Licenses and Dead Bodies
Plus: Evil tech bros want to teach kids math, Utah and Texas tackle DEI, Trump loves Sinéad, and more...
Do you have a license for…finding dead bodies? Over on the left coast, things are proceeding about the way you'd expect. A nonprofit named We Heart Seattle, which helps with homeless encampment cleanup and ministry, unfortunately found a dead, decomposing body during one of its visits. The group reported the human remains to the relevant city authorities, which proceeded to clean up. But the local media jumped all over this, hectoring nonprofit head Andrea Suarez over whether she has a license to operate the grassroots organization.
"Over a million pounds of trash has been removed in green spaces and encampments in three years with over 11,000 hours of volunteer, boots-on-the-ground labor," said Suarez, who started the organization during the pandemic. You would think local media would have better things to worry about, like why nonprofit organizations are more effectively doing what local governments set out to do or what conditions led to this homeless person dying. Instead, the thrust of the news write-up was all about whether Suarez's organization is licensed. Just the muckraking media, at it again!
Evil tech bros try to "accelerate human achievement": Earlier this week, a slide deck from a new company went viral among the San Francisco set, both tech bros and scolds alike. The fracas wasn't really about the new company, Mentava, but rather served as a boiling-over of tensions about academic achievement for kids and whether math expectations should be raised, to pursue excellence, or lowered, to pursue equity.
Mentava, a buzzy education startup, says it aims to have kids finishing algebra II in fourth grade. But of course it does: Its slide deck promotes a disruptive education startup, so its goal is to sell a bold and ambitious version of the product that may or may not comport with reality.
Still, the idea that gifted kids ought to be spurred along the path to high achievement was very triggering to some San Franciscans, who've been spending their time scrapping high-level math offerings in the name of equity. (If you're a California public school student, you probably won't be allowed to take algebra I until ninth grade, which means taking calculus in high school will be much harder to do.)
"Why do these folks want kids learning math so fast? They want their labor and productivity to 'accelerate human achievement,'" said one San Francisco scold. (The horror!)
What seems like a minor social media skirmish is actually representative of what each group thinks the future ought to look like. Note that one side is trying to force schools to conform to their preferred set of values, while the other is merely providing an option.
Biden worried about Nebraska Republicans: "President Joe Biden's campaign officials have been in private talks with Nebraska Democrats after Republicans in the state began pushing for changes that could close off one of the president's clearest paths to reelection," reported Politico.
Nebraska would be transformed into "a winner-take-all state in presidential elections, as opposed to one that allocates a portion of its Electoral College votes based on results in individual congressional districts" if L.B. 764 passes. Both former President Donald Trump and the state's Republican governor are looking to pressure lawmakers to repeal a 1991 law "that divides electors based both on who wins the state and how each candidate performs in its three congressional districts."
It's worth noting, per Politico, that "Republican activists have targeted the law precisely because in recent cycles, including 2020, the Democratic presidential candidate won the Omaha-based 2nd District, giving them an additional Electoral College vote."
Scenes from New York: "The subway's history, after all, was and is an immigration story. Whether they were from Palermo or Minsk or rural Alabama, the newest New Yorkers built it, and the newest New Yorkers still ride it. The former faced a lot of risk from which we all benefit." Curbed compiled a beautiful piece filled with old subway construction photos from 120 years ago.
QUICK HITS
- Is Utah getting it right on DEI?
- More DEI updates: The University of Texas at Austin is slashing positions in its DEI office to comply with the new state law, S.B. 17, which went into effect in January.
- Looks like there was some Chinese interference in Canadian elections, according to our northern neighbor's intelligence officials.
- Tyler Cowen vs. Jonathan Haidt. Very much worth your time.
- Donald Trump reportedly loves Sinéad O'Connor.
- The most insane reporting from Aaron Sibarium, of a mandatory structural racism class that took place at UCLA's medical school, in which a pro-Hamas presenter led students in prayer to "mama Earth," who "was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played." The presenter also instructed students to pray for "black" and "brown" and "houseless people" who die due to the "crapatalist lie" of "private property." In the lecture, modern medicine was called "white science." It is quite unclear who was helped by this. Certainly not future patients.
- "Just as America's churches were depopulated, Americans developed a new relationship with a technology that, in many ways, is the diabolical opposite of a religious ritual: the smartphone," wrote The Atlantic's Derek Thompson. And where "digital life is disembodied, asynchronous, shallow, and solitary," religious rituals "put us in our bod[ies]" and "forc[e] us to set aside an hour or day for prayer, reflection, or separation from daily habit." This sort of ritual "often requires that we make contact with the sacred in the presence of other people, whether in a church, mosque, synagogue, or over a dinner-table prayer."
- Pronouns and discrimination:
Actually, it's not clear at all.
1) Nonbinary pronouns were not statistically significantly different from binary pronouns
2) Employers appear to discriminate against pronoun disclosure at all even gender-conforming pronouns
It's most obviously political discrimination. https://t.co/lvwkTUAUDm
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Do you have a license for…finding dead bodies?
Arrest everyone in the Law & Order cold opens.
Why do you hate zombies?
…whether math expectations should be raised, to pursue excellence, or lowered, to pursue equity.
They want to weigh down the excellent like they did with Patrice Bergeron.
As someone who’s mastered Algebra II, whose kids have mastered Algebra II, and has been derided as one of “those people” (who can do math in their head); I’m understanding correctly that a “slide deck” is a Zoomer term for “Powerpoint Presentation” and somebody somewhere… once again… thinks the key to academic achievement is the adoption of more or less of them, right?
I thought a slide deck was one of those tiny skateboards for your fingers.
I’ve always heard it called a “slide show.”
One of my better science teachers who had the misfortune of being in Gummint Skoolz would say he’s going to do a slide show and then proceed to slide across the classroom floor, to everyone’s laughing amusement!
Then he’d open the closet door and scat a number like you’d hear when Rip Taylor would come out throwing glitter! Again, everyone laughed!
Things like that made learning fun and Gummint Skoolz somewhat sufferable.
Is that what slide deck is? When I read the article I thought it was like a tech deck (one of those mini skateboards).
I beat you by 56 seconds.
You did. Unfortunately I have to physical prize to award you. Your only reward is the glory of victory, knowing you have decimated your foe.
Dont admit defeat, double down! Hail Randy Sax! Inventor of the throwback to the tech deck! First one I have ever heard mentioning it!
You guys shut up and dial your phones.
a “slide deck” is a Zoomer term for “Powerpoint Presentation”
I’ve heard that term for years, from people of all generations: boomers, gen x-ers, millennials and zomoers. I don’t think you can blame this on “the kids these days.”
It’s a stupid phrase,
Blame mad.casual. It’s par for his course.
Agreed, just pointing out that it’s not a generational thing. It’s been common parlance pretty much my entire career. At least in engineering, especially system engineering, aka “Powerpoint Engineering.”
See below, I have, as a professional, loaded a deck of slides into a carousel projector.
I’ve never heard “slide deck” refer to a digital copy of files stored in the cloud and it makes no sense to me other than the sloppy tech-bro marketing/Cali-girl lingo that calls it “Google Drive” or intentionally uses a 3.5″ floppy disk icon and “Save to hard disk” on their internet/cloud-based software.
And the idea of trying to pass off the whole skeuomorph thing as clear and rational is off-putting. Are you supposed to wear a mask to prevent COVID when you give schoolkids a slide deck?
At least in engineering, especially system engineering, aka “Powerpoint Engineering.”
And if you had anything to do with SIG Sauer putting a forward assist on the XM5, but not the XM250, and submitting them both as part of the Next Generation Squad Weapons program, I might actually beat you to death with a BR55
Yeah, it’s normal corpospeak for at least a decade.
That’s totally out of pocket to me.
You’re so hip.
That was on fleek.
I found glass presentation slides in an antique shop once, so I imagine it goes however far back those were from. Then there were plastic transparencies, which maybe were contemporaneous with computer card decks?
So… the assertion that “Powerpoint presentations” or “transparencies” or “slide decks” is the key to disruptive educational excellence means no nevermind to you unless it was Boomers and not Zoomers who invented the term “slide deck”?
Just pointing out that you can’t blame Zoomers for that particular bit of idiotic corporate speak.
I really don’t have a strong opinion on whether or not Powerpoint is or isn’t an effective tool for education. Personally I tend to learn better by actually doing, but maybe some people find slides useful for learning. Mostly I tend to zone out, but again, that’s just me.
So, then, you agree that whether it’s a set of overhead transparencies or a Powerpoint Presentation or a “slide deck”… it’s probably not going to transform education in any more meaningful way than TED talks and Khan Academy and that it’s just bunch of pointless, gimmicky, modern buzzwords?
But, having acknowledged that, you can’t blame Zoomers for this specific use, whether it’s perpetuation or not?
Once again, what kind of A Cynical Asshole are you?
My random guess with no idea really, is Apple, Google and/or others didn’t want to call it PowerPoint, in an effort to reduce marketing a Microsoft product within their orgs.
Pretty sure it areas from the use of overhead projectors and the clear sheets.
I’m pretty sure it’s referring to presentation or teaching material and that it arises from the era of presentations and teaching.
And the term “slide deck” is more of an artifact modern, stoner-chick/tech-bro speak along the lines of “I’ll text the pic to your phone so that it gets automatically backed up to your Google Drive from your phone’s HDD. #YOLO.” rather than anything having to do with transparencies or optical overhead projection.
FFS, youre all correct.
They were all called slide shows, then they were all called power points, then anti MS folks/google fags (zoomers) came up with some stooopid powerpoint killer like 10 years ago and they started calling them slide decks, like geezers from 70s would have called them.
google fags (zoomers)
I think you mean “Alphabet people”.
Close – it came from the days of slide projectors where there was carousel or magazine containing the individual slides. The set of slides was the slide deck.
Some of us may recall operating a slide projector with a wired remote.
“”Some of us may recall operating a slide projector with a wired remote.””
Geezer.
Yep, I too remember a slide deck as the set of slides, and I have operated a slide projector with a wired remote.
Yes, but did you host a party to share the slides from your vacation with all of your friends? That is the time honored tradition.
I remember schools using the overhead projector to draw outlines of people’s heads. I think it was on black paper and called silhouettes.
Yeah, parents putting silhouettes of their kids on a wall was a thing for a few years.
City street fair has them every year to sketch silhouettes.
You mean a plain old light source, a projector, or an overhead projector that they’ve lowered to head height and are just using to cast shadows rather than project images?
Don’t judge me just because I can answer the question “What is a woman?”!
The
Cargo CultScience!Filmstrips. With the associated vinyl record. Turn the projector knob to the next film slide when you hear the tone. This was high tech that I occasionally operated in 1974
AV nerd!
This was high tech that I occasionally operated in 1974
So, then, you may be able to even actually remember in the 60s and 70s when they found that kids who did well in algebra, went on to college and did well and they mandated it as part of the curriculum entirely without regard for motivation, aptitude, and/or self-selection to all HS students whether they were going to college or not?
I suffered a major crisis as I was not able to take calculus in high school. I only had analysis/pre-calculus. Some of my fellow students were taking calculus. Note: I found myself in Calc 1 in college with one of my classmates who had taken calculus. I ended up with an A and he barely passed. (I got A’s in all of my math class).
Also, not even a desperate nerd like myself would get involved in AV in high school. A man could only sink so low. Filmstrips were part of my luxury private Catholic School education.
I remember schools using the overhead projector to draw outlines of people’s heads.
I swear to God I’m going to beat you all to death with a makeshift pool cue!
Soo…a stick?
… after I’ve tried to play a game of pool with it!
I’m sure “Death by Powerpoint” will have the same effective learning results for the nation’s schools as it has for the US military the last 25 years.
“Why do these folks want kids learning math so fast? They want their labor and productivity to ‘accelerate human achievement,'” said one San Francisco scold. (The horror!)
Libertarian Sci-Fi author Robert A. “Papa” Heinlein once pointed out that people who don’t know how to work with numbers are at best just well-trained monkeys who know not to make messes in the house.
And if he seen today’s city streets and homeless encampments, he would say that people who can’t work with numbers are not even as high-classed as well-trained monkeys.
🙂
😉
Thank God some people know how to work with numbers!
So Fist is from Boston?
Who weighed down Patrice Bergeron? Brad Marchant?
It’s from that Kurt Cobain short story. Crack a book once in a while.
Pffft. He was a depressed junkie. Now he’s dead. The end.
ONLY ONE OF YOU CAUGHT THAT?
Ancient history.
…looking to pressure lawmakers to repeal a 1991 law “that divides electors based both on who wins the state and how each candidate performs in its three congressional districts.”
What would happen if, instead, every other state adopted Nebraska’s current policy.
One source: “Applying the congressional district method nationwide, Joe Biden still wins but by a narrower 277-261 result.”
But that’s based on a “if nothing else changed” model. It would seem obvious that if all states did this, then campaigns would be run very differently than they are now. For example, Trump can currently basically skip campaigning or spending any money in California. But in an apportioned allocation, he could reasonably pick up 10 or so EC voters, and some districts might be considered swing districts that should be worked.
But in an apportioned allocation, he could reasonably pick up 10 or so EC voters,
And likewise Biden could do the same in some GOP states.
Your point is correct – any change to the current system will change campaign strategies and hence one can’t simply look at voting numbers as though they wouldn’t be affected.
Meh. What would happen if every state adopted Pennsylvania’s policies?
The former faced a lot of risk from which we all benefit.
If they ride it the latter assume a lot of risk as well.
Sure, keep all the immigrants underground and out of sight.
Morlocks?
Dude, racist.
I wonder if the subway immediately smelled like stale urine, or if that took years to build up. Not that you can tell from some nostalgic old photo.
Built by immigrants and alabamians? Immediately.
Is Utah getting it right on DEI?
By putting a paywall in front of it? Brilliant!
Mentava, but rather served as a boiling-over of tensions about academic achievement for kids and whether math expectations should be raised, to pursue excellence, or lowered, to pursue equity.
Equality is the lowest common denominator.
“whether math expectations should be raised, to pursue excellence, or lowered, to pursue equity.”
Also, if this was truly phrased anywhere near this way at the event, the premise should have been quickly dismantled.
The premise is clearly false, as no actual equity is produced, kids that would be able to do higher math will eventually be able to succeed (or their parents will move them to where they have access), and kids that have to have standards lowered for them will just have their failure delayed until when it matters. On the whole, you have delayed everyone and done harm, but no equal or equitable outcome will result. Unless you reward the dumb kid with a govt job out of pity.
And if the premise is actually true, and the only way to acheive equity is to do academic harm/malpractice by withholding from productive kids that could move on to greater things, then equity should be rightly identified as an undesirable, if not evil goal, that is still a net detriment to society.
This should be the only focus of the conversation, none of the other nuts and bolts matter
It’s a brave, new world!
Kill the whole age=grade sept-may system.
Kill the whole age=grade sept-may system.
^
Self-paced for everyone. Seems like this should be common sense.
Also, if this was truly phrased anywhere near this way at the event, the premise should have been quickly dismantled.
And it probably wasn’t.
As usual, there are actually a lot of things going on that are being shoe-horned into a two-sided dynamic.
The latest thinking in math education, quite apart from DEI considerations, is that for most kids pushing them to complete calculus before they finish high school puts an unnecessary burden on the kid since the vast, vast, majority of kids who take calculus in high school have to take it again in college anyway.
A lot of kids get this message that if they don’t complete calculus in high school their lives are ruined, but the data show no advantage to learning calculus in high school beyond the fact that “elite” college admissions people still look for it.
When you graft the whole DEI paradigm on top of this, it makes it almost impossible to even have this discussion anymore.
Took calc I in HS, then at college I got to skip it and move straight to calc II, then calc III, then differential equations. But I took it as an elective in HS which is what I think it should be.
In the presentations I’ve seen, they dance around straight up admitting that some people have a knack for math, since you’re not supposed to say the obvious corollary (i.e., that most don’t), but they do say, in so many words, “some kids do fine, of course, and can master calculus quite young; but, let’s face it, that’s probably not your kid.”
Because the reality is that the kids who do as well you did in math almost certainly don’t have to be pushed into it.
Also:
Mentava, a buzzy education startup, says it aims to have kids finishing algebra II in fourth grade. But of course it does: Its slide deck promotes a disruptive education startup, so its goal is to sell a bold and ambitious version of the product that may or may not comport with reality.
This is the MO of pretty much all of Silicon Valley and the tech industry in general. It’s how so many idiots got suckered in by Elizabeth Holmes–“fake it till you make it” and get bought up by some billionaire company with money to burn, for a product that rarely delivers on what’s promised.
Implementing a 1950s-style English and math curriculum, by grade, would do more to strengthen these skills than any technocratic or cultural marxist plan ever would.
“Hook on phonics worked for me.”
Yeah – training a fourth-grader to give correct rote answers to a limited set of Algebra II problems is designed to do nothing other than impress parents into emptying their pocket-books while producing the superficial appearance of knowledge in their kids. Upper-middle class parents are really easy marks.
In some fairness, that can be said of most of pre-college education and we can mostly blame Freire for it.
Algebra 2 requires a real understanding of properties and application of functions. I would agree that kids under 12 are going to be memorizing formulas and not working out the higher order concepts.
Also true of most college aged algebra level classes i had to help tutor. Basically for those kids who couldn’t pass 100 level classes.
But I was told that poor kids were just as bright and talented as white kids.
The University of Texas at Austin is slashing positions in its DEI office to comply with the new state law, S.B. 17, which went into effect in January.
How dare they pave the way for lower tuition.
Under no conceivable scenario will tuition be lowered.
What if tuition varied by major, and pegged to average grad earnings?
Social science departments would go bankrupt?
Do you mean that “No college anywhere would ever lower or even freeze tuition for a decade or more.” sense or in the “Even if such a college did exist and did lower or freeze tuition for a decade, *illegal* federal student loan policies would just inflate any savings away.”?
Looks like there was some Chinese interference in Canadian elections, according to our northern neighbor’s intelligence officials.
it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that the deep state is at it again.
No widespread fraud.
The Conservatives did get more votes than the Liberals but a dozen very close races in Eastern Canada tipped the balance.
That said, Erin O’Toole, a WEF trained tool (like Singh and Trudeau) who led the Conservative Party during the last election, thought it’d be great to sell himself as Trudeau lite. A leftish conservative. This was a dumb idea as everyone but the horniest soccer moms were already sick to death of Justin, and O’Toole didn’t have TV boyfriend looks.
Not to say that Justin isn’t getting paid enourmous sums illegally by China. He totally is. And not to say the Chinese didn’t push their boy over the finish line. Just that O’Toole didn’t help either.
“a mandatory structural racism class that took place at UCLA’s medical school”
*Yawn*
Tell us about all the bad stuff Chris Rufo did this week. He’s the real problem with American education.
#RadicalIndividualistsForRacialCollectivism
Like LibsofTiktok, Rufo’s ultimate crime is simply linking to the previous statements/videos of the so called victims.
How many people did he murder this week? LOTT has been genociding the Trans community for years now. Our best and brightest will all be wiped out if these fuckers keep going.
Fortunately for us the groups “Trans” and “best and brightest” have so much space between them there is 100% certainty there will be no overlap
Kind of like the bulk of Biden’s newcomers he’s welcoming.
Yeah she really genocided the hell out of this pervert:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1759654744585609660
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266245/KIPP-Academy-Lynn-Massachusetts-transgender-athlete-rowing-harassment-suspended.html
a mandatory structural racism class that took place at UCLA’s medical school, in which a pro-Hamas presenter led students in prayer to “mama Earth,” who “was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played.” The presenter also instructed students to pray for “black” and “brown” and “houseless people” who die due to the “crapatalist lie” of “private property.” In the lecture, modern medicine was called “white science.”
April fools…Right?…RIGHT?!
Donald Trump reportedly loves Sinéad O’Connor.
Trump wasn’t the real enemy.
I knew there was something off about that guy.
His playlist reads like a girlfriend’s.
Was there hush money involved?
She never ripped him unlike Pelosi!
When I first read the subtitle of the article, I thought it said, “Trump loves Seinfeld.” I thought, it must be a slow news day, as who doesn’t love the sitcom. When I saw it said, “Sinead,” I thought it must be a REALLY slow news day, if that is what’s being reported on.
Racists.
“Repeat after me: teaching kids math is white supremacist patriarchy at work.”
And homophobic.
I re-watched The Running Man a couple of weeks ago, so this item immediately made me think of Laughlin teaching the Constitution to the street punks.
In the lecture, modern medicine was called “white science.”
We’re all going to die of malpractice.
What’s end game for these idiots? Back to witch doctors?
The real fun will come when lots of Americans do embrace witch doctors (fully funded by insurance and Medicare), but then demand disease healing equity with whitey.
Alternative medicine basically killed Steve Jobs. So, yeah.
White science uses the Arabic number system. How white is that?
Arabs are white, or were. I didn’t read the new updates to racial science released a couple weeks back.
Dirty little secret, though – the Arabs call them “Hindu numbers,” since that’s where they actually came from.
Where they actually came from is probably lost to time, but probably in or around the Pakistan region if archaeology is to believed. The oldest known trade nations were around there if memory serves, and trade tends to require numerical tracking of some kind.
Where numerals came from in the first place is lost to time, but what we call “Arabic” numerals, as distinct from Roman ones, came from India along with trigonometry in the late middle ages.
Aliens. It is always aliens.
I don’t think they really want to invite us to consider what it means if modern medicine is ‘white science’.
I’d love to hear what they think ‘brown science’ is though. Honestly curious.
Clear evidence that employers discriminate against nonbinary individuals.
All-else-equal, disclosing that one uses “they/them” pronouns substantially lowers the chances of getting a job interview.
“Discriminate” is hilarious. Nobody wants a mentally-defective insufferable asshole in the work environment.
Always check an applicant’s social media for the usual banners: Ukraine or Palestine flags, pronouns, rainbows, or green leaves.
These people dismiss themselves.
I had a colleague once who was utterly aghast to learn that I routinely toss resumes with errors in them.
GRAMMAR IS RACSISS!
Great example of correlation does not prove causation. Maybe people who spend so much energy on figuring out and stating their pronouns should have spent that energy, ah, I dunno, developing useful employment skills?
How much time does it take to figure out their pronouns? I just grabbed three random tiles from Scrabble and tossed them on the floor for mine. Isn’t that what everyone does?
Do that daily. That will keep them on their toes.
No where is it written you must use the same one.
I also would like to point out that they are clearly not all-else-equal.
There are strong cultural and social differences between the three groups. Those who do not put pronouns are likely to be older and more experienced. Those who do, tend to be younger and more political. Even if the remainder of the resume is the same, including pronouns gives those indications, that you are younger and more active in politics. Both of these are generally considered negatives for employers, as politically active employees are more likely to engage in workplace strife.
Both of these are generally considered negatives for employers, as politically active employees are more likely to engage in workplace strife.
Especially the sorts of political activists who feel that you need to be told their pronouns.
My response to the sorts of political activists who feel that [I] need to be told their pronouns is first to laugh derisively, then ask they/them/xe/xem/ze/zim/sie/hir to guess just how hard I can punch.
Oddly enough using us/then is fascist. See yesterday’s f word article or ask jeff and sarc.
Why do those two keep going full retard on days I’m busy?
Oh never mind, Fascist Jeffy is going full retard again today below.
He has been going full tilt for a few days now.
‘Clear evidence that employers discriminate against nonbinary individuals.’
Well, since our bleeding edge SJWs get to redefine “gender” they also get to redefine “discriminate”. And now that means refusal of constant celebration and adoration of the freak show.
Also, let’s take a look at the twat who’s making this claim:
John Holbein is an associate professor of public policy, politics, and education. Holbein is a Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellow, selected in the 2023 inaugural cohort. He studies political participation, political inequality, democratic accountability, political representation, and education policy.
So, another leftist academic spouting marxist nonsense.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/02/resumes-including-they/them-pronouns-are-more-likely-to-be-overlooked.html
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RDoylng7vgU
It may be the case that some poor schmos are declaring pronouns because a moronic teacher conditioned them to do so and they’re convinced that’s how the world works. They/Them though is a complete deal breaker,
Employers appear to discriminate against pronoun disclosure at all even gender-conforming pronouns
BREAKING NEWS: Employers are not eager to hire problem employees.
Ya, the rest of society (the rational part) has figured out its a pretty good proxy for mental illness.
And they act accordingly
Listing preferred pronouns is a sign of mental illness? Since when?
Ere since the practice was conceived.
Since it started. Narcissism at its finest.
Assuming you real name is “Bob”, am I just supposed to assume that you want to be referred to as “he” or “sir”? What if that is not your preference?
What if your name instead was “Pat”?
“Assuming you real name is “Bob”, am I just supposed to assume that you want to be referred to as “he” or “sir”?”
Yes.
How did you come up to that crazy conclusion so suddenly and decisively? You mean to tell me there are cross cultural global norms that were established and have existed for millennia since the dawn of language which didn’t need to be revised at the behest of some small group of self-obsessed dorks?
Chemjeff really should be referring to everyone as ‘sir’, even Sandra.
Given the origin of ‘sir’, you are correct.
Since we are doing hypotheticals, my “real” name is Roberta, but I prefer “Bob”. I’d verbally mention this preference to my peers/coworkers.
The last fucking thing I do is put that shit on a resume, letting everyone know that I intend on being an insufferable cunt at the water cooler.
First OBL, then White Mike turns out to be ENB, and now Idaho-Bob. Wait a second… Jesse can be a girls name….
Are Sarc and I the only boys here? (Jeff has balls but they are very small and probably don’t count)
To be fair. Proper gender construction of the female name is Jessie, i referring to the I in Jessica.
Thank you from someone also named Jesse.
I’m not Roberta. I was trying to make an androgenous example and doing a poor job apparently.
🙂
My grandmother’s legal first name was Bobie. She went by her middle name, Earlene her entire life though.
Disappointing. You would have been a fine girl.
Here comes jeffy, always moving the goalposts.
The discussion is about job applications, you dimwit. Nobody applying for a job gets called sir, and nobody in an interview is going to refer to the applicant in the 3rd person. Your comment is just fucking ridiculous.
“Good morning, Pat, thank you for coming in today.”
“Before we get started, you should know that I prefer to be referred to as they/them.”
“And how is that relevant to your job experience? I think this interview is at an end. Security, please escort them out of the building.”
Let’s just count the number of implicit assumptions in this response.
Nobody applying for a job gets called sir,
Assumption #1: for a job application/interview process, the difference in social standing/hierarchy between the interviewer and the interviewee is so vast that the interviewee does not even deserve the simple dignity of being referred to with a respectful title like “sir”.
nobody in an interview is going to refer to the applicant in the 3rd person.
Assumption #2: the difference in social standing between interviewer and interviewee is so vast that it is socially acceptable for the interviewer to address the interviewee in any manner that the interviewer wishes, even if it means doing so in a manner that is insulting to the interviewee.
You really do think that employers are entitled to treat their employees like dogshit, don’t you?
Let’s count the number of implicit assumptions in the handle chemjeff radical individualist.
1) you require medication to function at any level
2) you are a Marxist
3) you are a sophist
4) you revel in flaunting your cognitive dissonance
Your response is pure twaddle. You have clearly never performed an interview have you? I have performed hundreds. Never once have I or anyone else referred to the applicant as sir or madam or referred to the applicant in the 3rd person. Talking as if the person is not in the room and the focus of the conversation would be rude and insulting.
I have been the HR manager and EEO Officer at each company where I worked for the last 20 years. I treat fellow employees like friends. I treat you like dogshit because the turds you drop need to be scraped off of the thread.
Yeah right. And you probably have a Ph.D. from Harvard too.
Again with the insults. This suggests I am hitting the mark.
Unlike you, when I resort to insults, I never lose track of the logic and make idiotic claims.
Why would I lie about my position? I have been a Controller for 20 years for companies of a size that require me to manage HR and compliance in addition to the accounting function. I also act as the risk manager and handle legal issues. And I could easily demonstrate all of those skills in an interview without ever referring to my preferred pronouns.
Biowastejeff irrelevant collectivist proving that it has never even held a job in its fat worthless life.
Why would you insult him by accusing him of having gone to Harvard?
Upvote
This is pure gold.
Assuming your real name is “Bear”, am I just supposed to assume that you want to be referred to as “trunk”? What if that is not your preference?
My name is Bear and my pronouns are Intrunksleeping/outoftrunkmurderousrage.
No! You are to assume he has no arms and legs and likes to spend time in the water.
Using them at all is, listing them on any sort of job app amplifies that by a factor of 10
Why?
Because your troon allies are mental defectives, attention whores, and drama chasers who cause more problems in the workplace than they are worth.
Yup. If they don’t have autogynephilia and fetishistic transvestism, they’re using the appellations to peep in bathrooms and changing rooms. It’s always perversion on the male side of things.
On the female side it’s not perversion but social contagion and/or confused lesbians.
The chances that you will meet a person who is actually biologically transgender in your lifetime is near zero.
On the female side it’s not perversion but social contagion and/or confused lesbians.
There is absolutely no reason that autophallophilia and/or penis envy couldn’t/wouldn’t/shouldn’t work in the opposite direction.
Anecdotally, I grew up hearing about “penis envy” in women but never understood the idea. It wasn’t until female/lesbian/feminists with especially modern, post-parody sensibilities [insert second link to “It’s Pat!” sketches here], started to actually strap penises to themselves and/or each other, call themselves men, have people (largely women) say “So brave!”, and insist that the social acceptance fall in line behind their phallus adoption.
My sister is lesbian. She has massive penis envy. “My dildo is probably bigger than your dick”. “Women are better at sex because they know how to get other women off”. Shit like that, that you know is coming from a sad lonely place.
Shit like that, that you know is coming from a sad lonely place.
Right. I certainly know lesbians and women who would make small dick jokes and ‘men don’t know how to please women’ jokes as part of co-ed “locker room talk” but that’s not their political and/or social identity and they would generally understand or accept confusion between the two. But for some people, they’ll say openly, in earnest, the stuff they would deride Trump as having a small dick and being a male chauvinist for saying, in private. Essentially revealing that the entirety of their being from their politics to their biology to their interpersonal relationships to their intellect is all neatly wrapped up in a barren rubber dong.
Lesbian or not that’s an odd conversation for siblings.
R Mac
I’m never the one who brings it up. She has other weird mental issues as well. She’s not autistic, but there is something wrong with her.
Lesbian or not that’s an odd conversation for siblings.
Your mom didn’t think it was that weird.
The response to that should be, “If they’re so fucking awesome at everything, why do you bitches end up having the highest rates of domestic violence in the western world?”
@mad are you my long lost uncle!?
@mad are you my long lost uncle!?
As I indicated above, having hung out around men and women for decades, the idea of one sibling questioning another sibling’s sexual orientation or casting shade on their sexual prowess doesn’t sound the slightest bit weird.
My BIL was socially awkward growing up. Made Robert Carradine look cool before it was cool to make Robert Carradine look cool. The running joke within Mrs. Casual’s family, that I had absolutely nothing to do with, was that one day he was going to bring home a massive black woman as his girlfriend. The joke only got funnier when he came out of the closet.
There is absolutely no reason that autophallophilia and/or penis envy couldn’t/wouldn’t/shouldn’t work in the opposite direction.
Sure, there’s probably something to this–lesbians or resentful women who were taught their whole lives that being a man is a cheat code to an easy life, and decide to poon out in the mistaken belief that they’ll be mainlining dopamine the rest of their lives. What’s hilarious is that even the pooners that supposedly pass still can’t stop expressing themselves like women, especially in online forums. The ones that try always end up sounding like Nathan Lane’s character from The Birdcage trying to be masculine.
Like penis envy isnt still a thing.
Because shouting “I’m special and you have to treat me as special “ is not a desirable attribute in a candidate for employment.
But what about as candidates for a political movement based on victimhood and collective dependency?
As Ellsworth said in Deadwood:
It’s all the rigor [sic] in New York. Whatever the fuck that means.
The above stated reasons, these people display pretty clear properties of narcissistic personality disorder, the coexisting significant association between gender dysphoria folks and mental illness.
I mean listen man, I know you are just sealioning and being obtuse, but what you are doing is the equivalent of:
Everyone: “Avoid cheating on your wife for sure, but definitely dont cheat on her with a stripper, a hair dresser, a red head, an ex con, or the girl that threw the bunny in the pot, without a condom”
Jeffy: “I mean why though? Couldn’t those, theoretically, be perfectly lovely women?!”
Lol.
We’re talking about job applications and pronouns, not advice for how to be faithful in a marriage.
these people display pretty clear properties of narcissistic personality disorder, the coexisting significant association between gender dysphoria folks and mental illness.
With “these people”, you are referring to people who mention preferred pronouns? Do you think everyone who mentions their preferred pronouns are transgender? Do you think it’s possible that there are some non-transgender people who mention their preferred pronouns because they are trying to be considerate of others?
We call those simps.
Partially its done to get some, and partially to signal virtuously.
It’s the Proggie mating call.
^and this^
^this^
and it is not worthy of any respect or attribution of virtue
…people who mention their preferred pronouns because they are trying to be considerate of others?
How so?
The sophist thinks making things unnecessarily more complicated is considerate.
Well, not really. But he has a narrative to peddle.
The above stated reasons, these people display pretty clear properties of narcissistic personality disorder, the coexisting significant association between gender dysphoria folks and mental illness.
By far the best description I have ever read is that it is autogynephilia – a natal male’s tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman. It fits perfectly within the personality of the trans people I have encountered.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/31/take-it-from-a-transsexual-transwomen-are-not-women/
You’ve never supervised anyone before, have you.
LOL! Nailed it.
Retard.
It’s not just a proxy for mental illness, it is the thing itself.
Just because psychiatric guidelines have changed regarding this particular manifestation doesn’t mean that it doesn’t still meet the textbook definition of a delusion disorder.
Just because psychiatric guidelines have changed regarding this particular manifestation doesn’t mean that it doesn’t still meet the textbook definition of a delusion disorder.
And most of those changes were done specifically at the behest of radical left activists in the field about 15 years ago, who happened to have severe mental issues of their own.
And most of those changes were done specifically at the behest of radical left activists in the field about 15 years ago, who happened to have severe mental issues of their own.
Unscrupulous radical left activist psychologists who know a money tree when they see one.
FFS, you can get a B.A. and even an M.A. in Psychology? How can that even be a thing? Academics have determined that advanced knowledge of science and statistics is unnecessary to be considered an expert in human behavior. I have zero respect for the peddlers of such garbage.
It’s only discrimination if you consider pretending to be something to be reality. Unless they were born with multiple parts, nobody is actually a they. Being a victim of somebody else not recognizing your personal fantasy isn’t discrimination.
I didn’t realize until this moment that non-binary people are othering conjoined twins.
Siamese appropriation!
thats an appropriation double whammy!
cultural and genetic!
I wonder if there is a word in french for that kind of thing
for when its both
Women prefer other women to the off-chance of being enslaved to reproduce a republican mystical bigot. As in economics, less hetero supply leads male entrepreneurs to offer tranny sex and handsome gals to offer same sex as slavery-free substitute products. Suddenly Christian Orange Hitler is fired by voters. Women can again sign and vote for the ERA they wanted before the 1972 LP plank became Roe and lulled them into complacency. Supply and demand–the best of all laws!
Suddenly Christian Orange Hitler is fired by voters.
Proof that Hank is a parody?
I do have a licence to find dead bodies. It’s automatically included with a licence to ill
Granted the licensing board is in Brooklyn, and and I pulled an all neighter studying for it, so I had no sleep till then
Is your horse named Paul Revere?
In the picture with the hobo up top, why is she in the doorway? Just seems inconsiderate.
Keeps your feet out of the walkway, blocks the wind, the and the store is closed because nobody shops where hobos live.
She would get food and board if she did that outside an abortion clinic and told cops she was silently praying
Don’t just stand there! Go kick sand in her face like a manly MAGAt!
Or, instead of treated, put her drugged up and on the streets getting raped, like Hank’s ilk did.
Anyone who lists their pronouns, no matter how “normal” or binary they are, goes to the bottom of my list. If it’s some forum whose software insists on filling in those values, then I won’t be on that forum.
It’s a guarantee that anyone listing their pronouns in their bio is going to be a hyper-politicized employee that causes workplace dysfunction, unless everyone else is a radical leftist like they are. Their whole purpose is to make people gaslight themselves and conform to their mental illness.
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”–Theodore Dalrymple.
At my job only gen z and HR have them in email signature blocks.
OMG, that pronoun thing is annoying AF, in company email.
It is actually required per company style guidelines. Just everyone deletes that line when setting up signature in outlook.
THIS DRAWING IS REVIEWED FOR FUNCTIONAL DESIGN REQUIREMENTS ONLY. THIS REVIEW DOES NOT RELIEVE THE VENDOR / CONTRACTOR OF HIS RESPONSIBILTY FOR CORRECTNESS OF DIMMENTIONS, PROPER DESIGN OF DETAILS AND PROPER COORDINATION WITH OTHER TRADES. THIS REVIEW DOES NOT AUTHERIZE CHANGES TO THE CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS.
These are the words on the stamp we use to review drawings. Notice we use “HIS” not his or hers or anything like that.
Because chicks are lousy engineers.
Theodore Dalrymple was correct! Peer pressure from The Sacred Tribe! Repeat the lies that the rest of The Tribe tells, or else!
Theodore Dalrymple could just as easily have been describing the behavior of sore-in-the-cunt cuntsorevaturd commenters here and elsewhere. Dog-pile behavior! Conform or be cast out, or worse!
All that ye fuckers are, is a giant dog-pile (and dog-shit-pile)!!! Yip-yip-yip, bark-bark-bark, and howl-howl-howl! Oh howl the wolf-dog-pack yips, barks, and howls!! They know NOTHING about reason, logic, or being data-driven! ALL that they know is howl to yip and bark and howl! AND threaten to BITE! Get on OUR dog-pile, or else!!! That is ALL that ye know! Stupid-dogs!!!
BITE ME, assholes, because the GOOD guys, who are actually data-driven, WILL win in the end!
Behind Trump’s latest abortion tease: weeks of waffling, pressure and quiet preparations
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/politics/trump-abortion-policy-tease/index.html
Expect many more coordinated talking points and a full court press on this. Dems are terrified that Trump comes out with a middle of the road abortion stance that’s in line with Europe and popular poling.
Why? Because they know Biden has to stick with the “abortion up until the birth canal” group no matter what. They have seen what happens when he deviates in the slightest on Israel.
They are terrified Trump will land on a platform of reasonable abortion restrictions taking the wind out of their sails
It’s unbelievable how badly the R’s have been losing to the position of any woman should be able to kill any baby at any time regardless of health or necessity. They sure do love to lose.
Losing is the point. Hoovering up donations while not doing anything is the Republican way.
It is impressive. Throw out 14-20 weeks and OTC birth control and lets send this fucking issue to the bottom of the list for a good long while.
Trumpian abortion laws? There will be special loopholes for Trump-and-Spermy-Daniels Love-Fetuses and Trump-Putin Love-Fetuses!!! TRUST me on this one!
Ass Sung by Spermy Daniels, AKA Dolly Hard-On
Joe Lean, Joe Mean, Joe Lean, Joe Mean,
I’m beggin’ you, please don’t take His Elections!
Joe Lean, Joe Mean, Joe Lean, Joe Mean,
Please don’t crush My Man’s Erections!
Your polls are woke beyond compare,
You’re the VERY best at sniffing hair!
Labor unions flock to your door,
Your pork barrels, they all adore!
You tell them what they want to hear,
Bidin’ yer time, to throw My Man out on His ear!
My Man still grabs my pussy,
Along with many another hussy!
Don’t steal my Man’s erection!
Else He’ll sink into much dejection!
I am still His Special Queen,
Specially glazed in Vaseline!
Joe Lean, Joe Mean, Joe Lean, Joe Mean,
I’m beggin’ you, please don’t take His Elections!
Joe Lean, Joe Mean, Joe Lean, Joe Mean,
Please don’t crush My Man’s Erections!
You could have most ANY hair to sniff,
Yet you keep My Man from getting stiff!
My Man, He needs to be pussy-grabbing,
Yet you call His Lies; prevent confabbing!
Joe Lean, Joe Mean, leave My Man alone!
I’m the only, lonely one who needs His Bone!
You don’t know twat He means to me,
He stands on me and takes a pee!
Upon my ancient flower,
He gives a Golden Shower!
To Him, should go ALL Power!
Upon Him, I bestow a blow-job,
To Joe-Bob, He’ll send a snow-job!
Joe Lean, Joe Mean, Joe Lean, Joe Mean,
I’m beggin’ you, please don’t take His Elections!
Joe Lean, Joe Mean, Joe Lean, Joe Mean,
Please don’t crush My Man’s Erections!
HELP me get the word out!!!
#SingItForUsSpermyDaniels
Oh no!
I guess some useless college administrators are about to find out what they’re really worth in the labor market.
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So I take it the Seatlle press is more concerned that a group finding and reporting a decomposing human body in a homeless encampment is a bigger problem than there being decomposing bodies in a homeless encampment?
Whatever you gotta tell yourself to play the victim.
Just whatever you do, don’t actually try to improve yourself to make yourself a better job candidate. Self improvement is “white supremacist patriarchy at work.”
“All-else-equal, disclosing that one uses “they/them” pronouns substantially lowers the chances of getting a job interview.”
‘Well sure, we were only hiring for one position, not multiple people’ – based employer
Putting an indicator that you are likely to be emotionally fragile, narcissistic, and unlikely to work well with others is not the problem
Most jobs require communication skills.
Boasting you don’t understand pronouns is a good way to avoid an interview.
You would think local media would have better things to worry about, like why nonprofit organizations are more effectively doing what local governments set out to do or what conditions led to this homeless person dying.
Nope. Instead, a number of people in Seattle would rather give extra special rights to the homeless at the cost of everyone else’s quality of life. How dare she clean up garbage and needles left behind by the noble homeless. Doesn’t she know that if her betters in government have decided to not clean up this garbage, it’s because it’s supposed to be there?
Anonymous critics have even started up a website to take this woman and her group out.
https://weheartseattle.exposed/
With regard to Nebraska can’t the state attorney or governer change election laws at will? Why ARe politition going through the bs of voters and bills? If they changed the laws reason would surely support it as they had in the past
Jack Smith rages Judge Cannon won’t pre rule Trumps guilt.
The Presidential Records Act “should not play any role at trial at all,” prosecutors said.
Of course those who read past MSNBC and CNN know the PRA and the holding in Judicial Watch vs NARA is current precedent.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/jack-smith-criticizes-trump-documents-judges-instructions
Smith is deliberately insulting Judge Cannon. Probably not a good move to annoy the trail judge. He is playing for reversal. Don’t think that is going to work.
He is threatening her jury instructions prior to trial hoping for a friendly 11th group to rule.
Funny how these trials go when you’re not in a jurisdiction with people who’ve already convicted Trump before the trial’s even started and picked a jury that will simply affirm the case.
It’s why I can’t take the center-right’s “convicted rapist” claim seriously, because everyone knows that case was pre-determined specifically to get Trump, irrespective of what actually happened, and particularly because it was brought by a serial fabulist with fetishistic rape fantasies.
Pre judging the facts seems to be the new judicial form of guilty before trial activist judges are overly utilizing. It has been a cornerstone of many of their public cases the last decade. Easier to get convictions if you disallow a defense.
Smith and some media are pretending that our judicial system is ruled by the prosecutor. Any ruling that benefits the defendant is proof of corruption.
And the dems are wondering why they are losing the minority voter.
DEMS are losing the voters Republicans want to have the cops shoot over plant leaves? Brown voters are begging God’s Own Prohibitionists to kick in their doors? How much IS two plus two?
Everything is 1992 for old Hank with a 1972 zeitgeist.
Vote counts make it clear that the Anschluss Libertarian Party is losing voters with every anarco-communist plank and each bootheaded moron it fields as a candidate. So are those former LP voters and donors all defecting to become girl-bullying prohibitionist looters?
The Presidential Records Act “should not play any role at trial at all,” prosecutors said.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1775663237624738258.html
But the application for the search warrant on Mar-a-Lago specifically mentions PRA while giving passing reference to the Obama executive order that Jack Smith now argues is the animating law behind Espionage Act.
Here it is–and here are the alleged laws that justified the raid
“Of course those who read past MSNBC and CNN know the PRA and the holding in Judicial Watch vs NARA is current precedent.”
No, no. kreemjeff assures us that contrary to what it says, JW vs NARA doesn’t give a president the right to determine what is personal and what isn’t, and what classified and what isn’t, by his actions as president.
https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/presidential-records.html
so, what constitutes “Presidential records” vs. “personal records” is defined by law, not a matter of personal discretion.
For fucks sake, jeffy, you have been schooled many times for cherry picking your references. What other Presidents have done actually matters as much if not more than what the code says. The courts require consistency in enforcement.
I gave you the link. You can check the reference yourself.
What other Presidents have done actually matters as much if not more than what the code says.
translation: I showed ML was incorrect, but you won’t admit it, so you shift the goalposts. got it.
No, you were shown previously and refused to accept it. I was part of that conversation. Go fuck yourself.
Gosh, Jeffy. Your link certainly doesn’t look like the judgement of JW vs. NARA. Why is that?
I don’t call him Fascist Jeffy for nothing.
That Biden is not being punished for the identical thing Trump is being punished for — under Biden’s demand, mind you — looks mighty suspicious.
Remember, it’s not about the law. It’s about whether he complied or not.
So I’ve heard.
So none of you can actually refute the legitimacy of the citation that I provided.
It was refuted months ago, but you just repost.
Sure, Jeff. And it is also as vague in description and definition as to allow for a wide array of interpretations of what does and doesn’t constitute a record.
For example:
(A) includes any documentary materials relating to the political activities of the President or members of the President’s staff, but only if such activities relate to or have a direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; but…
And also Jeffy slips around the fact that the president makes the determination of whether or not the materials have a “direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President”. Not Mr. Smith and not Lying Jeffy.
Joe is Jealous.
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Michael *reason eating name and links*
TWITTER FILES – BRAZIL
Brazil is engaged in a sweeping crackdown on free speech led by a Supreme Court justice named Alexandre de Moraes.
De Moraes has thrown people in jail without trial for things they posted on social media. He has demanded the removal of users from social media platforms. And he has required the censorship of specific posts, without giving users any right of appeal or even the right to see the evidence presented against them.
Now, Twitter Files, released here for the first time, reveal that de Moraes and the Superior Electoral Court he controls engaged in a clear attempt to undermine democracy in Brazil. They:
— illegally demanded that Twitter reveal personal details about Twitter users who used hashtags he did not like;
— demanded access to Twitter’s internal data, in violation of Twitter policy;
— sought to censor, unilaterally, Twitter posts by sitting members of Brazil’s Congress;
— sought to weaponize Twitter’s content moderation policies against supporters of then-president
@jairbolsonaro
The Files show: the origins of the Brazilian judiciary’s demand for sweeping censorship powers; the court’s use of censorship for anti-democratic election interference; and the birth of the Censorship Industrial Complex in Brazil.
Same goosestepping fascists, different pile.
Democrats take notes.
How many of the original NY subway builders were union? Also Alabama to NY is not an immigrant.
Good Liz letting it slip that she considers Alabama another country…
…she may have a little bit of a case
A better case can be made that NY is not in the usa
Wasn’t Liz. Note that that was a direct quote from the linked article. They’re the ones who have bad copy editing.
Cool photos, too. That was quite early in the photography era. Most of that was done with emulsions coated on glass plates back then. Quite a feat to get sharp photos in the sewers and underground locations.
Shrike used to brag about how smart it was for Joe to sell the oil reserves high to buy low. How it is going…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/us-cancels-latest-oil-reserve-refill-plan-amid-high-prices
Turd lies.
That’s like noting fish swim.
What is wrong with stating preferred pronouns? It is an attempt to be considerate.
No it isn’t. It’s a demand that others be considerate of your fantasies.
In Jeff’s world, demanding is the same as giving.
But see, here’s the thing. Any person’s public image IS a fantasy, to a large extent. Take the woman with the obvious boob job, or the man with the obvious hair plugs/toupee. They are presenting themselves as someone other than who they truly are (small breasts/balding). They are lying to everyone and, implicitly, they are demanding that you accept their lies that yes, that woman really has size DDDD breasts or yes, that man really does have great natural hair.
And even if you don’t consider surgery, we all lie to lesser extents with the makeup and clothes that we wear. Men naturally grow facial hair but many men choose to shave it all off before going in public. Why? Isn’t that a lie, concealing who a man really is – a human being with facial hair? Women wear makeup and perfume to project a false image of themselves as being prettier than they really are. Men wear tight-fitting shirts and jeans, to project a false image of themselves as being more muscular than they really are. Heck, you can even consider the application of deodorant to be a lie – naturally, we all emit body odor, and deodorant conceals this truth!
So the issue is not really about “being considerate of fantasies”. It is about WHICH fantasies are considered tolerable. And for some reason, ‘fantasies’ in which one person chooses to present him/herself as a person of the opposite sex, crosses the line as an unacceptable, intolerable fantasy. The clear implication, is that men and women must conform to the social expectations of their assigned sex.
That is why I believe that most of the backlash against transgender individuals emanating from the right really is about a demand for social homogeneity and social conformity to historical gender roles.
“implicitly, they are demanding that you accept their lies that yes, that woman really has size DDDD breasts or yes, that man really does have great natural hair.”
No. They are attempting to deceive. Whether you decide to play along with is your prerogative but you never should be forced to call them real. That would be fascist.
No. They are attempting to deceive.
What is the difference?
Whether you decide to play along with is your prerogative
so, from your perspective, how is this type of deception/lies any different than when a transgender person decides to present him/herself as someone of the ‘wrong’ gender?
but you never should be forced to call them real. That would be fascist.
I agree that no one should be forced by the state to call them real.
Forcing the use of “pronouns “ is force.
Who is forcing you to use these pronouns?
Ask Jack Phillips.
Ask the Government of Canada.
And the Government of Scotland.
“so, from your perspective, how is this type of deception/lies any different than when a transgender person decides to present him/herself as someone of the ‘wrong’ gender?”
Never seen a woman demand me refer to her obviously fake tits as being real. That is a difference.
She presents them in public as if they were her normal breasts. How is this different than a man presenting himself as a woman in public, as if he really was a man?
One’s trying to pretend she has big boobs, the other is trying to groom kids into mutilating their genitals.
Any person’s public image IS a fantasy, to a large extent.
LOL, speak for yourself, fat boy. None of this sophistry justifies the acceptance and celebration of gender dysphoria as perfectly normal and healthy.
And using these examples is even more hilarious because people who indulge in a lot of plastic surgery are mocked as self-absorbed freaks who can’t handle reality.
conform to the social expectations of their assigned sex
I thought you believed sex is biological but gender is a construct. So is the person’s sex changeable as well as gender? I get that you think one can have a gender different from one’s assigned sex, but your comment indicates that now sex has no concrete distinction.
And if you do believe sex is assigned how do the doctors decide which sex to assign to the newborn? Do they spin a wheel and see if it lands on male or female? Do they throw darts at a board that has male and female? Or do they observe the sexual organs of the baby that clearly indicate one or the other. Using assigned the way you did indicates an attempt to obfuscate sex and muddy the waters so even sex is fluid.
What is wrong with stating preferred pronouns?
It’s retarded.
If my preferred pronoun is God/yourKing how would you find that on a job application?
How about clown/clownself?
How about tree/treeself?
None of those are pronouns.
Those words identify as pronouns bigot.
Xer xim are also not pronouns dummy.
Can you explain why these oppressed people should be limited to
demandprefer only pronouns?Why not nouns, adjectives and other parts of speech?
Verbing weirds language.
I miss Calvin and Hobbes.
Gov’na shrike hates 2spirits.
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”–Theodore Dalrymple.
And here I thought employers weren’t supposed to care about superficial characteristics.
Jeff, I recommend you state your pronouns within your handle, or at the end of every post, in an effort to be considerate.
He goes by Liar/Fascist.
Because it’s confusing when one person wants to be referred to in the plural.
As bad as that is, how about when people list pronouns that are both of the same case: “I go by he/they.” Or She/They. Both of those pronouns are the nominative case, and neither has number agreement. I think the ones doing this have so little understanding of English grammar that they don’t even understand the nominative/objective case distinction at all, so why should people like that lecture me on pronouns (among other reasons this is stupid)?
“What is wrong with stating preferred pronouns? It is an attempt to be considerate.”
Given the noted consideration trannies give to others, I do not see how they have any place to make such a demand.
I do not want to be called “cis”. They do not seem to give a shit.
So what are Long Dong’s pronouns? Clayton Bigsby?
If you were considerate you would state your pronouns in your posts.
Taking a diary continues to be a federal crime under Joe.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/2951589/doj-seeks-harsher-penalty-ashley-biden-diary-thief/
I read that as “dairy”, and thought; Well, ya stealing someone’s farm should be a crime.
As Instapundit says — this is just admitting that the diary is real.
And, that it was not STOLEN but left behind seems to be a non-issue to Biden’s personal gestapo —- oops, I mean Biden’s DoJ.
In a shock to nobody but Jeff…. multiple government funded homeless advocacy groups have been stealing millions of dollars in San Francisco.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2951786/san-francisco-nonprofit-group-under-fire-misusing-millions-homeless/
Years ago, SF decided to elect the supervisors by district, opening the path to the gravy train. Works like this:
Run for school board, get elected with the votes of 15 of your friends.
Spend your term networking.
Run for supervisor when the current bozo is termed-out.
Further, any developer who proposes a decent-sized project has to include ‘mitigation’ costs to mitigate the ‘damages’ to the existing arrangement; this could be some public art, or perhaps some ‘do-good’ organization, and strangely the supervisor’s campaign workers often end up being hired for their ‘good deeds’, especially during the campaign, if you get my drift, and I think you do.
The coorect approch to dei is get all dei supporters against a wall and shoot them
State funded surgeries to become a hermaphrodite in Canada.
TeXasLindsay
@TexasLindsay_
Today I learned doctors in Austin, Texas are performing surgeries to help people become Hermaphrodites.
“If approved, ‘she’ would travel to a surgery center in Austin, Texas, for the penile-sparing vaginoplasty because it specializes in non-standard gender procedures.”
(Picture)
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1775533289974927739
If Van Gogh were alive today, would they schedule him to have his ear surgically removed? If not, they would be dishonoring his discovered truth.
We really have to be in the early early stages of this psychosis where a lot of the normies arent aware of what goes into all this, or the Jazz Jennings story. Lots of people arent aware how poorly this stuff went over in Europe.
Like, we are going to create an unnatural hole in you, and your body will want it to scar over and heal itself, so to preserve your gash, you will have to take antibiotics, constantly (painfully) dilate it with some sort of dowel you shove inside yourself, and here are some hormone pills to try and change your natural homeostasis….
instead of “you arent a girl, here are some therapists that can help you”
Let’s be crystal clear about something. There is no science to support transgenderism. I can absolutely get behind allowing adults to do whatever the fuck they want as long as they are honest about it. But letting crazies and brainwashed youth fuck up their bodies forever is wrong on so many levels.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/31/take-it-from-a-transsexual-transwomen-are-not-women/
I can absolutely get behind allowing adults to do whatever the fuck they want as long as they are honest about it.
The problem is that they aren’t honest about it. They’re lying about what they actually are, and demanding that everyone else participate in that lie. Which is why it was inevitable that a movement that largely sprung from a castration fetish forum on Usenet, which is where WPATH crafted their “gender-affirming care” recommendations, started going after kids as a conversion project.
They’re lying about what they actually are, and demanding that everyone else participate in that lie.
Just like the woman with the fake breasts, the man with the toupee, the woman with caked-on makeup, the man with too-tight jeans.
What a retarded response.
If the first three insisted that everyone pretend that they didn’t have fake breasts/toupee/makeup on and threw hissy fits if people didn’t, yes.
And to bring it back to the topic, pretty sure a woman putting anything about her tits on a resume would reduce her chance of getting hired as well, unless she was applying to be a stripper.
Not sure what too-tight jeans has to do with the topic whatsoever. Retard.
Just like the woman with the fake breasts, the man with the toupee, the woman with caked-on makeup, the man with too-tight jeans.
No, not like that at all. But it’s telling that you think that kids having their breasts and genitals removed is the exact same thing. It’s why your side needs to be destroyed.
I hope he keeps going. We’re nearing bears in trunks territory.
“Just like the woman with the fake breasts, the man with the toupee, the woman with caked-on makeup, the man with too-tight jeans.”
False equivalency, next
There is no science to support transgenderism
The problem with making such faith-based absolutist statements is that it’s so easy to disprove them.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-018-0140-7
I will bet you have never actually made any attempt to find out what research is out there.
Sex differences and hormonal effects in presumed cisgender individuals
“Cisgender” is a made-up term by cultural marxists.
While it is becoming increasingly common for transgender and gender non-binary individuals to block their transition to puberty and/or use gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) to obtain their desired gender phenotype, little is known about the impact of these manipulations on brain structure and function.
Blocking natural body development for the purpose of individual delusion or dysphoria is hardly science. Lysenkoism, sure, but not science.
“Cisgender” is a made-up term by cultural marxists.
Many technical terms are made up, and it doesn’t matter who made it up – genetic fallacy!
But you’re not actually addressing the point of the paper, which is to show that there is some research supporting the existence of tramsgenderism:
most cross-sectional neuroimaging research indicates that brain morphology and activation patterns at rest and during cognitive performance are more congruent with gender identity than natal sex in untreated MTFs and FTMs
which shows that your assertion earlier was simply wrong.
You’re not required to accept the research, and you can choose to remain ignorant of such research as exists, or indeed, impute motives to researchers. But what you can’t do is deny the existence of the research,
Blocking natural body development for the purpose of individual delusion or dysphoria is hardly science. Lysenkoism, sure, but not science.
Not relevant to the point. And it’s not Lysenkoism either.
and it doesn’t matter who made it up – genetic fallacy!
Yes it does, comrade.
And it’s not Lysenkoism either.
It fits Lysenkoism perfectly. Unfalsifiable nonsense represented as science supported by politically compromised peer review.
“You’re not required to accept the research, and you can choose to remain ignorant of such research”
Oh no! I wouldn’t want to remain ignorant of shrikes nonsense!
“”You’re not required to accept the research,””
Did Reason recently have something on 10,000 research papers being retracted in 2023?
Researchers have destroyed the idea that they should be taken at face value.
“And it’s not Lysenkoism either.
It’s exactly Lysenkoism.
Many technical terms are made up, and it doesn’t matter who made it up – genetic fallacy!
Which still doesn’t change the fact that it’s a fake term made up by radical left activists, which has no applicability to the real world.
most cross-sectional neuroimaging research indicates that brain morphology and activation patterns at rest and during cognitive performance are more congruent with gender identity than natal sex in untreated MTFs and FTMs
Why would there be a need to refute the fact that people with severe mental illness have different brains than those who don’t?
But what you can’t do is deny the existence of the research,
Left-wing academics indulge in a lot of stupid “research” to advance their cause. I’m under no obligation to respect or accept it as science.
Not relevant to the point. And it’s not Lysenkoism either.
The paper was about the effects of hormone blockers on human brains. In fact, they state it right in the abstract:
While it is becoming increasingly common for transgender and gender non-binary individuals to block their transition to puberty and/or use gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) to obtain their desired gender phenotype, little is known about the impact of these manipulations on brain structure and function.
And it’s absolutely Lysenkoism.
Researchers in the Netherlands tracked more than 2,700 children from age 11 to their mid-twenties, asking them every three years of feelings about their gender.
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Results showed at the start of the research, around one-in-10 children (11 percent) expressed ‘gender non-contentedness’ to varying degrees.
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But by age 25, just one-in-25 (4 percent) said they ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ were discontent with their gender.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13263725/trans-kids-change-sex-adults-study.html
But please keep pushing bad science.
I will bet you have never actually made any attempt to find out what research is out there.
Have you? I read through the WPATH files among numerous other things going back 30 years.
I will bet you have never actually made any attempt to find out what research is out there.
“Research” =/= “Science,” and I personally would hesitate to call this particular article and its 100% circular reasoning either one.
The paper deals in categories of “masculinity” and “femininity” that it divorces from biology and then tries to find again in the biology.
And in case there was any doubt, they make their political motivations clear right up front:
“Research in this area has the potential to inform our understanding of the developmental origins of gender identity and sex difference in response to gonadal steroid manipulations, but care is needed in our research questions and methods to not further stigmatize sex and gender minorities.”
Notice where the “care is needed” and that it’s not in “carefully assessing the evidence wherever it leads.”
I’ll note that no normal person has EVER once asked to be called “cisgender”.
Yet trannies do so. Routinely.
Why should I respect their wants?
but fungus having 1600 genders, durp!
Thanks for the link Chuck. Read the whole thing.
Not an expert in anatomy, but isn’t there a lot of plumbing in the way to install a new “vagina” if you also want to keep the original equipment?
Much of the new “vagina” is made up of the colon anyway, so why not just keep taking it up the backdoor.
See, this is what happens when you tell some “vulnerable” people to go fuck themselves.
Reason seems to be riding the fence on the Israel/Gaza war. They are not repeating the lies of Hamas, but they are not reporting on how Western media is lying their asses off. This seems like something that Libertarians should be manic about. It is as Orwellian as it gets.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/03/al-shifa-hospital-and-the-crisis-of-the-west/
It was a terrorist attack; raping, killing and/or kidnapping civilians.
(including Americans, Mr. President. where is the outrage?)
All honest reporting would be based on that fact.
It is NOT ‘Israel’s war against Hamas’, it is civilization against terrorists.
Rule number one in armed conflict: People die.
Rule number two in armed conflict: No one can change rule number one.
It’s worth noting, per Politico, that “Republican activists have targeted the law precisely because in recent cycles, including 2020, the Democratic presidential candidate won the Omaha-based 2nd District, giving them an additional Electoral College vote.”
Curious why this gets a mention and not the 53 Elias lawsuits it Maine trying to switch to their state not mattering and voting with the national popular vote.
I would kill for Trump to win the popular vote just to watch the Popular Vote Compact come apart at the seams as none of the states involved would give him the EV if he won popular vote.
‘A nonprofit named We Heart Seattle, which helps with homeless encampment cleanup and ministry, unfortunately found a dead, decomposing body during one of its visits.’
How did they know that hobo was dead? Are they biologists? We need to stop them before they start deciding who is a woman.
Austin is slashing positions in its DEI office to comply with the new state law, S.B. 17, which went into effect in January.
Good for them, taxpayers, and students.
‘so its goal is to sell a bold and ambitious version of the product that may or may not comport with reality.’
Reality is so meat-space.
“The subway’s history, after all, was and is an immigration story.”
Do those immigrants include the icky people from Jersey?
Looks like there was some Chinese interference in Canadian elections, according to our northern neighbor’s intelligence officials.
Says the Canadian insurrectionist.
Whoops! There go the bank accounts!
You call?
‘Looks like there was some Chinese interference in Canadian elections, according to our northern neighbor’s intelligence officials.’
But did the Chinese drive big trucks and annoy the establishment elites?
Sounds like a trial balloon.
Too soon?
‘In the lecture, modern medicine was called “white science.”‘
Well, then, we’d better keep all the oppressed people away from doctors and hospitals and actual drugs. And just think of the Medicare savings when all they need is the right color mud and a few sessions with drums.
Im ok with their terms.
Ill offer you surgery and anesthesia using “white medicine” where you go so sleep safely and monitored, and have your surgical procedure with appropriately small risk.
The black and brown medicine students can offer “holistic” alternatives including anesthesia by biting tree bark, ceremonial dances and chants, etc.
Let the free market decide where people want to go. Of course, then when “white medicine” is the number 1 go to, it will naturally be due to systemic racism and oppression
‘”Just as America’s churches were depopulated, Americans developed a new relationship with a technology that, in many ways, is the diabolical opposite of a religious ritual: the smartphone,” wrote The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson. And where “digital life is disembodied, asynchronous, shallow, and solitary,” religious rituals “put us in our bod[ies]” and “forc[e] us to set aside an hour or day for prayer, reflection, or separation from daily habit.” This sort of ritual “often requires that we make contact with the sacred in the presence of other people, whether in a church, mosque, synagogue, or over a dinner-table prayer.”‘
Fuck you, Derek. Now compare the typical Atlantic reader’s infatuation (and tribal adherence) with structural racism and climate change with traditional religion.
Rutgers prof says it’s ‘homophobic’ to note that Hamas brutalizes LGBT people
“Criticizing people who point out Hamas’s harsh treatment of LGBT-identifying people, a Rutgers teacher said: ‘We have to start naming this as homophobic. You cannot rehearse violence to queer people,’ the professor asserted.
The other professor involved in the event had previously dismissed Israel’s tolerance to LGBT-identifying people as ‘pinkwashing’ done for propaganda purposes.
I mean this is the playbook. Its racist to say that African’s were deep into creating and maintaining the trans-atlantic and trans-Saharan slave trade, and slavery today only exists in black and brown countries in Africa and the middle east. That is racist and anti-black, I guess, to take note of reality
Mik’s just jealous because female slavery is legal in Africa.
Fuck off, Hank. He said nothing of the sort.
If you look up “gaslighting” in a dictionary, these two motherfuckers’ pictures have to be present.
No shame at all.
Yeah. “Pinkwashing” as some sort of insulting term and in defense of LGBT+ was blowing my mind.
Insane Idiot: Your false depiction of people as being friendly to homosexuals is homophobic!
Normies: Uh, wut?
Maya Mikdashi, an associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr. Nadine Naber is a Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, the Global Asian Studies Program, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Two more marxist vermin identified.
Two more marxist vermin identified.
How dare you?! Hitler described pairs of people with the word “two”.
Waahhhh! Calling Marxists vermin hurts my feelings! Waaahhh!
— Jeffsarc
“”You cannot rehearse violence to queer people,’ the professor asserted.””
WTF does that even mean?
I’m not allowed to call out violence against LGBT people?
Wow, nice to know this dude puts Hamas above the LGBT people.
I’m not allowed to call out violence against LGBT people?
Your mistake is that you’re trying to think this through without reference to the Victimhood Hierarchy.
If you’re pointing to violence done to an LGBT person by someone from a group lower on the victim scale then that’s a noble endeavor casting light on their persecution.
If you’re pointing to violence done to an LGBT person by someone from a group higher on the victim scale then you are weaponizing narratives of persecution in order to oppress the latter group.
“…a pro-Hamas presenter led students in prayer to “mama Earth,”…”
Please keep your superstitions to yourself.
And try not to invite terrorist sympathizers to your state university.
I do wonder what would happen if that kid went and tried to lead a bunch of Hamas guys in a prayer to “mama Earth?”
More DEI updates: The University of Texas at Austin is slashing positions in its DEI office to comply with the new state law, S.B. 17, which went into effect in January.
This is the way. more of this.
Saving taxpayer money, well done. Universities somehow functioned without all these grifters in the past.
Employers appear to discriminate against pronoun disclosure at all even gender-conforming pronouns
This is the way. More of this. Pronouns in bio? No thanks.
Just call me “Mister” or “Sir” and we’ll be fine.
Call me Ishmael
Betty can call me Al.
US Achieves Energy Independence for First Time in 40 Years
..
https://www.newsweek.com/us-energy-independence-first-time-40-years-1878729
This is an impressive accomplishment, Peanuts.
Data center demand is skyrocketing too.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
I’m tired of you shitting on American industry, Sevo.
Go take your Droxy like Donnie said to.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit.
Hey. The retard is learning. He didnt try to credit Biden.
I never have credited Biden.
I just post facts and you hate that. We have a fact gap in this country and MAGA is the problem.
From your link
“”It became a net exporter around 2019, and as of around 2022 was providing nearly 200 million tonnes of fossil fuels to the global market.””
2019? Definitely not Biden.
turd lies. That’s not a surprise to anyone who reads his constant stream of bullshit.
But it’s becoming obvious that as Misek is too stupid to understand the concepts of “evidence” or “relevance”, the concept of “honesty” is simply beyond turd’s ken.
Hey shrike. Why did you miss this job news?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/finance-and-economy/2952919/jobless-claims-rise-to-highest-level-since-january-amid-higher-interest-rates/
I hope the BLS jobs report is bad tomorrow.
We need the Fed to cut the Fed funds rate.
This economy is just too fucking hot, bro!
So hot people can’t afford it.
turd lies when he knows he’s lying. turd lies when we know he’s lying. turd lies when he knows that we know he’s lying.
turd lies. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit and a pederast besides.
That explains the high price of gasoline.
Also explains why Biden will not refill the SPR he emptied. Because we have so much oil and all.
You forget that 24% of oil and 11% of natural gas production is on federal land, and Biden isn’t letting anyone get new leases. The lack of new leases is completely shutting down energy production. Just look at those numbers. Federal land accounts for the vast majority of fuel extraction, so no new leases means total production is going to plummet, just like the average IQ of a crowd when Jesse shows up.
Jesse’s lying is just kind of pathetic. I can excuse it.
It is Fatass Donnie lying to millions of ignorant Americans that I hate. If they debate again we need a cattle prod to zap them when they lie.
I would watch that.
Place bets on who dies first.
I’m going with Biden.
He’s one fall away from a one-way trip to the hospital.
Yrah, one zap would probably finish old Joe off.
Donnie could take 20-30 zaps and still spit out whoppers.
turd lies. turd lies when he knows he’s lying. turd lies when we know he’s lying. turd lies when he knows that we know he’s lying.
turd lies. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit and a pederast besides.
turd lies. turd lies when he knows he’s lying. turd lies when we know he’s lying. turd lies when he knows that we know he’s lying.
turd lies. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit and a pederast besides.
A guy in Europe just died at age 114.
Just a young punk, right, Hank?
I’m so happy sarcs best friend here is a soros worshipping pedophile.
The GOP can fix that by simply shooting pregnant women instead of going to the bother of enslaving them. Call it resisting arrest, like in 1858, and let bounty-hunter immunity do the rest.
Here to discuss ideas, never people. But hey you two clowns do you.
The most insane reporting from Aaron Sibarium, of a mandatory structural racism class that took place at UCLA’s medical school, in which a pro-Hamas presenter led students in prayer to “mama Earth,” who “was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played.” The presenter also instructed students to pray for “black” and “brown” and “houseless people” who die due to the “crapatalist lie” of “private property.” In the lecture, modern medicine was called “white science.” It is quite unclear who was helped by this. Certainly not future patients.
As if there weren’t enough people harmed by medical error even when actual science was used, now we have to worry about doctors incorporating booga-booga noble savage “medicine” into medical practice thanks to the religion of cultural marxism.
Whatever happened to Piyush “Bobby” Jindle? I thought he was the next GOP token person of color. Any of you wingnuts know?
What happened to your original account?
Why the “2”?
Did Buttplug actually lose his password?
Why did a whole comments section under an article suddenly disappear one day?
So many questions.
turd, the TDS-addled ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Fuck off racist.
Was he in the Georgia runoff where voters lined up for Oliver?
Why does racist Denver hate diversity?
https://thepostmillennial.com/denver-begs-illegal-immigrants-to-leave-town-offers-free-busses-to-canada
If they stop feeding g the animals they would go home
I do like the idea of sending them to Canada.
“why nonprofit organizations are more effectively doing what local governments set out to do”
Ooh! Ooh! That’s an easy one! It’s because governments do not actually “set out to do” those things! They only want to APPEAR to be setting out to do those things. Officials can appropriate larger staffs and increased funding when they are tasked with appearing to be doing something. When nothing actually gets done and someone finally notices that nothing has actually gotten done a few years later, those officials can: 1) claim that they were underfunded and demand greater funding and increased authority (if they’re in the same party as the ruling elite at the time); or 2) get thrown under the bus by the ruling elite, replaced and THEN demand greater funding and more authority! See? It’s win-win for officialdom.
^ This is the correct answer.
“Note that one side is trying to force schools to conform to their preferred set of values, while the other is merely providing an option.”
This is the perennial battle for freedom in a nutshell! The problem is not that there is an ideological difference of opinion. The problem is that the egalitarian enforcement agency actually has control of the government apparatus and the authority to try to impose their agenda on everyone.
In a nation with the 14th Amendment, no state or federal government agency should even be able to ask you what your race is, on any government form or in person. The government is required to treat everyone equally; why would it even matter what you say your race is?
Anyone ever do an environmental impact study on the excess energy use to collect, store, and manipulate all the data on race/sex/gender/religion/whatever scooped up and retained by governments?
I bet we could replace two power plants if we stopped doing this.
That probably generates a lot of heat. Let’s store the servers in the Antarctic to keep them cool. What could go wrong with that?
Yeah, they stopped that, but then I saw this question and got supicious
What is your favorite dinner meal?
A) fried chicken and watermellon
B) pork fried rice
C) tacos and tamales
D) chicken curry
E) chicken parm
OK, I think I get your drift…
If’n ye were from Uranus, twat would be your favorite meal? Or Venus, for that matter?
There was a creature from Venus…
(Deep Poetry slam-time!)
Christian Nationalism is a myth, they say.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-law-allowing-religion-into-science-classrooms-is-dangerous-for-everyone/
Twat about the Flying Spaghetti Monster?!!?! Twat about HIM?!!?
So let us pray that we shall not fall into temptation, nor commit the Crime of the Ancient Marinara, so that the Flying Spaghetti Monster will NOT send us to Al Dente’s Inferno!
To ye who oppose my pubic prayers to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in the pubic schools, I say THIS… Do SNOT dismissively say ‘Pasta la Vista, Baby!’ to my Fair and Balanced idea! Else ye are BIGOTS!!!
I’ll wait for it to happen before I worry.
It will help keep the non-science of trannyism in schools, if that makes you happy.
Notice Fascist Jeffy has supported trannyism in schools but sees this is a threat.
I’ve never thought the concept of teaching intelligent design would be what Christians really want. It’s not going to be bible study. They think it would talk about God as a creator. Well, yeah, but not just God, other intelligent design theories would also be taught. So an intelligent design class would really promote blasphemy. The chapter on God might be on God and Allah since they were both the god of Abraham. I don’t think that would go over too well.
^ This.
I think most Christians and their opponents hear “Intelligent Design” and think “God sitting at his desk with a roll of plans,” when the more cogent “Intelligent Design” theories have their roots in Aristotelian pantheism along with notions of ‘guided’ evolution that aren’t unassailable, but also aren’t obviously unscientific.
I’m personally less animated about allowing ideas than I am about banning them.
Isn’t “Intelligent Design” just a euphemism for Deism?
Sort of, but not really. Deism can be just as creationist as any other belief.
There’s often a conflation between creationism and intelligent design (sometimes deliberate by both creationists and atheists), but ID usually refers to theistic evolution, which also happens to be the official stance of the Catholic Church which is definitely not composed of Deists.
Deism primarily rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that observation of the natural world is sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being. Nothing in that idea necessarily precludes the idea of a near instantaneous creation as in creationism.
What does this have to do with nationalism? Why include it?
Or are you just demonstrating you are captured by team sports buzzwords and “Christian Nationalists!!!” are the current day bogeymen.
You are a walking DNC talking point
Know that when he’s calling others tribal and playing team sports he’s projecting.
“chRiStiAn NaTioNaLiSM iS a mYtH, tHeY saY”
Ctrl + f “Christian Nationalism”
0/0
Say Jeffy, I didn’t see anything about “Christian Nationalism” but I did see this:
“I am now a scientist, educator, wife, mother and person of faith.”
Was she a Christian decrying creationism or was she decrying “chRiStiAn NaTioNaLiSM”?
Stupid devious fuck.
Notably, Scientific American, like Nature, has been going all-in on Current Year political shibboleths.
Yes, but also:
“This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
Nevertheless, the author isn’t even repudiating what Lying Jeffy is insinuating she’s repudiating.
I don’t call him Lying Jeffy for nothing.
AHA! So God’s Own Prohibitionists are losing–not because Christian National Socialist Trumpanzistas packing the Suprema Corte bushwhacked the Libertarian platform decision that women’s individual and 13A rights survive pregnancy, nosiree! Nazi candidates are losing because the Gee-Ooh-Pee didn’t write Nebraska election laws back in 1991! The admission is that girl-bullying, child-shooting cowards are being defeated despite DEM efforts to ban electricity and let boys wear lipstick. Sad.
In a whirlwind of Comstock feathers, the Gee-Oh-Pee tumbled through Prohibitionist jellybeans, with spoons clattering in a symphony of pancakes. Moonshine danced with dictionaries, as teacups serenaded the algebraic bicycles floating amidst the clouds of spaghetti. The horizon painted itself with whispers of cheese, where the rivers of logic flowed backwards, carrying ships of clocks and mirrors. Elves wearing boots of whispers chased the dragonflies of quantum fluff, under the gaze of a polka-dotted sun. Here, the trees hummed tunes of forgotten passwords, and the stars blinked in Morse code, secrets wrapped in the laughter of raindrops. Amidst this chaos, the Prohibitionist maps crooned lullabies to the dancing shoelaces, guiding them through a maze of marshmallow whispers. Gee-Oh-Pee, with a crown of forks and a scepter of bubbles, declared the daynight, where dreams wore socks and reality sipped on a cup of puzzled tea.
Very LSD-infused indeed!
Butt I can outdo even Perfect You! Check out the below!!!
It amazes me how Americans living in a purportedly Christian culture don’t even understand the basic tenets of its theology.
Pretty much the whole point of Christianity is that everyone has sinned and is worthy of damnation so God became a human and took our punishment for us. And the libertarian angle is, that you still have a choice to accept or reject the gift already given.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Romans 6:23 ESV: For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 3:16-17 ESV: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
(SOME of these deceived and EVIL fools, even stink that the basic tenet of the Christian theology is to “Love one’s neighbors”. Twat evil babboons, maroons and macaroons!!! They don’t even worshit Our Savior, Dear Leader Trump, OR His Queen, Spermy Daniels, Who Art Glazed in Vaseline, or even Saint Babbitt Herself!!!)
Lol. Fantastic. You do need to ridiculous it up a bit more to outdo hank, however.
I look forward to the next installment.