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But who would manufacture the pharmaceutical grade estrogen under socialism? SEPTA enjoyer, Ex-Democrat, @LiberalParty_
Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2016
@nikicaga "most popular name" is always gonna come in at like 1% of the total max because there are an awful lot of names out there, and I think a lot of these people forget that lol.
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@bryan_caplan This is a really difficult title to accept. If one takes the definition of feminism as being in favor of equal treatment of the sexes (given that in the past they unambiguously have not had equal legal rights or standing), then the title is absurd at face value, triggering aside.
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@HannahPosted elections have consequences. votes imply moral considerations and divergences. "voting the other way" is not just some trivial non-thing that people are blowing out of proportion, it has real implications on people's well being.
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@MrRabbitt87 @hankgreen If the best argument you can tender for why someone else should tolerate your speech is merely to cite free speech, that's almost a condemnation outright of what you were going to say. i.e. "This is bad and you'll hate me for it, but it is not technically illegal to say it.".
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@StephenJLowell @mossadgov @GovTimWalz What are you going to claim next, that states that skimp on welfare programs actually have such strong economies that they aren't needed?. Lmao.
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@TheSnowQueen007 @drmistercody 1. You should be able to get a hysterectomy and I would fight for your right to have one. 2. "Curing gender dysphoria" has similar undertones as "curing homosexuality" or "curing autism". A lot of people would feel that it would be fundamentally changing their identity and refuse.
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@whstancil I watched the reaction live in multiple chat rooms and servers full of mainstream Democrats who were hoping Biden would do well. We are in full panic mode right now. We watched it with our own eyes. Biden is not fit. I think a Trump victory is virtually assured. Prepare to flee.
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@bryan_caplan Women couldn't open bank accounts in their own names until shockingly recently. If feminism is simply acknowledging how absurdly wrong that was -- and a large number of people *would* define it that way -- this title comes across directly as right-wing shock value propaganda.
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@bobdaduck @JerryKingisHot1 @the_transit_guy At this point we are just grasping at straws. There is no actual evidence this has any effect on pool scores, this is just theoretical pseudo-justification for claiming that somehow cis women are inherently worse at things where there is no obvious physical advantage.
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@whstancil I've used this language because I thought it was a useful sociological concept. Politically, it does need to die.
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@Based_Atheist @whstancil Reframing HRT for minors as "child castration", for example, is ridiculous. Every time I hear some Republican idiot talk about "child genital mutilation" I want to scream. Clearly you people either have no idea what you're talking about or are willfully making things up.
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@TaxIsTheft0816 @immibis2 @libertarianneko Internal plumbing is also an irrelevant factor to being a woman. I know that can be hard to grasp for people who think that gender and sex are the same and that personal identity plays no role, but it's true.
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@ThunderWolf08 Love when the main argument against HSR is "but it loses money" *proceeds to ignore the fact that building and maintaining highways costs money*.
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@AlexZedKawa As a trans person I am in self-preservation mode and literally do not care about almost any other policy Harris may have or not have. Please vote for her.
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@LittleMammith Utterly hilarious how conservatives will simultaneously say with a completely straight face that Dems have moved radically left.
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@whstancil Will Stancil now posting unburdened by his past prognostications on Dems being in disarray 💯.
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@TwoRulesOfWar @wcbodnar @chrislhayes The 3/5ths compromise artificially inflated slave state apportionment, which then immediately parlayed into Electoral College votes (# of reps + # of sens). A direct popular vote couldn't exploit this system.
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@whstancil Love to see it from BlueAnon, which you've so graciously self-nominated into, the perpetual insistence that "he won the primaries" as the reason he should be nominated rather than "he can win the election", especially now that half of all primary voters want him replaced.
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@CousinGreg3 @Sam_Copeland If you don't double-check the king, white can impose pieces on the diagonal. Hence, Nf2 instead of Ng5.
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@MrMan_returns @AriDrennen I can find a million cís male preds and stories about them being horrible. Should I assume you're also a pred due to guilt by association?.
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@agraybee Democrats stop allowing themselves to be taken over by activist-speak instead of being normal and relatable challenge, difficulty: impossible.
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@_bilaire @Ronalike_ Yeah, because communist countries did so much better at not emitting pollutants, right?.
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@TheRocketRalph "I won't consider dating someone who is [insert invisible trait you only know they have because they told you and does not necessarily have any direct negative impact on how they interact with you]" is such a tired-out excuse for bigotry.
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@rashedsaud @GovTimWalz Past compensation is not always commensurate with experience or quality of work performed. More often it will be used as a means to judge how little they can get away with paying. In this case, removing this information from the market actually makes it function more equitably.
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@ArmandDoma There's a theory that these jokes had a lot to do with no-fault divorce not yet being a thing. Sounds plausible.
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@the_transit_guy America: where you have the freedom to be forced to own a car for lack of any better options for getting around anywhere.
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@fedtanyl Even if it's fake (which it is) I'm gonna choose to believe it just to own the cons.
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@olimpiuurcan I would be delighted to watch Hikaru lose both on the board and in the ring at the same time.
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@superfamine @AaronGuhreen Um really not sure why we should be using taxpayer resources to give stuff to illegal immigrants but ok. I literally support open borders and still think this policy is stupid.
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@nsarwark I have said many times, and gotten a surprising amount of pushback, that a true libertarian must essentially be a globalist. "Natural rights for me, but not for thee" makes no sense.
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@hansenchess Watch this develop into another "but what if he just mastered the tempo and practiced against engines" debacle lmfao 😑.
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@RealVinnieJames @Vedthalegend -Tulsi literally changes her entire stance on an issue without clear justification. -Obvious result of rapid ideological shift that a lot of ex-Dem grifters like to deny ("they ackshually left me"). -No idea what your point is, really.
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@Nowooski If you made two randomized groups of people and had them rigorously, blindly follow each the advice of:.1) hydroxychloroquine believers, and.2) Fauci and the CDC.Which group would tend to have better health outcomes?. I still trust public health - but not with RFK in charge.
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@RudolphTroha @JoshEakle What's this supposed to mean? Are you forecasting a Russian victory?.
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@AriDrennen If this took place in Florida it would probably be the (alleged) trans woman who would be arrested instead, since they officially encourage this sort of vigilante enforcement now. That's why I will never step foot in Florida again for any reason until this madness ends.
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@ChessProblem "It's a two-horse race between me and Nepo now," said Fabi, a few days before sliding into fourth place.
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@fakertarians It's impressive how many libertarians will honestly say "he might be bad but if he manages accomplish all these (mostly relatively small) things, that's such a tremendous upside that it's worth potentially arresting and deporting 1/20th of our population" with a straight face.
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@Footbollistic @SimpleSCOTUS Constitutional originalism is a farce. We live in a common law system. If the legislature leaves a gap into which a case falls, the courts may fill it at their leisure.
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@ToddHagopian What if we let Ukraine choose whether it wishes to negotiate? They are the ones being held at gunpoint right now and making the real sacrifices. If they are fed up with it, let them choose that. We should not choose it for them.
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@mACABreb0b I asked the question because while I am highly sympathetic to cyclists and think we should invest in bike infra, I'm not convinced apologism for cyclists genuinely improperly blocking traffic is a good look and I wanted to front a more transit-oriented hypothetical.
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@rohitjoycpa @the_transit_guy @fudokun7 In civilized countries, even if you live in a pretty small town, your local train station will see something like 10 trains per hour, and they'll almost always be right on time. Oh no! How dreadfully inconveniencing that I can't leave at precisely the millisecond I want.
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@sundevil3100 @justinamash Ignorance of the law is no defense for us ordinary plebs. Why should it be for officers of the law?.
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@MissingBoss @sam_d_1995 It only takes an hour because you are riding on the utterly hollowed out shell of a transit system because we tore it all out to make room for the cars.
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@KyleSchumann08 @jmoser9 @TrueLiberalism1 @JoshEakle Could I be wrong? No, it's the political scientists who are wrong.
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@sfmcguire79 As someone who recently graduated, I can attest that approximately 0% of students who claim to be "multitasking" in class are actually doing anything productive. They're browsing social media, shopping, playing games, etc. I even caught myself doing it sometimes!.
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@dot3x3q @robprather @prchovanec @ofnumbers Incredibly, I'm not afraid to admit that expertise is real and that the opinions of non-experts are usually pretty worthless
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@the_transit_guy The funny thing is that the population trend graphs people are probably basing these projections on turned out to be *dreadfully* wrong for some reason when the 2020 census itself was taken, so I would be unsurprised if these estimates were wrong in the same way.
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@Rothmus If you have health insurance and you are a healthy person, you are still paying for other people's healthcare. The only difference is in whether the middleman is private or public.
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@Noahpinion It's super easy: can we not backslide please? Can we go back to the rules and regulations that were generally in force around 2015?. We're losing rights we once had, we're not fighting for rights we've never had.
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@sam_d_1995 I have had people try to unironically explain to me why hyperloop is Cheaper Than Rail, Actually.
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@SamuelVimes10 @eigenrobot @rSanti97 It may surprise you that some of us really do believe in free speech and that I believe I can say whatever the hell I want as long as it isn't threatening, inciting, or slanderous. Sequester the jury if you think they need to be "protected" from outside influence.
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@nikicaga I also question whether this is just a slight plurality (induced partially, like you say, by a cultural lack of creativity in naming compared to Germans) or if it's any sort of meaningful majority.
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@frelin34 @Politics_Polls @JLPartnersPolls @DailyMail Have you ever considered the possibility that some of your opponents perfectly understand the meaning of words and that you actually are both of these things.
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@sam_d_1995 Reflexive anti-capitalism I guess. Charging money for something that currently is free is interpreted as a step backward, especially if it is not fully obvious without thinking about it who is being helped by it being free.
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@TrundlingIdeas @justinamash @SollenbergerRC @thedailybeast Libertarian-to-fascism pipeline. My theory is many people are first drawn to libertarianism because they have a personal score to settle with the state, but once they figure out that libertarians are actually liberals -- often after adopting the label -- they begin to complain.
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@JenksJackman @JoshEakle By implementing neoliberal reforms in a country with a billion people in it, yes.
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@brentdavis @cheese_mishra @kaseyklimes Why are you so wedded to the notion that public transit is bad so therefore it isn't worth trying to make it better.
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@AltBao @TwoRulesOfWar @wcbodnar @chrislhayes The original question was "prove the EC exists because of slavery". This was, transparently, at least one major reason. Whether it impacted the results or not doesn't matter. Same way we can still call it undemocratic even if the popular vote winner wins most of the time.
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@steph93065 @katiecannon2 @PICKLEJARZ1 @Paloosas @zen_brett @davidfking @justinamash Go back and learn some economics, please, for the benefit of us all. Learn about "creative destruction", and learn how tariffs actually work. Hint: communities getting destroyed by economic changes is inevitable and unfixable except at great cost; tariffs always make us poorer.
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@offbeatorbit Amazing how copying Europe is always bad when it comes to economic policy but the moment they get a chance to copy European racism instead they're like "oh goody!!!".
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@feelsdesperate @whstancil Weren't you just participating in the wealthy people LARPing as living paycheck to paycheck discourse? Consider sitting this one out.
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@kolkoreh @sam_d_1995 @stocks1983 Miami couldn't dig down so they made their metro system elevated. Always excuses excuses excuses.
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@whstancil Invoking Bush v. Gore is just so dishonest at face for the most incredibly obvious reason: Gore literally had to preside over the counting of electoral votes himself as sitting VP, and he duly certified his own loss without so much as a whisper of complaint.
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@MarcTech1996 @jdabre11 Since when, for a broadly cognitively normal person, has having had a cold and been overprepared for an event resulted in you staring blankly into space, speaking in gibberish and slurring your words?.
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@AlexNowrasteh "A majority of people in some states don't want guns around in public. Ergo by analogous logic, they have the right to ban them.". Watch him try to explain why that is not true but his immigration position is.
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@ToddHagopian Stopping all money and weapons is tantamount to forcing their hand. It is tantamount to forcing them to quit. Let them choose when they've had enough bloodshed. Don't hang them out to dry and expect them to hang on by their fingernails. Don't abandon innocent victims.
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@bryan_caplan Most critics of feminism tend to define it as a far more radical, "woke" version that borderline advocates for discrimination against men. This is the only demographic I can see who would see that title, and based on that, read it, despite not already knowing you and your work.
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@spargles While obviously legitimate, I feel like it may become incidentally used by bad faith actors as a means to incite further transphobia and as an argument to prevent people from living their lives as they please -- it has similar vibes as would "curing homosexuality", etc.
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@AndrewRCraig @DCCheerleaders Of course we all knew it was never about the children from the beginning, but no one would listen.
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@jackvlloyd @brad_polumbo Incredible. You take such an incredibly obvious dogwhistle (though it's so blatant it barely even qualifies as one) and manage to figure that the people calling it out are ackshually the real racists here.
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@thewheezetease @JeremiahDJohns ??? Then let the number of physicians increase up to the point at which no more people want to become physicians ???. Not complicated.
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@BriannaWu I wish I had known what bring trans was before I was 22. I then could have transitioned sooner and had a better experience with it. Not everyone feels being trans the same way, so deep and viscerally that they just "know" from when they're a kid.
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@DrewPavlou @SocDoneLeft That's the joke. Russia already shared a border with NATO thanks to them.
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@ArmandDoma I would normally push back because index funds good, ethical consumption is impossible, etc etc etc. But these same people who simp for Jill probably do actually believe anyone *else* would be evil for getting caught in that financial position so I'm all for laying into this.
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@BlackDumpling57 @SocDoneLeft This is always the fallback argument after someone points out that under no circumstances in modern political discourse does "free X" ever mean "enslaving or conscripting providers of X".
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@TWLadyGrey @whstancil Biden had this one chance to dispel rumors that have been circulating since the last time Will Stancil alleged Biden was senile (way back in 2020) that Biden was in fact senile, and he utterly failed to do it.
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@Larvatus6 @SocDoneLeft It somehow wasn't a surprise to me when I made a calm tweet discussing trans issues, was reported for hateful conduct, and my ban was upheld after a week, whereas when I reported someone for calling trans rights advocates child molesters my report was rejected within 24 hours.
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@bryan_caplan And knowing that this is the case, I echo other commenters in feeling that I would be quite embarrassed to be seen reading it or having it on my shelf, since the actual content of the book is unknown to most casual observers, and they will automatically assume the worst.
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@pstprtsndprssn @AlexZedKawa Fewer will die under a Harris administration than a Trump administration, but again, I still don't care. The oxygen masks have come down from the ceiling and I am putting my own mask on first, thank you very much.
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@implementor @ARossP Cozying up to right wing reactionaries helps get the government out of our lives? That's news to me.
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@Cavemanesq @robbysoave At my school we had 15% *of the entire student body* catch it in a huge wave in August 2020 and no one was even hospitalized. We're holding pretty steady at 0.5% catching it per week and are still having packed full football games.
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@SallyMayweather That may be a decent summary of our country's current gun laws, but that's not what the Second Amendment actually says.
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@ChrisLa56905674 @justinamash It's pretty simple: websites that allow users to freely post or host on them are not held liable for anything their users post or store. That means they can freely decide whether or not to have content moderation since they will never get sued regardless.
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@Longviewmayor @the_transit_guy why are these things supposed to be at odds with each other, even in theory, disingenuous framing aside.
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@fakehistoryhunt @Zailebon This is a bit of a weird take. Today far fewer major wars are fought, our worst pandemics are contained by modern medicine, global trade has lifted billions from poverty, and all we got for our pollution was the ability to harness massive amounts of energy to improve our lives.
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@MickeyIIfingers @RealJakeBroe @WallStreetSilv Wow that's crazy so we should just let Putin use nukes with impunity because we are totally safer letting him do that.
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@OyeyemiFawole @olimpiuurcan I don't think you go and lose a game with white with really weak play intentionally like he just did if it's not genuine.
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@lintintin @EricLevitz @JordanChariton I see that BlueAnon is now running with "the polls must be fake because I've never been polled".
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