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Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is set to walk out of prison Wednesday -- but she won't be entirely free. Manning's 35-year sentence for leaking an enormous trove of military intelligence records was commuted by President Barack Obama in January. But Manning is still appealing her conviction in a case that could take years, and the government has yet to respond to the appeal. And all the while, Private First Class Manning, 29, will remain an active duty soldier in the U.S. Army. She won't be paid a salary, and it's highly unlikely that she will be called to serve. But being placed on voluntary excess leave rather than discharged, says one of her attorneys, makes her vulnerable to new military punishment or charges if she steps out of line. Such an offense could be anything from getting into a fistfight to revealing previously unreleased classified information. Manning could even get into trouble with the military for speaking and writing. The Army private then known as Bradley Manning was just 22-year-old when she leaked nearly 750,000 military files and cables to WikiLeaks. Manning was court-martialed and sentenced in 2013 to 35 years in prison, with opportunity for parole after seven years served. n a statement given to the TODAY show the day after sentencing, Manning came out as a transgender woman. Last Tuesday, in Manning's first official statement about her plans after prison, she said, "I can see a future for myself as Chelsea."
This is a happy day amidst troubled times. Thanks Chelsea, for having done the right thing, and thanks Obama.
Manning discovered widespread corruption, deeply unethical behavior and absolutely unacceptable conduct, and she decided to let fundamental human rights and dignity overrule artificial power structures, so she exposed the lies, and of course the liars punished her.
It must have taken immense bravery, and we should admire her, not attack her.
Eat the rich.
Are we talking about Manning or Trump?
You are welcome on my lawn.
As a whistle blower bringing a program back under civil oversight, Manning did well. However, the methods used were wrong. There was never any need to seek personal fame through the media, and if proper channels had been followed there would have never been a sentence that needed to be commuted.
Don't be ridiculous. Trump isn't suicidal.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Doesn't qualify at all.
As long as she is on active duty, she falls under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). If the charge is violating military rules or regulations, she would be processed under the UCMJ. But, even for normal active duty personnel, many crimes or charges are handled by normal civilian courts if they do not involve other military personnel or occur on military property. The military has the option to process them under the UCMJ, but often just let civilian courts handle the charges.
Trump consistently acts incompetent, and needs a serious medical check-up to verify his cognitive capability to remain president or be removed for medical reasons (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or simply Dementia, etc.)
7 years too late.
So indiscriminantly dumping thousands of classified communications in an active warzone is "OK" because you hate Bush.
But -- and this is assuming that the "narrative" is true -- Trump giving information to Russia pertaining to known terrorist plots to place explosives on civilian airliners that would result in the murder of innocent civilians is somehow "immoral" because wanting to protect civilians is evil now because Trump?
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Cute!
Maybe they were using speech-to-text software? Even Dragon gets a lot wrong just reading text into speech, and software going the other way must also deal with background noise, etc.
Have you seen his diet?
Eat the rich.
...giving information to Russia pertaining to known terrorist plots to place explosives on civilian airliners that would result in the murder of innocent civilians is somehow "immoral" because wanting to protect civilians is evil now because Trump?
No, not "because Trump." It's because he isn't Clinton. This would be exactly the same response if any other non-Clinton candidate had won and done the same thing. If a Clinton had won and done this, it would be the wisest act of diplomacy ever.
Yea, Seth Rich was just shot dead in DC for giving the DNC emails to WikiLeaks, and then the police were told not to investigate because they might find the truth and that Russia wasn't involved in the email leaks at all.
I commented to another asshat that he and his friends should leave Slashdot and go find a Beavis and Butthead forum on Reddit. This topic doesn't help.
Maybe they were using speech-to-text software? Even Dragon gets a lot wrong just reading text into speech, and software going the other way must also deal with background noise, etc.
Then maybe they should try reading their fucking post first before pressing "Submit"?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
You shave? Trim your nails? Cut your hair?
He has the best diet.
Nobody has a better diet than him.
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Spare us the 'web design': direct link to image.
It's a "tragedy" that her genitals may change? What, were you hoping to fuck her?
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You Can't Handle the Truth!
How long be for chelsea get's an code red?
right? adults talking together like trump and russian diplomats is perfectly fine
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1) When did you do a DNA test? Because there's plenty of people who are anatomically male who are XX, and anatomically female who are XY. Odds are high that she's XY, but there's certainly no guarantee. You cannot simply assert "she's XY" as a fact without a test.
2) Is that how you interact with people - going around insisting on DNA tests with them before you can figure out how to proceed? And if so, do you demand DNA tests only for just sex chromosomes (or just the gene SRY), or do you insist on other DNA tests first as well?
3) Why do you care so much what's in her pants? It's a bit creepy, as if you have some sort of sexual obsession with her. Who thinks about other peoples' genitals this much, apart from someone with a sexual fixation?
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All the best people say so. Very good people, highly professional, top-level people.
Eat the rich.
Obama: Working with the security community to develop a mid-east strategy.
Snowden: Whistleblower exposing highly illegal activities of secret government agencies at great cost to himself. Very methodical in his process of leaking to minimize any collateral damage.
Manning: Whistleblower exposing highly activities of military and other government agencies at great cost to herself. Can be criticized for the indiscriminate nature of the leaks but had much different conditions than Snowden.
Trump: Just bragging to stoke his own ego. Endangers allied intelligence source for absolutely no other benefit unless he is actually in collusion of a rival power (which I personally doubt). Total disregard for his duties of office or of any responsibilities of those reporting to him.
I really wonder what kind of mentality someone has to have in order to not to be able to see the difference.
More to the point, you don't have to think for a long time about the fact that Israel had critical information about Daesh to realize that there's some extremely sensitive information gathering source that they don't want getting out, and quite possibly one that could get people killed in a brutal manner if exposed.
It was information given to the US that wasn't even allowed to be shared with US allies because of the sensitivity of its source.
Jesus Christ... just how many trans haters are there on this site?
LOL.. You do realize they said the same thing about Reagan right?
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Info the Israelis gave to us in confidence, that we very well won't be getting any more of in the future, because Trump is an imbecile.
And how do we know that?
The media that's SOOOOO CONCERNED about Trump spilling secrets turns around and SPILLS MORE SECRETS???
B-b-b-b-b-but TRUMP!!!!!.
Grow the fuck up.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ you progtards are like a broken pull-string toy that can only spout crap like "Rethuglican!" "Booooosh is EVUL!" (now Trump), and of course, "That's RAAAACIST!!!
All the while you cover for Democrat failures such as Hillary! when the 1%er billionaire Democrat banksters and money launderers force her down your throat. Sometimes I really think inner city black schools are deliberately set to fail by the Democrats that run them just to keep blacks on the Democrat voting plantation with "moah free stuffs!"
You're utterly fucking predictable and about as deep as a July parking lot puddle by a pawn shop in a dilapidated Florida strip mall.
Slashdot is always flooded with teenagers who love to try to get a rise out of other people by posting racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, etc. Plus some legitimate racists, homophobes, transphobes, misogynists, etc, but a large portion are just immature kids.
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Yep. Putting Snowden and Manning in the same catagory is a bit of a disservice.
Manning, regardless of one's opinions on the whole trans thing or whatnot, clearly had mental issues and should not have been given a clearance. When Private Manning leaked the material, it was out of anger at the military and the desire to cause it harm. Nothing showed clear cut criminal behavior of the US government, State Department or US military. Just lots of sensitive or embarrassing material.
Snowden showed care in the release of the information. He was specifically disclosing illegal activity of the US government and had no other way of getting that information to the people who could stop it. You can only safely whistleblower lines in the intel and classified community is only for minor stuff. Entire programs being illegal? Yeah, you try to work within the system on that, at best your career is destroyed.
Drill sergeants should unilaterally be able to cut anyone from military service for any reason whatsoever. Manning showed mental instability from day one.
He sure was the lesser evil. I don't doubt that.
Unfortunately the election process does not allow for "neither, reroll!"
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
He only has to last 4 more years. If only to avoid Pence as prez.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Info the Israelis gave to us in confidence, that we very well won't be getting any more of in the future, because Trump is an imbecile.
The only people saying the intel was from Israel are the media and an anonymous source in the government. Yet we were told by the media only a day earlier that the Russians could reverse engineer the intelligence provided by the POTUS despite him never mentioning the source. In fact, according to the National Security Advisor the President was not told of the origin. Strange how the media can reveal the presumed source (nation state) of the intelligence but mere false rumours about the President telling the Russian Ambassador and Foreign Minister about the threat not the origin of the information is enough to get the media into a genital licking orgy.
You identify as transgender in your head.... Technically, your DNA puts your body in one of two genders...
You confuse gender with sex. Your sex is which dangly bits you popped out with, and is controlled by which chromosomes you have.
Your gender is an identity, and has a more complex control, likely related to a combination of genes on non-sex chromosomes as well as environment.
These days, you can change your sex (more or less successfully) without changing your gender or DNA.
It's hard to claim lesser-evil when one is incompetent and the other is a retard, and yet both have managed to con their way into shitloads of money.
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Actually there are a lot of legal ways the military can hold an enlisted soldier past their ETS. One example being stop loss. Another is oh we forgot to do your paperwork in time so you have to stay in until we process you.
I am in the military, and I know multiple people 1 -3 years past their ETS and are still in because of various reasons not of their choosing.
Lots, because the nerds are angry that trans women get to look at boobies any time they want. Just drives them crazy.
I think we'd all be happier if you minded your own business and didn't discuss things of which you're ingnorant.
Obama survived the Presidency despite his smoking habit...
He was also 48, 180 lbs and a runner, not 70 years old, 235 lbs, and on statins for high cholesterol.
I would not bet a lot of money on Trump being alive 8 years from now, for health reasons alone.
The government elected not to try Snowden in absentia, so he hasn't been convicted of anything. No conviction -> no pardon.
Also, if Obama said (and I'm not suggesting that he was inclined to do so) "we're not going to pursue charges against Snowden," someone else could still bring them later. The way out is for the government not to give a damn anymore, or for charges to at least be brought before a judge where they could be dismissed with prejudice - except, they wouldn't be, because, as the law is written now, there's a good case for them. I suppose, Congress could amend the law to include a Snowden exception, but I doubt that'll happen anytime soon.
[...] never had to deal with a financial crisis or drugs or physical abuse.
Great Recession, checked. Half of extended family are either drug smugglers or drug addicts, checked. Drunk mother throwing pots, pans and plates at my head, checked.
It's people like you that should travel, because your mind certainly doesn't.
I've traveled all the San Francisco Bay Area for church and work. Los Angeles twice, Boise twice and Las Vegas once.
The things that work for me are Planet Money, 99% invisible, the Memory Palace, Invisibilia, Mythbusters, the White Rabbit Project, How It's Made, Modern Marvels, Battle 360, Future Weapons, anything by Neil Degrasse Tyson, Actuality, Freakonomics Radio, Radiolab, Car Talk and LinusTechTip's WAN Show, anytime that Luke and Linus host together.
Other than the fact you haven't had your morning coffee (I'm drinking my skinny vanilla latte right now), do you have a point to make?
At least Pence isn't incompetent. Trump has no fucking idea what he's doing. It's like putting a chimp behind the wheel of a jumbo jet.
Except that the treatment itself is gender reassignment, and it's effective. Example study:.
Example:
Example:
Etc. Etc. Etc.
You're wanting to withhold effective treatment, why exactly? Because it makes you uncomfortable? Is your identity or sexuality so fragile that you can't deal with existing in a world with transpeople, and as a consequence want them to remain untreated? Because that is the treatment.
It's quite true that transpeople have higher suicide rates than the general population both before and after treatment (although not the same before and after). But what exactly do you expect when dealing with family rejection, workplace discrimination, medical discrimination, parenting discrimination, huge medical costs that they have to bear unlike people being treated for almost any other condition (aka, they pay in their insurance premiums for other peoples' treatments but other people don't do the same to them) and (combined with workplace discrimination) correspondingly higher rates of homelessness, higher rates of sexual assault, higher rates of physical assault, pricks passing "bathroom laws" and the like, and general anti-trans assholery, e.g. like you find here at Slashdot?
Clinton wouldn't have done it. That's the point. Fuck it, Bush Jr wouldn't have done it. Can you see any President in living memory, except maybe Reagan (who had an excuse) doing this? I can't.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
The Fat-low Creamer telling someone they are not making a point.
I'm only willing to read so much verbal diarrhea. If I can't find the point, I'll point that out.
APK telling someone they are offtopic
I'm not APK.
Excercise? Who needs it.
False. Manning's motivation was not political — as already cited above, he was trying to impress his gay friend(s).
You are welcome to question Trump's judgment, but his actions are completely legal — what to communicate to other nations is entirely in the President's discretion. Manning and Snowden broke national laws — just laws, I might add, whose validity no one is questioning.
I really wonder what kind of mentality someone has to have in order to not to be able to see the difference.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Perhaps trusting Wikileaks wasn't the best move, but she did expose some serious corruption and of course war crimes like the "collateral murder" in Iraq.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Intersex conditions (of which chromosomal reversals are a type) are surprisingly common. For example, genital anomalies occur in 1 in 300 births, with outright ambiguous genitalia in 1 in 5000. Estimates of rates of intersex conditions including non-visible traits are as high as 1-2% of the global population - about the same rate as red hair. Some conditions are rare in the general population but high in specific groups - for example, 0.3% of Yupik children are born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia, while 5-ARD (a curious condition where children are born seemingly as female but develop a penis and descended testes at puberty) is very rare globally but higher in the Dominican Republic - in one village 12 of the 13 families there had at least one child with the condition.
Males with XX and females with XY are just another in a long line of sex chromosomal abnormalities including XXY females, XXXX females, XXYY males (1 in 18-40k),XXXXX females, XXXXY males (1 in 85-100k), XXY males (1 in 500-1000), XXX females (1 in 1000), and XO females (1 in 2-5k). And it's not just changes in numbers or selections of chromosomes; the SRY gene (which is really the virilization cascade trigger, not the whole Y chromosome) seems unusually prone to migration.
So again: if you want to assert that Manning is XY: show us the lab results. You can say it's most probable that Manning is XY and get no contest from me. But chromosomal abnormalities are common enough to make arbitrary assertion of the claim as fact indefensible.
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"LA twice"
Once to visit my brother's biological father and his family in 1985. Once for a church meeting at the LA Arena in 1995. Got no other reason to visit the South.
Who thinks about other peoples' genitals this much, apart from someone with a sexual fixation?
People suffering from transphobia - a fear that they might find someone attractive but then later discover that they have the "wrong" genitals, resulting in deep shame and disgust. That's why the traditional portrayal of transgender people in movies and on TV is for a guy to date a hot trans woman, discover she has a penis and then throw up.
It's as if being attracted to someone, loving someone, is wrong and disgusting if you can't also insert your penis in your preferred hole. There are also a bizarre panic over theoretical fake trans woman rapists in bathrooms, let's not forget that.
The risk of this happening is apparently great enough (in their minds) to warrant all sorts of oppression and general asshattery.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I'd love to know what the shared user base between 4chan and Slashdot is. Including user names, for top kek, lad.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
How many countries could fit into this description given by White House officials:
" The officials declined to identify the ally but said it has previously voiced frustration with Washington’s inability to safeguard sensitive information related to Iraq and Syria."
from
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.3a325f84481a
just the first link I came across can not spend too much time now at work on this though I do recall reading other places where officials gave very narrow hints without saying names. But does it really matter in the long run president giving away intel to outsiders before allies in any case is going to slowdown how much other countries will be willing to share in fear for their agencies being hurt.
lol captcha syringe
I don't care what you call it. There's no cure for it, so why not let him live a happier life as a female? How does it affect you?
Oh, that's right - it doesn't, so quit acting like a crybaby about it.
Don't worry - nobody said you have to like it. (That's the best part)
It is not an obsession with someone else's genitalia but an aversion to join in the peer-pressured delusion.
No different than Rachel Dolezal claiming to be black. No matter how much she frizzes her hair or tans in a tanning bed, she is not nor will ever be black.
Reluctance or refusal to participate in someone else's delusion doesn't mean people are automatically -phobes.
We should all treat other people with respect, as we are all human beings. Just as transgender people should be respected for living their lives however they want, other people should be respected by allowing them to have their own thoughts without fear of reprisal.
"What's put in place" is their own tissue.
Male and female genitals develop from the same initial sets of tissues; every organ has a homologue (although those descending from the Mullerian or Wolfian ducts are degenerated to very small sizes in the opposite sex). The clitoris and glans are the same organ. Same tissue, same nerves, etc. Under the influence of testosterone, for example, the clitoris becomes several times larger. The shaft of the penis in women is bifurcated, beneath the skin, and not as developed - but still present. The labia minora and scrotum are the same tissue. Guys, see the line in the middle of your scrotum? That's where your labia fused. On and on down the line.
Where GRS has to make compromises is with degenerated organs, where the equivalent tissues are too small to be useful. For FTMs, the shaft of the penis is the biggest challenge, while for MTFs, it's the vaginal barrel. While the lower portion of the vagina is equivalent to part of the male external tissue, the upper portion is Mullerian, which is degenerated. Hence MTF GRS uses grafts (grafts also being used for natal females with insufficient vaginal depth). Also, while testes and ovaries are equivalent organs, and most cells in the body react to changing hormones by changing their behavior (for example, breasts develop in MTFs under the influence of estrogen, and they can breastfeed a child, just like any other woman), there's not yet a technique to change the transcription factors that affect hormone production in them.
In short, in the human body there are aspects that absolutely are reversible, and there are aspects that are not at present reversible with current technology. The techniques used to overcome the latter are the same as are used for natal-sex equivalents needing reparative or reconstructive work. Without gonadal hormone production, hormones must be taken artificially - but they are the exact same hormones as are normally found in the bloodstream, and cells respond to them in the same way.
Now, could you clarify why exactly you care so much about their genitals?
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what is 4chan? do they have a newsletter i can subscribe to?
If there are large numbers of 4chan users here, they are impressively restrained...
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United States Senator
from Illinois
In office
January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008
Member of the Illinois Senate
from the 13th district
In office
January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004
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Intersex conditions (of which chromosomal reversals are a type) are surprisingly common. For example, genital anomalies occur in 1 in 300 births
You have a very lenient definition of "common." 0.33% is not common.
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Or at least farther than the immediately adjacent states.
For the record, Idaho is not adjacent to California. You have to drive through Nevada and Oregon to get to Boise, Idaho.
Though no one can say for certain, it is very likely, she would've either done it deliberately (for the same perfectly sane reasons Trump did), or left the information (and lots more of it) available for the Russians to avail themselves of on her outside server(s). Which she would have kept using "for yoga schedules" to avoid various things from becoming subject to Open Record laws...
Only you would've defended her tooth and nail, while dismissing all dissenters as sexist.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Black & white worldview... You know that's an indication of a personality disorder*?
In fact there's little difference between men and women _excepting_ the sexual organs themselves and people without functioning sexual organs aren't that uncommon. Just because you don't understand something doesn't make your crappy ramblings true.
(* well it _is_ true but most people like that are simply either idiots or assholes)
Maybe suicide rates are affected by the fact that they're subjected to constant hate spewed by bigoted morons.
I've known people that thought transsexuals were homosexual males that tried to lure poor straight people to have sex with them as a kind of planned gayification. Now if they had been idiots without any logical ability it could be accepted as yet another crazy idea... But they weren't idiots. Well, not in other aspects.
It used to be different. :(
There's no active war zone the government is a part of.
The United States government hasn't declared war since WWII.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or is modern government entirely illegitimate not following it's own constitution? Is the modern government entirely illegitimate, working not on behalf of the People, but on behalf of corporations? Should the People form a new government, to replace the old false one?
Intersex conditions (of which chromosomal reversals are a type) are surprisingly common. For example, genital anomalies occur in 1 in 300 births
You have a very lenient definition of "common." 0.33% is not common.
He didn't say they're common. He said they're surprisingly common, which means they're more common that you might expect, not that they're common in any absolute sense (whatever that means, anyway).
Note to ACs: I usually delete AC replies without reading them. If you want to talk to me, log in.
Well I've been known to frequent /b in the past. It isn't as good anymore but as we all know /b/ was never good...
What was it like to dine at McDonalds in Winnemucca?
Only stopped long enough to get gas.
How did taking a piss break in McDermitt help you grow as a person?
Never took a piss in McDermitt. Played the slot machines a few time at the motel.
Spoken like a true cave-man with zero understanding of the issue at hand.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Treason is the only crime whose definition is part of the US Constitution. There are a horde of lesser offenses under which someone who has committed treasonous acts might be convicted, but a conviction for treason itself requires either a confession in open court, or two eyewitnesses to the same overt act of treason. Stands to reason that a bunch of people who had recently rebelled against the authority of King and Parliament would be a bit touchy about the definition of "treason".
You are welcome to question Trump's judgment, but his actions are completely legal
That's fairly irrelevant. As a president, Trump could literally commit a crime and pardon himself for it. He could even pardon himself for future crimes. Both would lead to impeachment, but he could do it.
I think what people don't like about this little incident is the fact that there was no reason for it and that intelligence agencies are seriously worried about him, because he's arguably the most retarded US president ever and has (at least officially) full and unrestricted access to every state secret. However, there is probably no real danger, because it's quite likely that they don't give him access to any valuable secrets in practice.
Wrong. An actual crime is subject to impeachment. Point was, intelligence-sharing is up to the President in the first place.
The "people" you are talking about simply hate Trump. Period. The article about Obama sharing intelligence with Putin in 2016, which I linked to earlier, was written by the same Karen de Young, who is now mocking and denouncing Trump for similar cooperation.
Which intelligence agencies are you talking about with such grave respect? The same ones betrayed by your heroes Snowden and Manning — who, according to you and yours, deserve a medal for their betrayals — or some other, noble and glorious ones?
That would've been dereliction of duty at least and possibly treason as well. Trump was duly elected as President — intelligence agencies ought to work for him, not sabotage him.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
[...] the inane details of your own pathetic life that you post every single day.
For a moment I thought this was an intelligent post until I got to the Beavis and Butthead part.
Sexually confused, maybe.
Personally I suspect someone is playing games and dropped some hints that being a tranny would help his chance of parole.
This is an incredibly biased and invalid statement, straight from the mouth of an indoctrinated extremist neo conservative.
Medically speaking, it is classified as a disorder, but they're working on changing that- even so, the cure is what she has done.
He has the best diet.
Nobody has a better diet than him.
He gets two scoops of ice cream - everyone else only gets one! (Yes, CNN actually ran this story - hard hitting investigative reporting.)
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
It's a HUGE diet. A BIG BEAUTIFUL diet. A GREAT AMERICAN diet. And Mexico is going to pay for it.
Of course, the truth is that he's not getting any from his wife any more, so he's compensating with food.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Why do you consider transsexuals to be "sexually confused?" Don't you know half are straight? Seems to me you're the one who is confused about how it works. The sex act has nothing to do with being transsexual. It's the sex you identify with, not the sex you want to screw.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Wrong. Most trans assault victims who are transvestites, not transsexuals, are assaulted by people they deceive into thinking they were the opposite sex.
Same with the "trans day of remembrance." Most trans murder victims are transvestites. The murder rate for white female transsexuals is lower than the general population.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
As if your trip to Boise is more interesting and worthy of discussion.
I'm just responding to comments. If you don't want me to respond, don't reply to my comments. The Beavis and Butthead crowd... just... can't... leave... it... alone.
Your suggestion has been proven not to work. And yet, people like you keep pushing it out of willful ignorance (how hard is it to look it up on the Internet?). You know that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is one definition of insanity, don't you?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
BTW, the word "genitals" only refers to "a person or animal's external organs of reproduction", not the internal parts, so yes, they are genitals.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Nope, after reassignment suicide is barely over the level of the general population. And as for your claim that "men cannot become women and women cannot become men", it happens naturally to some humans.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Go feminism!
I'm disappointed, grrls! You can do better than this! I count only 7 mentions of "Bradley" in the comments and 21 mentions of "confuse" in 302 comments.
Show those misogynerds that Bradley is a man with a mental illness no matter how confused he is. He needs psychiatric treatment, not to have his body butchered in an attempt to rape the female form. Drive it home to this rapist that he's an incomplete being and never will be a womyn-born-womyn no matter how delusional he expects the rest of us to be.
Unfortunately, as you can see here, there are plenty of people who hate us because of what we are, and not who we are. It's no different than hating on someone because of their skin colour, and one day it will be seen that way - ignorant bigotry. Fortunately, the majority is now on our side, and that's got to be a major burn.
She's going to be okay, if her past performance is any indication at all. She's got more guts, spunk, and resiliency than the people throwing rocks, and in the back of their minds they know it.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Of course its their own tissues. But the result is not genitals. It's a rough facsimile of genitals.
So you're admitting that the problem isn't transsexuals in the woman's washroom, but perverted men.
And yet your ilk wants to force men who were once women, who know pump iron, have a beard, a male voice, etc., into the woman's washrooms? Because that's the flip side of transsexual women being forced into the men's room.
Sounds like you're the pervert here.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
In fact there's little difference between men and women _excepting_ the sexual organs themselves and people without functioning sexual organs aren't that uncommon. Just because you don't understand something doesn't make your crappy ramblings true.
That's one of the biggest lies I have ever seen on Slashdot.
Women prior to puberty and after menopause can't reproduce either. And there are others, both male and female, who are sterile their whole life. And the preferred term is "woman", not "transgender woman." Same as you wouldn't refer to someone who lost their reproductive organs to cancer as "transgender."
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Slashdot is always flooded with teenagers who love to try to get a rise out of other people by posting racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, etc. Plus some legitimate racists, homophobes, transphobes, misogynists, etc, but a large portion are just immature kids.
It wasn't always this way. When I was outed a decade ago, the vast majority were supportive. Unfortunately, most of the cool people have left, and who can blame them? These haters have attitudes decades out of date. Trying to have a logical conversation with them is like trying to reason with someone with Alzheimers who is stuck in the past. New information just doesn't stick, but in their case, it's not Alzheimers, it's willful ignorance. At least the Alzheimers folk have an excuse.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
He looks like he's one KFC Gravy Bowl away from a grabber.
Damn you, I almost lost my lunch, KFC Gravy is the second most disgusting food known to man, KFC mashed potatoes being the first.
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A bone marrow transplant from a female donor will make any blood test on a male come out XX. So much for DNA.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
No. It's a tragedy that we are expected to reenforce and prop up his delusion, and to cheer him on as though it is some kind of heroic act or accomplishment. However, he is welcome to live by those delusions/fantasies and modify his body if he wants.
Marcy, to Steve, after making a loan to Al:
If you give a gun to a chimp, and the chimp shoots someone, you don't blame the chimp...
In fact there's little difference between men and women _excepting_ the sexual organs
Um.. what?
At least Pence isn't incompetent. Trump has no fucking idea what he's doing. It's like putting a chimp behind the wheel of a jumbo jet.
Pence Knows how to fly the Jumbo Jet, but you wouldn't like where he flies it.
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Just keep staring in awe as trump makes a mess of everything. Pay no mind to what Paul Ryan is doing.
Trump consistently acts incompetent, and needs a serious medical check-up to verify his cognitive capability to remain president or be removed for medical reasons (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or simply Dementia, etc.)
Trouble is that people very familiar with him, including the guy that helped work on The Art of the Deal book who wrote an article today, have been saying since he started running for office, that he has always been like this and the way he is acting is no surprise and even predicted.
White House: "Comey was not fired because of the Russia investigation. "
Trump: "I fired Comey because of the Russia investigation."
White House: "The President did not divulge secrets to the Russians."
Trump: "Yes I did."
Most progressives that I know want to nail all of the above to the wall (with the exception of Lord Obama, of course). Dissent against The State is never something to be tolerated.
Right so if you come on slashdot then ignore all of the progressives who in fact do not fit your strange fantasies, then you can indeed lump all the progressives you "know" into some arbitrary bucket.
So, sure you can, but what's the point? Unless you happen to have a thing for circular definitions and get off on it. Takes all sorts, and I won't judge, but could you post AC so I don't have to see it?
SJW n. One who posts facts.
False. Manning's motivation was not political â" as already cited above, he was trying to impress his gay friend(s).
Now that's very interesting. Why is it relevant that Manning's "friend(s)" were gay? To me that seems utterly irrelevant, but for some reason you seem to feel compelled to bring it up. There are some very revealing parallels to your signature.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
There are many more comments about Manning's genitalia than about his/her actions. What is it with you people?
S/he did more than anyone else to disclose the obscene careless violence used by the US military in Iraq. As in the 1st Gulf War, the western media were largely controlled by the military, keeping them away from anything they shouldn't see. Manning almost single-handedly lifted that curtain and should be lauded for doing so.
Those of you harking back to the days when the US could bomb anyone with impunity would do well to consider - even if you discount the immorality - the long term harm to US interests caused by such actions.
Obama (who like every US President has been responsible for lots of deaths) clearly recognized the importance of Manning's actions in deciding to release her.
As a transgender woman who lives in Silicon Valley and earns $55k in IT support, I wish her well.
That's horrific, I can't imagine the challenges of living in Silicon Valley and only earning $55k; being transgender is only a minor inconvenience compared to that!
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Jesus Christ... just how many trans haters are there on this site?
They're not trans-haters, it's just that "trans" is now cool and they are oppositional/defiant. When something else is cool, they hate that instead, maybe fidget spinners will be next.
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could you post AC so I don't have to see it?
Big surprise -- another liberal who can't handle hearing viewpoints different than their own.
Thinking getting a chop-a-dic-off-of-me, or an add-a-dic-to-me can change your gender is about as smart as thinking you can change lead into gold.
So, what you are saying is that if you're smart and understand modern science then you'll know it is in fact possible, if rather hard.
Then again your knowledge of biology is outdated and you seem terribly upset that the DSM isn't stuck in the 1970s, so I guess it isn't much surprise that you missed that whole discovery of subatomic particles, particle accelerators, nuclear reactors and whatnot.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Big surprise -- another liberal who can't handle hearing viewpoints different than their own.
When did simply making shit up become a "viewpoint"?
SJW n. One who posts facts.
"What's put in place" is their own tissue
Sure, but it's not genitals, and furthermore the body treats it as an open wound which actively tries to heal itself shut.
And while I'm not one to make an issue of what people do to themselves, I think there's some cognitive dissonance between this and the Hippocratic Oath.
You're such a sad little douche. I really feel sorry for you. :-(
Also, why do you call it GRS?
I'm not APK.
How can we be so sure? I have never seen a creimer post inhabit the exact same post spot as an APK post... Coincidence? I think not.
a chimp behind the wheel of a jumbo jet.
You may not like the destination but the ride is fun.
However, with regard to the mess in Syria, Putin is solidly on Assad's side and would undoubtedly pass on any information obtained from the USA to Assad if he thought it would help Assad stay in power. And Assad is a pretty bad dude so, all else being equal, it wouldn't be ideal for the USA to be helping Russia keep Assad in power.
Sadly, most countries in the middle east either have a pretty bad dude running them, are looking for a pretty bad dude to run them or have multiple pretty bad dudes competing for the job.
Maybe Trump figures the genocidal maniac we know is better than the genocidal maniac we don't know.
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How can we be so sure? I have never seen a creimer post inhabit the exact same post spot as an APK post... Coincidence? I think not.
APK and I had a pissing contest last December.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9952559&cid=53420987
The murder rate for whites is lower than the general population. How about black female transsexuals?
The irony of your post is that journalism and MSM have fallen so far that the Goldwater rule is no longer in effect... because reasons.
Journalists cannot interview loved ones and family members because their feelings will get in the way of honest reporting. Yet, a journalist can be filled with hate and contempt toward the interviewee and it's A-OKay.
remain an active duty? so this he she will get VA! This trader should have life and be happy that they did not get death by firing squad!
"Hi Chelsea, I'm your VA surgeon assigned to preform your gender reassignment surgery; don't worry, even though I've never done this before, I looked at the pictures in my old text books and watched a couple youtube videos. Now if something goes wrong, do you wish to be an organ donor?"
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Beavis, that's Vice President Biden to you, show some respect.
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lol OK, though I don't believe you :)
Seriously though, simply making shit up isn't a view point. Your "view" about progressives is simply invented.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Summary is bullshit. Enlistment is not forever. The military can only hold him in service until the end of his enlistment term. Once his enlistment term is over, the military can't do anything to him.
Officers are another story. Being an officer *is* forever, and you can be called back at any time.
Wrong there is always an "At the Government's convenience " clause in your contract; ETS means Estimated Termination of Service, Estimated being the operative word.
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We all know APK is crazy... Talking to himself isn't that surprising.
We all know APK is crazy... Talking to himself isn't that surprising.
That's why I don't comment on his comments.
The only facsimile I see here is you,. pissed off because I caught you in a blatant lie. But keep showing the world just how stupid you are - it's a great way to demonstrate that some people have an irrational hatred of transsexuals (probably because of their innate castration fear).
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Nope, neither obese nor gay. I've never even been to a Pride parade, or the gay village, for that matter. I leave that to the LGB, as is their right, same as they have the right to marry, adopt, kiss in public, same as other couples. That must really piss you off, that you can't evolve enough to lose the "ick factor," and you know this makes you inferior.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Gotcha! The murder rate for white female transsexuals is lower than female non-transsexuals. Explain away that.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
And what exactly did I lie about, according to you?
how can the study find that post reassignment that trans persons were better off psychologically than the general population? but then it still be true that they commit suicide at a greater rate?
So they are more sane than the average person, but they still commit suicide all the time?
Also, their are studies on both sides. This one showed that they got worse physiological and morbidity results post reassignment, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p....
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
This would be completely counter to our understanding of suicide. Suicide, across the world, only happens to affluent, privileged peoples.
suicide in the African american, the Mexican american, communities is practically zero.
Suicide is pretty much only seen in the groups with the highest standards of living, and is grouped around the persons with extreme wealth and intelligence.
Unless the reassignment make them richer, or more intelligent, you would not expect it to effect their suicide rate.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
an irrational hatred of transsexuals (probably because of their innate castration fear).
By the way, you're confusing a difference of opinion with hatred.
For example, mormons believe that their Book of Moses is an accurate translation of an old Egyptian papyrus. I tell them that they're wrong, and the Rosetta stone proves it. That doesn't mean I hate them, it just means I think they're wrong.
Much in the same, surgery can't make a penis into a vulva. That isn't a hateful comment, it's just stating a fact.
Women prior to puberty and after menopause can't reproduce either.
False; post-menopausal births indeed do occur. The oldest woman to give birth via IVF was nearly 67 years old.
How soon we forget. I'll say the same thing I said then - you were caught - fuck you, liar.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
The lying fool once again demonstrates his total ignorance of the topic:
Much in the same, surgery can't make a penis into a vulva. That isn't a hateful comment, it's just stating a fact.
The penis isn't surgically transformed into a vulva, but a working clitoris. Moron. You've just proven you don't even know the difference between a vulva and a clit. Still a virgin, I see. Must be your lack of personality that keeps women away. Smart women!
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Nobody is trying to "dictate your thoughts and actions," except when they exceed socially accepted norms. Same as if you think you're entitled to steal, you'll find that society can in fact dictate your actions. Heck, even stop signs and red lights dictate your actions. So why is it acceptable that inanimate objects, that don't have any sentience, can demand respect, but humans can't?
You're not a special snowflake. You don't get to promote hatred without consequences.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Guess what? If she produced a viable egg, she wasn't really post-menopausal, was she? If she didn't produce the egg, she isn't the mother. Just a host or surrogate. Same as if you ever get lucky, you'll just be a sperm donor, because nobody would want to spend years raising a child with you.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Also, she had a c-section because she could NOT give birth. Tsk tsk.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Wrong. One of the definitions of insanity is irrationality. Someone who expects to have a different outcome while repeating the same action over and over again is irrational. In other words, delusional, experiencing a break with reality - in their world, cause and effect don't work in a sane fashion. That's the opposite of sane. So eat it, moron.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Guess what? If she produced a viable egg
Guess what? She didn't. Furthermore, menopause is reversible:
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
And a year later, a postmenopausal birth has occurred using the woman's own eggs:
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
So go fuck yourself, Nazi asshole. Oh...my bad...you don't have genitals...Well, put a twig in your butt then.
You missed my follow-up - they did NOT give birth. They had to have c sections because they could not give birth. Idiot.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Life is a 2-way street, and you don't get to be a deviant without consequences.
Ture - but now that the pendulum has shifted, it's those who hate on transsexuals who are the deviants. Enjoy your consequences.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Effectively the same thing, the only difference is in the delivery. My mom was in her 20's when she gave birth to me via c-section.
Face it dude, you are about as female as mice are rats, and that wound between your legs is as much a vulva as dentures are teeth.
Things change. Things were wrong- and misunderstood. Just because we're changing things and no longer doing bloodletting doesn't mean we changed reality.
Dumbass, the reason I said vulva is because you specifically referred to the external portion. I'm not the one who defined genitals that way, you did.
Obama
socialist agenda
Why do people always fall back on this? If you knew even the first thing about politics, you would know that's blatantly and utterly false.
Obama was to the right of Reagan on a number of issues.
Eat the rich.
Well, it worked. Not my preferred method, but hey, any port in a storm.
Look at how many of you h8ters have to hide your identities, because you know that there would be real-world consequences if you came out of the closet with your bigotry against trans-women. Job loss is a real risk, because you would create a toxic work environment.
And no, you keep confusing us with drag queens and cross-dressers. They're the ones going around in pink frilly clothes as part of their sexual fantasies. Today it's t-shirt, shorts, and runners, same as most women, because it's frigging hot!. Stared at? Only by horny men - it's not like they can tell my past by looking.
One day you'll slip up, and there WILL be consequences. Not that I really give a shit - I'm secure enough in who I am that I've done news interviews on tv and radio, and I go by my legal name here, unlike you.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
The woman who gets a cesarean has no more "given birth" than a clone taken out of a tank would be (and we've come a ways on that). If ANYONE "gave birth" to the child, is was the medical team who performed the cesarean;. The woman was incapable of giving birth. So while the child was given birth, it was by the doctors, not the woman. The child would have died before birth otherwise, and you can hardly call pushing out a corpse "giving birth."
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Not the same thing. Your mother didn't give you birth - the surgeon did. Your mother would have most likely produced a dead fetus - hence the c-section.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Yet another lie. YOU'RE the one who made reference to genitalia (external primary sex characteristics) here. In my reply I made the distinction quite clear. A working neoclitoris is not a vulva. And it's certainly not external.
The reason it's so easy to transform is that both the penis and the clitoris start out as the same organ in the human fetus.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
::sigh:: I keep telling my husband that. But then we go to KFC and he orders "a bowl of chicken soup". No potatoes or anything - just the gravy. So gross.
At the rate the liberals are going, Pence will be running as incumbent after the impeachment.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
On the "there is no difference between the Kremlin and the New York Stock Exchange" scale, I certainly see a lot of socialism in the way Obama gave insurance companies a lot of captive business in 2014.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
It's far easier to turn gold into lead, which oddly enough, circles back to the original topic of transgender, since such sexually confused people who believe that gender is only mental, are worth about as much as lead in comparison to gold when it comes to the propagation of a heteronormative species.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Turning Gold into Lead indeed.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Oh hi, I'm Ash!
I think you should take a step back a moment and reassess the situation going on in these posts.
This is exactly what this type of troll want you to think about them, they really don't give a shit and are just trying to get a rise out of people like you. By responding in any form, you are encouraging them further. It is no different from when they would post anti-Semitic content to get a rise out of Jews despite genuinely not holding any beliefs being described.
I suggest you don't give them fuel for them to belittle and criticize you further. This sort of thing is what generates what maybe hurtful memes for you in communities like 4chan.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Oh, I WANT to encourage them. Embolden them to be as out in their hate as they can be - it's the best way to expose them for what they are, rather than having people give them the benefit of the doubt.
They can't hurt me. What are they going to do - out me? Already been done, and it was a mostly positive experience, both on the net and in real life. In the end, they can't hurt anyone except those who live in places where it's legal to discriminate against transsexuals. And the only way to change that is to so embolden them that the general public sees the haters for what they are and gets enraged enough to demand that the law be changed. Us asking to change it won't work - we just don't have the numbers. Transgenders are a minority, and transsexuals an even smaller and more vulnerable minority.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Also (see original subject line above) who cares about someone's sexual orientation any more? Straight, gay, lesbian, cisgender or transgender, if people were to boycott all the businesses that support us, they'd have almost nowhere to shop. So really, what if, instead of being a transsexual woman, I was a gay man? Or a lesbian? Just what do they think would be wrong with that anyway?
Back on topic - they are concentrating on Chelsea Manning's identity, and not her actions, because her actions are believed to be justified by many people in many countries. The "my country, right or wrong" days are long gone.
They also don't want to understand that transition isn't a choice - it's what you do when you realize that you have no choice. This whole "she chose to get a sex change to get out of prison early" is a serious misrepresentation. If she had wanted to get out early, or maybe even avoid being tried, all she had to do was agree to give them everything about Assange. There's lots of people with a hard-on against Assange and Wikileaks. Mostly, people who have been exposed for wrong-doing.
If she ever decides to go into politics ... :-) After all, anyone has to be better than Trump.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
That may work if your harasser isn't a troll that isn't motivated at all by what they're saying.
As a level 97 troll with +61 perception, +9 intelligence and -4 Dexterity, I am telling you, these are troll posts by people that don't care by what they are spouting at you. The hate here and now in this thread does not actually exist, take a step back and reassess the situation for what it is.
Possibly nothing or alternatively, you'll be the next "Shia Labeouf" they start manipulating.
The problem here is that you're making an assumption they hate you. They don't, they don't even believe in the things they're talking about. It's about getting you to do something meme/lulz worthy.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
What does "straight" have to do with it? I have friends and family who aren't straight, and they're not confused. They know what their biological sex is, what their gender is, and who they're attracted to.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Gender is about how we act and how we want to present ourselves, which are basically mental.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
That sir/madam, is a fair point.
-Styopa
Slashdot isn't the place it used to be, back when I was trolling the trolls under my birth name. Today the trolls are lame. Still, once in a while they'll raise a point that needs to be thought through so that it can be quickly and properly smacked down in the future ... so why not? It's not like they're capable of embarrassing me or anything.
And the idiots posting fake pictures of me, well, anyone interested can find real pictures of me as well as news clips, etc. So again, what, me worry?
And it's impossible to dox me - I already published my home address, etc., just to show that it really doesn't change anything when Briana Wu was making up lies about being doxxed, etc. People seem to forget that we had these things called phone books that contained everyone's name, address, and phone number and everyone survived.
Kind of hard to harm someone who is impossible to embarrass, who has no secrets (except passwords and PIN numbers), and has been attacked by the far better trolls of the days of Slashdot's glory, and cut their teeth trolling on USENET. :-)
You may have noticed that every once in a while, one or another of the trans women will also throw in their two cents - we really have nothing to be ashamed of, and we're becoming bolder about it every day. So the more they throw rocks, the more it indirectly helps the cause.
Besides, the current generation of trolls just doesn't get it. For example, they can't do subtlety. Or lay the groundwork for 6 months before the great chain yanking. They're like Donald Trump - incompetent.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
The original poster claimed Chelsea Manning was "sexually confused", not "gender confused." The confusion started in their mind, not anyone else's. It's like the ones calling transsexuals faggots. Some are straight, some are bi, some are gay, some are lesbian, some are asexual. Nowadays who cares - except ignorant people like the poster I was replying to. I certainly don't.
It's not like there's a right choice and a wrong choice - because there is no "choice" involved, just a dawning realization that you accept, embrace, and extend :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Sometimes I miss the old days, when I didn't have to go through a full genetic workup to take a leak.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
0.33% of the US population is about a million people.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
That's the truth? I'm talking about physical differences and not social behavior patterns. Just because people tend to attribute personality feature X to gender Y the actual hardware isn't much involved in this. Partially because the same behavior is viewed as something different depending on a man or a woman is the one doing it, partially because people try to conform to the stereotypes they have learned are "natural". Guess what? Those stereotypes change with time while the actual hardware (the human body) doesn't (on the same time scale).
There are differences of course but the fact remains it is limited, partially caused by sexual hormones and partially by differentiation when growing up. The first is possible to influence medically while the later is small (masculine males with "female" brain features and vice versa aren't uncommon) and there are indications transsexuals do have at least partially the features of their perceived gender.
You do believe that not understanding something makes your crappy ramblings true? Well, sorry to tell you...
'Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early' Not, in fact, 28 years early, but rather, 7 years late. Rather than imprisoned, she should have been awarded a medal for providing incontrovertible evidence as to what the US military was doing in Iraq.... Henri
Many are, there is very little intellectual wit involved anymore, although Slashdot rarely saw any of that trolling either.
Shia Labeouf wasn't "triggered" or messed with through the use of doxing or knowing his real name. It was through messing with his personality which resulted in him producing campaigns that ended up twisted and embarrassing himself when they would manipulate other individuals into wrecking those campaigns and succeeding.
That's sort of what I what I was warning you about in the previous posts to a certain extent.
They're not interested in damaging or helping the cause, they're looking for entertainment.
They don't need to, there are plenty of "lolcows".
Anyway, I feel I've sufficiently informed you regarding the type of nefarious motives being used here. It's up to you to choose what you do with that information. My only motive in my posts was to get you to step back and identify what types of comments these were as you didn't appear to be handling them for what they were.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Yup. Was Reagan fit to be president by the late 80s? There were a lot of rumors that Nancy was running the show (other rumors saying it was based on what her astrologer told her).
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
It's possible to be at war without declaring war. We were at war with the Japanese on December 7, 1941, before either side had issued a declaration. Since the formation of the UN organization, the words in use have changed, but it's still war. The post-WWII wars we've been in had Congressional authorization without a formal declaration.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I don't know what the laws were in place, but the President doesn't have carte blanche to ignore laws. However, there's plenty to impeach Trump on. If and when to do it is a purely political decision (and it would be if there wasn't plenty to impeach him on).
As usual, Trump supporters use false equivalence. Obama shared intelligence with the Russians, sure, but that doesn't mean that any transfer of intelligence to Putin is either legal or a good idea.
Intelligence agencies have statutory authority and duties, which don't necessarily include doing whatever the heck the President wants. Besides, not telling the President something is nowhere near treason.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
So what? Just because it's easier doesn't mean the reverse isn't possible. The OP claim something factually incorrect to support his point. Fortunately for people, only the deeply foolish judge their worth on their ability or willingness to have children. By your system of worth, Donald Trump is worth vastly more than George Washington and the Wright brothers, but I guess that figures...
SJW n. One who posts facts.
In fact there's little difference between men and women _excepting_ the sexual organs themselves
Well, that an the fact that every cell in their body is different...
We all know who is the triggered one here, little coward. Probably the one reaching for shift-8 to act big :)
Surprised they didn't send him/her to the most dangerous place in the world (besides Detroit). Lot's of places where your life isn't worth a nickle.
Yet another lie. YOU'RE the one who made reference to genitalia (external primary sex characteristics) here [slashdot.org]. In my reply I made the distinction quite clear. A working neoclitoris is not a vulva. And it's certainly not external.
I did not say a single word about it being external anywhere in that post. If you disagree, then quote me. Rather, you did in your reply to that, and I'll quote:
BTW, the word "genitals" only refers to "a person or animal's external organs of reproduction", not the internal parts, so yes, they are genitals.
from: https://slashdot.org/comments....
Which by the way, this definition is not precise, you just used it because you got it from the first result from Google. Genitals can also refer to the internal reproductive organs, though usually when spoken it will be mentioned as internal genitals, to clarify. Nonetheless, I followed up in the exact manner that you used it, hence the mention of vulva (which you don't have, by the way, yours is at best described as an open wound; any other description is non-scientific and/or not related to biology, akin to referring to a quadcopter as a bird.)
Also, I like how you're constantly trying to prove your a real woman, and on the few times I've spoken to real women about this subject (including my girlfriend) it seems that their belief is that people like you are nothing more than usurpers when you try to speak on behalf of them, so please stop doing it, because you're just a narcissist going way out of his way to draw attention to himself, and you're not a woman. (You don't even write like a woman, which means you most certainly don't have a female mind. You're just a man full of estrogen and removed genitals.)
That is all I have to say on this subject.
"You cannot moderate a thread that you've commented in" so here's a virtual +1 Funny, +1 Insightful, and +1 Lulz.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
The trolls may be "getting their entertainment", but it's backfiring wrt society in general (plus I derive a certain entertainment myself catching them in their contradictions and lies - gotta keep the grey matter active with new challenges). The fact that they're always being openly challenged nowadays shows how times have changed. They are losing traction at a tremendous rate - to the point where the only real emotional response they generate (at least with me) is laughter at their pitiful state.
And that's one thing trolls can't stand - failing to generate any really visceral emotional reaction that they can play on. That they want to make the focus on Manning's gender transition instead of the real story turns out to be useful - it shows that they don't feel that they can exploit Manning's actions because even they recognize that she has the moral high ground, and once again shines a spotlight on bigotry. Both of these are good things. About time the internet did something positive :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
You used the term vulva, idiot. That's external. Or did you fail biology like you failed everything else.
BTW - "you don't even write like a woman" is a load of crap. How is a woman supposed to write? With all deference to male privilege? Too weak and fearful to call out bullshitters like you? All emotional and hysterical, no logic or facts? "Knowing our place?" Here's a news flash - those "good ole days" are long gone, and never coming back, you dumb hick. With that remark you've shown that women are the great unknown in your life. As I said, it was expected - your personality is the perfect contraceptive.
The real question is why you, and people like you, insist on going on and on about gender transition when the story is about intelligence leaks and the subsequent pardon. My guess? You know deep down that what Chelsea Manning did was morally and ethically right, and that you would never have the guts to do it. Hence the side-tracking.
You're so transparent it's pitiful.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
My general experience on Twitter, Mastodon, Tumblr and Facebook is usually the opposite...
Most level 1 trolls in my experience are just happy to get responses out of people and see if it leads somewhere. They don't use wit, they use quantity.
They actually don't care about the focus, they're just hunting "lolcows".
It pushes bigotry into a non-issue because people redefine the issue as trolling, except for those who have an agenda such as Briana Wu, who would like to make it about 'sexism'. You are starting to tread that line too. This fuels certain sides against you because they can identify you're being trolled and you're reusing it to sell a narrative and in their view, 'making shit up'. This is providing further "lulz" while the situation then escalates to stuff like the Berkeley protests of Yiannopoulos.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
The government elected not to try Snowden in absentia, so he hasn't been convicted of anything. No conviction -> no pardon.
This is simply not true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon#United_States
"A presidential pardon may be granted at any time, however, and as when Ford pardoned Nixon, the pardoned person need not yet have been convicted or even formally charged with a crime." - Duker, William F. (1976). "The President's Power to Pardon: A Constitutional History". Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 18: 501–502.
You mean crony capitalism.
Eat the rich.
You used the term vulva, idiot. That's external.
Didn't I just explain why I used that term? Oh yes, I did.
BTW - "you don't even write like a woman" is a load of crap. How is a woman supposed to write? With all deference to male privilege? Too weak and fearful to call out bullshitters like you? All emotional and hysterical, no logic or facts? "Knowing our place?" Here's a news flash - those "good ole days" are long gone, and never coming back, you dumb hick. With that remark you've shown that women are the great unknown in your life. As I said, it was expected - your personality is the perfect contraceptive.
Nope, it's more nuanced than that; I suggest you do some research rather than sit here and denigrate real women.
http://bfy.tw/Bt9q
The real question is why you, and people like you, insist on going on and on about gender transition when the story is about intelligence leaks and the subsequent pardon. My guess?
Any guess you make other than "B-b-b-blubber Hudson keeps egging on the conversation" is wrong.
What can I say - "silly rabbit, twitter is for twits"? I really don't get what all the fuss is about. I know why news media follows it - it's cheaper than doing any real reporting, same as all those stupid youtube videos that they "report" on - in the news!!!???WTF Pretty much the definition of "fake news", because of financial cutbacks. In all seriousness, people need to take what happens on the internet less seriously. It's not real,
There's plenty of research that has shown the connection between excessive social media use and mental illness. Look no further than President Cheetos. Those who think it has any real effect in the real world are deluded - it only affects you if you let it.
If you pretend to swallow the bait for a while, then ask why they're so interested in what's (not) in my panties rather than the current topic of discussion, they don't really have an answer. And when they continue, "can't attack the message, so you attack the messenger" - as they're doing in the case of Chelsea Manning - has no effective response. Kind of deprives them of the lulz and makes what they thought were tiny victories into "turdles".
That's why they keep on trying. They're pitiful.
As for Briana Wu, she pretends to be a feminist to hide the fact that she used to be a guy. It's an old trick, and it hasn't improved with age. Pretty much the essence of internalized transphobia and self-hate. We saw that with the Q and A a while back. She doesn't represent the typical transsexual who, once outed, suddenly finds that their biggest worry - that they'll be outed - is gone. No more waiting for the other shoe to drop, and a lot more freedom to speak your mind without worrying you'll say to much and give yourself away.
The trolls will never get it - but others will, including others who are currently living in fear of being found out. I've seen it happen, and it's a GOOD THING (tm) :-P
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Here's a clue - most women watching you bash trans-women will find you obnoxious. With the exception of old, dried-up TERFs, women tend to show solidarity with us. It's the men who more often have to be beaten with a cluestick. For some reason, many deep down see us as traitors for giving up male privilege. And you're too stupid to realize you're being trolled (same as most suckers when I was trolling under my former name).
Come on, fess up, you LIKE the abuse. At least it's attention of some sort. It's why you continually seek it out. And you can't deny you're the instigator in every case. I'm not the one going after you for your being an obese slob who can't get laid.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Nobody cares about your excuses for making mistakes.
I don't recall making any in any recent posts.
Here's a clue - most women watching you bash trans-women will find you obnoxious.
No, just the ones in your social bubble, just like how most republicans think most people think democrats are obnoxious, or how most democrats think most people think republicans are obnoxious.
With the exception of old, dried-up TERFs
I only know one feminist IRL; most girls I meet either don't like feminism or are sex positive feminists.
you're too stupid to realize you're being trolled
You're the only one getting all worked up, so you're basically trolling yourself.
I'm not the one going after you for your being an obese slob who can't get laid.
Pretty sure we've already established that you're a trans-fat.
Only insane people disconnected from reality think so. Which basically describes all of western civilization at this point.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
I was agreeing with the original post- it is possible to turn lead into gold- but adding the commentary that transgender people take the gold they were given in their natural gender, and on purpose turn it into lead- and badly disguised lead at that.
And yes- in the long run, your worth is based on what your grandchildren do, not what you do.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Crony capitalism, communism, there's no real difference.
And the only difference between a libertarian and a crony capitalist is having enough money to hire a lobbyist.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
In other words you're stretching the analogy past breaking point. The gender you are given is not gold, it just is whatever it is. It's neutral.
And yes- in the long run, your worth is based on what your grandchildren do, not what you do.
You've softened it slightly, but it seems like you are saying the Trump is of more worth than George Washington `because me managed to impregnate some people.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Let it out of a men's prison and throw it into a women's prison!
To a homonormative species, sexuality is the gift that brings forth children. Is that not more precious than Gold?
I'd say you have a rather short term point of view.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.