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An extremely impressive splitting of hairs, wow. In the context of taxes, you actually think that I was saying I get the only and final say on how they're spent. Bravo, you're a genius.

Is voting not getting a say? What a strange comment. I don't know where you're from, but I get to vote on specific laws, as well as specific people...

Big "whoosh" moment?

"The idea that people with more money should get to decide how people with less money get to spend it."

If it's my tax money, I get to say how it's spent. This is yet another example of the incredibly sad and stupid, "whoever is weakest is rightest", "morality" that's becoming more and more prevalent in the west.

You should read some United States history. We historically have strong opinions on "taxation without representation".

I need more downvotes. What if I'm afraid of being attacked by a brown person with a knife and having a cop step in and restrain me the moment I defend myself?

As an American, should I stay out of Europe due to my fear of being bombed or plowed over by a truck?

You and another poster in this thread keep trying strawman me with "trans people aren't a threat" stuff but I never said anything about any threat. I responded, explicitly, to your post that trans people have actually been passing in their preferred changing rooms forever, and I can tell you from years of personal experience (perhaps if I said, "my lived experience", you'd listen better?) that they have not. As another posted has pointed out, women have been complaining about this for decades. Your paragraph about "hanging brain" and conservative wet dreams is simply unhinged and your attempt at putting words in my mouth is unimpressive.

All of the boys in the swim club changed together. All the boys in middle school and high school sports changed together. As an adult, working out at gyms and rec centers, all the men change and shower and talk and joke butt naked. Half the YMCAs I've been to over the years have a group of old guys that will tease you for being shy. The high school swim team I was on was... wild, I guess I'll say. Not buying what you're selling, sorry.

I grew up in locker rooms. I started swimming competitively at age 7. The whole, "you were actually surrounded by trans people your whole life and never knew it till 5 years ago!" is absolutely delusional and my guess is you don't actually have much experience in men's rooms at all.

Why water down what they actually say? They say "silence is violence", and they ALSO say that speech is violence!

"efficiency" doesn't mean "finding fraud" though.

"They also told me to bill for the GNOME video as usual."

Gotta read the whole thing.

never heard anyone call a crepe anything other than a crepe either.

I agree that a month was far too long and she should have been sent back much sooner. But, she 100% intended to violate her visa and I simply can't imagine calling a criminal being imprisoned for 1 month before being sent home, "brutality".

the 10 trillion dollar national debt is not there because we don't tax rich people enough. You could take every single dime of every single billionaire in the US and it wouldn't scratch the national debt.

Why is the answer to the government spending and wasting way, way too much of our money, to take more of our money? It's not.

I love how it's "We KNOW diversity makes us stronger" kinda stuff right up till it's all people you agree with then we don't need diversity any more and it's all merit.

I've known this was true forever but it's interesting seeing it said out loud now.

Well I'm 40 and lived all over the country and I've never heard it a single time. You sure you don't live in an alternate timeline? Also just to make sure I'm not crazy I looked at iHop's online menu and it's... just pancakes. Never heard anyone call a pancake anything other than a pancake.

This is not a common term in the US.