President Donald Trump

You're so close... Almost there...I know you can do it...

Nothing uniquely male about balls to the face

I don't think much camera footage is making its way out of the Salvadoran prison to show what is happening to people there, or even to show they weren't all dropped in the, umm, Gulf Of America on the way there.

And you do realize that Trump is attempting to shut down all news outlets that say anything negative about him, right? Hitler couldn't accomplish everything immediately either.

I doubt that Trump will ever kill as many unwanteds and become generally as bad as Hitler, but it sure won't be from lack of trying.

I don't know what you mean here.

I think there's nothing uniquely dangerous about boys and girls playing sports together.

You think that trans women pose a significantly elevated threat to cis women when they play sports together despite a decade of evidence to the contrary. This is because you've been told to think this and you think it makes sense because you've internalized this fantasy of a 6'3 235 pound linebacker smashing line drives at 4'3 80 pound faces

I would be shocked if anyone on this forum with a passionate opinion about trans athletes has even talked to a trans athlete let alone met a trans kid face to face

The dead man can more effectively serve life.

Now, see, this is where you lose people. The parables of Jesus were much easier to interpret.

then I have no clue what I'm close to getting about 'A guy .. taking a ball to the face'

The dead man has no identity (referencing your comment), which makes him free to identify and become (in service to life).

In this way, life relies on the dead man to steward it.

yeah not like a recent national champion was a trans athlete or anything - this pic tells you quite clearly how other female swimmers thought of it

Well I thought you were close. Maybe you missed my post about projectiles?

You were telling stories about how men playing with men and girls playing with girls both got extremely severe injuries, just like people worry will happen when trans athletes are involved.

But then you somehow think the solution is for everyone to get the opportunity to be hit in the face so hard they need surgery. The real solution is for no one to be put at unnecessary risk of painful, disfiguring, brain damaging, possibly even fatal injuries.

Or at least no one under the legal age of consent should be allowed to participate in such activities. You probably wouldn't allow, much less encourage, your child to play in the middle of a busy road. Or to play chicken with their cars like James Dean. Or to jump off a bridge if all their friends were doing it.

But many parents practically force their children to put themselves in close vicinity to solid clubs being waved in their faces and hard balls being hurled at high velocities, towards which they are expected to run!

Instead, why don't we try to keep our children attached to their undamaged heads?

These instances are incredibly rare and are extreme examples of the types of injuries that occur on a baseball/softball field

We do it because sports are fun and teach a lot of great lessons while building high functioning characteristics (teamwork, work ethic)

I guess it teaches the lesson that some people are stronger and more coordinated than others, which often leads to them becoming bullies.
But I think most could learn that just from observation without encouragement.

And it builds teamwork at the expense of ostracizing those who aren't good enough to make the team and vilifying the opposing team.

It can make people better potential soldiers, but I wish those weren't so necessary.

That's very probably true.

He actually came across as gaslighting to me, with his spiel on biologically male trans athletes having no advantage over females. I didn't buy into his argument at all, personally.

FWIW I find it incredibly hard to believe that anyone, including that swimmer, would choose to transition just so they could be better at sports.

Unlike Juwanna Mann.

I agree but it's ultimately irrelevant as bottom line there's still an unfair advantage at play, regardless of motivation for transitioning.

They don't need to transition necessarily in chemical terms to play with women

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityara...

Feels like we're edging above 'call taxi' now....

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/04/17/trump-advisor-suggests-deportation-critics-are-breaking-the-law-by-aiding-and-abetting-terrorism/

Forbes

Trump Advisor Suggests Deportation Critics Are Breaking The Law By ‘Aiding And Abetting’ Terrorism

This neo-Nazi scumbag is director for counter terrorism? Jesus wept. I wasn't even aware he was still in the admin, I presumed he was gone like Bannen. That's unbelievably disturbing.

Crash course in how to burn political capital for no reason, achieving nothing in the attempt

Maybe the cockwomble should read this

All competitive D1 women's basketball teams (and at least some WNBA teams) practice against men (who, by definition, stopped playing after high school). It's the only way to have a challenging practice because the back half of the roster sucks. The me are always limited on what they can do - no dunking, no jumping for rebounds, no blocking shots, no trying to steal the ball of the dribble, etc. Why? Because if the men were allowed to do those things it would be no contest and not a good practice. But hey, there's no advantage in being biologically male.

To be fair, the notion that Trump was good for the economy wasn’t based on stuff he actually did or had control over to begin with so it wasn't hard to destroy.