Some of these folks are post bottom surgery. Which means they no longer produce endogenous hormones and that taking them off HRT is one of the cruelties happening here. Because we need either testosterone or estrogen in order to function well and be healthy.
Of course, risk of assault is another.
The Canandaigua Police Department’s chief of police, Mathew Nielsen, said in a phone call that none of his roughly 30 officers spoke with the family prior to Sam’s death. He suggested that the family is confused about which law enforcement agency they called to perform the wellness checks.
The phone number the family said they called matched the number of CPD’s office. The family also shared a screenshot of their call log with NBC News.
ACAB
Makes me wonder if the governor of New York told him do your job or I’m going to have you removed
Or fascism. Or complete deregulation which is really what they are after.
Crash the economy, deregulate everything. Destroy all of our social services. And put us back to the 1900s when firefighters were private corporations and you were lucky if you could afford to get your house put out.
That’s what MAGA means. Robber barons!
I didn’t read your whole comment. I got to the point where you said you don’t want to see adoption end entirely.
And what I want you to understand, is the language in project 2025 is about ending adoption entirely for queer families.
So yes, when you come in to a thread about queer erasure, with concern trolling about women, yeah it’s going to feel like propaganda. And I had to go through your comments to be sure you weren’t a bot.
Because not all adoptions are wrong. To use your painted dog argument, yes some adoption agencies are predatory. Yes capitalism is predatory and it puts women in a shitty position when it comes to adoption. But that doesn’t make all adoptions evil.
Like if me and my partner wanted to be surrogates for a couple that couldn’t have babies, illegal.
That’s some authoritarian bullshit.
And I don’t know where you fall on the left spectrum but I’m a fucking anarchist. I don’t need authoritarians telling me my partner and I can’t carry children for our friends. Fuck that.
So yeah, adoption is way more nuanced than you are making it out. And in your defense of women, you defended queer erasure.
And then played your gay card to justify your shitty take. While throwing queer families under the bus.
It’s small-minded. In response to your question.
And I understand that there are economic incentives for people to give up their children for adoption. I also know that there’s economic issues that can make it difficult to raise a child.
And I also know that the way project 2025 is written, this will also target surrogacies.
If you didn’t want to argue, if you didn’t want to debate, why bring it up? Because from here it feels like propaganda to be honest.
Paraphrasing: I’m a gay man who has no interest in raising children. And I’m okay with the far right targeting queer folks because won’t someone think of the women? Also, here’s my left cred and I don’t really want to debate my position.
I mean that’s what you just did right? Do you see how that looks like propaganda?
Okay, to be fair I quit paying attention to the New York Times before Biden dropped as they were focusing way more on Biden’s age then Trump’s numerous felonies.
It’s inferred from intelligence reports, scholarly work by folks who specialize in Russia, and the statement of one of Putin’s former aids.
If you are looking for Putin going on record saying that he wants to reconquer territories that haven’t been part of Russia for well over 100 years, well you’re probably not going to find anything because he’s not making that proclamation publicly. Which makes sense, considering it would be a strategic mistake for him to do so.
The New York times uses Trump to sell copy.
Otherwise they would have said this months ago.
Fucking assholes.
I was aware that COVID most likely came from wet markets. But that’s selling hunted meat.
Animal agriculture is raising animals to eat. Often in confinement.
With bird flu, animal agriculture is a major cause for concern. But that doesn’t mean animal agriculture was the cause of all pandemics.
I guess we could argue that eating meat might be. But I also don’t want to tell folks who are living in poverty in other parts of the world that they can’t hunt for food.
So I feel like the ethical arguments are different too.
It’s mostly corn.
Granted, it’s not processed in a way to be fit for human consumption.
But still, most of it is corn. Some of it is corn cobs and stalks but most of it is kernels.
Outside of that, other grains are very common. Oats for example.
So, they are right. Raising plants to feed animals so we can eat the animals is less efficient than raising plants for us to eat. Especially in regards to cattle. Which is one of the most inefficient things in the US food system. The only reason it’s so cheap is because of subsidation, both of the cattle and the corn that’s grown to feed them.
And countries much larger than our own survive on rice and beans just fine. As queerminest eluded to in her comment.
As far as local food, I have a co-op. So I buy local vegetables and fruits when I can.
I agree with your first two sentences.
But at least with COVID and AIDS, neither of those are attributed to animal agriculture. They crossed into humans through exposure to animals, but in the case of AIDS that was non-human primates most likely. And in the case of COVID it was most likely bats. But in neither of those instances were those animals part of an agricultural system. In other words they weren’t being farmed
Swine flu, yes absolutely. Aids and COVID? Not so much.
I’m sure that’s true for some cases.
Many though? I’m going to need a source otherwise I’m calling bullshit.
One thing they’re going after is adoption and surrogacy.
According to project 2025. A child shall be raised by their biological mother and father.
Queer erasure won’t end with TQ. They’ll go after LGB too.
I chose my words carefully so it would be less triggering for folks who have experienced that kind of trauma. It wasn’t an attempt to minimize, but rather, to be mindful.
For context, I did time in State prison. Was pretransition at the time. But had trans friends, and witnessed first hand what they went through being housed with cis men.
My heart has been breaking over this issue since the inauguration. I just express it with tears rather than outrage.