ObjectivityIncarnate

The last sentence of my comment is my contradicting an assertion they directly made, with the information that backs up that contradiction above it.

we just barely squeaked Obama into office

???

Obama won in 2008 with 52.9% of the popular vote, a larger % of the popular vote than any President since.

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016. What are you on about?

The fact that the University of Pennsylvania swimmer soared from a mid-500s ranking (554th in the 200 freestyle; all divisions) in men’s competition to one of the top-ranked swimmers in women’s competition tells the story

In the 100 freestyle, Thomas’ best time prior to her transition was 47.15. At the NCAA Championships, she posted a prelims time in the event of 47.37. That time reflects minimal mitigation of her male-puberty advantage.

During the last season Thomas competed as a member of the Penn men’s team, which was 2018-19, she ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. As her career at Penn wrapped, she moved to fifth, first and eighth in those respective events on the women’s deck.

Removing the records set while competing in women’s events seems justified in this case.

Mailing someone more letters than they’re capable of replying to is not equivalent to, nor a component of, gaining access to the inside of their home.

Yeah, that is the key question. Not to mention that the headline is giving 100% of the ‘credit’ to the psilocybin.

Smells fishy to me.

Probably because they qualified it by making an excuse for themself instead of just owning the error without ‘strings attached’.

Your obstinance does not make you right

No, but being right justifies being obstinate about it, under pressure to betray reality in favor of a more comfortable narrative.

You’re imbuing and assuming motives to serve your prejudiced biases, and I made it very obvious that you are doing so, by pointing out how ridiculous the exact same line of thinking looks in a situation not tainted by those biases. You certainly would think someone was crazy if they were to insist that there is any real tangible difference between the descriptors ‘thief’ and ‘person who stole’, yet you’re making the exact same kind of insistence, because you need to, otherwise your prejudices might be challenged.

The fact that you have not even attempted to find any flaw in what I’m saying, and have chosen instead to defensively ‘nuh uh’ at me, only makes it more obvious how hard you’re coping.

As even the simplest analogy demonstrating the fundamental flaw in your reasoning sails clear over your head, lol.

I’m only unwilling to cling to demonstrable nonsense in the name of preserving my biases. You should try it sometime.

So calling people who steal “thieves” is also ‘using bad logic’, then, according to you. Because they’re “people who steal”, and using a single word as shorthand for that is actually just a sinister rhetorical tactic to dehumanize them.

Absurd.

This take generally comes from looking at the profits of successful drug X, while being unaware of (or ignoring) all of the drugs that have millions upon millions put into their R&D, that never result in anything that can go to market.

Overall profits will seem much higher than they actually are if you leave out that very-relevant data.

No thanks, I value my time.

No, they aren’t, it’s just shorthand.

That’s like saying that calling someone a “thief” is equivalent to asserting that that person is stolen. Actually pay attention to the absurd logic twisting you are employing here.

Youtube acting like it has anything to offer

This is weapons-grade copium, there is no other platform with even 1% of the content on YouTube.

Its is about “illegals” and not about “people who immigrated illegally”

???

“An illegal” is literally slang for “a person who immigrated illegally”. They are expressing the same exact thing.

No one is illegal–period.

Which is, of course, a refutation of a ridiculous straw man, because no one is actually labeling the people themselves illegal, when referring to them having immigrated illegally. It’s a deliberate cringy misinterpretation of simple shorthand.

If you call someone a thief, are you saying that they are theft, or are you saying that they stole?

It is obviously clickbait. It would take no more effort for that headline to say “model” where the word “one” is, but they deliberately wrote “one”, because the intention is to make you think it’s the exact same plane.

The 10% of the time when it’s both folded and unfolded must be sublime.

Probably because you’re making references to a ~30 year old episode of a cartoon, as if it’s your own joke.

A lot of the gay elders i know are tired of history being changed when they were actually there. Unfortunately the biggest myth is that [Marsha P. Johnson] started the stonewall riot and kicked off the lgbt movement.

But in fact she wasn’t even there when it started. She also referred to herself as a drag queen/transvestite… not trangender. Sylvia Rivera is the one who is trans not mpj.

If anything it was likely a big butch lesbian who started it.

There wasnt even a brick that started the riots. A lot was happening at once, but it most like started when cops began harassing Butch Lesbian Stormè DeLarverie and someone, no one is sure who, stepped in to her defense. Violence broke out and next thing we know, we have the stonewall riots. Maybe bricks were thrown with Molotovs, but no one can be credited with doing anything first except maybe DeLarverie asking for help.