ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Doesn't that mean you're that much more screwed if you end up changing your mind later?
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
The number of top surgeries on underage patients is in the hundreds per year for the whole US anyway, might as well have the minimum age be 18 and avoid the moral panic altogether.
My opinion on blockers and hormones isn't particularly high either, but yeah, never understood why we can't settle on 18+ for all this stuff.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
I'm ... skeptical about the Milgram theory in general, and for this behavior in specific, but even presuming that they're correct and generally believing the Beware Trivial Inconveniences theory
I personally know a parent that it happened to, and I met them by chance rather than activism. On the activist side as well "my kid said they're trans, so I took them to a psychologist hoping they'll talk through their feelings. Instead, I got a referral to an endocrinologist, and was told the kid will kill themselves if I don't give them hormones" is by far the most common origin story.
As others pointed out, it's not about trivial inconveniences, it's about preventing authority figures from pulling parents into something that goes against their better judgment. If they are willing to go to another state for the trans care, they were probably ok with it to begin with.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
A significant portion of MAGA agrees that the issue with enforcing immigration restrictions are business attempting to cut costs. It's not a direct contradiction if his argument, there are several factions in the GOP, but the tension between them does make it a bit awkward for the theory that "the heart of the GOP" has zero interest in immigration enforcement. Vivek found out the hard way that it's not so simple.
Are mastectomies really that expensive? Aren't there a good deal of insurance companies that cover it?
In any case, my argument is one I've made before: many parents are Milgram Experiment-ed into it. If they want to travel to California to lob their daughter's breasts off, it's their choice, but if the practice is locally illegal, they'll probably figure out they don't have to listen to the psychopath in the labcoat.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Trans people are already used to travelling for surgeries
A bit hard to pull off for a 14 year old girl, without the approval of the parents.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
and not because you have access to information that hasn't been made public
Oh please, why should anyone expect judges make their decisions based on non-public information, rather than tribalism and ideology?
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Hot damn, that is indeed too spicy even for my tastes.
Not quite. When I don't give food to the homeless, I just don't give them food. Maybe someone else does, maybe they go to a church-run soup kitchen, but I don't put a bullet in their head.
So no, the comparison fails, and once more I wonder how the Elite Human Capital had the hubris to unironically use the name.
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1mo ago
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Ironically men are attending church more than women now, the previous trend os just barely inverted.
Because they converted to another religion, which is conveniently not tracked by church attendance, as it's pretending to not be a religion.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
The Antipopulist is literally the nerd emoji who goes around saying, 'if we replace all the MAY with SHALL, that TOTALLY restores the legitimacy of the system.
Yes, I know. My point is that Gattsuru can, and does, show that irrespective of the hostility he exhibits, and therefore the hostility is unnecessary, and only drags the quality of the discourse down.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
"Nothing ever happens" is a completely valid sentiment, more valid than all the proclamations of all the academic experts combined, in fact. Also, people don't chime in with "I agree" comments over here. People only responds in agreement, when a comment is exceedingly insightful, otherwise they tend to respond with disagreements, which you can observe in this very instance.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
There's some largish subset of Gen-Z women who are claiming that in their daily lives, they almost never see 'hot' men out and about, and the vast majority of the men they do see are hopelessly ugly, don't take care of themselves, and are just horribly unattractive, meanwhile they also claim that most of the women they see are gorgeous, well-put-together, and otherwise "hot" and thus deserve better partners than they've got.
Look, listen, I'm broadly sympathetic to the points you're raising about relationships for younger people, but this ain't it. Women are more religious than men, and this just so happens to be a religious belief that they have to proclaim even in anonymous surveys, but that doesn't mean they actually believe it. See: Lizzo is beautiful, right up until you call a woman beautiful just like Lizzo.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
What I always wanted to know is, having bitten that bullet, how do they justify not biting the bullet on infanticide, or extermination of the non-self-sufficient.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
I live in Texas, with probably the strictest abortion laws among high income countries(maybe Liechtenstein?).
Come now, there are countries that don't even make rape exceptions.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
You could imagine a similar justification being fielded in a hypothetical world in which some subset of people is greatly concerned about the evil of pet owners murdering their pet dogs, and so every time a dog dies police have to investigate if the owner may have killed it deliberately.
And nothing about the argument strikes you as the slightest bit odd? Murder is illegal, does every death result in a murder investigation? Would the police force that spent the last couple of decades sweeping Muslim rape gangs under the rug go full-crackdown on miscarriages? Please.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Okay, yeah, that's pretty dum.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
At one point, Pierre Poilievre's odds of winning went from <1% to 5% for ~30 mins after every major news organization had called the election against him
Was that before or after the tariff spat? There was a point where it seemed like Poilievre had the election in the bag, and it would be weird for his chances to be so low.
Also, even if it was afterwards, it's not necessarily as stupid as you make it out to be. Polls are used to shape opinion as much as they're used to measure it. There's a reason why parties do internal polling.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
So does something like half of MAGA, which makes it kind of awkward for this entire argument.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
That's not a very Elite Human Capital take. Suffice to say, Europe is not America, and if you try transferring American cultural mores there (which is exactly what this policy is), you're might have a bad time (though it's also not guaranteed).
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
I voluntarily took a pretty big paycut to avoid gibs. Admittedly, I am not exactly of a pure heart here, as I was enjoying said gibs for quite a while, but I claim partial credit for eventually refusing them.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
I don't.
I actually endorse this approach 100%, but surely this implies a general rejection of social science?
Wait what? Why are you glad you're off the market, if your eyes are telling you things are fine?
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