He’s a terrorist that our government has declined to prosecute.

I don’t understand what you’re talking about.

Among a lot of Leftists, ideology is fairly religious

What?

do you really think ANYONE would/could transition just for supposed gains in sports, let alone EVERYONE?

No, that was pure sarcasm.

Even at the most practical level, there are easier and more effective ways to cheat at sports. But the hysteria around this thing that has never actually happened happening consistently means we need to pretend its a problem to soothe the nerves of people who are well past the point of competing in anything.

But the Cass Report shit was sincere. The amount of lying that went into structuring an argument for denying young people any form of bodily autonomy is staggering. Its going to go down in history like phrenology did. But we’re going to be forced to treat it as seriously as the Hutus and the Tutsies were forced to treat a guy with calipers, because this pseudoscience is being enshrined into British national law.

What experts do you think are lying about trans people?

British pediatrician Hilary Cass, just for starters

Organizations don’t have feelings.

Organizations are composed of people, my friend. And people have feelings.

the pros and cons of Trans athletes

Pro: Kids have fun playing together.

Con: Literally every single professional athlete will become trans so they can win at sports.

If you don’t know anything about it you should shut the fuck up and listen to those that do.

I remember folks from Phillip Morse saying this about smoking, then bringing out a congo-line of quacks to prove it. Then we repeated this with the Exxon shills denying climate change for thirty years.

Maybe I’m getting tired of being lied to by professionals.

The first U.S. troops to deploy after the Sept. 11 attacks are suffering from radiation exposure that the government has yet to officially recognize 23 years later.

Damn. Its Gulf War Syndrome and Agent Orange all over again. I was so close to joining the military right after 9/11. Happened a week after my 19th birthday, and I thought “Fuck I guess this must be a sign or something”. Whole family had a parade of “Don’t join the military that’s fucking stupid they treat people like shit and you’d be throwing your life away” condemnations for even suggesting the idea. Probably saved my fucking life.

Friends don’t let friends enlist.

I asked who stands a chance.

The people who collect the most corporate PAC money, obviously. So these are the only people it is reasonable to support.

NATO doesn’t have any feelings and isn’t pleased or displeased about anything.

Organizations are composed of people, my friend. And people have feelings.

Those strategist are typically smart people who listen to all kinds of things.

I’ve heard the same said of Joe Rogan.

A threat to the existence of our people and a future for our children

the west obviously doesn’t intend to colonize China this time

The Chinese state is a much harder nut to crack under the CCP than it was a century and a half ago under the Qing Dynasty. But there are plenty of John Bolton-esque figures in the American government who seem willing to give it the old college try.

What they did in the 19th century was egregious, though, and should be much more common knowledge than it is.

It’s very difficult to talk about the English Empire as the world’s premier opium cartel without taking a bit of the blush off the rose of liberal democracy and free market capitalism. These historical blemishes get dusted over for a reason.

Who stands a chance.

First they came for the Palestinians and I said nothing, because I didn’t want to ruin anyone’s electoral chances.

I don’t see how the german navy crossing through the taiwan strait will change any of that

They’ll be greeted as liberators, obviously.

I was shocked when i realized that people that talk bad about the hulkster are entirely justified.

He was a heel-turned-hero with a ton of extraordinarily positive media coverage following his heavy commercialization in the 80s. Can’t say I’m shocked an 80s-era celebrity athlete turned out to be a bad guy, given the litany of 80s-era celebrity athletes that turned out to be awful, miserable people in hindsight.

he must be the single most vile person in wrestling buisness.-

He pales beside Vince McMahon himself.

even if he did say it, it was most likely “kayfabe” - a pro wrestling term for maintaining the story line outside of the ring.

Well, yes. That’s a big part of what makes the quote easy to believe. It sounds like an adorably polite spin on the kind of teeth nashing promos common both then and now.

Snopes says they haven’t found evidence that this is something he actually said

I mean, I’m seeing it in black and white right there in OP’s post. Snopes even suggests it may have come from a popular wrestling zine of the era, they just don’t have access to the full catalog to confirm it.

Also TIL Jesse Ventura tried to unionize WWF and later learned in court that it was in fact Hogan who had ratted him out to their boss (Vince McMahon). (Or maybe this is all just higher-order kayfabe? 🤡)

If its kayfabe, its something Ventura has kept to well past its expiration date. He was outspoken on this incident long after he’d left the Minnesota governor’s mansion.

Ah, you’re talking about colonialism. You’re going to have a hard time finding anti-colonialists on Lemmy, unfortunately.

Okay, but can you at least admit that China is doing a genocide against Muslims and that we need to wage a holy war to end their tyrannical communist rein and restore a godly liberal democracy to their shores?

NATO states only seem to hear the things that please them.

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