The Trump Presidency, Season 2

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The law and order president strikes again! It's not even that I so hate Ulbricht, but Trump's stated reasoning is of course absurd. He doesn't care about making sense, since he knows his followers will just go with it. It would be easier to respect just wanting to free all non violent drug offenders which I doubt he'll do.
 
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...They should probably focus on banning assault weapons as well.
Two or three more Luigis and they'll develop a sudden interest in Controlling Dangerous Things, and, much as they might regret it, they "must say that In the Wrong Hands (i.e., "Not Us"), firearms can be Dangerous Things. They'll reluctantly do it, FOR THE CHILDREN!

I honestly don't think it is far-fetched at all. In fact, I fully expect it. It's always the authoritarians who round up the firearms. Besides, they said they definitely wouldn't so they definitely will.

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Wait, ain't the first organ to develop is the anus? Everyone born is now an A$$hole!
The language on that page is beyond ridiculous. Yes, I get that they kinda sorta mean "the zygote that will eventually produce eggs(large reproductive cells), or sperm(small reproductive cells)".

Wholly ignoring that not everyone produces either. And some few may be able to produce -both- (whether they're viable or not is a completely different matter).

Deliberately obfuscated and clearly written by some blithering idiot with a TP roll of Trump University diplomas.
 
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The "scum that worked to convict him" were the FBI, U.S. prosecutors, and the (conservative controlled) Supreme Court who denied his appeal.
 

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The language on that page is beyond ridiculous. Yes, I get that they kinda sorta mean "the zygote that will eventually produce eggs(large reproductive cells), or sperm(small reproductive cells)".

Wholly ignoring that not everyone produces either. And some few may be able to produce -both- (whether they're viable or not is a completely different matter).

Deliberately obfuscated and clearly written by some blithering idiot with a TP roll of Trump University diplomas.
The most convincing take I've seen on this wording is that it's laying groundwork for "person from conception" anti - abortion legislation/ foetal rights
 

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Trump just ended gender.

Not sure I understand how this "ends gender." Admittedly it's many, many years since my school biology lessons, but doesn't gender have something to do with whether the zygote receives an X or a Y chromosome from the father?

I'm not sure that I'd want to say this single fertilised cell at this point "belongs" to either gender, as opposed to "may be expected to develop in a certain way," but isn't that what it's getting at?
 
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Not sure I understand how this "ends gender." Admittedly it's many, many years since my school biology lessons, but doesn't gender have something to do with whether the zygote receives an X or a Y chromosome from the father?

I'm not sure that I'd want to say this single fertilised cell at this point "belongs" to either gender, as opposed to "may be expected to develop in a certain way," but isn't that what it's getting at?
That whole "gender is determined by X and Y chromosomes" deal is part of it, but that's one of those useful "lies for children" that you get in the first trip through a science topic. As with most topics in biology, what is really going on is much more subtle and complicated.

For a simple instance: a fellow I knew had Klinefelter Syndrome. He had an extra X chromosome. He was XXY. What gender shall we call him if we strictly follow the XX/ XY rule?
 

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That whole "gender is determined by X and Y chromosomes" deal is part of it, but that's one of those useful "lies for children" that you get in the first trip through a science topic. As with most topics in biology, what is really going on is much more subtle and complicated.
Its that way in general for science in school, and probably most subjects. In physics you start with simple velocity formulas. By High School you introduce "Assume a frictionless ball in a vaccuum". By late HS you are adding in simple friction. By college you start adding in calculus and figuring out actual friction to optimize for it. You eventually also start doing quantum mechanics style calculations, which are needed at extreme velocities, but also work for your 60mph trains traveling towards each other. Its just that at that scale the margin of error between proper relativity equasions and "v1+v2" becomes .00000000000001, so its ignorable.
 

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Not sure I understand how this "ends gender."
I wasn't trying to make a serious point here. I was hoping to point at this White House as a clown car alternating between rushing things out the door without thinking them through, and rushing insidious lies and half truths out the door.
 

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In all technaclity, humans are in fact, "domut shaped."

We have a hole that extends all the way through.
Nah. We're not all assholes but we are all (coffee) cups.



 
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I am really surprised they don't just go with "Y Chromosome = Male, No Y = Female."

Not saying its necesarily true, but if they want a more "rock solid argument", that feels like the "least ambiguous" option.
 
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I am really surprised they don't just go with "Y Chromosome = Male, No Y = Female."

Not saying its necesarily true, but if they want a more "rock solid argument", that feels like the "least ambiguous" option.
Things these clowns never heard of/were curious enough to learn about/lalala im not listening simply don't exist, and if they do, they should be suppressed to the point they can be eliminated in a way that it doesn't cause panicked riots in the future supply of victims.
 

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There are countless genders, and I can think of six sexes without really trying.
Xx, xy, x0, xxx, xxy, xyy. There's more than that but the more x's and y's you have tend less viable and less likely to be carried to term, and thusly rarer. Also, mosaics are a thing., as are things like CAIS. I suppose that the people for whom ambiguity and shades of gray break their brains would classify all of the above as M or F.

They would be assholes being cruel for cruelty's sake and ignoramuses who needed to pay better attention in class and didn't read enough books. I know this stuff and I flunked out of college!
 
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