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Before 18? Have you, in these pages, ever supported an age limit? I do not believe you have. Meanwhile, you have attempted to turn an incredibly brief passage from an NIH paper that talks about stigma and psychiatric care for trans identifying people into it being the central issue. The paper is about an unacceptable increase in suicidal tendencies for people that have undergone these surgeries. You can’t be more disingenuous. Why you are fine with promoting these procedures that have such horrible outcomes is anyone’s guess. Maybe it’s just your twisted ideology that you regularly put on display.

Cam Newton is a weird dude. Clownish 🤡.

So, how would you react to a guy who says 5 different times that he is going to decide to punch you in the face, soon, maybe, I will let you know, maybe! So can he decide not to, even if you dont change, or say sorry, Would you be fearful, more and more or would you begin to change direction and run, or would you eventually say fu and strike first. How many times does trump think he can threaten, or how many times should he threaten. Is he not making himself look like Taco?

Chances they change course even a little? Zero point zero. More please!

I was dragged to see The Devil Wears Prada by wife and MIL. 2 hours later I was glad I went as I really enjoyed the movie. and Mrs. Lew bought the popcorn.

I think you're on the right path here. But regarding point 5, "What is motivating the United States government in this conflict?", before replying to this point I'd ask which United States? Because America is unique among the nations of the world. It is both a country and an empire. And what motivates actors doing the bidding of the country is different from what motivates those doing the bidding of the Empire. Adding to this, the Empire is not simply composed of Americans. Its composed of entities like the international banking system, aligned foreign interests, multi-national corporations, and vassal states and allies such as many European nations, Japan, to name some. I'm not sure why more people don't see this dual personality disorder as it can explain much of what goes on. So when I hear America First I don't think of isolationists like some here will cry, or America alone. I hear America the country first not America alone, the empire second. The Empire is never alone. Actors line Pompeo, Bolton, other neocons do the bidding and act in the interest of the Empire. Neoliberals too. They've all come out of the woodwork this week advocating for US intervention, which is no surprise as that's their primary mission in life. As a group they must be as excited as Baseball fans on opening day! Conversely, the populist movement is composed of citizens that are tired of endless wars and interventions that divert resources from what they see as domestic priorities. These people and some conservative compose the interests in America the country. Surprisingly, many liberals and leftist do too. Like Bernie Sanders for example. Only 19% of Trump voters in a recent poll support direct intervention. So for Trump the risk of direct US military involvement is losing his audience rather early in his term. Because Republicans can't win elections without this large block of voters (too bad the democrats can't figure it out and move to the center and get these people back). So the dilemma is the risk of losing his base vs. letting Iran off the hook here to fight another day and let Israel handle the problem. As for Iran, the smart thing to do would be to agree to a nuclear deal with inspections. But not some unconditional surrender scenario. If I'm them (which I am not) I'd do this on the condition that Israel submit to inspections and monitoring too. Because they already possess nuclear weapons and there's nothing in their recent actions that tell me they can be trusted any more than Iran can be trusted. Of course the Israeli's will respond to this condition with a vehement "no" but bringing this condition to the table will expose the issue to the discussion the servants of the Empire and Israel don't want to have at any point.

You can continue to argue against it, but stop using sources you clearly can’t comprehend. Or choose not to. PS, surgery IS part of the psychiatric support after age 18.

“Hey kid, I know you are struggling but instead of just getting you the psychiatric support you need, you should chop your body up and permanently sterilize yourself first and then get the psychiatric care you need. The data suggests a suicide attempt is 12x more likely if you take that route but I think it’s overblown. Let’s get you under the knife. Another option could be to make the decision when you are an adult but where’s the virtue signaling in that?” -roundy

⬆️ Denies existence of pedophiles. We know why.

Good It's obvious Newsom and Bass aren't going to do anything about it.

Did he compare the removal of hardcore sexual adult themed books from Elementary school libraries (can read them everywhere else) to what happened in Germany? Fascinating

Jonny James I've heard of. Don't know Kent Leach. Possibly a bit before my time in the Buffalo music scene.

Im surprised this hasn’t been posted here, but Mike Lee is on a crusade to sell off thousands of acres of beautiful, unspoiled Federal land for development. It’s received universal backlash - no one wants our beautiful lands spoiled. They’re protected and open to anyone. It’s a horrible idea. Mike Lee is right up there with MTG and Boebert for the worst officials in the nation.

No one's banning books or rewriting history, homer. As for purging voter rolls, sorry but dead people and illegals should be removed. And don't make me laugh about the media. They lost all credibility the past 4 years.

Okay, you’re obviously locked into one section of the paper and refuse to read the rest of it. The reasons for the higher suicide rate are social stigma, isolation, and depression. The solution is acceptance and understanding, not taking away suicide prevention lines. It represents traditional gender colors lmao

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He's dressed like that one kid in 3rd grade on picture day.

But you're fine with cutting their SNAP and Medicaid benefits.

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Winner winner chicken dinner. They fear-mongered during the campaign and created a problem that largely didn't exist. Why is that, an inquiring MAGA mind may ask? Because, under federal law, a wide variety of criminal convictions already lead to deportation. And those laws have been well-enforced. So this idea that there's 20 million criminal aliens running around is just as dumb as the "eating the dogs and cats" BS during the debates. It just isn't true. So, to hit the quota, ICE is so aggressive that it is rounding up any alien (a policy that I suspect a majority of Americans don't like given the importance of this labor to our economy) and is catching some US citizens in the net.

And you've neem ODing on it.

I've been using this brand of Melatonin for years and it's some of the best sleep I've had in my life. Happy to see JA17 endorsing a product that I actually use.

His ears finally caught a stiff breeze and he's been in the stratosphere since....

I am serious when I ask you this question: how many legal immigrants? I know at least 100 and they are primarily Latino with some Europeans. Legal immigrants act different than illegal immigrants, it doesnt have to be racial profiling, legal immigrants are not hanging out at home Depot waiting for work, legal immigrants are not driving around without any version of ID, legal immigrants are not committing crimes at a high rate. The fact that you believe that legal and illegal immigrants all act the same way is crazy.

So many jokes here... Steelers fans are dying off though. I don't know if I've met a Steelers fan under 30. For living in NC that's quite exceptional. Every die hard or fringe Steelers fan is over 35 here. The remnants of the holdover of the fans who's parents had the Steel curtain and went through he Bettis, Big Ben years who saw glory. I'm tired of people saying the Steelers travel well. They don't travel, they're already there! Pittsburgh is a very spread out city that enveloped the entire region that died off and sent transplants packing. I wish there was metric for air traffic to debunk this. The only caveat to fans traveling somewhere relates to location/temperature. Someone in Minnesota, Buffalo, New England, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or a colder climate is going to be a lot more apt to spend the money and fly south for a good game with warm weather than someone from New Orleans or Houston saying "hey, I can't wait to go to Minnesota for the Saints @ Vikings in December and we can check out [checks notes] the Mall of America and Walker Museum, and have great Minnesota food¹" The cowboys fans always pack stadiums full because... Nevermind. Too many "insensitive" jokes can be made. Like, literally, the only people who like the cowboys are dumb as *****. ¹Minnesota doesn't have unique food.