[–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You're right, thank you, I missed that all the way at the bottom. This is what I get for moving too fast.

I agree that voters can be dumb. I definitely don't agree that people who have muscle and bone loss due to their body changing from hormones would have any kind of biological advantage.

Which is entirely besides the point. Children should be allowed to play with children. I also didn't know that children were now weightlifting according to that guy. Maybe even competitively too.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Conservatism.

    Liberals and leftists discussing things would be much better. They'd discuss policy and how to implement it.

    We wouldn't need to have "discussions" in the "marketplace of ideas" around murdering people, deporting people, removing healthcare, denying people's existence, etc.

    Just because horse piss is a yellow liquid doesn't mean it has to be stocked on shelves next to Gatorade.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    Unfortunately I can't disagree with the stupidity of people. I do wish people would look something up rather than assume as the initiative did at least say that "it would require verification of a student's biological sex." I guess people didn't ask the obvious next question of "how?"

    I can disagree with the biological male advantage though as it seems you don't understand how hormones affect a person's body and how any possible "advantage" is nullified from bone and muscle loss. Regardless, that's entirely besides the point given that these are children who just want to play together and.not be segregated. Soon we'll have trans water fountains and such at this rate. I also don't remember the last time children were weightlifting and powerlifting either.

    Proper education and understanding is one of the biggest issues in society. We're always moving too fast as society intends, so that we're too tired to think about things, we've got bills to pay, and social media primes us to make and stand behind snap judgements.

    We really didn't circulate this ad enough.

    https://youtu.be/Gt_IZoM9KuQ

    Thankfully it should get immediately challenged at the state level based on discrimination since it only applies to girls.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Better yet, this.

    Have Congress pen a law that says "the supreme court can't constitutionally overturn this." When they challenge it, they'd have to cite where in the constitution they are provided such power. And that doesn't exist. Judicial supremacy is removed.

    It's being argued by Harvard Law professors with books written about it. Having 5 or 6 individuals override the most Democratic process of the people and being the final say is kind of...undemocratic. And they've consistently weilded their power against the people and civil rights, not for it.

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    Can someone explain to me how my state got everything else right for the most part but went stupid for this one?

    Literally, let's inspect little girls privates, but not boys, because 10 trans students exist and MIGHT want to play sports with their friends? Jesus.

    It was also kind of disgusting that literally all our state initiatives were funded by a 1%-er, Brian Heywood and his Let's Go Washingtion PAC.

    Edit: couple transphobes showing their colors here. Not only do they have a bad understanding of how hormones affect the body, degrading muscle mass and bone density in trans women for example, it also is just a dog whistle and avoids the real issue.

    Segregating trans folk from sports is just another way to demoralize and dehumanize a small subset of the population. "If you're not trans, you can play sports with your friends. You're not really a girl/boy anyway." It's disgusting. Do we need trans drinking fountains too? It's attempting to instill these thoughts into children. In children's sports. Which are just kids playing together and enjoying their lives. It SHOULD NOT MATTER if a boy plays soccer with a girl or a girl plays football with a boy. Let kids be fucking kids. Ask kids after they play with each other if one of them should be excluded. The kids understand it better than the adults pushing narratives who often don't even have children. The kids just want to play together and do a better job of being accepting in group play than these conservative, lonely incels.

    [–] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

    I just finished setting up my matrix homeserver and got my friends to use Sable. So. Yeah, fuck discord and their AI "age estimation," their promises of "we don't store ids" before leaking tens of thousands of them, and their "our trusted partners are the best" and it's literally Palantir in a trench coat.

    Fuck all of that. AND they're enshittifying with all the quests and ads. Discord has some real problems but violating everyone's privacy is not the solution. Hire more people, actually investigate, and listen to the community. Don't be a Roblox.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago*

    You do realize having leadership that "works across the aisle" is exactly why we had a focus on identity politics right? It's was platitudes instead of policy, it was effective at sowing division so that democrats didn't need to do anything and still take the same money from billionaires and PACs that republicans do. Jeffries and Schumer both take AIPAC, oil, and healthcare insurance lobbying money. They have no incentive to hold anyone to account and make things better for the people. If they did, they'd lose their funding.

    You can't work across the aisle with fascist capitalists. That's how you get identity politics aimed at stalling and dividing people rather than delivering for them. It's effective at taking the steam out of real, people first movements.

    We have more in common than we don't. Whether MAGA likes it or not, we're going to give them healthcare, education, job protection, paid time off by law, and more.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    Find someone middle of the road.

    Bro wants us to go halfway between doing something for the people and doing nothing. Or halfway between helping people and fascism if I'm not reading that charitably ("2 sides of politics." Cause reality famously only has black and white issues.)

    Like c'mon. Social and cultural issues like what? Money out of politics? Healthcare? Education? Public investment? Holding billionaires and the criminal administration accountable? Because that's what we voted for. And all of those things make things more affordable. ESPECIALLY the accountability part. They're the whole reason nothing is affordable. The working class needs protections against capitalist bullshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    I don't disagree. We'll have to feel pain before anyone changes. That's how conservative, reactionary thinking works. Until gas in the US went people didn't give a shit about their neighbors and fascism. Personal harm/gain move people more than empathy or anecdotes unfortunately. Good ole capitalism reinforcing selfishness and narcissim.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

    It's a chicken and egg kind of problem. But ultimately, it's where gamers go. Where we vote to put our dollars basically. If it's GoG or some other platform that becomes open source or something that works to build a good product, that's where publishers will eventually move to as well after the paying audience moves. But yeah, of course lots of big name studios will fight tooth and nail and won't supply DRM free versions willingly.

    Unless policy gets instituted to force them of course.

    https://www.theverge.com/policy/1013521/video-game-ownership-bill-congress-power-to-the-players-act

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