Jones has a right that his assets not be sold unreasonably as a fire sale or for an illegitimate purpose

Genuinely asking: is that true in any way shape or form?

Because I was under the impression that when assets are seized they stop being yours and you have no right to anything regarding them. But maybe that only applies to poor people

Damn, way to miss the mark 🤣🤣🤣

Hence

Vote progressive in the primaries

Get enough Progressives and enough left-leaning Democrats together on the issue of rank choice voting, and it really could happen. Obviously, I’m of the opinion that it’s the only way it could happen. So even if the chances are small, it’s what I think we should shoot for.

Let’s not pretend they don’t know what they’re doing. He means it exactly like that, and so does everyone who’s listening to him.

If you’re “out” then stop coming on social media to argue with people.

You don’t want anything to do with the situation, but yet you insist on being part of the conversation.

Without me

Nobody asked you to be part of this conversation, yet you keep showing up. If your morals are so important to you, how about you keep your word.

asked to be part of a political system

But, you’re not being asked. You already are. You don’t get to pretend you’re not, just because you didn’t give your permission. This isn’t an opt-in situation.

And I get that maybe you feel that isn’t fair, and I agree it isn’t. Just like none of us asked to be born, none of us asked to be part of society either. But we are, and we have to deal with that now.

His point is that some people think killing is so wrong that they’ll actively advocate for a course of action that will kill waaaaay more people.

You value your own moral purity over the lives of other people.

That’s his point.

That’s how it’s going to be as long as we continue to use First Past the Post voting.

And since the only people who have the desire, and potentially the power, to change that are Progressives who caucus with the Democrats, vote Progressive in the primaries and Democrat in the general. If you’re not willing to do that, then yeah you might as well get comfortable with the current system.

The problem is that “biological man/woman” is a nonsense pseudoscientific term. There’s multiple forms of sex determination: chromosomal, hormonal, and phenotypical, for example. And none of them necessarily reflect gender, which is about how the brain develops.

Chromosomal sex is what most people think of when they use terms like “biological man/woman” but the chromosomes themselves aren’t nearly as important as the SRY gene which, if present and active, triggers an embryo to develop hormonally and phenotypically male sex characters and male gender. But the SRY gene isn’t always where it’s supposed to be or working how it’s supposed to work, which can cause mismatches between sexual development and gender.

And that’s only one known potential cause due somebody to be transgender. There are more that we know of, and probably more that we don’t know of.

So yeah, “biological male/female” is a gross oversimplification to the point of being straight up bullshit.

Google WPATH Standards of Care and read that document for the truth. It’s the actual rules that doctors are supposed to follow for treating trans people.

Until you’ve read that, you can’t have an informed opinion on the matter.

Women’s sports are divided out so they can compete equally.

This isn’t true at all. Women’s leagues were created because men refused to let women play in the leagues that were already created. That’s literally all there was to it.

“If nuclear war happens, we won’t be second in line pressing the button,”

Which means you’ll be pressing the button first. Which means you’re the one starting the nuclear war.

And the worst part is, I think that might actually be what me means.

So… MAGA voters

To the fascist, hypocrisy is a feature. It’s a tool that removes restrictions for themselves while it restricts others. It’s a flex; their strength is so great it can’t be bound by internal consistency or mental consonance.

To the fascist, if hypocrisy grants them more power then it’s a good thing

The difficulty is that the only way to achieve equal status is through equitable treatment. But some people don’t want equitable treatment, oftentimes because they don’t want equal status.

I don’t have to imagine rotflol

My kid and a bunch their friends deal with it, and I and many others are there to help them. And it sucks for them BIG TIME. It’s hard, even with supportive family and friend groups. My kid had two classmates just this year lose their lives to suicide due to LGBTQ hate.

The 90s were worse.

I really think you have no idea what you’re saying.

Great example of how fascists view the law as something to oppress others, not to restrict themselves. “Law and order (for thee not for me)”

Fwiw I’m a trans person who grew up in the 80s/90s and I still think the 90s were way WAY worse than present day for trans people.

Things are bad right now, really bad, but they’re not as bad as they were in the 90s. Not even close.

That’s just how bad the 90s were.