Conflicting Thought

You asked karaddin for her opinion, what did you think of what she said to you? Did you changed your mind?

i agree with what you are saying, i totally agree with the concept of death of the autor, once a piece of art is released to the world, its up to the observer to extract meaning from it. i enjoyed your post, just wanted to get some clarification cuz all im saying is that just because you can get meaning from a sunset or an ai "creation" it doesnt make it art. but im not an expert or anything im willing to learn.

what is the percentage of trans women wining over cis women? i have seen trans women lose and win in competitions, dont see how thats particularly unfair. as other people said, sports is inherently unfair, you can have genetic advantage, or money advantage,etc. like if all people want is making sport fairer then focusing in trans people is ridiculous, makes no sense to me, given that they are a super small percentage. and there are currently in sports much more unfair things (and i dont think trans women in sports is unfair) that focusing in trans people has to have another explanation other than the suposed unfairness that they bring nobody is saying that michael phelps or usain bolt or serena williams wining is unfair, all of them have advantages (genetic or otherwise) over their competition.

in what way?

no, your emotions are valid, its just not art, if everything is art then nothing is. and im with scott in this one, art must be created by a sentient being, art is purposeful. to me art is more than a colection of random things that happend to be configured in something beautifull or awe inspiring

I mean in practice they are, given that almost all competitors in almost all sports take them If you think that getting rid of steroids means we would not have professional sports, the i really dont understand what the problem is with trans people competing with cis people.

Art is not just the effect it has on the "consumer", in my view its inseparable of the intent of the artist. Seeing a beautifull sunset is not art, beatifull landscapes can make you feel incredibly profound things, but they are not art. To me there must be intention to create somehing artistic. Artificial inteligence can be a tool, but nothing generated by the ia is art. At most its the art of other people being stolen to make a profit

More important to the "fairness" of sport is the steroid use, trans people are such a non factor ( very low percentage of trans people in soports), so this focus on trans people in sports sounds like a dogwhistle to me. as mormont said, this isnt about sports or fairnes its about transphobia and misoginy. There are other things that have a much bigger impact in the fairness of sports than trans people

trans women are women though

is that what wert did?

is it really that important? is it really that many people that do that? has anyone done that? seems like a variation of the argument that cis males are going to transition to abuse women in bathrooms. i mean trans people are a tiny fraction of the population even less trans people are in sports. its not even clear that trans women are better than cis women, there are cases of trans women that lose competitions and trans women that win competitions, but the trans women that lose are never mentioned, but they exist. seems like a non issue to me, or if it exist its incredibly rare, and many terfs use this as an argument against trans people when i would argue that men and patriarchy are and has being so much more damaging to womens sports. idk seems at least terf adjacent to me

There is a resent episode on the podcast conspirituality that talks about this, about the cass report and how this vision of "contagion" came to be, its focus is steve hassan and his transphobia, i think it would be a good listen, i found it to be very informative. https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/202-steve-hassan-trans-cult-conspiracy-theory

A bunch of people can start seen all kinds of things, and talk to everyone about it, countries can start implementing policies based on this, and they can still be very wrong. I say its a slippery slope because that can lead to very bad thing. and it has led to very bad things, so i dont see how it is a good argument that allot of people are talking about something. They still should work to provide the best care they can to people, and that requieres investigating and researching and all of that. But i think we have to be careful not to fall for narratives that promote a sort of satanic panic with respect to trans people, and a form of transpanic is to think that there is some sort of gender dismorphia contagion, a very dangerous and unscientific view of what is happening.

thats such an obvious slippery slope is not even funny, you are not thinking critically or scientifically if you belive that

Not how it works, but nice try i guess?. This vision of how things are is so out of touch with reality that it tracks that you would be a proponent of it.

How much money do you have to make to be considered above absolute poverty? Like 2 dollars a day?

i hope it made you feel good saying that to me. iran would not have responded if israel didnt first attacked the consulate, thats just the reality, its a fact.

man i thought that if you give a call to let the people know you are bombing them you got a pass, and praise, guess it only apllies to some. why did they attack israel? why bro? do you know why? is it because they are evil savages? hmm i wonder if something happend before this attack. wonder if you would feel the same if russia, or iran, or north korea, or china did the same thing that isarel did and bombed a consulate of a country they are not at war with and killing two of its generals. i know you will find a way to justify israel escalation, but i think it would do you some good to at least try to think about this from another perspective. it wasnt a failure they knew exactly what they where doing, hence the letting them know far in advance what they would do, they didnt even kill anyone, they didnt destroy infraestructure, israel did do those thing tho, and you are perfectly fine with that, why?

hard to know when she is "joking" and when she is not, if it was the first time it would be different, but she has said multiple times that she thinks that bombing iran is the right thing to do and its like she cant wait till it happens, its disturbing

is this funny? i guess when the people we make fun of are brown and arent allies of the USA is all very glib, their lives are such a funny joke! warcrimes? bah! bad jace! haha so funny! consiglieri is right, there is a huge double standard in here, where you can freely say the most dispicable shit as long as we are making fun of brown people, and the oh so terrible Iran (im not in favor of the iranian goverment) you guys dont even get that for most people outside the USA and the imperial core, you guys are the fucking monsters, and the kind of comments that jace always makes are so tonedef and insulting

why does it matter if there is more people identifying as gay or trans? how does that affect you or society in general? is it worse somehow that more people indetify as trans? is it a "contagion" like some very good people are saying? i dont understand how this affects anyone appart from the person that is gay or trans or whatever

not enough. seriously though you should fell ashamed of yourself, i know you dont but you should

that is so fucked up, like what is wrong with you?

Man, hope we remeber who was the escalating party in all of this

i dont know if the more you smoke it the more it dulls your senses, first it kinda depends on the person, but as a chronic smoker of weed, i would say that for me at the beggining weed had a much more strong effect on me, now not so much. but i will say that when a stop smoking, after like three days i do sleep better, and my short term memory is better, and i do feel more "awake"...hmm i guess the inmediate effect of weed on me is less potent than when i started but the commulative effect is still there