Some people might’ve been doing this internet thing for 30+ years, but not everyone. It may be difficult for people to imagine, but plenty of people young and old are still without any computing device at home.

I have worked with and in proximity to a lot of people who didn’t have the same resources or access as I did, and it really isn’t realistic to expect everyone to be able to monitor every bad thing companies do. That’s a big part of why we have governments and regulations in the first place.

Really unfortunate when we start blaming victims for being less informed. Do people not have older friends or family members who don’t understand what the internet is anymore? I have a few people like that in my life and it makes me sad to hear that people think it’s ok if they’re being taken advantage of. Regardless of if it’s age related cognitive decline, or just a general disinterest in tech news, no one deserves to have their rights infringed upon because our government has bent the knee to a company.

It’s illegal to make a false statement to cops. The rate of false rape allegations is nearly nonexistent. There are 3rd party accounts of the fact she was withdrawn after the incident. There are an uncountable number of reasons she would have not wanted this to be public, not the least of which is your exact reaction here. She’s not getting an advantage by claiming to be a rape victim, if anything people are likely to view her as weak or worse. No one votes for people out of sympathy and the fact you think the calculus would somehow be in her favor is a total misreading of what victims go through.

Yea, an additional issue here is that those taxes were used for things. Removing them does save people money, but the increased price ends up costing us both at the pump and also in lost tax revenue.

Trans issues are real and people do actually care about them. The whole point of the article is that hating on trans people is not a winning strategy, not that trans rights is a losing issue.

I get recommending redirecting the conversation, but trans people are losing their rights, and that is a real problem.

Per that that website you linked:

Freedom2Care® fosters a Christian perspective on ethical issues and provides medically reliable and biblically sound guidance on healthcare issues. F2C features critical bioethical issues such as abortion, conscience rights in healthcare, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, human trafficking, embryo research, and many others.

I guess it makes sense you’re getting your talking points from people who don’t respect the bodily autonomy of women, since they also don’t seem to respect the bodily autonomy of people in general.

You have no actual points or argument and are just wasting peoples time.

This is standard concern trolling behavior. I provided a specific study per your explicit request, and instead of responding to that specific study you link to a random website that has a bunch of boilerplate responses that are not a response at all.

Also, per that that website you linked:

Freedom2Care® fosters a Christian perspective on ethical issues and provides medically reliable and biblically sound guidance on healthcare issues. F2C features critical bioethical issues such as abortion, conscience rights in healthcare, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, human trafficking, embryo research, and many others.

I guess it makes sense you’re getting your talking points from people who don’t respect the bodily autonomy of women, since they also don’t seem to respect the bodily autonomy of people in general.

I specifically linked a meta analysis because it shows that we have collected the same data over and over again and have found the same results.

If you’re unwilling to take the current medical approach as based on science, I really can’t imagine a single study changing your mind, but just for fun, here’s one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15842032/ 0.6% regret rate

Feel free to note it’s from 2005 and treatments have generally become even more advanced since then, meaning the process of medical transition was likely more physically taxing for them and with wore outcomes than it might be for people now, two decades later.

What do you mean by valid? If I believe onions cures cancer is that a valid personal opinion? People can have opinions, sure, but especially regarding actual medical issues, not all opinions are equal.

Against my better judgement, I’m going to engage in good faith here.

What exactly do you mean by “like this”? There is nothing about this girl altering her body in the article at all. In general, people her age transitioning is mostly social (changing name/pronouns/aesthetic) and getting care from specialists who are doctors who know more than you or I or the average person about what might help the person in question. At a certain point puberty blockers come into play, which is not really altering the body as it is preventing possible harm to the child by forcing them to go through a possible traumatic experience that we can prevent. This gives the person additional time to ensure they are confident and happy with their decision. Puberty blockers are widely studied and if a person chooses they can stop them and the puberty of their assigned sex will proceed as expected. In the case that they decide to proceed there is an extremely small regret rate and the majority of that regret is because post coming out the person was not supported by others.

Your personal experience has really nothing to do with her experience or truly any other trans persons experience, seeing as you are clearly not trans. Your thoughts on these people are irrelevant as they and their literal team of doctors likely know what’s best for them far more than you ever could. There is paper after paper and organization after organization that you can look into with stats and figures and actual evidence, so I hope before you go around assuming your personal experience is somehow more relevant or accurate than that of the majority of all trans people and accredited medical professionals, you spend some time actually bothering to look into it. If you truly believe that time will tell, then I have great news for you because we as a society have known about trans people forever, and time has indeed already told, over and over and over again: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8099405/

I hear you, but if you look at things that the progressive wing of the dems are doing, there’s a clear sign that one of the parties is willing to do something. Look at Mamdani in NYC fighting against wage theft. Look at Abdul campaigning with backing from Harris and his pro labor platform and experience.

I’d cite AOC and some others, but what a lot of dems did with the train union is appalling and I have no defense for it. But I will say that they are far more pro labor than the Rs. Even the more conservative dems back programs like OSHA, which save lives.

It’s not an ignorant question. It’s a totally understandable question to have. This isn’t the first time they’ve done something like this in solidarity with other networks. Though there’s no one at the top of Fox making official statements I believe, the majority of people familiar with the topic seem to think Fox knows it won’t be only Rs running things forever and are trying to toe the line so they don’t get booted completely the next time a D is back in office. I don’t know if I really believe that because it’s not like Fox viewers would watch something else with better coverage, but it’s the most plausible explanation that I’ve seen posed.

For the next J6 he’ll need to rely on drones since he lost the fanatical support of a lot of his base by now.

I mean, that was kind of my point. I was replying to someone who said it was nice to see some empathy and I thought I’d chime in that it’s possibly being done for optics, but I’ll take one less Nazi in politics as a win.

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

JD Vance on why it’s ok to lie about immigrants if it makes his base like him more. There is no comeuppance great enough for what they’re doing, and he knows it. A lot of the base may be too brainwashed, but he can see that he is ruining the country and he not only doesn’t care but is reveling in it.

I don’t know if it’s empathy or optics, but I’ll take firing a Nazi as a win.

The fact is that a lot of people are not equipped to do full time childcare and would actually be a bigger help to society if they continued doing their job if that’s what they prefer. Childcare is a skill and having the right tools can make it easier. It’s very possible that encouraging people to stay home even if it’s not their preference actually hinders the growth of the child and the economy. A place intended for childcare will likely have people educated specifically in how to best assist a child of that age and have a lot more dedicated toys and books and learning experiences than the average parent would have access to. I fully support people wanting to do their own childcare, but I feel like people never want to acknowledge that dedicated childcare spaces can be great for families for all kinds of reasons, not just because they cannot afford to stop working.

I am not really up to date on him since I viewed his existence as largely irrelevant. What exactly did he say about his dead brother’s family? He never seemed like a nice person to me, but I’m surprised he made disparaging remarks about his family, especially since it seemed to have really affected his father.

Well, you have to understand, the military has nothing else to do at the moment. It’s not like we’re at war or anything.

I’m extremely surprised all they’re doing is firing them. I was worried they were going to be tried for something stupid like defrauding the government or something. I have no idea why they would still be there, other than I can only assume benefits related reasons.

*Think of the political parties.

The candidates are now going to have to compete with the parties at the same rate. This is great because as we all know political parties didn’t have enough sway.