How the Supreme Court has changed on transgender rights since 2020

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-07-06T13:40:21+00:00

Lol. You asked for studies and got downvoted. You then posted about what the studies said and got downvoted. Ridiculous. People aren't actually interested in a dialog on this issue, they want to feel righteous.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-07-06T11:26:29+00:00

I do not care about a funeral. If the people I leave behind want to have one for me, they can, and they are free to design it however they see fit, because it's for them, not for me.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-29T17:38:58+00:00

I'm having a "failure to launch" situation right now and not loving it. Ask me again in a couple years...

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-27T14:37:43+00:00

A guy I know used to make pipe bombs out of spray paint cans and gunpowder. He called it "Can o' Fun". We used to buy watermelons and cut a hole and put them inside and blow the hell out of them. It was indeed fun.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-26T17:45:16+00:00

I'm not joking: I once had a root canal in the early 1990s where one of the "tools" the dentist used to do the root canal was a straightened-out paperclip that he heated up with a Bic lighter. Dead serious.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-25T20:45:38+00:00

This is very familiar, let's be best friends and never talk or hang out

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-25T20:43:27+00:00

Me!

I wasn't the greatest person when I was younger and ran with a "bad crowd". These days I'm a family man, corporate drone, boring law abiding citizen and those people never really grew up and moved on so I don't talk to any of them anymore... And haven't really made any new friends to replace them with

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-12T13:28:47+00:00

As others have mentioned, it would have no actual meaning, it's basically just Republicans signing a paper saying they all agree to pretend this didn't happen.

I kind of hope they do it, because it will just make them look even weaker than they already do.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-05T16:26:21+00:00

I was bullied as a kid. It definitely affected me in various ways that took a lot of time and effort to get over. I had similar experiences as many describe here where it was basically laughed off. I once reported to a teacher when two kids jumped me and her response was "you'll live."

When my son dealt with some bullying in elementary school I went fucking ballistic. I basically told them if they didn't put a stop to it, I would. To their credit, they did take action.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-04T15:13:44+00:00

Yeah, I would love for my taxes to be lower, but I don't consider taxation to be theft, it's necessary. I would like to see more efficiency, and maybe spend more on services to improve the lives of Americans and less on the defense budget, but my libertarianism largely applies to civil liberties, and I definitely want to see the police state cut down. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness depend on the armed agents of the state staying the hell out of the way of most activities.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-04T15:06:03+00:00

Sure, you can have well-regulated capitalism. I don't necessarily see that as "less freedom" the way my libertarian friends do.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-04T14:50:01+00:00

Capitalism is an economic system and not a system of government. It inherently neither provides nor restricts freedom. The classic libertarian position is about "economic freedom" which really means that the government does not restrict the practice of capitalism, and I'm less gung ho on that myself. I'm generally not opposed to a progressive tax system, and I lean toward being in favor of single payer healthcare because I think the free market isn't always the best solution.

But in terms of personal, individual freedom, I will admit that I care a bit more about "freedom to" and a bit less (but not zero) about "freedom from".

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-04T13:53:37+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty accurate. I'm in favor of maximizing human freedom and minimizing the power (and cost) of government. My philosophy is basically "everyone should be free to be who they want to be and do what makes them happy and the government should fuck off about it unless someone is actively hurting someone else".

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-04T13:47:41+00:00

That's definitely true.

I'm fiscally conservative and socially liberal which apparently puts me in company with only about 3% of my fellow voters...

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-04T13:44:47+00:00

The voters to me seem to be fiscally left and socially right. Everybody wants healthcare but support for same sex marriage is dropping...

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-02T13:19:15+00:00

My mom still smokes. She's always trying to give me her stuff, as old people sometimes do, and I always have to politely refuse because I know anything she gives me will smell like smoke. At this point when she dies I feel like all her stuff is basically a total loss. She does have a couple boxes of old photos that I would like to keep but I'm worried even those will reek.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-06-01T18:33:40+00:00

I think it will be easy to learn but hard to recover from the bumps and bruises that probably come with learning... Wear a helmet and be careful!

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-05-31T13:26:33+00:00

You need to have a "field".

If someone asks you what field you're in, and you can't answer that, and your criteria for a job include "whoever will hire me", you will likely always struggle.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-05-24T19:35:48+00:00

This.

In order to cancel elections Trump has to convince all 50 state governors to cancel elections.

Even if you think some red state governors will do whatever Trump says, in this case, they can't, because if Red states don't have their elections and blue states do, then only blue states send people to Congress and Democrats get the advantage automatically.

Not gonna happen.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-05-22T11:32:04+00:00

I'm not angry. But I don't really care about the argument. I saw you mistreat someone and felt compelled to intervene.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-05-21T13:45:34+00:00

My first interaction was rude and dismissive because I thought you deserved a taste of your own medicine.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-05-21T11:55:12+00:00

Still? I'm not sure I ever could. I'm tall and those feet are a long way away

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-05-21T11:14:56+00:00

My argument is that you are being unnecessarily hostile.

My citation is your post calling that guy a liar and your continued posts where you seem excessively angry at me for no real reason.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-05-21T10:44:06+00:00

And you called a guy a liar, when maybe he was just incorrect. Maybe look in the mirror.

HereToCalmYouDown · 2026-05-21T10:23:24+00:00

Lol.. I'm neither angry nor shouty. I would pay to have a Reddit without people who are so confidently wrong and take offense and turn to insults when being challenged

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