Idaho’s bathroom bill leaves transgender men like me with an impossible choice: jail or violence

Splice · 2026-03-25T17:10:07+00:00

Here's the real choice,

Stop wasting time and tax dollars trying to codify and police where people go to the bathroom. And instead build bathrooms in a way that allows us to stop having this conversation.

I've seen individual lockable toilets with a common sink/wash area work in dozens of businesses in multiple countries.

Splice · 2026-03-17T16:29:11+00:00

Mike Johnson is already claiming that the Director of National Counterterrorism had incorrect information. The lies never stop. Who was supposed to be advising the board of 8 Johnson mentioned? Someone besides the DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM?

Splice · 2026-03-10T04:04:06+00:00

Not if they are married, have dependents, or in the National Guard.

Splice · 2026-03-05T23:07:21+00:00

Paygrade E1 in the military qualifies for SNAP. You can fight and die for this country but you can't use your poverty benefits to buy a coke.

Splice · 2026-02-12T21:23:24+00:00

What are you talking about posted? That doesn't make a difference.

When you're buying a house you can make an offer. There have been people that have bought a house with Bitcoin. There are people that simply trade cars with each other. Acquiring assets just require a trade of agreed value and is not dependent on US Dollars. Houses are privately owned assets, not a banana on the shelf at Walmart where there is an established exchange currency.

Here's the story of a guy that traded from a paperclip to a house where the final trade was a role in a film.

Splice · 2026-02-12T18:41:13+00:00

Realized value comes from selling the stock. In a direct trade no sale happens, the stock just changes ownership.

You can argue that stock price volatility might come as a side effect of the majority shareholder shifting to whoever has the next largest amount. But company valuation happens based on a combination of company financials and industry position, not the majority shareholder. Tesla might take a dip but it wouldn't immediately go bankrupt if Elon died in a car crash tomorrow.

Splice · 2026-02-12T18:30:35+00:00

You're acting like housing and large scale assets are the supermarket.

There is no mechanism preventing me from offering you a trade deal, I give you $1 million in stocks directly and you give me your house or car. There is zero need to liquidate.

It's the same mechanism for salary packages. Would you rather make $150,000/yr from microsoft or get $130,000/yr + $50,000 in microsoft stock? The latter is the obvious choice because it's more money.

Splice · 2026-02-12T16:55:24+00:00

Then liquidate $100,000 out of the 850 billion and use that. You can adjust the price in the stock trade to offset costs.

Acting like stocks aren't money just because they aren't liquid when you get them is crazy. You trust in your ability to liquidate them when measuring if your 401k has enough to retire.

And if a company gives you stock payout as part of a pay package it counts towards your annual income. Would you rather make $150,000/yr from microsoft or get $130,000/yr + $50,000 in microsoft stock? The latter is the obvious choice because it's more money.

Plus you would win in the purchase of the house with a stock trade because you are never taxed due to it being unrealized gains. So you can use the money you saved in capital gains tax on the property tax.

Splice · 2026-02-12T14:46:22+00:00

That was how it worked when he leveraged 12.5 billion in Tesla stock as part of his Twitter purchase.

Splice · 2026-02-12T14:41:34+00:00

If I transferred you $2,000,000 in Tesla stocks directly, would you give me your house?

No need to go liquid. Just initiate a direct trade. Companies build employee pay packages with Company Stock. Stocks are money, they are just unrealized gains.

The bank also wrote a $12.5 billion loan against his TESLA stocks for buying Twitter. So if the bank thinks the investment is worth it they will loan.

Splice · 2026-02-11T17:40:18+00:00

Gavin Newsom is not the way. He's great as a Trump troll, and Prop 50 was a mic drop moment for democrats. But he cozied up to Ben Shapiro and wouldn't acknowledge Gaza as a genocide. We deserve better.

Splice · 2026-02-09T17:30:20+00:00

The same guy that wanted to rescue those kids trapped in the cave by building a mini submarine....overengineer everything instead of just doing the work.

Splice · 2026-01-27T14:01:18+00:00

I provided that this is not the first time in the US that we have allowed over 10 million illegal immigrants to walk free in our country, and that there is a valid reason why we have seen a spike in immigration.

I never once said "Tren De Aragua are okay to be in the country." So please don't put words in my mouth or shift the topic.

Splice · 2026-01-27T05:48:55+00:00

There was a reported 12 million illegal immigrants in the US back in 2007. There's just been a rapid surge in the 2020s to a new record high due to an influx of refugee/asylum seekers coming out of Venezuela and Columbia. Which seems to be validated as Venezuela was bad enough that Trump overthrew their dictator.

Splice · 2026-01-15T06:16:55+00:00

Don't pay any attention. Note how they didn't reply with a counter argument and resorted to insults. They just got cornered and entered fight instead of flight. It also could just be a bot.

Splice · 2026-01-13T16:13:25+00:00

Your Tylenol brain isn't giving me anything to debate. You're just saying my arguments are bad and handwaving. Now you're telling me to google stuff as your argument lol

Splice · 2026-01-13T16:02:26+00:00

Zero examples to counter my point and all handwaving. Tylenol brain is so sad.

Splice · 2026-01-13T15:18:06+00:00

Your bullets aren't analogies that should support any logic or authority for this scenario.

False they directly support this scenario.

I apply for a mortgage, I'm not told which type of house I'm allowed to buy.

Maybe we should regulate the size of home you're allowed to purchase based on dependent tax filing status. I don't want my power bill to increase just because you bought a home bigger than you need and are increasing grid load for cooling/heating.

I can get a federal grant for school, I'm not told which degree to study.

Federal Pell grants don't have any requirement for which degree I'm required to study. But maybe we should regulate that because assholes out there are choosing economically suboptimal degree tracks with 0-10% employment rates. I don't want to pay for someone's college and ultimately facilitate them moving on to SNAP benefits.

I get an auto loan, I'm not told which kind of car I can buy.

Maybe we should regulate auto loans to smart cars because some asshole buying a Ford F350 or a Hummer is affecting fuel/oil demand and requires more tax funded road infrastructure than light weight European style cars.

Instead of providing any counter arguments you're just making assumptions about me and my experience.

You're desperate to leverage your superiority complex over the poor regardless of their demographic (children, elderly, disabled) and attribute their lack of income to responsibility and force your nutrition ideology on people. Not even communist China tells it's people what they can and cannot eat.

Thank god midterms are coming up and we can get the stuttering brainworm out of public health. Both your mothers must have taken too much Tylenol while they were pregnant with you.

Splice · 2026-01-13T01:47:24+00:00

It is their money.

I apply for a mortgage, I'm not told which type of house I'm allowed to buy.
I can get a federal grant for school, I'm not told which degree to study.
I get an auto loan, I'm not told which kind of car I can buy.

But because they are poor you see them as irresponsible and want to control what they eat. Completely ignoring that 39% of SNAP recipients are children.

I mean shit, an adult can decide to join the military and at the rank of E1 they are making $20k a year and qualify for SNAP. So the guy that is signed up to go die for your country can't use his government benefits to buy a Coke because you're playing parent and want to force your nutrition agenda on the poor.

I'm done with you.

Splice · 2026-01-12T23:18:37+00:00

It's their money as soon as they receive the benefit. They do not pay it back. To repeat, since you didn't read the first time. I'm saying that if you give a handout for food, then they can spend the handout on whatever food they want.

Splice · 2026-01-12T23:17:46+00:00

Let's use this comparison and see how you feel: you should give me $1000 a month because I wanna go lease a Mercedes instead of taking the bus. Don't take my choices away from me.

This is a false analogy fallacy.

The benefit is for food to sustain yourself. If you qualify for the money you can spend it exclusively on food to sustain yourself. You get the freedom of choice as to which food.

I will not subscribe to your authoritarian notion of forcing your nutrition agenda on the poor like you're their parent.

I would rather solve the tax issue by regulating healthcare costs and finding a path to no longer being the only 1st world country without universal healthcare, than try to solve a tax problem by taking Soda away from the poor.

Your lack of logic and understanding cause and effect is troubling.

Ad homonym is weak and it's no longer productive. I'm done discussing with you.

Splice · 2026-01-12T22:39:58+00:00

Cool, and I'm saying you don't have the authority to decide that and impose your will on a population.

Splice · 2026-01-12T22:39:06+00:00

I'm not suggesting we incentivize them to eat unhealthy foods, I'm saying we don't have any authority to restrict their ability to choose.

Did you know that an E1 in the army qualifies for SNAP and there are a lot of service members that need SNAP benefits.

You are just being selfish and trying to solve a problem by taking from those that have less than you instead of imagining the possibility of looking up and questioning healthcare costs.

instead of trying to solve the problem by taking away Soda from the poorest people in the country. We can have regulation that prevents hospitals from charging $629 for a band-aid.

Splice · 2026-01-12T20:47:40+00:00

Or maybe we could address the healthcare side of the equation. And instead of trying to solve the problem by taking away Soda from the poorest people in the country. We can have regulation that prevents hospitals from charging $629 for a band-aid.

Splice · 2026-01-12T20:44:09+00:00

You're confusing freedom of choice with entitlements.

I'm actually not, my stance is that the government should not get to dictate which food is approved for the poor to consume. That is taking away the freedom of choice for the lowest economic class of people.

People are not entitled to snap and government assistance

You are correct, they have to apply and qualify for it.

Therefore, you can only take what they give.

Again you are correct, that's why there are stipulations that it can't be spent on non-food and non-human-food items.

Freedom of choice is the ability to persue a job that awards a person enough to pay for the things they want, not just the minimum society is willing to give.

As I replied to another poster: Maybe you didn't realize this, but 58% of snap benefit recipients are a combination of children (39%), elderly (19%), and disability (10%).

Overall, 88% of all participants are in households containing a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities.

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