War Room Lounge V32: Justice for Prokofievian!!

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Jack V Savage said:
To kind of elaborate, I think that you have a severe problem with understanding the proportion of various problems that leads you to get worked up over things that most people would regard as non-issues, and that's pretty disorienting, and "creepy" is the word I'd apply to that. Imagine if you're in the park and chatting with someone, and they keep reacting to movement in the environment or sounds with disproportionate fear. That's kind of what your posting seems like at times.
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Now this is actually an intriguing guns case to me.

"One of the people injured in a deadly warehouse shooting last month is suing Illinois State Police, saying authorities wrongly let the gunman purchase the weapon used in the attack."

This is the guy that had a felony on his record from Mississippi, somehow passed the Illinois FOID (firearms owner Id card) background and was able to "legally" buy his handgun from a gun store following all the laws because it came back clean. Then in 2014 the shooter for some reason applied for a ccw and it was then that they discovered his felony background and sent a letter to turn in his gun. Guy didn't, there was no police follow up, then a few years later (and a few misdemeanor arrests for domestics) he shoots up his workplace when getting fired killing 5 and wounded some more.

https://www.wifr.com/content/news/V...y-shooting-in-Aurora-warehouse-506891161.html
 
Higus said:
I'll chime in...
The puberty blockers just delay puberty so parents and children have more time to sort out their gender identity. Transitioning after puberty is much more difficult and less effective.
What's the actual issue? That companies profit off the drugs or that gender dysphoria is treated on children?
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I appreciate this response.

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The primary risks of pubertal suppression in gender dysphoric youth treated with GnRH agonists include adverse effects on bone mineralization, compromised fertility, and unknown effects on brain development.[8][9]


The issue is that companies are administering drugs with severe, potentially irreversible side effects (including unknown effects on brain development) to healthy young children who are think they might want to be the opposite sex.
 
waiguoren said:
Thanks for your thoughts.

I think there are few actions in that category that would do that kind of irreversible damage. Kids, in my estimation, are pretty resilient. So, for example, verbal/physical abuse are way more common than giving children hormone blockers, but I think only the most severe forms of abuse (e.g., causing the kid to lose physical faculties permanently) can really compare in terms of degree. In terms of frequency, I do think you are correct that this kind of severe abuse is still more common. However, I think that sort of abuse would be much more difficult/costly to prevent at the policy level. By contrast, banning the testing of hormone blockers on children would shut down the trials entirely at very low cost/difficulty. So it's an ROI or cost-benefit argument on top of moral one. Hope that clarifies it.




What is my "racial thing"?

I'm pretty confident I don't have a "general obsession with scouring the globe for things to get worked up about". I browse different headlines daily to see what's going in on the world. I don't do this in order to get myself "worked up". It's good to be aware of what's going on out there. You're also wrong that I learned about this (and other phenomena) by 'scouring the globe'. I learned about the hormone blocker thing in our very own Sherdog War Room. Took me no effort and very little time. To be candid, I think you probably threw that comment in there to try to annoy me and to get some of the bots in this thread to cheer you on.

The specific accusation (that I supposedly fail to understand proportions) is more interesting. I don't think you'll be able to come up with many examples beyond illegal immigrant crime and the hormone blocker thing. I think I explained the latter above quite well. The former can also be viewed as an ROI issue. Imagining there were a cheap, easy, and humane way to stop all illegal immigration today, my understanding is that you (unlike open borders advocates such as @Essie, with apologies if I'm mischaracterizing her) would take that deal. So the debate is really one about cost effectiveness.

Finally, I think your characterization of my emotions on these issues as including "fear" is unjustified. You aren't living in my head. I am though, and I can't think of anything I fear in the sense of sitting around and worrying about stuff. Maybe you meant something else though.
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I don’t know that I really advocate for anything but thanks for the name drop.
 
waiguoren said:
I appreciate this response.

Copy pasta from wikipedia:

The primary risks of pubertal suppression in gender dysphoric youth treated with GnRH agonists include adverse effects on bone mineralization, compromised fertility, and unknown effects on brain development.[8][9]


The issue is that companies are administering drugs with severe, potentially irreversible side effects (including unknown effects on brain development) to healthy young children who are think they might want to be the opposite sex.
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I'll have to do some research on the specifics, but from a high level, there are a lot of things that one can legally do to themselves or their children that are irreversible and that they may come to regret. Is the potential for some people to regret their decisions a good enough justification to prevent other people from making the decision for themselves?
(This assumes that the risks are disclosed)
 
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HockeyBjj said:
I had use H&R block for a couple years, but those bastards wanted to make me pay for their deluxe version because I now have an hsa through my employer (which I got zero tax benefit from)

I switched to TurboTax and it was so, so much nicer. And free
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+juan. Turbo Tax today is as smooth as H&R Block was back in 2005, imo (I mean that as a compliment).

One problem I had when doing somebody else's taxes though, forms are not as standardized as they could be, and you can get hung up when the program requires an entry for a box that is blank.
 
Trotsky said:
@Fawlty @Gandhi @Jack V Savage @panamaican

Let's imagine for argument's sake, that it is shown that Donald Trump had financial and/or personal ties to the sex slave parlor at which Bob Kraft was busted. Let's say it is proven that he has considerable involvement with those persons, with that business, and in that industry.

What is the response of religious social conservatives? What do they do if it is shown that Trump patronized and/or profited off of underage sex slavery?
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Talk hypocritical shit like always. Funny that the biggest backstabbing cunt at work showed up with ash on his head the other day.
 
@Cubo de Sangre @ElKarlo
We received these as a gift today. How lucky are we?
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Edit: this was a gift from a Japanese couple that are opening an authentic Japanese restaurant here. I can hardly wait.
 
I know worrying won't make it any better or cause this to change... but waiting is really starting to make me nervous for no good reason

God

Fucking



DAMNIT!

This is your fault @Fawlty ....... I don't know how I just know it is.
 
Trotsky said:
Speaking of Southern religious conservatives and Trump
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What.... the fuck

NOT saying Trump is Hitler but this instantly is what I thought of on seeing that Tweet:
 
Final Rehab said:
Has anyone else met a super cute girl that ends up having big purple labia and ass hair?

Asking for a friend.
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I've been lucky with the pussies I've encountered. I don't even know what I'd do if I ever came across a totally nasty vag. Closest I came was a girl who just had a bit more of an odor than others. I put my head down and powered through it. Then gave this and a box of chocolates as a gift:

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Trotsky said:
Does anyone else's tweets like cut off halfway down on here? If anyone posts a tweet, I have to view it in another window.
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It's hit or miss for me.

Sometimes I see the whole things other times only half.


Watching that Indiana Jones clip... can you imagine being an aspiring actor and getting a call from your agent:
"Hey, you're wanted for a period piece"
"Ah sweet... what period?"
"WWII bruh!"
"FUCK YEAH. So do I get to be an 82nd, 101st, Marine, or like Ranger?"
"Umm... no"
"British soldier?"
"Warmer but nope"
"Russian?"
"German..."
"Oh, uuuuhhhh....."
"You'll play a major role."
"So.... Rommel?"
"No... Hitler"
"FUCK!"
 
Hunter Simpson said:
Ugh. Perfume/cologne is poison to me.
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My father was the same way. Got him a bottle of cologne for xmas one year and his first response was "I don't wear cologne."

Guy was pretty smelly dude. Especially his feet. One day I remember he got in the car and I was like <VinceShock>.

Should have used it on his fucking feet.
 
Tobacco said:
My father was the same way. Got him a bottle of cologne for xmas one year and his first response was "I don't wear cologne."

Guy was pretty smelly dude. Especially his feet. One day I remember he got in the car and I was like <VinceShock>.

Should have used it on his fucking feet.
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lol why wouldn't you get him something that's meant for foot odor then? They make that shit.
 
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