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Willfully Horn

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  1. Thanks for your post. I’m not accustomed to memory glitches, and I believe I read about a ruling, in the last few years, that affirmed misinformation was protected political speech. A quick search gets bogged down with a recent decision regarding social media, so I will take your word on the subject, at least until I have the time to track down whatever it was that sourced my memory. I will keep my mouth shut on the subject until then.
  2. Fuck SCOTUS in its skunk ass for making misinformation protected political speech. Those members who supported the protection of misinformation need to be removed from the bench. Full stop.
  3. The USAFA was overrun by evangelicals many, many years ago. It was widely reported. The man I most respected in my life, (five DFCs, and he turned down his Purple Heart because he viewed his injury as a mere nuisance compared to those of his brethren,) graduated from the Naval Academy but served in the Air Force, because, as he told Eisenhower, “the runways are so much longer.”
  4. There are other lithium feldspars out there. Lepidolite is a secondary source of that metal.
  5. The barkers romancing with a junkie She’s got a flat tire
  6. Tough to hold a trial on dismissed charges.
  7. This is why the criminals and freaks party is redefining misinformation as mere opinion, and not a thing which is verifiably false.
  8. I’d argue that people who want to ban trans athletes are doing just that. You say your children’s gender was known prior to birth. Imagine that one child was identified as male, but, from the get go that child insisted they were a girl child. Consistently and insistently. The facts show that refusing to acknowledge the child’s gender identity will cause trauma and consign your kid into the most at risk population in human demographics. The facts also show that medical intervention for trans humans is, perhaps, the least regretted major life decision humans make. Other people refusing to acknowledge your child as female is likely the single most damaging facet to the outcome of medical intervention. So, if sport is more important than life, keep on beating your drum.
  9. As this is now a CR thread: the party of criminals and freaks has whipped this into a wedge issue. Three years ago, less than 30% of the country was concerned about this issue. That number has more than doubled since.
  10. If those posts are there, where they ought to be, I’ve missed them.
  11. Oh-noes! Political poster banned for the election for refusing to hot take in the CR.
  12. Whatever the motivation, surveys of US citizens on this subject reflect a growing number of folks who support banning trans athletes in women’s sports. In 2021, 28% favored a ban. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-anti-transgender-laws In 2022, 58% favored a ban. https://news.gallup.com/poll/507023/say-birth-gender-dictate-sports-participation.aspx Last year, 69% favored a ban. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/
  13. I remember getting a text from a buddy, drunk off his ass, and outraged at a similar dynamic during the Olympics. Turns out, lots of folks were yelling about her sex parts. Later, I read the Olympic committee in charge of determining eligibility had issued a statement that the athlete was a woman. She deserved better.
  14. I’m thankful for Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan as their questions were often fact based. That’s one way to deal with directives that there will be no fact checking. Kudos, ladies.
  15. Jasmine Crockett will appear on MSNBC after commercials. Michael Steele: “Oh, yes! Oh, yes!”
  16. Just saw, on MSNBC, Ignatius O’Reilly mocking both candidates for misrepresenting the role of VPOTUS.
  17. “Vance is the only Vice Presidential candidate in US history who doesn’t know who won the last election.” -Lawrence O’Donnell
  18. I think the right is comfortable owning misinformation, framing the idea of misinformation as merely opinion, as opposed to that which is verifiably false.
  19. “Kamala wants to censor people who engage in misinformation…”
  20. Until it does. If history is any guide, it will.
  21. TIL that some silica crystals melt at a higher temperature than alumina.
  22. Here’s hoping that those folks who transplanted to Texas for political reasons will gtfo when our state flips back to blue.
  23. I would think the mayor is likely dirty.
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