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Re:Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer Banned from Stripe on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:08AM (#26648261)
> Stripe, similarly, can decide to boot an asshole off their platform. That's well within their legal rights.

What's the legal definition of "an asshole?"

Can I just discriminate against my customers on the basis of some protected class and when asked just say "they're an asshole" and I don't wish to serve them.

Thanks for putting this together, it's odd how others are so quick to dismiss this line of thinking.

There's highly suspicious actions of the Chinese government along with the near-perfect human host tropism of the virus - but then also no evidence of zoonosis or any type of ongoing reservoir or circulation outside Wuhan.

It's bizarre to conclude that it's obviously just natural origin.

Re:Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer Banned from Stripe on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:45AM (#26647978)
I'm not sure which way you're falling on this, but I'll take this whole thread as evidence that everyone is punitive.

I frankly don't believe the people who claim to hate the cops, all you have to do is present them with someone they detest and they reveal their lust for "the law", obscene punishment and violence.

> Might explain why the text is not funny.

Why is open anti-Christian hatred like this allowed on a forum concerned about hate speech?

> You seem to be talking about eugenics

I'm talking about having a healthy sense of self-doubt.

History shows us that the imprimatur of science is used to advance hubris-driven, pernicious social ideas of a time.

The take-away is that when you're absolutely convinced that some new trend is moral and liberating, you should at the very least try to imagine the possibility that you're not only wrong but actively doing harm.

> rather than by genitals

Human biology is binary in terms of gametes.

Gametes are intrinsically linked to hormones and human development.

It makes sense to separate leagues in terms of natural, general groups like women/men.

I don't trust children to make decisions about irreversibly altering their own bodies.

There's a very real chance that this could be viewed by a future generation like 1920s "Progressives" that thought they were agents of goodness and social progress, equipped with science.

This whole unqualified pro-trans push could be hubristic people who're unwittingly "medically fixing" queer kids with internalized concepts and phobias from their social culture.