ThreePointTakedown

What, in your opinion, happened? My take: they were forcible removed from a bathroom for using it as intended and NOT attacking anyone. Question: being all about protecting women and children, can you see this effecting any Non-trans people? Follow up question: if yes, are you ok with that? Please, in your own words, tell me what I missed? A person was attacked for making another person a bit uncomfortable. Sounds a lil snowflake-y. btw, gender and sex are different.

They do. It is in several ways. That is an effect of phantom American Exceptionalism. You don’t even consider that other countries get immigrants too. So dumb. Let that marinate.

Thought stopper. I knew you wouldn't have an answer. Which is probably why you believe it. Someone said that to you once and you didn't want to put forth the effort to think of an answer so you didn't. Now you expect everyone to do the same thing. Your ace-in-the-hole is 'Then why don't you leave!?' You are such a lazy thinker.

THAT is American Exceptionalism. Do tell, what is great about America?

Exactly. White people. That’s what you mean. I know. You’ve all been given this opportunity from white people. You need to adequately appreciate us. If you don’t, this is a nice ‘country’ would be a shame if we threw a tantrum and split it in half… again.

You discovered questions. Congrats. Glad you made it to the party.

'Unwillingness to make it better' - Do you even understand what you're saying here? A near global collapse of banking to a pretty steady economy is THE BEST result possible under the circumstances. You're mad that he didn't put all his money on double zero in the hopes of... what? What could you have possibly thought was equal to or better than what Obama had accomplished with rescuing us from the brink? Or is it this 'American Exceptionalism' bug that you all have? That any President would apologize or even be seen as possibly apologizing gets you to rage out. “We shouldn't apologize for ANYTHING... EVER! RAWWWWWR!' Do you know who says things like that? A narcissist. Someone that has no interest in your wellbeing, just their own. And based on that that's exactly who you voted for. Not a black man born to a single mother. That worked and earned their way to Harvard. But a white guy born into unimaginable wealth and privilege. That bought their way to Penn. That never did a hard day's work in their life. Worked harder to, for decades, screw over their contracted employees than to keep afloat a CASINO of all things(but this country needs someone good at business, right?) Admitted to grabbing women below the belt without consent Admitted to walking in on beauty pageant contestants, unannounced, while some were undressed. And now refuses to abide by a law to release documents, the DOJ has in their possession, that might lead to the prosecution of pedophiles. Because they know Republicans won't do a damn thing to hold the administration accountable. Hitched to the wrong horse.

I have a hard time understanding how someone can think this is true. I think what they mean is 'Aren't white people great?' 'Look at all the great things we've done?' 'We are... aren't we?' 'Please, please tell me I'm great?' The thing that makes America Great is the black experience. As much as white people have punished, jailed, beat, tortured, and murdered them in the hopes of breaking their spirit. They persist. THAT is the American spirit. Its a true underdog story. Brought to a place they never wanted to be. Treated like second or third class citizens if citizens at all. Built themselves up from, literally, nothing. Its the story you all wish or sometimes claim to have as an origin story. Is that what it is, are you all jealous? You see how much they've done with so little and it makes you mad? The worst part is that you worked so hard to keep them down but they just don't go away. That if you had focused on just living and thriving, yourself, you'd probably be in a better place than you are. As it turns out, where you are isn't as great as you've convinced yourself. So what else is there at this point? Rage. Its not MY fault. Its THEIR fault. They're the reason I am struggling. They're the reason I can't get ahead. Rinse and repeat. Its just sad.

Virtue signal much?

Is it that they are all either uneducated or just bad people?

I know your emotions will not allow you to be honest when reading or responding to my posts and that's a shame. The question 'Do you care?' was not about YOU, because I don't care if YOU care. It was to follow up on the question about the use of the word 'proficient'. Seeing as these posts are about reading you should try to be less ironic and actually read the words. Considering this topic is about understanding and comprehending words, not just recognizing them(damn I gave it away). Were you a phonics kid? But I know you don't care. It seems as if you just want to be right or win and will do anything, which very much includes denial of facts to claim your intellectual superiority. How small a person you must be to need such a worthless prize. Go on, collect your dubs.

So, 'yes' you did take it on face value and refused to investigate even a bit about how they came to that conclusion. It said, 'Blue state, bad. Red state, good' and you just ran with it as if its true. You are a weak or lazy thinker. I'll give you one more chance to figure out why touting the 'South Surge'(BIG HINT) is actually more harmful to kids. When you refuse to research or crash out at the idea of having to admit you were misled. Not even wrong, just misled. Then I'll tell you. And it took me 45 seconds to find it after reading your first post.

You're just repeating the claim. You know that, right? Repeating a lie or untruth does not change the facts surrounding the claim. This post only answered one of the questions that I posed. Do you care? Repeating a false claim without adding any actual evidence for the claim makes it seem as if you do not. You and the claim are still wrong. You're not interested in entertaining that fact for some reason. Proceeding or pretending as if it IS true is harmful. In that it prevents you from seeking out a more beneficial answer. Kind of like a 'always in the last place you look' kind of thing.

Have you investigated this at all? Is it legit? How is this person using the word 'proficient'? Do you care? Or did you just see a headline that you thought made sense to you and went with it? Hint: It isn't legit. Can you tell us all why? Thanks for bringing this topic back.

There are too many reports(should we go back to '1 is too many') of pregnant people being turned away at hospitals and emergency rooms because they were too scared to treat them. For fear of running afoul of these laws. You know that's true. So stop asking dishonest questions. There is no set standard for what that means. Which is why it is so dangerous. The ambiguity of the phrase 'life saving' is for this reason. To keep doctors from treating patients that need an abortion based on threats to their life. By keeping it purposefully fuzzy will slow down treatment. Elongating the time that a pregnant person is in distress. Thus causing them more harm. Do not pretend to be so ignorant about the fact that these laws have not caused, directly, the deaths of pregnant people. Without these laws no pregnant person would have been turned away. You can try to cope as much as you'd like but I have a feeling you know these laws are wrong. What would need to come about to tidy up the language around 'life saving' circumstances? Conservatives would need to listen to doctors and medical professionals about what might constitute 'life threatening' conditions. The list would include certain things that would nullify the entire law, in essence. Adding language to identify certain criteria by which it would be legal to give a pregnant person an abortion is not an option for conservatives. They distrust pregnant people and doctors so much that they refuse to give them a potential loophole to sneak an abortion.

Not sure 'Handmaid's Tale' is quite the comparison they want to make. Who is being forced into servitude here? As numbers grow for women's sports wouldn't it stand to reason that 'the market' would increase availability to address the supply and demand issue? More teams. More qualifiers. More medals. More opportunity. More money. These are all good things. Right? I think what you don't like is that the status quo is changing at all. Let alone in a way that you don't like. Lets not venture into the Gilead comparison when talking about women's sport when there are actual states in the union that force women to STAY pregnant regardless of whether it might kill them. BTW both scenarios happen at about the same rate. I wouldn't want to have to explain that I'd rather keep certain girls and women from playing on certain teams. All while simultaneously caring so little for girls and women that I am actually in favor of them dying versus getting a much needed/wanted abortion. Seems like a lot of cope rather than substance. Placating your guilt. Can you tell me what your definition of 'man' and 'male'?

RECOGNIZE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTS Isolating members and penalizing them for leaving, how many members of the house and senate that voted to impeach/remove 45, are still left. Where is MTG? Seeking inappropriate loyalty to their leaders, nominees of 'independent' positions in the executive branch refuse to answer, 'Yes' to the question: Did 45 lose the 2020 presidential election. Dishonoring the family unit, Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability., the house and senate, both in control of R's refuse to reign in 47 on the war crimes they have committed and other constitutional breaches No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry., what has happened to every single member of House or Senate that spoke out against 45/47. No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement., Tax docs, crypto schemes, free airplanes, huge Gov't settlements to themselves(47 and others) Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies, and persecutions., (cough cough) immigrants, Christian persecution, DEI, CRT. There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil., thoughts on Chaney, Romney, MTG, Masey, and Kinzinger. Whoops. Followers feel they can never be "good enough"., The group/leader is always right., argh The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible., how can y'all not see this yet?... Oh,... right...

Yes, whistleblowers do that all the time. Yes, they literally roll around in cars until they see someone doing something illegal. Then and only then, can they begin their investigation. Being watched by law enforcement without cause is a form of harassment. Not having legal authority to 'investigate' renders any evidence found by that investigation as unlawfully obtained. Thank you. This was fun. I hope it helped.

You've never seen an episode of Law and Order? There are rules of procedure. I think a 5th grader would know that. Some of them are laid out in the 4th and 5th amendments. Check 'em out. This must be a trolling statement. Because no one with any kind of sense could think that police and feds sit around 'investigating' every person, company, and/or organization in the country/world hoping to stumble across information that would indicate they are committing a crime. Please let this be a troll-y comment. Otherwise it is the stupidest thing you've ever written. And that is saying something.

Nope. I get that you probably mean 'not much' but to have any reason to start an invasive investigation the state must have probably cause to think a crime has been committed. After that rather low bar has been cleared the investigation can start. Absent that step being taken, any fruit of the poisonous tree is just that. Or in theory, with a seemingly limitless budget the gov't could 'investigate' any and all opponents to the exec, in perpetuity, until they are rendered either broke, politically neutralized, or found to have committed a crime of some kind. I hope you would agree this /\ is not a democracy or gov't worth having. That is of course, unless you happen to be the one with a face the leopard hasn't eaten yet.

Not gonna kink-shame you. If you're getting off, imagining me getting off, then go for it. Glad I can offer up a distraction for you. Its getting rough out there.

https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-investigation-powell-justice-department-28d04cc0d99cda25cea69931f65e25d3 'A prosecutor handling the case conceded at a closed-door court hearing in March that the government hadn’t yet found any evidence of a crime, and a judge subsequently quashed subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve. The judge, James Boasberg, said prosecutors had produced “essentially zero evidence” to suspect Powell of a crime. Boasberg prosecutors’ justification for the subpoenas as “thin and unsubstantiated.”' Would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad and infuriating. Cue the excuses from the sycophants.

No need to lash out. Do some star breathing and try to get a grip. https://mentalhealthcenterkids.com/blogs/articles/star-breathing-for-kids-a-simple-way-to-teach-breathwork It helps. To your comment: wasn't the title of the thread a yes/no question? Since there isn't enough info to say 'yes' and they are innocent until proven guilty, it pretty much requires anyone to say, 'Nope'. Think of it like 47 being found liable for SA in a civil case. You probably don’t agree that 47 is an SA’er because they weren’t found guilty in a criminal trial. Despite the overwhelming evidence over the years of a pattern of sexual predation. Just use the same mental gymnastics about this case too? Sorry you don't like that. Based on your emotional response, it seems as if you want the answer to be 'yes'. Why is that? Tough question, I know. Its probably been awhile since you've contemplated the reason(s) for your beliefs. The process can be quite stressful. I can understand why you would work really hard to avoid it. But it just makes you come off as ignorant and cruel. If you're ok with that look, and it seems like you have up till now, that's ok. I hope this longer post helps. Let me know, I can add some to it. I know you're a big reader.

Nope

That last claim is going to need some corroboration.