MedicalStory2
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MedicalStory2
2mo ago
My suspicion is that the part you call a "shit-show" is mostly necessary opsec in an adversarial environment. The bureaucrats are fighting administration goals and if they were made privy to the administration's plans, they'd use that information to defeat the plan (or try to). So there's will-they/won't-they/when-they.
MedicalStory2
3mo ago
True, but birth certificate gender has the same problem. I don't imagine a norm of verifying birth gender in social settings.
MedicalStory2
3mo ago
There are plenty of coherent positions between preferred pronouns and birth certificate pronouns. The long version mine is here: https://medicalstory.substack.com/p/those-categories-do-not-work-for?r=eqn2u The tl;dr is it rounds close to whether they have been surgically altered.
MedicalStory2
4mo ago
The mathematician in me can't get past "Only 44% of the students now enrolled in four-year colleges in the United States are men -- 14% less than the figure for women"
Either you mean 44% of the students are men and 58% are women, which is not possible, even with rounding error. Or you mean 44% are men and about 51% are women (since 44 is about 14% lower than 51), which draws my attention to the missing 5%, presumably in some other/no data/did not answer category.
Or it's a typo shrug
MedicalStory2
5mo ago
"White" and "Black" could be a divide encouraged by those who want to conquer America.
MedicalStory2
6mo ago
We should have a different word than collapsed for "lost 90% of its users" or whatever happened to Tumblr. It still works fine and is the only social media that I read. I just read people's archives, but I understand even the feeds mostly just follow in chronological order. It would be my first recommendation for what you're looking for, but you would have to, at first, find your own blogs to follow there - perhaps shieldfoss and morlock-holmes and who they interact with would be a good place to start, perhaps not. YMMV. The whole point is that you can decide there
MedicalStory2
7mo ago
I'm not that familiar with US Code, but I guess basically yes.
Looking up the code you referenced, modifying it looks sufficient and might not even be necessary, since it also says "(c)Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being “born alive” as defined in this section"
MedicalStory2
7mo ago
For the right to life part, the relevant question is only whether they are persons: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
MedicalStory2
7mo ago
The 14th Amendment gives the federal government the power to protect the right to life.
MedicalStory2
8mo ago
Israel is second place in world youth happiness?! Israel is at war. Am I missing something or shouldn't this be hot-take level shocking?
MedicalStory2
9mo ago
Public opinion is extremely malleable. As recently as 20 years ago, it was the abortion rights side that his from the issue. It seems that the main way to change public opinion is talking about it, on as big a stage as you can get. To quote myself (https://medicalstory.substack.com/p/a-parallel-campaign) "If pro-life views are quiet, especially when abortion is at stake, but pro-abortion views are not, the pro-life view will only become more unpopular. Whether you agree with gay marriage or not, consider its example. Even after repeated defeats of initiatives to legalize gay marriage including in blue state California, its proponents did not back down and within a decade or two, public opinion completely changed."
Would Trump 47 be able to show his his true colors in a shutdown or is much of the unpopular stuff in a shutdown is actually required by law?
Trump will do his best to do the most enjoyable shutdown possible. For example, in previous shutdowns, the national parks closed, including spending money to ensure the closure of isolated trails. Maybe in a Trump 47 shutdown, they stay open to the public, but are free since no one is paid to collect money at the entrance.
If Trump 47 gets to show his true colors, then it would look completely different than the shutdowns of yore. If not, he can blame all the bad results on the Dems (and still enjoy the dismantle-whatever-he-wants superpowers the shutdown provides).
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