You might not have to pay $.02 in taxes every year to accommodate transgender prisoners, but at least egg prices are down…right?
…right?
Oh my God. Eggs are expensive because people aren’t buying them!
Ye olde inverted supply and demand, just like my econ professor taught me
Idk what could possibly be causing a supply problem, all the chickens in the country are as healthy as can be.
The DOGE said so.
You… You mean they lied?!
Fake. CEO’s aight choosing shit. They’re going to Paris and Barcelona
They’re choosing which football club they’ll buy, Paris or Barcelona
Holy shit, insulin is ~$98 on average over there!?
That is literally the most expensive place to buy insulin on this planet.
Most countries have insulin available for ~1/5th that price or less, with many selling it for less than 1/10th of the US price.I knew it was bad over there but that’s fucking atrocious.
At least you’re more free over there than anywhere else though, right?
Right?It’s absurdly actually come down significantly in the US since 2021.
That $98 is a major improvement.
Probably not staying at that price for much longer.
Yeah. It’s literally against the law for Medicaid or Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. They have the largest insurance pools, and therefore an incredible amount of leverage, but nope. Gotta pay those insurance companies!
There shipping be a bathroom line in front of Joe Lieberman’s grave.
Gun and bullet is cheap i heard, the equipment of freedom is affordable.
Freedumb pretty much. It is a great study how to keep people divided while the wealthy extract all the money. Greed begets greed, look at the richest man on earth. It is never enough.
Now the plan is to make everyone else poor. Taxes go up for the poor down for the rich while inflation gobbles up any increase in salary. Union bad. Privatise good. This message is several decades old now.
Yeah I mean where else can you fuck your employees this hard and purchase a job gutting the government
yeahhhhh… hasanabi was right, targeting trans sports was the easiest and dirtiest way to bring transphobia to the normies. people that don’t even give a shit about politics and don’t think about trans people one way or another can say “well at least sports are fair now”
Trans sports is where the boundaries between what people do with their own body is crossed into interaction with others. This is why it has become the favorite point to attack for conservatives.
They’re cool with school shootings, though.
That’s the perfect way to explain this
Fascists, not conservatives. A real conservative would say „lets fix the streets in front of our houses before we go to war in other countries.“
The overton window for conservatism has been shifting over decades. We need to go back to: progressiveness means try new stuff and conservatism means interjecting when old stuff should be kept bc its been working very well.
I think thats also what the vast majority of the world think what politics should be. The rest is just billionaire robberbarons manipulating and pitting us against each other.
Of course there are trans people. There always have been. A good conservative would accept that. Those who dont are fascists.
In germany we had a lot of those. Search for nuremberg trials. Nazis hate that trick.
Never seen Serena Williams play badminton?Wrong comment
Badminton is criminally underrated
It might have better PR if they renamed it to “Goodminton.”
They really bury the lede with the whole “shuttlecock” thing. When I learned that shit, it gave it an immediate boost in my teenage brain lol
The Nelson-Atkins art museum in St Louis is strewn with massive, almost twenty foot tall shuttlecocks. Truly a haven for size queens.
Double Plus Goodminton
Lmao, this is new to me!! Sending to my friends…
I prefer squash.
pfft, squash has nothing on pumpkin
Only at the end of October.
G O U R D S
Apples and oranges for me.
Squash is good too. I actually played quite a bit when I was young. But imo nothing compares to the feeling of defending smash successfully esp. multiple times in a row.
It might have something to do with me sucking at badminton, but squash seems easier to hit the thing. Even if it’s a little more intensive cardio wise.
I can’t not shill my favourite sport though now. Rock climbing. Mostly indoor sport or bouldering, but i climbed my first outdoor boulder last week and I’m hooked. Just got a torn tendon so can’t really do anything right now.
I literally just had my first indoor bouldering session yesterday and loved it
That’s awesome. Do you think you would keep doing it?
What did you love about it the most? For me it’s kinda meditative. I’m quite neurotic and I find it hard to shut off my mind but the mix of physical and problem solving involved in climbing has me captivated and in the moment.
Don’t do what I did and push to hard and listen to your body. Really focus on climbing with your legs and not pulling with your arms as you’ll be able to go longer. You can practice keeping arms straight and relying on your legs to push up and thus your arm will bend without using the bicep. Then you can reach for the next one.
Yeah, I think so! There’s a trans indoor climbing group in my city that meets once a month, and it’s really comfy being around other queer folks while doing it. I really enjoyed the camaraderie that entailed, building each other up and looking out for one another.
I definitely felt what you’re talking about, quieting my mind and focusing on the problem at hand.
Funnily enough, I probably will have to focus more on using my arms than my legs. I have a physical disability and my knees are a major pain point. I use a power chair a lot of the time outside the house. I actually loved that nobody made me feel infantilised even though I rocked up in it.
That’s really good to hear and I’m glad they do those kind of nights for people to make them more comfortable.
I will say that in my experience the climbing community is super accepting and even if you went to a regular climbing place that nobody would be judging you and people would be willing to help and engage with you if you wanted.
Good luck w/ur tendie buddy, you’ll be back out there soon
Thanks dude. I really hope so as climbing is the one thing that has silenced my mind and gives me joy so not being able to go is mentally hard.
Why does badminton even need to be separated it’s not a strength contest
Because some people view Men’s sports as professional, and a career opportunity. Women’s sports on the other hand are seen by those people as recreational, and something fun to do outside of the house.
Who would put a professional player against a recreational player? That’s just not fair, the recreational player would be embarrassed at how bad they are and it wouldn’t be fun to watch.
Obviously nothing I said is true but it’s an opinion held by many.
Trans women also got banned in chess. https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194593562/chess-transgender-fide-pushback
So men don’t have to be embarrassed from being beaten by a woman.
Idk man when I see professional badminton they are smacking the fuck out of the cock
I see what you did there, setting up the punchline for your fellow lemmings, now that’s what I call service.
Never seen Serena Williams play badminton?
/s
Reaction time, endurance, strength(yes hitting a shuttlecock harder is important), etc. They vary wildly between men and women and no sport can really balance the scales in either direction.
Men have better motor reflexes. Speed and strength is also a factor.
This meme is way less impressive for someone living in Europe. Ryanair will take to to either for like 19 euros.
Next you’re going to say insulin is only €10
No, that’s a university semester, insulin is 5€.
Jesus, Mr. Oxford over here. Here in my part of Europe, they pay you a six-figure salary to attend university. It’s unheard of to pay for it yourself. Must be some school.
Jokes aside, for the 'muricans here, a semester in Germany is ~300€, so about 1800€ for a bachelors degree.
Insulin is free of course, or rather included in the public healthcare
So much? It was 42€ a semester last I looked. Do the 300€ include a public transport ticket for the semester or something like that?
Oh yes it includes the Deutschlandticket
I think you’re missing out the extras 😂
Yeah CEO’s and shareholders are driving it to the extreme, but in the end everybody wants their interest on savings/investments, their yearly wage increases etc. The whole economic system is at fault and America is driving it to the extreme.
The whole economic system is at fault and America is driving it to the extreme.
No, americans are just speed-running it.
Not American, so idk what I am speedrunning. Maybe I can finally post a time on speedrun.com
Fixed it.
Ok, then let’s switch to a new money supply that doesn’t encourage investment and necessitate yearly wage increases.
One of those theories is the circulair economy which basically against consumerism and working more on the r-ladder to make companies produce better goods.
But first the US needs to get their shit together with bullshit that is designed for people to buy as much as possible like the taxes not being included in the price. Same with tips and other fees. Normally that is called misinformation on price, but American jusr accepts it. Some people even defend that bullshit.
Another theory involves giving people other benefit than more which is more in line with how it worked in mid-century. But then instead of having a king ontop have the state untop
Two wrongs don’t make a right
So I work on a military base in a building with less than 5,000 people, of which three have confided to me that they are trans and wanted someone to talk to and I have a niece that is trans. I have a hard time believing only 1 trans person per state has a desire to play sports with my completely anecdotal evidence. I don’t know what the real numbers are and I get that it isn’t the point but I don’t think it’s effective to diminish the number of trans folks that there are. I’m very confident anyone not living under a rock knows and is likely at minimum a friendly acquaintance with at least one trans person, whether they are aware of that fact or not.
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Almost as if it’s a made up narrative made to get you mad about something that isn’t happening.
Who needs facts? They have feeeelings!
Was that actually happening? That’s fear mongering…
Sure they can. But with the boys.
Truth sucks.
Forcing a girl to play against boys and use their changing room is pretty fucked up dude. Don’t make yourself look even more like a dick.
Nobody is forcing anyone. But saying they can’t play badminton because they are trans is false.
Oh, right! They can just stop doing what they love! I’m sorry, my empathy-riddled ass didn’t think about this obvious solution.
No? They can play with the boys. Changing rooms can be arranged. Why is it important for a trans-girl who went through male puberty to play with girls that are smaller and physically weaker?
I should probably clarify that i mean compete in competitions, dont care in the slightest who or how they want to practice. That’s just fair.
I see, so it’s an information problem.
Trans girls are not stronger than other girls. Any increased muscle mass vanishes with hormone therapy as the testosterone supporting it goes away. Likewise the body remodels stuff like cartilages as all of this is influenced by hormones. That’s why Olympia goes so overboard with hormone tests, even forcing cis-women to do invasive measures to reduce their natural testosterone levels.
The only difference caused by puberty that are irreversible are:
- How thick bones are & how they formed
- How you sound
- Where you grow how much hair
And of those three ONLY the first can be of any value in any argument. And definitely not for badminton. Uninformed bullshit arguments cause WAY more problems for cis-women in sports than they could ever solve. There’s nothing fair about that way of arguing.
How would you propose women prove they are not trans and can thus play on the women’s team?
Its important for the same reason gays and leabians want proper marriages and not just civil unions. There is social legitamacy that comes from inclusion. I have also never seen a single study actually backing up this unfair advantage narrative.
Meanwhile, the WNBA has an average player height of 6’1" against the average womans height of 5’4". But noone complains about a cis woman whos 6 foot having an unfair advantage. Meanwhile even cis women get caught in the crossfire, see Imane Khalif who could be executed in her home country for being trans. She’s not, but one salty boxer and a fraudulent Russian report gave her all sorts of shit and put her life in danger.
Loving all your truthful examples and sources!
lol. the claim was that transwomen aren’t allowed to play, period. Not true, they might not be allowed to compete against women, but open category (mens) is open for all.
Here is one example: https://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Participation-in-Badminton-by-Transgender-and-Non-binary-Players-Policy-–-Frequently-Asked-Questions-FAQs.pdf
Who can compete within the open category?
All players can play within the open category. This includes, players assigned male at birth, players assigned female at birth, transgender males, transgender females, and non-binary players.
If trans women have to play with the boys, then cis women should, too. Just end segregation entirely.
That’s definitely one way of making sure that a woman will never win again in athletics.
They did do that in golf, of course with handicaps like a shorter tee off for women, so not a fair competition.
You’re saying that even the weakest biologically male athlete could beat the strongest biologically female athlete?
Because otherwise, “never win again” seems kind of unlikely.
My god what an asenine take.
No, but no woman would ever win with the best from both genders attending.
I don’t think you could even qualify for the mens qualifiers in athletics with the world records for women.
You do know there are tons of co-ed sports out there, right? And women win them all the time.
But please, continue to be rude. That will definitely prove something or other.
Good, name one and ill give you a list of world records in athletics.
Discus.
