Absolutely. Just returning law-breakers to their country of origin. Violating their air space? Who cares? That's what a disposable POS aircraft is for. Remote controlled, let them shoot it down - AFTER telling them who's on it.
I doubt Somalia is in a position to "retaliate." What re they going to do - hijack more boats? Besides, the US has shown that you don't have to give a shit about laws if you call it "extraordinary rendition", since the actual breaking of the law isn't in the EU or the US if you just dump them back where they came from.
Also, migrants won't take those jobs - robots will. Ask Japan. Even care for old people is being more and more robot-assisted. Their immigration rate this year is 0 per 1000. (I think the total was under 700 people, and only a few of those were refugees). They get that in the future, immigrants will be out of jobs same as the rest of the population.
There is no long term answer to the refugee crisis. I think it's great that my country is taking in tons of refugees, but we're one of the few low-population-density countries that isn't a shit hole. Given that Africa's rate of population growth dropped from 6 to 4.5, and is stuck there despite improvements in education that dogma says will result in lower population growth, the rest of the world cannot fix it. Not when in 50 years India and Africa by themselves will account for almost half the world's population.
Great minds think alike. Maybe he's one of those old farts who takes a half viagra before going to the bathroom to keep from pissing on his shoes:-) Bada-BOOM!
Seriously though, I don't see why people who crap in bed don't just get a colostomy instead of a diaper. Cheaper, you won't have to wait for someone to change you in a residence (you can wait up to two hours or more at night, so while the load in your pants might keep you warm, it's still gross), much easier to clean up, much less accident prone, no smells to follow you around, and if you accidentally fart when around others, the gas stays in the bag until you can slip away to discretely crack the seal open on the upper part of the ring. Also no worries about sitting down in a port-a-pottie at public events. Just stand next to a bush and remove the clip, shake, reclip, and "must have been a dog!"
36:24'57" = 36 degrees, 24 minutes, 57 seconds. NEVER needed curly quotes / opening and closing quotes for that, same as for feet and inches.
Or even 36h24'57" or 36h24m57s. Not too hard for a reader to figure it out using either system.
The sentence Jack said "Take a 2" x 4" x 8' piece of wood and nail it to a 4' x '8 sheet of plywood, 1" from the edge" will come out all f*d up with smart quotes. Easier just to turn them off.
So what you're saying is that the Depends work better than the rubber sheets did. Thanks for the feedback, but I think I'll stick to walking to the bathroom and letting the dog outside instead.
Curly quotes didn't exist on manual typewriters, and neither did the numbers zero (used an uppercase oh) or one (use a lowercase ell).
When it was absolutely essential to distinguish between an uppercase oh and a zero, an easy way was to backspace and type a slash through it. Differentiation between a lowercase ell and a one was sometimes done by underlining the ell to represent the number one, but this was rare.
We got along fine without stupid smart quotes, and they add nothing to readability.
And since so far they have produced no proof, and Americans have a long history of interfering in other countries elections, the current administration is being extremely hypocritical. Also, the current administration attempting to interfere with the transition of power, and to delegitimize the incoming administration, is treason. With a majority in both houses, Obama is being stupider every day. Expect a lot of embarrassing, damaging stuff to come out to justify criminal charges, and fro Obama and Clinton, among others, to produce presidential pardons.
#2 is bs. It's not like we haven't got rubber dingies if they came from a coastal country, or parachutes to drop them back where they came from. Do that often enough, you will eliminate the phony economic migrants claiming to be refugees.
As for the UN convention on stateless people, they're only stateless if their country refuses to take them back. Just don't give their home country a heads up so they can refuse to take them back, they aren't yet stateless.
Outsiders can't do regime change. Only the people living there can. We ought to know that by now, we've seen so many examples of how it leaves people worse off.
People leaving reduces the pressure for change, especially since those with the most to lose, and the best positioned to fight back, are also the ones with the means to leave.
Running away just perpetuates the problem by leaving the most vulnerable to fend for themselves. Same as always.
I wouldn't be hard on AmiMoJo. Took me a bit before I figured out what the whole Anita Sarkeesian / Zoe Quinn thing was all just a hot stinking mess of sturm und drang. My mother was a feminist. Fortunately, like her, feminism is now dead, so we can end this stupid men vs women class warfare. Arguments for pay equity should be gender-blind. Instead of wasting time on "safe spaces", which just perpetuates the whole men vs women crapola, we should be getting everyone to feel that they can stand up against crap, irrespective of sex. Telling women that we should be seeking refuge in safe spaces is patronizing as all hell, not to mention infantizing and disempowering.
I pity anyone who tries this sort of stupidity with my daughters - they don't need any white knights to rush in and defend them. We're not back in the "house with white picket fence '50s" any more. And as women more and more are getting the upper hand economically (2/3 of uni grads are now women), the balance is going to shift drastically. Feminism will be dead because the goals will have been achieved, and surpassed. Look around - it's happening all the time.
As for the f*ckheads who agonize over Clinton not breaking the glass ceiling, Warren would have done so easily. I used to think Obama was going to go down as one of the great presidents. Not any more. His childish "I would have beaten Trump" ignores that he campaigned for Clinton, calling her the most qualified candidate ever. Her campaign was widely seen as a surrogate for an Obama 3rd term. Obama stooping down to Trump's level is the end of any possibility to polish this turd or an administration. Trump will probably be just as bad, but so what? Maybe eventually things will get so screwed up that the current status quo won't be an acceptable solution.
Fortuntely, there's no real protocol. - you just use the pronouns and gender that people present as. Could be hard for people like David Bowie, Michael Jackson, and Prince, but that's a whole other story.:-)
She's not a "victim." She had a restraining order against her by the school. She faked some of the tweets that purported to threaten her. She has continually lied about her education, work experience, and qualifications. You do that sort of stupidity often enough, you've painted a huge bulls-eye on yourself and deserve to be called on your bullshit.
She portrays herself as a victim - being a professional victim is how she makes a living now that being a "game designer" went bust. She says she needs the money she makes off patreon to pay someone to remove all the bad tweets people post to her account - but it's been shown that it's far more likely that she's doing it herself since there is nobody in the US with the name of the "person" who is supposedly doing this.
Only fools believe her at this point. And as you can see by going through the posts, there are a lot of us who are not fools. This whole "going to run for the senate" is just more attention- and money-seeking behavior.
Hey, never a problem. It's just that all too often, a member of a minority screws things up for everyone and people think "why the hell doesn't one of them speak up?" After all, in this case, her tactic has been to accuse anyone who disagrees with her of misogyny and/or transphobia just to shut down argument, with a lot of virtue-signalling thrown in and "see I'm SOOO persecuted for being a woman."
She's full of it (and herself), lies a lot, claims all sorts of qualifications she doesn't have, and uses every opportunity possible to generate $$$ and attention. This article is just one more example, with the link to her patreon account.
It's like when she said that she was using the money from that to hire someone to get rid of the troll posts on her twitter feed. It's been established that that somebody is her under another name, one that additionally simply doesn't exist in the USA. But hey, when you're sooo bad that your parents have to cut all ties with you and sell the house you're living in to get you out of their life and bank account, what can you expect?
Also, it's foolish to think you can erase anything from the net. Only someone who has no idea how the net works would even attempt to - and hiding crap just brings out the hounds. This is all just another scam to pull in a few bucks. Given that there's no previous history of wanting to run for office, the timing is just too convenient. And given that she's been caught writing threatening posts to herself on several occasions, if people elect her, well, they get the government they deserve. We're seeing a LOT of that lately.:-)
Now I agree that the whole deadnaming thing is wrong, as is the misgendering. However, people are entitled to their opinions and beliefs, and the only way to change that is to be patient with them. It's hypocritical to demand others accept who you are if you can't first accept who they are, but too many transsexuals forget that acceptance is a two way street. Heck, plenty of my family still won't use my legal name and gender even though I was outed here a decade ago. I accept that's the way they are, and they have no more obligation to change for me than I have to detransition for them. And that's why I'm invited to Christmas supper today... I don't let it interfere with the things that count, and I'm not a hypocrite to demand of them what they don't demand of me.
It's the same as religious people refusing to sell gay wedding cakes - they shouldn't be allowed to discriminate, but at the same time, if you were gay why the HELL would you want to give them your business in the first place? Or are you just looking to start a fight on "principle." Looking to create a conflict is the polar opposite of principle. Makes me yearn for the '60s with the flower power and "make love not war" stuff I've seen on TV. Think I'll put on some Beatles and go back in time. Merry Christmas.
But I'm still p*ssed off that DICE heavily censored the original list of questions. It goes entirely against the "Comments owned by the poster" at the bottom of the page that entitles them to the DMCA safe harbor in the first place.
On another note - my GP thinks I should get out there and be an advocate for trans rights. I don't want to - I've wasted enough time advocating for people who ultimately just screw up some more because they think I'll clean their mess up again. For them, it's "Bah, humbug!" and a lump of coal. It's the only way to make them take responsibility:-)
First, she did NOT mention me in the Q&A. If you read it, If it ever existed, it's since been censored out of existence. Same as my questions in the original article.
Second, I didn't do any dead-naming.
Third. dead-naming or not, it's cowardly not to address the issue of being trans directly instead of deleting crap on twitter. That's not demonstrating leadership. It's just encouraging people to do it over and over because, when you delete it, they know it gets your goat. Great way to feed the trolls.
Fourth, if you act the same way as someone who is ashamed of being trans, people are going to judge you by those actions and conclude you really are ashamed. And they'd be right.
Fifth, trans women don't like her, because in the past she's treats us like shit. It's why she got booted off Susan's Place.
Sixth, all this fails to address the point that Slashdot censored the questions. This was the same month they announced that DICE was selling them. "Sanitizing" it to make it look better? You can't hide behind the DMCA safe harbor if you exercise control over what's posted. Sounds more like slashdot lite.
That's not a direct admission. Note the comment that the poster made when posting the quote "That's what the question was about - marriage". It was in response to a question that has since been deleted, about transsexuals telling someone they were going to marry about their past history.
Wu said it would be her own damn business - so it's obvious she wasn't the one asking the original question. Everyone, whatever their status, can have an opinion on this topic. Saying "it's my own damn business who and what I tell" isn't an admission. It's what most people would say about most things.
That being said, while she refuses to address the question now, it's obvious what the answer is. And she's wrong. Not telling someone before you sleep with them is sexual assault, same as if you went into the doctors for a prostate exam, the nurse told you to go into room 3 and undress and put on a gown, and then someone who looked like a doctors asked you if you would mind hopping on the table so they could poke around down there. Even though you consented, you didn't consent to a non-doctor doing it. Sexual assault, and not telling the guy? You deserve to get punched in the face, and consider yourself lucky if that's all you get.
Same as the trans-man who had sex for months with a woman, but since he didn't have a penis, used a dildo on her with the lights out. She found out one night, he was convicted of sexual assault. She had consented, but not to that.
She eventually got kicked out of there for the same bossy "I'm the victim" while flaming and trolling others. She then re-imaged herself on her blog saying it was surgery to correct a urinary tract problem. Subsequently, she has spent a lot of energy deleting posts on twitter that mention it.
Looking back at the original article where the questions were asked, I asked 3 times that it be addressed. Those questions have been deleted. So were others.
I have skin in the game, and wanted to know why anyone would continue to deny the truth when it's so well documented, right down to the voter registration card name change. I also asked why her characters were hypersexualized on her revolution60 pages, right down to camels toe. Why draw characters that are an early adolescent male's wet dreams and then criticize other games for objectifying women?
Being a transsexual is nothing to be ashamed of. I was outed here a decade ago, no big deal. Acting like you're ashamed of it, and expecting it to stay hidden while running for office, when the truth is so easily found, is whacko.
She didn't "ignore" that question. She wasn't asked it.
Bullshit. I asked directly, and the question was subsequently deleted. And I was pretty damn specific, asking why she was refusing to address the question of if she was trans. I mad the point in 3 different posts. All deleted by the powers that be.
Remember how Wu tried to do one of those Ask 10 questions, and refused to address the elephant in the room with her answers
If you can't even own up to being trans, you are not a leader. Wu must have the Apple sort of "courage". If you can't own up to being caught making up sh*t to get attention, you deserve all the negative attention you get.
Just another attemp by a failure to attention-whore to make money.
Beat you to it - moved to Soylent News. My original account user id was in the 40,000s. The neighborhood has really gone downhill in the last decade. Your shitposting of mental diarrhea about how your opinions count for more than studies is typical of the libtards, SJWs, and alt-left, alt-right and conspiracy nutbars. It's worse than Facebook, and that's bad enough.
You're the one who thinks it's okay to use amphetamines, self administered, long-term to "fix" the problem. Without ANY proof of efficacy. Zero. Your "feelings" are not proof. If you believe otherwise. you're psychotic, because you're obviously not living in a world where opinion and belief matters more than facts. Must be the post-fact USA.
Learn to read. Having a similar chemical structure means it has similar effects. It gets people high. People make bad judgments - sleeping with people they never would have if they weren't caught up in feeling good. Getting so addicted to "the scene" that they lose their spouse and their business (seen it happen) It also can cause anxiety and depression. Having to take ANY drug forever is not a long-term solution for ptsd or depression. Masking a problem doesn't solve it.
And while we're at it - you are a huge liar. You posted saying that you were done on this topic, but you keep coming back. Can't even keep your word, can you?
You still don't get it. The choice is between a short course of anti-depressants, of a lifetime on amphetamines, most people will take the shorter course of drugs. Many drugs have side effects, so the idea is to take them for the least amount of time necessary. The drugs are NOT supposed to make the patient happy. That would introduce to much of a risk of addiction, as we saw with Oxycontin, which was supposed to be addiction-proof.
If somebody is on antidepressants for life, their doctor is doing it wrong. Other countries don't do this - this is a US-specific phenomena. But with the focus on for-profit medicine, it's easier, quicker, and cheaper in the short run to keep the patient on drugs rather than try to fix the underlying problem. That it works out more expensive in the long run is irrelevant to both the drug industry and the government.
It is up to patients in such situations to ask for alternatives, same as it is for patients to always gather enough information to make informed choices. Nowadays there's no excuse not to go to the local library and do some research on the internet if you can't do it on your phone or at home.
Also, CBT (Cognitive-Based Therapy) has an extremely high rate of success when used in conjunction with anti-anxiety drugs to help the patient learn to control PTSD. It's the treatment of choice. Even when it doesn't result in complete remission, it helps, and along with things like emotional support animals, it leads to improvements in life, which is the goal. If someone can function without drugs after a certain point, that's a far better win than giving them amphetamines or antidepressants for life.
You are too focused on quick relief of symptoms, not on what is in the best long-term benefit of the patient.
Also, here we don't use antipsychotics to treat depression. If your country does, the people making the decisions need to either change their meds or get help. Depression, even chronic major depressive disorder, is not a psychosis. It's not the same as schizophrenia, where the person is sometimes living in an alternate reality. Studies have shown that depressed people actually make more realistic judges of outcomes of situations, perhaps because normal people are unrealistic in their expectations. That's why you get ponzi schemes like Twitter. Contrary to claims that Twitter has enough money at its current burn rate to last 420 years, it only has enough to last 3 - the 420 figure was based on insane stock evaluations. Twitter isn't just not worth less than $10. It's worth less than $2 if it were liquidated today, and at current rates, cash on hand will drop to zero within 2 years, and their other "assets" aren't worth anything.
Like I said - some 3rd world shit-hole. No universal health care (even Cuba is better than that). And while we are accepting refugees for Syria, we aren't from America. You have the vote, you can change things, that you don't is an indictment of Americans for the last 40 years. You got the government you deserve from Reagan on.
Other countries do their own studies, and often find flaws. Two examples - the Women's Health Initiative, which was supposed to be the "gold standard" with the "largest number of test subjects properly selected yada yada yada", and which was stopped prematurely because of claims of high rates of stroke among women taking estrogens (which caused millions of women to stop taking them and end up on antidepressants). The cohort selected was far from representative, subsequent re-evaluation of the data plus studies done by other countries found it was full of shit, and that the overall death rate was lower, not higher. And they didn't use human estrogen - they used horse hormones, which are not identical, with more than 50 unknown components, and was approved back when the FDA only wanted the active ingredients tested (turns out it causes liver damage).
Second example - olmesartin, sold under the brand name Benicar in the US, turns out that studies by other countries found a high risk of death for diabetics as well as suicidal ideation that the studies the FDA used for approval didn't find.
There are more - these are just 2 off the top of my head. They are both still being sold under the original approvals in the US, even though the FDA has admitted they don't know what is in Premarin and Prempro.
Other countries don't depend of FDA studies any more than the US depends on other countries studies.
As for alternate "medicines", they aren't covered here, and, unlike the US, all homeopathic "medicines" will be required to state on the box that the claims have not been scientifically proven, same as it's already illegal to stock homeopathic products that claim they can treat cold, cough, flu, etc., in children under 12 unless accompanied by appropriate studies proving the claims - and homeopaths can't because bullshit is the only active ingredient, and they're not going to pay for all the trials necessary.
One day the brits will catch up, because economic necessity will force them to get rid of the quackery despite politicians wanting to be as liberal as possible and allow anything and everything so as not to piss of their voters.
Also, I don't know what sort of 3rd world shithole you're living in to say this:
No it isn't. It particularly isn't given the massive costs involved in getting a script (which people are paying for either directly or indirectly)
Here, there is no cost for seeing a doctor, no cost for being referred to a psychiatrist, no cost for therapy sessions. If your income level is below a certain amount, drugs are free (especially helpful for seniors). Everyone else who doesn't have a private plan pays abut $1k a year from their taxes into a pot to cover all the public drug plan expenses
It's also against the law for doctors and pharmacists to take any form of kickback, gratuity, gift, trips, cash cards, paid-for conferences, etc. Recently a few pharmacists "forgot", and ended up being audited. Nobody wants to be audited, even if you've done nothing wrong, so there's a strong disincentive to corrupt practices, especially when it could see you losing your professional license.
This is why when you see a psychiatrist, they only offer to try out meds if you want to, after discussing the pros and cons, and their goal is the least amount for the shortest time that will have the desired effect while they and your therapist try to get to the root of the problem. The exceptions are things like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which need medicinal control permanently, since there is no curing them any more than you can cure type 1 diabetes and get off insulin.
You're probably seeing things through the lens of your country's for profit private medical system, which incentivizes pushing drugs by not outlawing pharmaceutical companies making kickbacks to pharmacists and doctors based on how many scrips are written and filled for their brand of drug. You want to fix the problem - attack the source - your health care system with its perverse incentives.
Not everyone lives in whatever private for-profit health fuckistan you live in that puts profit over people, so obviously your experiences will be different, and your outcomes will be different. But most of the more advanced countries don't work that way.
And again, fucktard completely misses the fact that I NEVER said it was for long-term use, and the article I linked to (which you obviously never read) made it clear that it was only used a an adjunct to therapy to help patients get into a state where they could actually see that there was hope.
Look, you're obviously brain-fried. Get some help. Real help. Of course you won't because you don't see you have a problem.
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Absolutely. Just returning law-breakers to their country of origin. Violating their air space? Who cares? That's what a disposable POS aircraft is for. Remote controlled, let them shoot it down - AFTER telling them who's on it.
I doubt Somalia is in a position to "retaliate." What re they going to do - hijack more boats? Besides, the US has shown that you don't have to give a shit about laws if you call it "extraordinary rendition", since the actual breaking of the law isn't in the EU or the US if you just dump them back where they came from.
Also, migrants won't take those jobs - robots will. Ask Japan. Even care for old people is being more and more robot-assisted. Their immigration rate this year is 0 per 1000. (I think the total was under 700 people, and only a few of those were refugees). They get that in the future, immigrants will be out of jobs same as the rest of the population.
There is no long term answer to the refugee crisis. I think it's great that my country is taking in tons of refugees, but we're one of the few low-population-density countries that isn't a shit hole. Given that Africa's rate of population growth dropped from 6 to 4.5, and is stuck there despite improvements in education that dogma says will result in lower population growth, the rest of the world cannot fix it. Not when in 50 years India and Africa by themselves will account for almost half the world's population.
Be grateful you're still at an age where you wake up to pee.
Please re-read the original post. He says he doesn't wake up to pee. And why bother - it's the staff's job to change the sheets :-)
Great minds think alike. Maybe he's one of those old farts who takes a half viagra before going to the bathroom to keep from pissing on his shoes :-) Bada-BOOM!
Seriously though, I don't see why people who crap in bed don't just get a colostomy instead of a diaper. Cheaper, you won't have to wait for someone to change you in a residence (you can wait up to two hours or more at night, so while the load in your pants might keep you warm, it's still gross), much easier to clean up, much less accident prone, no smells to follow you around, and if you accidentally fart when around others, the gas stays in the bag until you can slip away to discretely crack the seal open on the upper part of the ring. Also no worries about sitting down in a port-a-pottie at public events. Just stand next to a bush and remove the clip, shake, reclip, and "must have been a dog!"
36:24'57" = 36 degrees, 24 minutes, 57 seconds. NEVER needed curly quotes / opening and closing quotes for that, same as for feet and inches.
Or even 36h24'57" or 36h24m57s. Not too hard for a reader to figure it out using either system.
The sentence Jack said "Take a 2" x 4" x 8' piece of wood and nail it to a 4' x '8 sheet of plywood, 1" from the edge" will come out all f*d up with smart quotes. Easier just to turn them off.
So what you're saying is that the Depends work better than the rubber sheets did. Thanks for the feedback, but I think I'll stick to walking to the bathroom and letting the dog outside instead.
When it was absolutely essential to distinguish between an uppercase oh and a zero, an easy way was to backspace and type a slash through it. Differentiation between a lowercase ell and a one was sometimes done by underlining the ell to represent the number one, but this was rare.
We got along fine without stupid smart quotes, and they add nothing to readability.
And since so far they have produced no proof, and Americans have a long history of interfering in other countries elections, the current administration is being extremely hypocritical. Also, the current administration attempting to interfere with the transition of power, and to delegitimize the incoming administration, is treason. With a majority in both houses, Obama is being stupider every day. Expect a lot of embarrassing, damaging stuff to come out to justify criminal charges, and fro Obama and Clinton, among others, to produce presidential pardons.
#2 is bs. It's not like we haven't got rubber dingies if they came from a coastal country, or parachutes to drop them back where they came from. Do that often enough, you will eliminate the phony economic migrants claiming to be refugees. As for the UN convention on stateless people, they're only stateless if their country refuses to take them back. Just don't give their home country a heads up so they can refuse to take them back, they aren't yet stateless. Outsiders can't do regime change. Only the people living there can. We ought to know that by now, we've seen so many examples of how it leaves people worse off. People leaving reduces the pressure for change, especially since those with the most to lose, and the best positioned to fight back, are also the ones with the means to leave. Running away just perpetuates the problem by leaving the most vulnerable to fend for themselves. Same as always.
I wouldn't be hard on AmiMoJo. Took me a bit before I figured out what the whole Anita Sarkeesian / Zoe Quinn thing was all just a hot stinking mess of sturm und drang. My mother was a feminist. Fortunately, like her, feminism is now dead, so we can end this stupid men vs women class warfare. Arguments for pay equity should be gender-blind. Instead of wasting time on "safe spaces", which just perpetuates the whole men vs women crapola, we should be getting everyone to feel that they can stand up against crap, irrespective of sex. Telling women that we should be seeking refuge in safe spaces is patronizing as all hell, not to mention infantizing and disempowering.
I pity anyone who tries this sort of stupidity with my daughters - they don't need any white knights to rush in and defend them. We're not back in the "house with white picket fence '50s" any more. And as women more and more are getting the upper hand economically (2/3 of uni grads are now women), the balance is going to shift drastically. Feminism will be dead because the goals will have been achieved, and surpassed. Look around - it's happening all the time.
As for the f*ckheads who agonize over Clinton not breaking the glass ceiling, Warren would have done so easily. I used to think Obama was going to go down as one of the great presidents. Not any more. His childish "I would have beaten Trump" ignores that he campaigned for Clinton, calling her the most qualified candidate ever. Her campaign was widely seen as a surrogate for an Obama 3rd term. Obama stooping down to Trump's level is the end of any possibility to polish this turd or an administration. Trump will probably be just as bad, but so what? Maybe eventually things will get so screwed up that the current status quo won't be an acceptable solution.
Fortuntely, there's no real protocol. - you just use the pronouns and gender that people present as. Could be hard for people like David Bowie, Michael Jackson, and Prince, but that's a whole other story. :-)
She's not a "victim." She had a restraining order against her by the school. She faked some of the tweets that purported to threaten her. She has continually lied about her education, work experience, and qualifications. You do that sort of stupidity often enough, you've painted a huge bulls-eye on yourself and deserve to be called on your bullshit.
She portrays herself as a victim - being a professional victim is how she makes a living now that being a "game designer" went bust. She says she needs the money she makes off patreon to pay someone to remove all the bad tweets people post to her account - but it's been shown that it's far more likely that she's doing it herself since there is nobody in the US with the name of the "person" who is supposedly doing this.
Only fools believe her at this point. And as you can see by going through the posts, there are a lot of us who are not fools. This whole "going to run for the senate" is just more attention- and money-seeking behavior.
Hey, never a problem. It's just that all too often, a member of a minority screws things up for everyone and people think "why the hell doesn't one of them speak up?" After all, in this case, her tactic has been to accuse anyone who disagrees with her of misogyny and/or transphobia just to shut down argument, with a lot of virtue-signalling thrown in and "see I'm SOOO persecuted for being a woman."
She's full of it (and herself), lies a lot, claims all sorts of qualifications she doesn't have, and uses every opportunity possible to generate $$$ and attention. This article is just one more example, with the link to her patreon account.
It's like when she said that she was using the money from that to hire someone to get rid of the troll posts on her twitter feed. It's been established that that somebody is her under another name, one that additionally simply doesn't exist in the USA. But hey, when you're sooo bad that your parents have to cut all ties with you and sell the house you're living in to get you out of their life and bank account, what can you expect?
Also, it's foolish to think you can erase anything from the net. Only someone who has no idea how the net works would even attempt to - and hiding crap just brings out the hounds. This is all just another scam to pull in a few bucks. Given that there's no previous history of wanting to run for office, the timing is just too convenient. And given that she's been caught writing threatening posts to herself on several occasions, if people elect her, well, they get the government they deserve. We're seeing a LOT of that lately. :-)
Now I agree that the whole deadnaming thing is wrong, as is the misgendering. However, people are entitled to their opinions and beliefs, and the only way to change that is to be patient with them. It's hypocritical to demand others accept who you are if you can't first accept who they are, but too many transsexuals forget that acceptance is a two way street. Heck, plenty of my family still won't use my legal name and gender even though I was outed here a decade ago. I accept that's the way they are, and they have no more obligation to change for me than I have to detransition for them. And that's why I'm invited to Christmas supper today ... I don't let it interfere with the things that count, and I'm not a hypocrite to demand of them what they don't demand of me.
It's the same as religious people refusing to sell gay wedding cakes - they shouldn't be allowed to discriminate, but at the same time, if you were gay why the HELL would you want to give them your business in the first place? Or are you just looking to start a fight on "principle." Looking to create a conflict is the polar opposite of principle. Makes me yearn for the '60s with the flower power and "make love not war" stuff I've seen on TV. Think I'll put on some Beatles and go back in time. Merry Christmas.
But I'm still p*ssed off that DICE heavily censored the original list of questions. It goes entirely against the "Comments owned by the poster" at the bottom of the page that entitles them to the DMCA safe harbor in the first place.
On another note - my GP thinks I should get out there and be an advocate for trans rights. I don't want to - I've wasted enough time advocating for people who ultimately just screw up some more because they think I'll clean their mess up again. For them, it's "Bah, humbug!" and a lump of coal. It's the only way to make them take responsibility :-)
First, she did NOT mention me in the Q&A. If you read it, If it ever existed, it's since been censored out of existence. Same as my questions in the original article.
Second, I didn't do any dead-naming.
Third. dead-naming or not, it's cowardly not to address the issue of being trans directly instead of deleting crap on twitter. That's not demonstrating leadership. It's just encouraging people to do it over and over because, when you delete it, they know it gets your goat. Great way to feed the trolls.
Fourth, if you act the same way as someone who is ashamed of being trans, people are going to judge you by those actions and conclude you really are ashamed. And they'd be right.
Fifth, trans women don't like her, because in the past she's treats us like shit. It's why she got booted off Susan's Place.
Sixth, all this fails to address the point that Slashdot censored the questions. This was the same month they announced that DICE was selling them. "Sanitizing" it to make it look better? You can't hide behind the DMCA safe harbor if you exercise control over what's posted. Sounds more like slashdot lite.
That's not a direct admission. Note the comment that the poster made when posting the quote "That's what the question was about - marriage". It was in response to a question that has since been deleted, about transsexuals telling someone they were going to marry about their past history.
Wu said it would be her own damn business - so it's obvious she wasn't the one asking the original question. Everyone, whatever their status, can have an opinion on this topic. Saying "it's my own damn business who and what I tell" isn't an admission. It's what most people would say about most things.
That being said, while she refuses to address the question now, it's obvious what the answer is. And she's wrong. Not telling someone before you sleep with them is sexual assault, same as if you went into the doctors for a prostate exam, the nurse told you to go into room 3 and undress and put on a gown, and then someone who looked like a doctors asked you if you would mind hopping on the table so they could poke around down there. Even though you consented, you didn't consent to a non-doctor doing it. Sexual assault, and not telling the guy? You deserve to get punched in the face, and consider yourself lucky if that's all you get.
Same as the trans-man who had sex for months with a woman, but since he didn't have a penis, used a dildo on her with the lights out. She found out one night, he was convicted of sexual assault. She had consented, but not to that.
She eventually got kicked out of there for the same bossy "I'm the victim" while flaming and trolling others. She then re-imaged herself on her blog saying it was surgery to correct a urinary tract problem. Subsequently, she has spent a lot of energy deleting posts on twitter that mention it.
Looking back at the original article where the questions were asked, I asked 3 times that it be addressed. Those questions have been deleted. So were others.
I have skin in the game, and wanted to know why anyone would continue to deny the truth when it's so well documented, right down to the voter registration card name change. I also asked why her characters were hypersexualized on her revolution60 pages, right down to camels toe. Why draw characters that are an early adolescent male's wet dreams and then criticize other games for objectifying women?
Being a transsexual is nothing to be ashamed of. I was outed here a decade ago, no big deal. Acting like you're ashamed of it, and expecting it to stay hidden while running for office, when the truth is so easily found, is whacko.
I asked it 3 times. All deleted. And I was far from the only one to do so.
She didn't "ignore" that question. She wasn't asked it.
Bullshit. I asked directly, and the question was subsequently deleted. And I was pretty damn specific, asking why she was refusing to address the question of if she was trans. I mad the point in 3 different posts. All deleted by the powers that be.
Remember how Wu tried to do one of those Ask 10 questions, and refused to address the elephant in the room with her answers
If you can't even own up to being trans, you are not a leader. Wu must have the Apple sort of "courage". If you can't own up to being caught making up sh*t to get attention, you deserve all the negative attention you get.
Just another attemp by a failure to attention-whore to make money.
Beat you to it - moved to Soylent News. My original account user id was in the 40,000s. The neighborhood has really gone downhill in the last decade. Your shitposting of mental diarrhea about how your opinions count for more than studies is typical of the libtards, SJWs, and alt-left, alt-right and conspiracy nutbars. It's worse than Facebook, and that's bad enough.
You're the one who thinks it's okay to use amphetamines, self administered, long-term to "fix" the problem. Without ANY proof of efficacy. Zero. Your "feelings" are not proof. If you believe otherwise. you're psychotic, because you're obviously not living in a world where opinion and belief matters more than facts. Must be the post-fact USA.
Learn to read. Having a similar chemical structure means it has similar effects. It gets people high. People make bad judgments - sleeping with people they never would have if they weren't caught up in feeling good. Getting so addicted to "the scene" that they lose their spouse and their business (seen it happen) It also can cause anxiety and depression. Having to take ANY drug forever is not a long-term solution for ptsd or depression. Masking a problem doesn't solve it.
And while we're at it - you are a huge liar. You posted saying that you were done on this topic, but you keep coming back. Can't even keep your word, can you?
You still don't get it. The choice is between a short course of anti-depressants, of a lifetime on amphetamines, most people will take the shorter course of drugs. Many drugs have side effects, so the idea is to take them for the least amount of time necessary. The drugs are NOT supposed to make the patient happy. That would introduce to much of a risk of addiction, as we saw with Oxycontin, which was supposed to be addiction-proof.
If somebody is on antidepressants for life, their doctor is doing it wrong. Other countries don't do this - this is a US-specific phenomena. But with the focus on for-profit medicine, it's easier, quicker, and cheaper in the short run to keep the patient on drugs rather than try to fix the underlying problem. That it works out more expensive in the long run is irrelevant to both the drug industry and the government.
It is up to patients in such situations to ask for alternatives, same as it is for patients to always gather enough information to make informed choices. Nowadays there's no excuse not to go to the local library and do some research on the internet if you can't do it on your phone or at home.
Also, CBT (Cognitive-Based Therapy) has an extremely high rate of success when used in conjunction with anti-anxiety drugs to help the patient learn to control PTSD. It's the treatment of choice. Even when it doesn't result in complete remission, it helps, and along with things like emotional support animals, it leads to improvements in life, which is the goal. If someone can function without drugs after a certain point, that's a far better win than giving them amphetamines or antidepressants for life.
You are too focused on quick relief of symptoms, not on what is in the best long-term benefit of the patient.
Also, here we don't use antipsychotics to treat depression. If your country does, the people making the decisions need to either change their meds or get help. Depression, even chronic major depressive disorder, is not a psychosis. It's not the same as schizophrenia, where the person is sometimes living in an alternate reality. Studies have shown that depressed people actually make more realistic judges of outcomes of situations, perhaps because normal people are unrealistic in their expectations. That's why you get ponzi schemes like Twitter. Contrary to claims that Twitter has enough money at its current burn rate to last 420 years, it only has enough to last 3 - the 420 figure was based on insane stock evaluations. Twitter isn't just not worth less than $10. It's worth less than $2 if it were liquidated today, and at current rates, cash on hand will drop to zero within 2 years, and their other "assets" aren't worth anything.
Like I said - some 3rd world shit-hole. No universal health care (even Cuba is better than that). And while we are accepting refugees for Syria, we aren't from America. You have the vote, you can change things, that you don't is an indictment of Americans for the last 40 years. You got the government you deserve from Reagan on.
Other countries do their own studies, and often find flaws. Two examples - the Women's Health Initiative, which was supposed to be the "gold standard" with the "largest number of test subjects properly selected yada yada yada", and which was stopped prematurely because of claims of high rates of stroke among women taking estrogens (which caused millions of women to stop taking them and end up on antidepressants). The cohort selected was far from representative, subsequent re-evaluation of the data plus studies done by other countries found it was full of shit, and that the overall death rate was lower, not higher. And they didn't use human estrogen - they used horse hormones, which are not identical, with more than 50 unknown components, and was approved back when the FDA only wanted the active ingredients tested (turns out it causes liver damage).
Second example - olmesartin, sold under the brand name Benicar in the US, turns out that studies by other countries found a high risk of death for diabetics as well as suicidal ideation that the studies the FDA used for approval didn't find.
There are more - these are just 2 off the top of my head. They are both still being sold under the original approvals in the US, even though the FDA has admitted they don't know what is in Premarin and Prempro.
Other countries don't depend of FDA studies any more than the US depends on other countries studies.
As for alternate "medicines", they aren't covered here, and, unlike the US, all homeopathic "medicines" will be required to state on the box that the claims have not been scientifically proven, same as it's already illegal to stock homeopathic products that claim they can treat cold, cough, flu, etc., in children under 12 unless accompanied by appropriate studies proving the claims - and homeopaths can't because bullshit is the only active ingredient, and they're not going to pay for all the trials necessary.
One day the brits will catch up, because economic necessity will force them to get rid of the quackery despite politicians wanting to be as liberal as possible and allow anything and everything so as not to piss of their voters.
Also, I don't know what sort of 3rd world shithole you're living in to say this:
No it isn't. It particularly isn't given the massive costs involved in getting a script (which people are paying for either directly or indirectly)
Here, there is no cost for seeing a doctor, no cost for being referred to a psychiatrist, no cost for therapy sessions. If your income level is below a certain amount, drugs are free (especially helpful for seniors). Everyone else who doesn't have a private plan pays abut $1k a year from their taxes into a pot to cover all the public drug plan expenses
It's also against the law for doctors and pharmacists to take any form of kickback, gratuity, gift, trips, cash cards, paid-for conferences, etc. Recently a few pharmacists "forgot", and ended up being audited. Nobody wants to be audited, even if you've done nothing wrong, so there's a strong disincentive to corrupt practices, especially when it could see you losing your professional license.
This is why when you see a psychiatrist, they only offer to try out meds if you want to, after discussing the pros and cons, and their goal is the least amount for the shortest time that will have the desired effect while they and your therapist try to get to the root of the problem. The exceptions are things like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which need medicinal control permanently, since there is no curing them any more than you can cure type 1 diabetes and get off insulin.
You're probably seeing things through the lens of your country's for profit private medical system, which incentivizes pushing drugs by not outlawing pharmaceutical companies making kickbacks to pharmacists and doctors based on how many scrips are written and filled for their brand of drug. You want to fix the problem - attack the source - your health care system with its perverse incentives.
Not everyone lives in whatever private for-profit health fuckistan you live in that puts profit over people, so obviously your experiences will be different, and your outcomes will be different. But most of the more advanced countries don't work that way.
And again, fucktard completely misses the fact that I NEVER said it was for long-term use, and the article I linked to (which you obviously never read) made it clear that it was only used a an adjunct to therapy to help patients get into a state where they could actually see that there was hope.
Look, you're obviously brain-fried. Get some help. Real help. Of course you won't because you don't see you have a problem.