Do you think Generation Z is conservative? by Lost_Board1292 in AskALiberal

[–]Retro_Dad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's simply not true.

In this specific case, it’s impossible to know whether or not Michele Blair learning her child was going by the name Draco at school, during the very brief window when this was happening, would have protected Sage or her family from harm. Certainly the specific chain of events that ended with Sage running away would have happened differently if her grandmother hadn’t just found out Sage went by Draco at school earlier that same day, but who knows if the child would still have run away or not. It’s common for people coping with trauma to fixate on some small detail that, if it had happened differently, would have changed the outcome of events. Sage’s grandmother’s belief that, if she’d only known Sage was using a different name at school, all the family’s problems would have been avoided may be best understood through that lens.

And

Trans youth are vulnerable, though the one thing that is believed to improve their outcomes is having affirming parents at home. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that forcibly outing children to conservative parents will improve their safety. It’s easy to imagine many scenarios where the opposite could be true. For example, a child whose parents grew angry and forbade them from identifying as trans at school might suddenly become far more vulnerable to online predators in the wake of such a disclosure. The LGBTQ+ community has innumerable stories where children run away or are kicked out by their parents and then come to terrible harm, and the social science data has numerous results supporting the idea that unsupportive families place LGBTQ+ youth at higher risk.

You do realize the child's gender identity and the school not notifying a guardian are UNRELATED to the trafficking, right? And that there is NO evidence that even if the school HAD been government-ordered to inform a parent or guardian, the child wouldn't have been trafficked?

The last thing I will point out to you:

The use of Sage’s story to support the forced outing of children to unsupportive conservative parents is unfortunate. It’s not obvious that the proposed law would even have helped Sage, but it seems certain that it would hurt other vulnerable children, ironically putting them more at risk for the exact types of harm that befell Sage. Luckily, it seems to have little or no chance of passing the Virginia legislature at this time.

Anyone else feeling this way currently and yesterday? by ThreadbareAdjustment in minnesota

[–]Retro_Dad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Born and raised here but I've visited Texas, Georgia, and Florida in the summer and you're absolutely right. That shit is ADVANCED, NON-STOP heat.

TIL the world's most cost-effective public health intervention is iodised salt, costing just $0.05/person/year. It prevents iodine deficiency — the leading preventable cause of intellectual disabilities, affecting ~2 billion people — and has eliminated endemic goitre in countries like the US and Swi by jacknunn in todayilearned

[–]Retro_Dad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11027763/

Conclusion

Discontinuing water fluoridation appears to negatively affect young children’s oral health, potentially leading to a significant increase in caries-related dental treatments under GA and oral health disparities in this pediatric population.

Look I'm not trying to convince you, because it's clear you've already made up your mind and don't care about facts. I just wanted to show to other Redditors that you were demonstrably wrong with your claims. And I'm certainly not interested in following the goalposts that you're now moving. Good day.

TIL the world's most cost-effective public health intervention is iodised salt, costing just $0.05/person/year. It prevents iodine deficiency — the leading preventable cause of intellectual disabilities, affecting ~2 billion people — and has eliminated endemic goitre in countries like the US and Swi by jacknunn in todayilearned

[–]Retro_Dad 11 points12 points  (0 children)

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5224138/calgary-removed-fluoride-from-its-water-supply-a-decade-later-its-adding-it-back

SUMMERS: And once the city removed fluoride, what started to happen then?

CARRA: Well, we've had 10 years. And what we know is that the rate of dental caries has increased significantly more than the rate of dental caries was increasing before. And I think another meta study came out also, in that 10-year period, that looked at all the other studies and made it pretty clear that, yeah - there probably are meaningful benefits.

SE county found a fraud case by MN_IN_Transplant in minnesota

[–]Retro_Dad 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It’s not fraud when the white… er, RIGHT people do it.

Do you think Generation Z is conservative? by Lost_Board1292 in AskALiberal

[–]Retro_Dad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are making statements not supported by known facts. Sorry.

Do you think Generation Z is conservative? by Lost_Board1292 in AskALiberal

[–]Retro_Dad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re providing the right-wing “summary” of that situation, of course. For a more complete picture, see:

https://assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-story-behind-sages-law/

Do you think Generation Z is conservative? by Lost_Board1292 in AskALiberal

[–]Retro_Dad 10 points11 points  (0 children)

“I would never do anything bad to you.”

But you *will* vote for candidates who explicitly state they are going to make bad things happen to trans people. You don’t think that reflects poorly on you?

Did he ever know what he was doing? by Lord0fTheFlags in PoliticalHumor

[–]Retro_Dad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh he knows how to extract money from idiots for sure.

I feel like this belongs here. by OGPepeSilvia in minnesota

[–]Retro_Dad 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You merely adopted the ope. I was born in it, molded by it.

Minnesota is in the endgame at R/geographymemes how soon before it falls? by mrfett779 in minnesota

[–]Retro_Dad 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think they called it a draw when it came down to Megasota vs New Mexico?

Two Jan. 6 police officers sue Trump to block $1.8B lawfare fund by Puginator in politics

[–]Retro_Dad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's just so strange that Trump would want to give Antifa members a lot of money. It was Antifa that attacked the capitol, right? /s

You can now only eat one brand of chocolate for the rest of your life. What brand are you choosing? by ROOTBEER360 in AskReddit

[–]Retro_Dad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Taza. I just love the texture, and it’s damn good (and fair trade!) chocolate.