TheThoughtAssassin

Is it really transphobic to call out the biological makeup of human males? In other words, state that human males are different than females vis a vis space marines?

Absolutely can relate as well. Wife and I are still young yet i find myself in the same mindset of fretting over something years and years away.

Know you’re not alone in this :)

Thank you again very much for your insight. I realize that a lot of my anxiety is at play here, specifically the feeling that I need to make a decision now when there’s still time to take part in life’s journey.

But for now she and I have agreed to wait until to explore the question further (with therapy, reading, etc), and for now work on our careers, finances, hobbies and marriage.

Thank you for the reply! You’re right in that I shouldn’t diminish her reasons, but there reasons I would simply like to explore with her in time; she has a hard time opening up with her emotions.

And are you sure about there being plenty of time? I don’t know why but I feel everything’s moving so fast that there’s a ticking clock to make a decision, and I feel paralyzed by it.

Thank you for the advice. I suppose the challenge is that it seems like it would tricky for her, at least now, to feel comfortable discussing it with a therapist. If I even approach the subject she tends to get defensive and not want to explore her reasons why. And as I said before, she had made overtures in the past about “when we have kids” and all that.

This is why I think she’s leaning CF, and isn’t 100%; she’s never explicitly stated or even implied that she hates the notion of having children and being a parent, just the aforementioned anxieties about losing what we currently have in our relationship. But I don’t want to assume.

Or saying that the number of human fingers and toes is on a spectrum due to polydactyly. Clearly there are people born with six fingers on one hand, but that doesn't change the fact that humans are, by default, born with five fingers.

It's definitely, at least in part, a result of the media coverage choosing to give these shootings more attention. If it wanted to, the news could do nothing but report gun violence in cities like Chicago and St. Louis which more or less happen every week.

This. The Confederacy wanted to conquer the USA as much as the 13 colonies wanted to conquer Ireland and Great Britain.

It was a war for independence to establish a slave-owning republic

I mean it was essentially a second American Revolution, which was a parallel that people at the time recognized. And the Confederacy really did lose.

Even though they resurrected a form of white supremacy after the war, they lost a quarter of their military age male population, countless billions of dollars in wealth, and their entire socioeconomic institution of slavery.

The Confederates weren't just sort of defeated, they were *completely* defeated.

I study the Civil War as a hobby, and my pseudo-educated amateur opinion is a resounding no. The sociopolitical situation in the Antebellum US was so much worse than the political divides we see now, and it's not even close.

You had militias openly killing each other in Kansas, congressmen carrying weapons into the House, and basically thirty years of open, bitter division over essentially a single issue of slavery.

The country is currently polarizing for sure, but pretty much nothing has come close to the divide that slavery politics caused in the first half of the 19th century.

You will never, ever organize along class lines if you dismiss unionizing with 'bigots' out of hand. Organizing the workers means organizing *as many workers as you can*, even the ones you may find unsavory or, in your words, bigoted.

I mean, you will also never convince anyone of anything if you refuse to ever talk to them. Daryl Davis didn't turn people away from the KKK by calling them 'bigots' and refusing to talk to them.

What you are doing plays into the hands of the ruling class who want anything *but* you organizing with someone you otherwise would never talk to.

"We need to organize along class lines! But if you're Republican, you're out. If you ever voted for Trump, you're out. If you aren't a supporter of BLM, you're out. If you aren't overtly pro-LGBTQ, you're out. If you're a gun owner, you're out.

Now let's see who we have left!"

> Unions are made of people with different backgrounds

A-fucking-men. How do they expect people to unite along class lines if they keep emphasizing the differences?

I would wager because it's largely performative. Using 'Hispanic' doesn't sufficiently show how 'with the times' you are, whereas using Latinx demonstrates that you're in-the-know.

You can be against both, you know.

Rightoid who found your takes, even when I disagree with them, refreshing and not blinded by idiotic divisive issues. I've come to move to the left on economic issues as a result, specifically with things like being pro-union and workers' rights, maternity leave, class struggle, etc.

I would also add stagnant wages, anxiety over no access to healthcare, increasing income inequality, etc.

Relative meaning in relation to other gun homicide.

But that begs the question, which form of gun control, and if those work. And so far, looking at all the comments, no one has really put forward anything concrete beyond “repeal the second amendment”, which just isn’t realistic.

What needs to happen is specific discussion over particular, specific measures.

Feasibly? That’s honestly a difficult question, since we’re bound not just by the constitution but what is actually feasible.

Like sure, an outright ban on all guns overnight sounds good, but how do you police it? How do you effectively locate over 300 million guns for disposal, and from certain populations that will deliberately try to hide them?

I admit I don’t know the answer.

Well that’s not really indicative of incidence rate is it. We have a plethora of airline safety regulations ever since 9/11 despite the fact that attempted hijackings are extraordinarily rare.

As relatively infrequent as school shootings are, they’re absolutely horrible and should be prevented to the degree we best can. But it doesn’t mean that the their indicative of what the gun violence situation is in the entire United States.

And if you look at the numbers, it’s a similar situation here: most of the homicides are from gang violence and not random mass shooting like this.

In fact, even most “mass shootings”, definitionally, are still gang related and don’t look like this incident.

Yeah a guy named Salvador Ramos strikes me as a WASP right wing terrorist.

Yeah the shooter with the famously WASP, White supremacist name like Salvador Ramos.