 10 minutes ago, You don't know me said:

    Um...  I hate to admit it, but we ain't much different, are we?

    To be fair most of the conflicts we join are on the side of freedom and democracy. 

    Iraqi freedom is pretty fucking questionable after the first invasion and reeks of "to the victor go the spoils" but in reality we used the US military to make the private sector an untold amount of money while burning billions on occupation that was a complete failure post regime change. It's as close as we will ever get to what Russia is doing now and we were _successful_ even if Russia succeeds in Ukraine it will be a long terrible decision that will be a stain on their history forever. 

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  6. 10 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

    Russia is surrounded by enemies that could easily take advantage of their historic weakness, especially if Putin gets deposed and there's confusion for any amount of time of who's running the country.

    Who knows? Maybe some of those enemies would attack in a "war of russian-contraction" to take back what they lost, plus some!

    The list of enemies is long with some overtly who want their occupied territory back:

    Japan (North territories/Kuril Islands & southern half of Sakhalin Island), Finland (Karelia), Ukraine, Georgia, China, Chechnya, Kazakhstan, the Tuvan Republic

    Plus there's Kaliningrad that Germany (known as Königsberg when it was part of Germany), now that Merkel's gone, could show interest back in again like they did in 2001.

    If you invade russia and don't have nukes you are getting nuked. this is stupid. 

  7. 24 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    This is correct, but that isn't how Russia views it. The question for me is what is an acceptable end game. Ukraine isn't going to capitulate and Russia is in no position to bargain. Sure, Putin could just give up and go home but no one realistically thinks that is going to happen. What does a realistic conclusion to the war look like? That is what we need to consider. For me it would be for Russia to keep Crimea and for Ukraine to postpone talks of NATO for 20 years and no joint training of Ukranian forces for 20 years. Putting pressure on Russia to rebuild Ukraine and try Russians for war crimes is a losing strategy for the West and for civilization. The only way that happens is if Russia is in ruins and Putin is dead. Anything short of that and it is guaranteed that Russia will fight back with everything in its arsenal.

    I mean they sent in a shitload of their arsenal to Ukraine and have done pretty fucking terribly. Are you talking about nukes? You think Russia is going to destroy earth because they can't have Ukraine? Are you smoking shit?

  8. 3 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

      I don't think Putin is going to back down. He is running the Hitler playbook to the letter. Stick your toe over the line and check for the global response. If none push forward. Rinse and repeat. He is also sprinkling in some of the Russian playbook of escalate to deescalate. If he uses nukes, and we allow him to get what he wants, he will start rolling over the other countries they have been eyeing.

    bro, this shit aint happening. they have lost more equipment in 3 weeks than most countries have in their entirety. You don't just get to nuke someone and then say LOL we nuked you now you belong to us. That's not how it works

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  9. 2 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Surely our own billionaires have picked up on this cue. We need to scan Flight Aware with that in mind. Also I have the Marine Tracker app -- I will see where the superyachts are heading. I don't think anywhere on the North American continent would be ideal, so I am thinking some of the further flung Carribbean islands. New Zealand / South Seas. Vlad will be nuking Hawaii so that's out. Indian Ocean has some real paradises -- I always wanted to check out the Maldives. 

    Dude calm down with your nuke shit. 

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  10. 1 minute ago, Auto Driller said:

    Putin going full purge less than a month into the invasion tells you pretty much everything you need to know. They’ll be so busy executing “traitors” that Ukraine will be an afterthought pretty soon.

    His psycho rant about cleansing the fifth column was telling. He's lost his marbles. I don't think there's a way out for him Except China, and they seem to be baiting him pretty hard. 

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  11. 17 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

    Well that's a bummer 

    This is why I don't think it happens. There's no reason to do anything to the US like this because it means death for them too. Nuclear weapons in these quantities don't make any sense at all. I do think the one thing they keep saying is we don't have a missile defense system. You can still sink/disable a sub that's trying to launch them. 

    There is no way strategically to recover from nuclear war. You will be wiped out, pushing the button means meeting immediate and unrecoverable defeat.

    The best defense against a nuclear attack is a recovery strategy and it seems like instead of spending money on that we spend it on deterrence. 

  12. 9 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

    If I want to donate to Ukraine but want 100% of my dollars going there, what is a good website. I don't want anything where 20% goes to Ukraine and 80% to overhead costs. 

    Airbnb's were doing this. 

    I don't know if this is a bait by the Russians to just show weakness to bait anyone into actually fighting the real stuff. Seems like an extremely costly "feint" if that's the case.

    If what we are seeing is actually true though it makes it all the more important to make it clear it means war to send Russia any materials for nukes. No new nukes will have the nukes they have decaying and likely not being able to be serviced - denuclearization over a 75 year period by essentially not letting them have new ones. I'm still very optimistic that this is the beginning of the end of nuclear arsenals. 

  13. That video doesn't sound like a non realistic depiction of what's going on, the commentary is over the top. What that dude described was an active combat zone and admitting deserting. 

    I don't think anyone who volunteers to the foreign legion is going and thinks it's just shooting Russians in a Barrell. Ukraine has lost thousands of soldiers, it just seems like from what we know the Russians are losing 10k+. Anyone who has seen any of the pictures knows Russians are leveling cities - they are being completely blasted by artillery and missiles. 

  14. Just now, BabaYaga said:

    Purely symbolic.  We've already hit them with all the sanctions at our disposal.  Short of military action (which better not happen), it's just another checked box in the "Putin is a piece of dick" folder

    While this is mostly true, it also officially restricts the travel permanently and for life those who are convicted to basically any country in the world who takes part in global anything. Basically if the UN doesn't matter to you it's totally fine. 

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  15. 36 minutes ago, Zeus said:

    https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/13/22975246/ford-ship-sell-incomplete-vehicles-missing-chips

    It's ok stupid fucking rear air conditioning controls suck anyway. 

    China is shutting off manufacturing to the West, and supporting all the countries that are enemies with us. You can maybe put some dots together once they take Taiwan?

    Bro Ford literally cancelled their fab orders then when they reordered they got put in the back of the line because that's how fab works. You legit keep posting stupid shit. 

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  16. 1 minute ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Wrong.  They're doing it the right way.  Hope it passes both houses and comes into effect before the Fall. 

    The rest of the world is mostly DST? I just want to align with whatever is going on in Europe and Australia and shit. The time change fucks up international schedules for a month it more a year cuz they are different. 

  17. 1 minute ago, Beau Vine said:

    Nefarious is an odd word used to describe the process of trolling.  He's trolling.  And you just enabled him.  At best, by your admission, you just enabled a fucking moron.  Great job!

    Message boards are serious business. Trolling is nefarious 

  18. 10 minutes ago, Serak The Preparer said:

    @immamac - Granted nobody has ever accused me of being the smartest guy in the world but what is the point of being crowd-sourced if there is an explicit approval for simply re-registering? What purpose does it serve rather than simply having an increasing negative rep count? I get that permabans are not in place for merely shitty posting (thank the Lord!) but isn't it easier for the ignore list (which you are pushing) if there is no name change, since re-registering doesn't doesn't actually change posting?

    Trolls who reregister get permabanned fast and you probably don't notice. The whole point of crowd sourcing is to allow the community to basically say fuck off. It takes a special kind of stupid to keep coming back and keep getting crowdsourced, most people come back and change their behavior and then eventually slip into their old ways. That's not trolling. 

  19. 8 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    I was under the impression that the one rule here is No Trolling.  Donkey has been crowdsourced multiple times for being a complete shitstain, yet he keeps coming back.  Why does he keep coming back?  Not because he has something to add which improves the community.  Nah, he's coming back just to troll.  

    And you're enabling him.  Congrats.   

    I honestly think he's just a fucking moron and the explanation is not as nefarious as you think. 

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  20. @Beau Vine wrote a post about why I boosted 1 single sock who has been being neg bombed. I added rep because of that. 

    I've not boosted any other socks or reincarnated because they die legitimate deaths. Permabans aren't a thing here for being a shithead, they are a thing if you actually break the rules, of which none were broken by this particular person. 

    Stop fucking rep stalking people. It's stupid, just put them on ignore. 

    I am considering changing the rules of cloak room a bit since there is a playbook across the internet that people are using to push disinformation and cause "conversations" that aren't really discussions, but just ways to spout crazy nonsense. I'm trying to figure out how to word it concisely. 

    Basically the ideology behind "Trust me, I'm lying" the book about how to take outrage into sensationalism and whatever. I see it all the time now in CR and it's a behavior exhibited by the alt-right to create discourse where there isn't actually discourse.

    Once that's a rule then I'll start permabanning people for doing that. 

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  21. 3 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

    I don't think Americans protesting in the street is going to do anything to move this along any faster.  That's pipe dream shit.  

    It's all I hear about in public, at bars, at the office water cooler, at the donut shop on saturday morning, etc.  The American public is very aware of the situation.  But protesting in the streets isn't going to make a shit.  It'd be like protesting the month of March not being April.  

    Yeah sure. Representative governments seem to respond best to water cooler talks. 

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