Oh, sorry I wasn’t trying to imply it was. Just adding to your statement.

No, my assertion is that a government coming for your guns is not the reason it’s fascist

Fascist regimes always come for guns. Governments that come for guns are not always fascist

A implies b, but b does not imply a.

There is no damning thing for me because you still haven’t addressed your a priori reasoning for why that would be wrong.

You say I’m afraid, which is hilarious. Of course there are brain differences. There are brain differences in everything. Like being left handed or having epilepsy, or men vs women.

What you haven’t addressed is why treating it like epilepsy is morally better than treating the cause like left handedness.

Especially when doing so would necessitate it being done many years prior to the person having any agency to make a choice on treatment.

Do me a favour and look up the stigma of being associated with left handedness over the centuries and how the attitude has changed. All because of a difference that should never have mattered because it was natural.

Now go back and read this conversation as though we were talking about men vs women.

(Oh and love the straw man argument, really it makes you look just great /s)

I wonder if anyone thought the same way about the Jews in the past? Or black people? Maybe I could look at history and figure that out?

Oh wait. (Hint: this is why the experts think what we’re doing is the morally best solution)

https://madrascourier.com/insight/how-colonialists-used-phrenology-a-pseudoscience-to-justify-racism-slavery/

No, as a matter of fact it’s not up to the individual. As children can’t consent to medical treatment. It’s up to the experts, generally to decide. Which they have. It’s also the reason why it’s not being researched. But you’d know that if you knew the research.

Since you don’t understand what a priori reasoning is you are extremely unqualified.

At least idiots like bailey have an education even if they are extremely wrong.

“I have substantiated my claims with logical reasoning”

You have not. You also haven’t addressed my a priori claim for yourself. if you don’t do that, you have no business here or reading science without understanding what that means.

“I’m of saying there’s something to be fixed, but something that can be treated”

Fixed = treated. As in your example of ADHD.

Neurological issue means there’s something wrong. And it is pathologising, which is the way we talk about diseases.

Honestly, I think you know all of this and are here to sea lion.

“regressives aren’t born regressive” how do you know? How would we test? How would we evaluate that?

You’ve basically decided, a priori that this is the case.

Just as you’ve decided a priori that being trans is a case of something wrong with people, that can and should be investigated with the view of eliminating it.

Im not sure why you wouldn’t see that as wrong.

Saying that we need to look into the “biological root” of transgender identity is like saying "we need to look into the biological root of regressives.

The problem is that such statements are political because they pathologies something that is human diversity.

We should also say, and look at the evidence of other cultures who have had trans people. Like native Americans, who treated us with respect. in those societies there were lower suicide rates.

Even among children, when socially supported the suicide rate goes down with social support.

What you’re conflating is the suicide/depression associated with being treated differently to your identity.

I’m not saying that we should. What I am saying is that worldwide opinion has turned against the US and it’s allies, this should help Palestinians.

That being said, I’m not sure they’re wrong. World opinion is turning against the US and by extension what the administration stands for right now.

I won’t be surprised if the next elections mark a real turning point in support for Palestinians.

America has never been the world’s police, except if you think the police are there to enforce power from the dominant socio economic group. In which case yes.

They didn’t help people. Remember those wmds that didn’t exist and were never found?

They’ve only ever been a force for their own power and enrichment

Did we all forget the elected one put the unelected one in power?

because if you dont vote, you are actively pushing for the party that “repels” you, to be in power.

That is not true. I’m not voting for someone who doesn’t appeal me and Neither Trump nor kamala did.

Now when Trump was president he made some awful decisions… Kamala and Biden also have.

And, in case you haven’t noticed things aren’t particularly great right now. Something that the dems have had plenty of time to fix, or work to find some kind of solution.

For all their harping on about how important it is to stop Trump they sure never acted as though he was a credible threat, never put contingencies in place and never planned ahead for stopping it.

In short, no matter which way you think of it. They didn’t earn my vote

I’m dissatisfied with either. One actively repels me but the other isn’t appealing either.

Neither is th default here because neither is the incumbent, though Kamala is closer.

So if neither is asking for my vote or bringing anything i want, why would I show up?

Blame me if you like, but the truth is they failed because they were not appealing enough. And that’s simply all there is to it.

That sounds like they were offering the status quo. I.e nothing as nothing would change.

I am dissatisfied with that deal.

Sorry dems, but you only get nothing for nothing.

If I owe them a vote, they owe me some policies.

I’d wait to hear what they offer me that I’m concerned with that they couldn’t have done already. They demonstrated they didn’t want my vote.

Let me rephrase that a way you can understand.

If things were as dire as they wanted us to believe, why were they ignoring us and brining on Liz and dick Cheney?

Why did they ignore us whenever we asked for something? Because they believed they had our vote no matter what.

I don’t want to sign off on another genocide.

Dems said to the left. “We offer you nothing and you owe us everything”.

Why are they surprised their entitled demand failed?

Same old boring story. You should blame the fascists for their fascism, not leftists.

What you may not be able to understand is that Trump stopped all the “moderate republicans” from leaving him and the dems failed to win them.

The dems ran their campaign on winning moderate republicans. It failed. As it was always going to fail.

The one thing Trump has done right to win was appeal to the people who might listen.

Is amazing you could have to learn the dance lesson over and over again.

Don’t you mean Trump? The literal billionaire who represents the richest man in the world? Weird