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04-18-2024 , 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
I think Honduras had the highest homicide rate in the world in the early 2010s.

Anyway the infographic isn't misleading, just a tad hyperbolic.

A corrected one would be "top 10", "bottom 10", but the message would be identical.

Unclear why you are so tilted by something which is quite on the right side of information, even if imprecise.

Population number are very close to correct if as for the crime rate we use 2009-2012 data.

The infographic must be from around that time.

As for the requirement to own guns, that's only a tad imprecise again.

You are required to keep a gun which isn't technically yours for like 20 years (can be from 15 to 30 years after you are 18 depending on your role), basically if military aged man.

What's your problem with that comparison? That extreme brevity necessarily requires imprecision?

The broad message is absolutely correct and very significant
How unusually generous of you
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04-18-2024 , 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Didace
How can this be? My mother-in-law and her boyfriend just told her 35-year-old granddaughter that it was unsafe for her to visit Boston on her own (source - FOX News). How they thought it was more unsafe than where she lives (Las Vegas) I have no idea.
Reality is crime statistics may be down as no one reports it anymore. Have you tried calling the police?
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04-18-2024 , 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Didace
How can this be? My mother-in-law and her boyfriend just told her 35-year-old granddaughter that it was unsafe for her to visit Boston on her own (source - FOX News). How they thought it was more unsafe than where she lives (Las Vegas) I have no idea.
Have you ever met someone from Boston?

They almost universally have anger issues.
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04-18-2024 , 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
The constitutionality part was always inside the libertarian model; ie IF the gvmnt can't spend money on hcare THEN you can apply libertarian principles later on. If the gvmnt spends on hcare then taxpayers have a right to decide what exactly is being covered or not and why, and delegating that to the experts who cash in that money is a way to go bankrupt.
Tell me more about majoritarian libertarianism.
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04-18-2024 , 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
Have you ever met someone from Boston?

They almost universally have anger issues.
I thought they were just dumb - Source: Sam Adams' Your Cousin from Boston commercials.
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04-18-2024 , 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by coordi
How unusually generous of you
Nah, he just likes to be a "tad" hyperbolic and not be called a liar for it.
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04-18-2024 , 11:50 PM
Maybe not at the highest levels where real money is at stake. But I have been predicting for a couple years now that the more "trans" women insist on competing in female athletics, the more at the recreational levels girls would just decide to stop competing against them. And this seems to be how things are going.

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04-19-2024 , 12:36 AM
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Originally Posted by lozen
Reality is crime statistics may be down as no one reports it anymore. Have you tried calling the police?
Reality is you're allergic to facts. You imagine police act differently now than they did and that is malarky. Anyway, I pretty much only quote homicide stats because of this and only the biggest idiots possible could think that police and prosecutors are just ignoring homicides.
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04-19-2024 , 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by hole in wan
Bu

I'll take your word for it. As far as I can tell the term came from within academia from those that had the courage to speak out

That's a weird statement. Is a bottle opener a foolish oversimplification? The term accurately and concisely describes an ideology. It would only be foolish if it falsely misled people to not give cultural marxism its due respect. Since it's not due any respect, that's a weird statement.



The ideas are taken seriously by the vice president, much of the biden admin, medical institutions, admin at most universities, corporations with a DEI
I've never heard a credible person use the term in earnest. Googling it's origins shows nothing from academia. I guess the Nazis used the term "cultural Bolshevism."

Usually an academic would critisize a school of philosophy or a given writer, like Foucault or whomever. They hopefully wouldn't make up some mushy term that just means "stuff I don't like" and conflate giant corporations with with radical LW writers.

It's a foolish oversimplification because not everyone who thinks racism exists agrees that science is a social construct or whatever. Just like everyone who thinks weed should be legal isn't an anarchist.

These philosophies have faced constant criticism from academics. Which is good because they are silly imo.

Chomsky despises this stuff, for example.

https://youtu.be/urro3f4tDoI?si=HYSH7O0MozEoFSp7
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04-19-2024 , 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Dunyain
Maybe not at the highest levels where real money is at stake. But I have been predicting for a couple years now that the more "trans" women insist on competing in female athletics, the more at the recreational levels girls would just decide to stop competing against them. And this seems to be how things are going.

Shes an 11 year old on puberty blockers, which according to the people itt cause irreparable harm to muscle and bone structure while blocking testosterone production that would begin male puberty which is where the bone and muscle density become irreversibly superior to females.

According to the most bigoted of bigots (even itt) she should be more female than most females

They literally can't win with you people.
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04-19-2024 , 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by coordi
Shes an 11 year old on puberty blockers, which according to the people itt cause irreparable harm to muscle and bone structure while blocking testosterone production that would begin male puberty which is where the bone and muscle density become irreversibly superior to females.

According to the most bigoted of bigots (even itt) she should be more female than most females

They literally can't win with you people.
Depends on when he started taking puberty blockers.

But given we don't want to validate puberty blockers use for minors who think they are of the opposite sex, even if starting puberty blockers immediately would remove most of the biological sport advantage of being male, we shouldn't let them play with females anyway.
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04-19-2024 , 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by coordi
Shes an 11 year old on puberty blockers, which according to the people itt cause irreparable harm to muscle and bone structure while blocking testosterone production that would begin male puberty which is where the bone and muscle density become irreversibly superior to females.

According to the most bigoted of bigots (even itt) she should be more female than most females

They literally can't win with you people.
They shouldn't be able to win.

Someone in this thread just linked a video, the action you're criticising was taken by young girls who didn't want to compete against a boy. Why don't you tell us what you think of those bigoted girls and how they're wrong here.
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04-19-2024 , 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by chillrob
They shouldn't be able to win.

Someone in this thread just linked a video, the action you're criticising was taken by young girls who didn't want to compete against a boy. Why don't you tell us what you think of those bigoted girls and how they're wrong here.
If you measured that "boys" testosterone, it would be lower than all five of those "girls". Its already been conceded that testosterone is the secret sauce. Testosterone in puberty.

Those girls are morons who were manipulated by their bigoted parents. Thats how they are wrong.

Just like people in this thread will say one thing and wiggle to the opposite just to be cruel. Because cruelty is the point, not anything else.
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04-19-2024 , 10:42 AM
Oh noes, shenanigans taking place at (checks notes) middle school shotput competitions? You guys are worked up about that now?
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04-19-2024 , 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by chillrob
They shouldn't be able to win.
They are just a human. This is how you are talking about another human.

Just like a black person, or a gay person, or jewish person. You aren't excused from being a bigot just because you think someone is a lower class than yourself. Thats... actually the definition of bigotry...
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04-19-2024 , 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by coordi
If you measured that "boys" testosterone, it would be lower than all five of those "girls". Its already been conceded that testosterone is the secret sauce. Testosterone in puberty.

Those girls are morons who were manipulated by their bigoted parents. Thats how they are wrong.

Just like people in this thread will say one thing and wiggle to the opposite just to be cruel. Because cruelty is the point, not anything else.
Do you really believe that 8y old boys are the same average height of 8y girls? Is this a joke?
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04-19-2024 , 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
Do you really believe that 8y old boys are the same average height of 8y girls? Is this a joke?
Huh? This shows they are the same. I would have thought the girls were taller. The tallest kids at my kids elementary school were all girls.

https://www.babycenter.com/baby/baby...-beyo_10357633
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04-19-2024 , 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by microbet
Huh? This shows they are the same. I would have thought the girls were taller. The tallest kids at my kids elementary school were all girls.

https://www.babycenter.com/baby/baby...-beyo_10357633
Might be ethnic, in Italy 8y old boys are 3-4 cm taller
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04-19-2024 , 11:19 AM
How exactly does the height of an 8 year old translate into a physical ad advantage on shot put in middle school?

Is this a joke?

Find those surgeries yet?
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04-19-2024 , 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by jjjou812
How exactly does the height of an 8 year old translate into a physical ad advantage on shot put in middle school?

Is this a joke?

Find those surgeries yet?
8y old is to explain that there are (smaller) differences even pre puberty.

Anyway in middle school , do you think the girls and boys shoot the same weights ?
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04-19-2024 , 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by jjjou812

Find those surgeries yet?
You missed this one.


Surprise, surprise.
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04-19-2024 , 12:48 PM
So now you don't think 8 years old boys and girls can fairly compete in sports? Lol.

Who cares what the weight is if they are throwing the same one.

As others have pointed out, here is someone on puberty blockers, is at an age where there is little physical advantage and less pure competitive concern and you are applauding bigotry.

Your stature only grows here.
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04-19-2024 , 01:02 PM
I was taller than my peers in middle school yet somehow I was not disqualified from participating in shotput.
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04-19-2024 , 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
I was taller than my peers in middle school yet somehow I was not disqualified from participating in shotput.
Hold on, are you telling me that youth sports isn't a perfectly level playing field where all people have identical bodies, identical training, identical access, identical strengths in all regards?!?!?
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04-19-2024 , 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
Hold on, are you telling me that youth sports isn't a perfectly level playing field where all people have identical bodies, identical training, identical access, identical strengths in all regards?!?!?
Would you therefore support just making all youth sports co-ed?
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