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• On the post: Democrats Need To Get Their Head Out Of The Sand: The Only Reason GOP Is Supporting Their Antitrust Bills Is To Force Companies To Host Disinfo

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2022 @ 12:23am

  You don't get to redefine words and then demand that everyone who uses those words adhere to the new definitions instead of the old ones. Women's single-sex spaces are for real women as long as that's what those real women want, and no attempt by woke gender ideologues to redefine the word to include men compels anyone to admit those men to women's single-sex spaces because of the new definition. "Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2022 @ 12:14am

  It's "sis", you bigot!

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 06:48pm

  The difference is between "fighting words" insults directed against a person versus a statement of beliefs that are in opposition to the other person's. In a pluralistic society, it is always going to be the case that some people will find other lifestyles and behaviors to be offensive, wrong, or immoral. In a free society, they get to say that, and explain their own notions of what is good, true, and moral.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 06:42pm

  Of course not. I am not the one with the force monopoly, the government is. You do not have permission from the government to murder.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 06:39pm

  Except for the Black/white case, those things that you think are counterexamples are not. A dating or matchmaking service is within its rights to pair up only heterosexual couples, one of each sex. Gay people cannot force these services to provide same-sex matchups. Catholic churches require that people who want to marry in the church, receive communion, or participate in other religious rites must be Catholic. Jewish congregations, especially Orthodox and Conservative ones, will utterly reject Messianic Jews. The Black/white case is different because we have decided as a society that we do not want such distinctions, and we will use force if necessary to prevent discrimination. But even here, we have the case of Biden proclaiming that he would appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court, and colleges using race as a partial criterion for admission.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 06:28pm

  No one should be forced to affirm lies in order to comfort someone who needs to believe those lies. And even if everyone were willing to lie to comfort those people, reality itself would not be so accommodating. Transwomen are men, no matter how much costuming, medicine, and surgery are applied to them, and that biological fact cannot help but manifest in noticeable ways, especially to the transwomen themselves who get to see their bodies when not maximally costumed.

• On the post: Democrats Need To Get Their Head Out Of The Sand: The Only Reason GOP Is Supporting Their Antitrust Bills Is To Force Companies To Host Disinfo

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 06:21pm

  Rational Basis Test

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review As long as the government can show that a law is rationally related to a legitimate government interest, even if such a relationship is tenuous, it doesn't matter if the law is actually pretextual. That means that if the government wants to go after the large platforms using antitrust law, it doesn't matter if it's doing it because it doesn't like how the platforms are moderating users. The government has a legitimate interest in preventing too much consolidation and targeting large companies with antitrust legislation is rationally related to that legitimate interest, so the law would stand.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 06:09pm

  In principle, we could just look at birth certificates, but of course woke gender ideologues have pushed for allowing those to be changed to reflect their lies and delusions: https://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/article/trans-changing-birth-certificate-sex-designations

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 07:50am

  Examining genitals is how sex is determined. (Also genetic testing, but that takes longer and the correlation is near total anyway.) It wouldn't be necessary if people weren't trying to sneak boys onto girl's teams. But they are, so it is. Woke gender ideologues aren't going to get their way.

• On the post: Democrats Need To Get Their Head Out Of The Sand: The Only Reason GOP Is Supporting Their Antitrust Bills Is To Force Companies To Host Disinfo

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 07:44am

  I bet to differ.

• On the post: Democrats Need To Get Their Head Out Of The Sand: The Only Reason GOP Is Supporting Their Antitrust Bills Is To Force Companies To Host Disinfo

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 07:41am

  No. And neither does the Supreme Court. Perhaps you should move to a country where the laws are more to your liking? Being "shown the door" seems to be a popular concept among the commentariat here.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 07:38am

  The point is not how many transwomen are rapists, but that the BBC changed the statement given by the rape victim because she had the temerity to use the correct pronouns for her rapist. Not all transwomen are evil, but all woke gender ideologues are stupid and evil. The point is also that woke gender ideologues are seeking to erase women.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 02:08am

  "word"

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 02:07am

  It shouldn't. That's what I mean about real, as opposed to woke, harassment. On the other hand, someone should be allowed to say that they believe you are going to Hell for your sexual practices. Similarly, I would be ok with banning someone for using the "t____y" weird directed against another person, but not for saying that they are deluded about their gender.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 02:02am

  I have bad eyes and I type on a tablet using a swipe keyboard that often misinterprets what I've tried to type. "Common-sense gun laws", obviously. On a QWERTY keyboard, each letter of "him" is one to the right of each letter in "gun".

• On the post: Democrats Need To Get Their Head Out Of The Sand: The Only Reason GOP Is Supporting Their Antitrust Bills Is To Force Companies To Host Disinfo

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2022 @ 01:52am

  You mean like complaining about telecom lobbyists when the 1st Amendment gives everyone the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances? As always, the 1st Amendment is not the entirety of free speech, just a partial implementation of free speech directed against the government. When companies use their 1st Amendment rights to stifle the speech of the people who use their services, they are destroying free speech even as they use it, just as capitalists sell their enemies the rope to be used to hang them. You hate freedom when it is used to promote ideas you hate, and you are glad that you can hide behind the 1st Amendment when the people destroying freedom are destroying the parts you hate.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2022 @ 11:50pm

  It really was remarkably weird: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513902-cnn-ridiculed-for-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-caption-with-video-of-burning/ All over the country, rioters, looters, and arsonists were attacking and destroying private and public property, including police stations, while woke race ideologues dismissed concerns over this and even justified it as reparations, seeming to prefer violent mob rule over a nation ruled by law.

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2022 @ 12:50pm

  It's like those "fiery but mostly peaceful protests". Are the riots, looting, and arson rare exceptions, or the rule? If someone focuses on every violent incident and publicizes it, you might be right to think that they have an animus against the entirety of the movement and are not just trying to correct the bad parts.

• On the post: Prosecutors Lose Drug Conviction After Appeals Court Reminds Them They Can’t Ignore The Presumption Of Innocence

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2022 @ 12:45pm

  But that's not what happened. The prosecution asked the court to read the proper instructions to the jury, and the judge was the one who decided not to do it. As the document says: "Significantly, at the conclusion of the evidence—two days after the trial began—the district court elected not to comprehensively instruct the jury again. Specifically, in response to the government’s inquiry as to whether it would do so, the court responded that it was “not going to go through the instructions again,” but it would “read those final two instructions” that it initially had reserved for the end of the evidence, and then counsel could present their closing arguments."

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  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2022 @ 12:38pm

  A typical closing statement by the prosecution would always say that they have proved their claims beyond a reasonable doubt. The defense would say the opposite. That's how adversarial systems work. Also, jurors, in my experience, are not stupid, and I have been on at least a half-dozen juries over the years - a political corruption grand jury, civil cases, criminal cases. None of those jurors went into deliberation thinking that they had a different standard of proof because of what the prosecution said.

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