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Indeed, it worked for Trump and Biden both. It will be interesting to see where all the people they alienated end up this year.

I disagree with Trump about that. He might have been right 5 years ago, but this harmful ideology has become pervasive. I personally know a bunch of biological women who got top surgeries. I know pediatricians in residency who are expected to go along with this and afraid to say anything that might shy patients away from it. I have a distant family member living in Seattle. He is a widow, and he started his 12 year old kid on puberty blockers. Like, I don't know, maybe the kid is having an identity crisis because mom died of cancer last year. Maybe you could have exhausted all other options instead of giving your kid puberty blockers before they're capable of understanding the effects. I'm absolutely livid about this one. It's one thing if you're a confused adult and make this decision for yourself, but to do that to a kid??? You and I agree that this should be a last case scenario. However, the experts say that hormone replacement is a better route to take before the child hits the one way street of puberty. Completely unethical, never mind the reimbursements for hormone therapy and gender surgeries. Again, this scenario is what is being promoted by the academic societies I mentioned above. If you think the experts are wrong, and if you try to bring this up in residency, you sadly run the risk of retaliation. If you have views that are contrary to the prevailing theories, you are better off keeping your head down and your mouth shut until you graduate. In my anecdotal experience, the only people I've heard criticizing this topic at the state medical meetings have been mid-to-end of their careers. And if you're critical of what they're pushing, your views/research aren't likely to be featured in any of their journals.

lol, how? The Romneys, McCains, Haleys and Cheneys loathe trump for improving their party and helping to make their awful opinions irrelevant. The only people who hate Trump more than liberals are the Never Trump Republicans paid for by the military industrial complex. Trump's dismantling of the GOP establishment is the greatest legacy of his presidency. Now, we just need someone to do the same to the DNC establishment.

AIPAC endorsed candidates in the United States have a 77% win rate in elections. People talk about Russian interference in our electoral process, but no one talks about Israeli interference on both sides of the aisle. AIPAC, and their attack dog, the ADL go and call anyone who doesn't outright support zionism an anti-semite to ruin their chances of getting elected. They even did it to Trump when Hillary started calling him anti-Semitic, so he went full on neocon on the topic of Israel. Some dual-citizen asshole in OUR congress showed up wearing his IDF uniform after Israel, a foreign nation, was attacked by Hamas. I understand why Zionism is important to them, but it really doesn't need to be a basic tenet of our foreign policy. You'll have to excuse me for questioning their loyalty to this country over the other one they're a citizen of. You guys can't seem to separate that supporting Israel's right to defend its existence is different than disapproval of Israel razing Gaza. For whatever reason, any criticism of Israel foreign policy means that said critic is a fundamentalist Muslim Jew hater or skinhead prison neonazi Jew hater. Again, I draw the parallels to the last ten years of Trump supporters - to many liberals, you could not disapprove of Democrat policies without also being some combination of a bigot/racist/xenophobe/homophobe/MAGAtard. Now, the same people who were unfairly being written off because of prejudice are using the exact same arguments and prejudice to silence anyone who doesn't toe the line on Israel.

I will say, you're also spot on about cal's experts lmao

Hate to say it woody, but the COVID pandemic has done irreparable, self-inflicted harm to medical community's integrity and reputation. It's known as COVID, not Wuhan flu because calling it Wuhan flu would be racist against Chinese. Never mind that this was the naming convention for all previous viruses becoming pandemic. Early in the pandemic, The Lancet, one of the world's most reputable medical journals published a letter signed by top virologists condemning the "conspiracy theory" that it did not have a natural origin. Oh wait, 4 years later, this is now the leading theory on the origin of COVID. "Don't wear masks," was recommended to the public by Trump's surgeon general in order to keep a scarce supply of PPE to the people who needed it most. This was followed by "masks reduce the risk," recommendation from Biden's surgeon general. No one in either of these specific situations did anything maliciously, but it led to lots of confusion, distrust, and ultimately people treating each other like second-class citizens based on mask preference (both ways). Not pandemic-related, but The American Association of Pediatrics, The American Medical Association, The Endocrine Society all advocate for gender reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy on minors as a treatment method for gender dysphoria. Personally, I can't for the life of me understand why this topic is an exception to the general rule that physicians aren't supposed to indulge patients' delusions. This forum talks about MAGA cult and librul cult all the time, but I'm probably the only one here who has any personal experience with the cult that is academia. I can say that the politics of the ivory tower are as toxic as American politics in an election year, but all year every year. If you have a wrong opinion, good luck getting published in a high impact journal. I like your posts woody, but a lot of times you rely on the logical fallacy of appealing to authority. These authorities have demonstrably gotten things wrong often. Especially with the hyperpolarization of every facet of life in the last decade.

What is the endgame to their argument that black people are too poor/dumb to obtain a driver's license?

Short-sighted waste of time that ultimately will help Trump.

I don't really give a shit about a dumb rhyming chant. You, right now, sound so much like liberals did for the past 10 years about Trump and his immigration policies. Words seem to count more than actions.

Case in point - AIPAC

ok retard

Bro, my issue with your post is that you are saying Dearborn Muslims voting uncommitted over Biden is antisemitism. These are not the people invading and interrupting congressional hearings to call everyone there murderers, they aren't driving a truck of peace into a crowd of Christians, these are not the people flying planes into the world trade center. They disapprove of how Biden is handling the situation (with materiel support to IDF and indifference to the violence being imposed on Gazans), and they voted against him. There is nothing antisemitic about that. If you can't see the difference between Ashli Babbitt entering the Capitol with a mob and some civilian getting shot in his IDF-occupied neighborhood, then we're just going to have to agree to disagree.

Wanting to stop Israeli massacre of Gazan civilians is now anti-Semitism? Come on dude, we had to sit through 4 years of every little thing Trump did being called fascism. These words lose their meaning when they're used ad nauseam. You can't be indignant that Muslims in Dearborn are unhappy that fellow Muslims are being killed because of American aid/approval to Israel.

It's hilarious that this globalist idiot is only capable of winning the swamp and not a single state.

I can be whatever scares you the most

who do you like?

Tulsi or Vivek, please.

And once again, "America First" cal proves that he cares more about foreigners than actual Americans.

Yeah, being imprisoned indefinitely because he published some things that were inconvenient for the CIA is sooo much different . You want a better comparison, look up Gonzalo Lira. He was an American citizen killed by the Ukranian government because he (stupidly, much like Navalny) went to said country to criticize said leadership. Regardless, Biden admin had the power to pressure them for his release and he did nothing because it would've been inconvenient for his war effort.

I'd say about 97% of the people complaining about Putin killing Navalny have been silent on the Obama/Trump/Biden government's treatment of Assange.

And the GOP neocons are saying the same as the Democrats, particularly, Nikki Haley, Liz Cheney, and Lindsey Graham.

Navalny, previously poisoned by Putin for being a political opponent, went back to the country being run by the same mafia boss to run against him politically. What did he think was going to happen? The griping about this from our politicians and the media is so annoying. Putin killed one of his own citizens, is America supposed to wage more proxy war on him as a response? What's the end game here? Same shit that happened with Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia and Gonzalo Lira 3 weeks ago in Ukraine. Maybe don't go to countries run by despots and criticize them. I guess the 10 million pounds Navalny asked MI6 for was worth his life.

Sadly, if Trump gets elected, his exam won't include one either. How can there not be a better option for both parties than an 80 year old?

Curious if you have an actual opinion on this topic. The US taxpayer is subsidizing the defense of the European Union, under the agreement that the other nations pay 2% of their GDP to defense spending. Through 2023, only 9 of the 29 European countries in NATO are holding up their end of the bargain. It's not pro-Russian to suggest that those 20 nations are taking advantage of us, the American taxpayer. You are treating Russians benefiting from American decisions as a zero-sum game, which is really only true for Americans who are part of the military industrial complex.