Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
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Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
2d ago
Sometimes the community will whip itself into a frenzy and say you have to help them lynch a witch or something
That is exactly what 'more rigorous moral frameworks' are trying to prevent!
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
2d ago
The mother is Ukrainian, the father is Russian.
Wow. Their last four holiday seasons must have been awkward....
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
2d ago
A lot of nail salons are staffed specifically by individuals of Vietnamese origin, because Tippi Hedren visited some Vietnamese refugees, they thought highly of her nails, she introduced them to her manicurist, they learned the trade and started their own nail salons, and set their relatives up in the same business and it spread from there. A similar phenomenon is behind many instances of a particular diaspora being widely represented in a particular business: the vagaries of chance will introduce a few migrants to some occupation, and their relatives will follow them.
Brings new meaning to the phrase 'for want of a nail'!
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
But if we disarmed all young black men and banned Muslims from flying in airplanes, everyone would be better off with a lot less overhead.
Other than the innocent Black men and Muslims....
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
It is absolutely trivial to demonstrate ways in which "many on the left" are hostile to the idea of universal salvation, how they are absolutely willing to leave people behind (or to square the circle by simply denying humanity to those they disfavor), how their Universal Love comes with its own majority-dark-matter of caveats and carve-outs. A supermajority of leftists are absolutely willing to write people off, and frequently do so with bloodthirsty relish.
Yes thank you Mr fromSSC that thought has occurred to me several times over the past twelve years.
That is one of my two biggest beefs with the left coalition, that it has allowed itself to be hijacked by an ideology indistinguishable from right-wing racism except for a few find-and-replace operations!
You are the lynch mob, the men in masks armed with clubs beating peaceful protestors while the cops and the judges look the other way or even prosecute the victims. You are the murderers of civil rights activists, and you are the bigoted public who mutter to each other that the victims had it coming. You are the redliners, the restrictive covenanters, the discriminators, the ones who build their identity around hatred of the Other. And if we should be generous, you are also the cowardly, the ones who simply go along, following the crowd, perhaps with a slightly worried expression and a few whispered objections, but never more than a half-step out of sync. That is my view of "Many on the Left", based on what they have done in the real world, and what those I have interacted with here have stood for in their arguments.
No, I am one of those telling them not to do that, lest they horseshoe around to become the very thing they swore to destroy!
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
Because, sometimes, one side has more to lose from the other side's favoured policies than vice versa.
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
It's complicated. My religious beliefs probably wouldn't fit on a census form, but there is a lot of Christianity in them.
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
Haaa haaaa haaaaa; you're veeeeery clever.
I am in favour of helping them in ways that don't give people an opportunity to indulge their sadistic instincts while telling their neighbours and whatever is left of their own consciences that their actions are for the victims' own good.
I am in favour of rehab programmes that attempt to minimise the suffering of their patients, keeping conditions more comfortable than many conservatives think (lower-class) addicts deserve; I am also in favour of these programmes being free-at-the-point-of-use. This helps to make the addicted more likely to seek and/or accept help without the need to use force.
Addicts who engage in conduct from which they could reasonably be expected to refrain (e. g., stealing their family members' heirlooms to sell for money to buy drugs, assaulting people at random, defecating on the pavement when there are half a dozen toilets that are available for their use) can reasonably be compelled to enroll in the above rehab programmes.
Labour camps should not be on the table for drug users, even of the more criminal sort. If we have them at all, they ought to be reserved for people who beat their children eleven times in a single day.
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
I am interested in languages and word origins; not entirely laser-focused on any particular tongue, although a lot of our medical vocabulary comes from Greek.
I also believe that, while the modern era (at least up to c. 2014) has made many improvements in terms of social and political positions, it has fallen short aesthetically.
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
But the meme you're referencing is 'Alice doesn't believe Bob's religion, but uses passages from the scriptures of Bob's religion as proof-texts.'. I was not doing that.
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
Huh, I got the impression from the discourse here that 'the hassle of stepping in shit' was one of the most pressing issues of urban life!
Celestial-body-NOS
Galatians 4:16
4d ago
No, I'm sorry, you're doing worse than Pete Hegseth. You don't need to know the fine details of the surgery to know what you're proposing could never work. It's basic anatomy.
That's the 'couldn't do a better job than Gen Mattis' part. The 'could do a better job than Mr Hegseth' part is the part where I don't characterise vaginoplasty as 'cutting the dick off', which in terms of military operations, is analogous to understanding that 'supplying your troops properly' has more of an effect on winning a war than 'making sure that your troops live up to 80s-action-movie standards of masculinity'.
If you really actually believe it can be fashioned into a penis, how do you explain doctors carving out huge chunks of forearms during phalloplasties?
One, I was not as aware of the details of phalloplasty; two, I was responding to the claim that, antiquote: "You may have noticed that female people have no flesh in between their legs which can be used to fashion a ... penis." The esteamed commenter would have been more accurate had he said "...do not have enough flesh in between their legs with which to...".
Is he wrong though? What's the point of using a form of a word that no one uses when writing in English?
I was referring more to the general pattern of insults I seem to get from his direction whenever I express disagreement with his Views on gender.
You claimed a vaginoplasty does not involve chopping anything off, and that a phalloplasty is the same process in reverse.
I stated that, to the best of my knowledge, a vaginoplasty does not involve chopping anything off (which has not been refuted), and that a phalloplasty is the same process in reverse, about which the best of my knowledge was lacking.
He's pointing out how you're completely wrong on the facts,
Not completely wrong. I do not know as much about the matter as those who have medical degrees, but I know more than someone who characterises the MtF operation as, anti-quote: "[T]hey want to be a woman...so bad they'll chop off their dicks...."
why are you trying to change the subject now?
I'm not the one changing the subject. I was responding to what the previous commenter posted.
The only link around these statistics is the word "London", it leads to the "London" tag of the newspaper you just linked to, not a study done in a London clinic.
You'd have to take that up with the newspaper then; that does seem to be a habit on their websites, in articles on a wide variety of subjects.
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call it a coup, per se, although it does feel like the sort of thing one might see in a Factors Leading To paragraph....
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