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Willfully Horn

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  1. There’s no connection between those sentences and racism, and you’d be a fool and a communist to make one. -Bill Hicks (adapted)
  2. Lol at Gaetz citing Project Veritas as a source.
  3. Mrs F learns Dick prefers to be called Jane. “Good morning, Jane.” says Mrs F. Republicans: “Lock Dick’s parents and Mrs F in a cage.” Fucking intrusive autocratic bootlickers.
  4. Well, some state’s law don’t support the right to pursue happiness, and acceptable fact (among those who are supposedly credentialed) can be deemed far more fluid than the support of fundamental rights, so, axioms gonna axiom. I’m not disagreeing with your facts, rather noting that facts were declared by others.
  5. Lol Now she’s a lawyer; and I can’t speak to the statute she quoted (since IANAL.) I do understand the first Amendment, which does not apply to private individuals, businesses, or the media. I get she’s a demagogue, but what’s “US Law 10101?” Binary code for wingnut rights?
  6. Are you sure the thinking isn’t that citizens have (had) no right to make the determinations they have made, based on history and current opinion? That SS, Medicare, Medicaid, and government coordinated health insurance must go, through hook, crook, and damn precedent and the Ninth Amendment?
  7. Republicans bitching about the deficit? While voting for candidates who explode the deficit? Without fail. For decades. It’s not like there isn’t a historical record to examine, and judge which party has done more to address the issue. Just shows they are bitching to hear themselves bitch.
  8. Thanks. I wasn’t thinking things through. My search found that Joe Wilson encountered the same audience heckling in 2017, in his home district, and I went with it.
  9. “You lie!” Shouted by Joe Wilson in Obama’s SOTU, 2009 Edited to correct the record. Thank you, HH.
  10. Bold move. Teach the autocratic, fascistic pov and you, too, can participate in the grift economy.
  11. Good job, Joe. We saw the two parties portrayed in chiaroscuro.
  12. Physical intimidation and threats (even virtual, it turns out) make me dig in my heels and stick out my jaw. Dumb, I know.
  13. Of course it was racism. Let’s remember that no attempt was made to create a paper trail that might have helped rejoin these kids sooner. Utter contempt for those folks.
  14. I am aware this is the political board, so I assumed you posted to make a political point, in part because no, I wasn’t aware of political animus between the murderer and victim. Just racial animus.
  15. I guess you don’t know how asylum works. Asylum seekers want to remain in the US legally, and so seek out the authorities to make their claim that they deserve asylum status. Btw, this also describes the folks Abbott and Desantis are bussing and flying to other cities. Those folks are seeking asylum. Legally. But, I disagree with your belief, as stated. Folks trying to enter the country by illegal means are summarily deported. I haven’t seen a report that claims those families are separated before deportation. Edit. Of course, if parents send their kids across without going with them, that’s a voluntary separation, which isn’t really something for which our government, acting on our behalf, is responsible.
  16. As I explained earlier, when you asked the same question, advancing the political point that racist blacks are killing white people, which is bad, and yes, racist, will be drowned out by the ongoing flood of stories about the actions of a political party. Here’s another report which belongs in this thread, as told by the National Review. In a nutshell, African-American Studies violate the law of the State of Florida. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/desantis-ap-african-american-studies-program-violates-florida-law/
  17. Show me the post where I called you racist. I said Republicans use racism to draw in votes and suppress others from voting. I linked an article about 700 kids being reunited with their families. If you think while families would have had their kids taken from them for seeking asylum, you’re a fool.
  18. Lol I’ve my share of encounters with folks who wanted to take a swing at me. Most didn’t, but I gave them the opportunity. Those who did learned I can do more than just take a punch. Never threw one first, though.
  19. Oh, I get it. @fattyflattie you were suggesting that you’d get in my face, and back up your argument with physical intimidation. IOW, your an unbalanced hothead with an arsenal. Fuck you, psycho.
  20. In hind view, @Anastasis declamations against the poster might detract from the survey’s findings. To whit: A recent study based on the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that transgender adults who received pubertal blockers as adolescents had significantly lower lifetime suicidal ideation compared to those who desired but did not receive it The first study followed 47 transgender youth and found that mean levels of suicidality significantly decreased from 1.11 before starting GAHT to .27 when assessed approximately 1 year after beginning GAHT [ [7]]. The second study of 128 transgender youth found small to moderate improvements in self-reported depressive symptoms (d = .44) [ [15]]. The third study examined 50 transgender youth at two 6-month intervals following the start of ExcEpts: and found significant decreases in depression as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale These findings extend previous cross-sectional research conducted with transgender and nonbinary adults and provide support for a significant relationship between access to GAHT and lower depression and suicidality among transgender and nonbinary youth. Among the full sample and those under age 18, receipt of GAHT was associated with significantly lower odds of experiencing symptoms of depression in the previous 2 weeks. Although our study is not able to determine temporal patterns, it is unlikely that many transgender and nonbinary youth began GAHT subsequent to this 2-week time frame. . High rates of depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts among transgender youth are sometimes used by antitransgender politicians and activists to erroneously suggest that transgender identity is a mental health condition that can be treated through counseling and conversion efforts [ [27]]. These individuals ignore the impacts of gender dysphoria and minority stress [ [28]] and suggest that GAHT is not necessary if transgender youth can be counseled into accepting their sex assigned at birth. The findings of this study demonstrate that GAHT could be a potential mechanism by which mental health and suicide disparities among transgender and nonbinary youth may begin to decrease. Furthermore, existing evidence suggests that regret is low for gender-affirming care interventions, with one study of 55 transgender adults who had received gender-affirming care as adolescents finding that not one experienced regret [ [29]]. Unfortunately, efforts to legally restrict gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary youth may negatively impact mental health through two separate but linked pathways. The first is by directly prohibiting medication that many of these youth rely on to reduce feelings of gender dysphoria. The second is by increasing minority stress through negative public attention and harmful rhetoric debating the rights of transgender and nonbinary youth to live their lives authentically. As such, efforts to address the mental health of transgender and nonbinary youth must also acknowledge and address the cumulative risk that antitransgender political statements and legislative efforts may have on their well-being. Of course, our self proclaimed, and totally not narcissistically motivated, though given to demeaning rhetoric, expert is soon to explain why these medical researchers are only acceptable to dolts as trustworthy sources.
  21. In support of folks, who, like myself, read this survey ( which evaluated 13000+ individuals) and assumed it was meeting a higher standard of evaluation that @Anastasis recognizes,) consider these findings: A recent study based on the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that transgender adults who received pubertal blockers as adolescents had significantly lower lifetime suicidal ideation compared to those who desired but did not receive it The first study followed 47 transgender youth and found that mean levels of suicidality significantly decreased from 1.11 before starting GAHT to .27 when assessed approximately 1 year after beginning GAHT [ [7]]. The second study of 128 transgender youth found small to moderate improvements in self-reported depressive symptoms (d = .44) [ [15]]. The third study examined 50 transgender youth at two 6-month intervals following the start of ExcEpts: and found significant decreases in depression as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale These findings extend previous cross-sectional research conducted with transgender and nonbinary adults and provide support for a significant relationship between access to GAHT and lower depression and suicidality among transgender and nonbinary youth. Among the full sample and those under age 18, receipt of GAHT was associated with significantly lower odds of experiencing symptoms of depression in the previous 2 weeks. Although our study is not able to determine temporal patterns, it is unlikely that many transgender and nonbinary youth began GAHT subsequent to this 2-week time frame. . High rates of depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts among transgender youth are sometimes used by antitransgender politicians and activists to erroneously suggest that transgender identity is a mental health condition that can be treated through counseling and conversion efforts [ [27]]. These individuals ignore the impacts of gender dysphoria and minority stress [ [28]] and suggest that GAHT is not necessary if transgender youth can be counseled into accepting their sex assigned at birth. The findings of this study demonstrate that GAHT could be a potential mechanism by which mental health and suicide disparities among transgender and nonbinary youth may begin to decrease. Furthermore, existing evidence suggests that regret is low for gender-affirming care interventions, with one study of 55 transgender adults who had received gender-affirming care as adolescents finding that not one experienced regret [ [29]]. Unfortunately, efforts to legally restrict gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary youth may negatively impact mental health through two separate but linked pathways. The first is by directly prohibiting medication that many of these youth rely on to reduce feelings of gender dysphoria. The second is by increasing minority stress through negative public attention and harmful rhetoric debating the rights of transgender and nonbinary youth to live their lives authentically. As such, efforts to address the mental health of transgender and nonbinary youth must also acknowledge and address the cumulative risk that antitransgender political statements and legislative efforts may have on their well-being. Of course, our self proclaimed, and totally not narcissistically motivated, though given to demeaning rhetoric, expert is soon to explain why these medical researchers are only acceptable to dolts as trustworthy sources. Edited to point out that the R tactic of fucking shit up and then pointing at fucked up shit to validate their claims is applicable. Just saying.
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