Lol nice goal post shifting. I admit that if you move the goal 10’ to the left then you scored, yes.
How about you address the fuzziness about what constitutes an “elephant”, which is every bit as relevant as your lions and tigers example?
I don’t know what point you think you are making here, but again it seems to be irrelevant to the larger issue, so I am not going to pursue it any further.
The larger point is that identifying as a certain gender does not in itself change either the physical or social realities of sex. If tomorrow you woke up identifying as a man, you would be no safer going out alone at night, no more able to defend yourself, no less likely to be sexually harassed. You would still not have male privilege. (People would be no more tolerant of your 'splaining than they are now. 
) You would still be unable to father a child. You would be no more able to marry a woman and have her raise your kids while you concentrated on your career without judgement than you are today. You would still not be attractive to gay men or straight women. If you wanted to actually change those things, you would have to change your body, and also change other people’s perception of you. Not by reaching into their heads, because that is impossible, but with physical changes and changes to your appearance and mannerisms.
Problem is that the left considers violence acceptable consequences and that words and concepts are constantly redefined in order to justify that violence.
Oh hey we have yet another @DemonTree thread on transgenderism.
Now post the hundreds of hours of footage of burning, looting, and mayhem during the summer of love. How is that defund the police and promote anarchy working in the real world? Should we send some woke social workers to save the citizens of Afghanistan since the military can’t?
I literally showed the lie to your words, and all you could do is cry ‘yeah? You too!’, referencing a completely different topic like a goddamned four-year-old. That is pathetic.
Get help. Or get a priest. You need it.
I’d be willing to send you.
I’m not a social worker. Plus I don’t want be used as a human trampoline.
Ol’ sleepy has made a mess. Where is the tough Joe from the Corn Pop days?
There was no lie fool. You literally did what you accused me of when I mentioned the violence of the illiberal and unwashed left.
No you didn’t. He said the left considers violence acceptable consequences to speech they dislike. What the right does has absolutely no bearing on the truth or falsity of that statement.
I didn’t bring it up. If people don’t want to talk about it, then they need to not talk about it.
His posts could be replaced with buzzing without losing anything.
Not to mention the subtle Schrodinger’s wave function collapse reference when one is observed to enter one or the other bathroom. The joke had layers.
So thanks for doing the painful work of having to explain a joke. Shouldn’t have to. But here we are. Surrounded by humorless bastards looking for new ways to be offended.
You know, I don’t want you to get banned, nor other people with “conservative” views. But Jebus, stop saying “the left” when you mean “a person I saw on Twitter”
If you can find people on “the left” that number more than the number of people who, say, believe in Flat Earth Theory, then you have a point. 1 or 3 or 10 people on Twitter is not “the Left”
God, I hate that.
– good grief. The thread’s moved on well over 100 additional posts since then. Not sure how much of this I’m going to tackle at this point.
– aaaand, I was wrong about that. Somebody just did.
Um, no. We need to be regulating all of those things, because every one of them is a known means of transmission of dangerous coronaviruses.
Why on earth, if this did turn out to have started with a tourist in a bat cave, would that mean that lab procedures don’t need to be reviewed and enforced, or that wild animal markets don’t need to be better regulated or even closed down?
We’re supposed to guess not only what you mean despite the fact that you said something distinctly different, but also to guess what others mean?
I suppose you’re being consistent. But if you expect everybody to guess others’ meanings even when they don’t comport with the words, it seems to me unreasonable to complain when you think they guessed wrong.
You just said it yourself.
You said if it escaped from a lab, then safety procedures need to be reviewed. That’s what if/then means.
And you gave that in the context of a discussion about whether it was important to attempt to find out rapidly how the virus jumped to humans. If that’s why you (unlike Fauci) think it was so important to try to find out immediately whether or not it was a lab escape, then it makes no sense whatsoever to also say that you think the exact same measures should be taken whether it was or it wasn’t.
That is English. It is very good English, and I congratulate Stranger on it.
Talk about living in bubbles!
At the height of the COVID crisis the familial debate in June, 2020 was whether to send my daughter to Queens, NY, to attend St Johns University. It may be remembered that Queens was considered the epicenter of the COVID outbreak back in March, likely because the very Catholic school we were sending our daughter to had their Vatican student exchange in late February, early March.
Sophia was gung-ho for NYC, I was asking for caution given the above. Also, remoting to school was quite a savings than sending her to NYC.
Sophia handled this in the manner many teenagers do: by force of will. Lots of arguing, slamming of doors, politicking with mom, etc. But to no avail - she had to have me sign off on this, and yelling wasn’t going to do it. So, clock ticking, Sophia was desperate: she HAD to get to NYC! Had to!
She calls a family meeting, her first. Makes sure it works with both of our schedules, also a first. We meet at our (Sophia and mine) house. Sophia is in a dress, her tablet cast to the TV, and she spends the next 20 minutes going over the PowerPoint presentation she prepared for this meeting about, again, why she should go to NYC.
Long story shortened: I agreed that night to send her to NYC. I agreed to it for the simple fact that my daughter was mature enough to realize that a new manner of communications was needed and executed it flawlessly.
You say my answer was not as I described. But it was. Because the intended audience has shown us that the only forms of cross-political communication given by him are simple ‘you guys too!’ accusations and the repetitive brandishing of the same, tired insults, my answer was tailored to give the quality of response given us all these years.
An accusation was made, ‘The Left considers violence acceptable’. I ignored it, responding with ‘your guys too’ pictures.
As with my daughter, I, too, am changing my communication style as to meet my intended audience on their level. Given that:
… reasoned arguments are ignored with ‘you too, hive minder’…
… invective arguments are ignored with ‘you too, hive minder’…
… moral arguments are ignored with ‘you too, hive minder’…
Lots of different tacts have been taken. For years. And the same response, every time. ‘You too, hive minder’.
Given this, I have decided that responding tit for tat with the same foolishness is as much effort as I wish to expend on him. So, sorry, according to the rhetorical style of my intended audience, it was as exactly on point as I said, because I said.
Bzzzzz! 
Conservatives are not honest. Therefore, they should be banned from this website. Leave the discussion to the rational adults who live in a fact-based world. Ban them all. We’ll have less controversy, but more quality discourse.
The hive reaps what it sows. If you understood causation you’d realize that you jackasses in the pit and the fools who created the pit are the root cause of the so-called low level discourse. I know the emotionally undeveloped need a place to vent when their feels are triggered but one can’t be surprised when it’s counterproductive.
You’ll have an echo chamber of people banning everyone who doesn’t agree with them enough until the boards are shut down when at the owning entity discovers they exist and only have a handful of aged members, so why bother to keep the place going?