• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Stay classy, MAGA. You don’t give two shits about your country, you actually did steal an election, and the backwash is coming.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    Make a new account, immediately start spewing unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, get banned

    I gotta say, I am liking blue sky so far

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.world
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    What a pos. nobody is “pushing” these medicines on kids. it’s ultimately the kid’s decision about whether they want these medications or not and I’m not aware of any cases to the contrary. also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental? how do you expect people to trust you when you lie so blatantly? glad he got banned.

    Happy Pride Month ❤️

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      also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental?

      Honest answer: the drugs are being used off-label. It’s not even experimental, it’s basically a wildcat way of using them. An experiment would involve control groups and a double-blind trial, among other things.

      I’m saying this because this is what rightoids are saying as criticism and you need to be able to counter that with facts. Right now, there just isn’t enough information and that’s what they’re capitalizing on.

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        there just isn’t enough information and that’s what they’re capitalizing on.

        40 years of using hormone blockers for precocious puberty. “Not enough info.” Fuck the whole way off.

        double-blind trial

        No. The data is fine. It doesn’t need to be perfect.

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        Thanks you. I like to know where to prepare to argue from. I appreciate you and how you tried to communicate your intention.

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    The thing with his argument is that I just struggle to imagine a scenario in which the experts and affected agree and we’re better off listening to judges, lawyers, and politicians instead.

    There’s no reasonable argument from the avenues I’d listen to those groups (such as appeal to fundamental freedoms, rights of the individual, etc) where the position should be to bar these people from receiving treatment they want against expert recommendations.

    In short, Mr Vance demonstrates the intellectual rigor I’ve come to associate with the denizens of Middletown Ohio, and the firm belief in one’s own right to be the arbiter of everyone else’s life I’ve come to associate with his ivy league education and tech background.

    This is a man who argued with the pope about catholic doctrine a few years after converting and I honestly can’t make up something more exaggerated than that

  • rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    The biggest delusion in modern society is thinking that a Twitter-like social media network is “the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis”.

    I keep hearing the media repeat this bullshit. Twitter is not and never was the “public square”. It’s a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.

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      Makes me wonder if the actual public squares, sans idealization, were also a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.

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    And this is the point where he playbooks “i was just asking questions i was just being reasonable why are you so mean unreasonable leftist echo chamber etcetc”

    Which only works when people let it. A swift “you started ranting crazy bullshit” is what is needed here.

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    Imagine thinking that one Clarence Thomas is less corrupt than thousands of doctors.

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      Coming from Vance, I like how the logic underlying the statements presumes a profit motive undermines the result.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    Apparently, they reinstated it saying they just wanted to confirm it was really him before fully activating it.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    be me

    young

    want to have long hair

    such a thing is not allowed because i cannot consent to it

    also my opinion is probably bought by big shampoo