Saying you’re supportive vs. actually doing the work to listen, understand, and be supportive, are much different things. Your empathy is performative if you don’t back up your words with actions, no matter how you dress up your opinions with empathetic-sounding statements.

Consider this: If you’re truly empathetic and open minded, why do you need to keep pointing it out?

The fact that you present an opinion piece from media owned by special interests to support your argument is enough to see why you believe what you do.

I have a group of friends, some of whom are trans, some of whom have medical degrees, and we have these discussions all the time. However, when someone talks about their right to exist being threatened, in a world where their right to exist is being threatened, is when you’ve decided to come in complaining about how poor you can’t engage in any polite discourse because people downvote you.

A number of people here have told you why this is the case, but you proceed to play the victim.

There are more than two sides, and no, the science on sports isn’t more clear than it is on gender affirming care. Even in the pub med links someone else posted, which they apparently hadn’t read in entirety, it go into how controversies around trans identities is sports has become a solution in search of a problem. You should read those links.

I don’t know what about my post made you think I wanted or was willing to extend empathy to your point of view. Was it when I called you a moron or an idiot?

Making immigration more difficult already benefits the wealthy. Not having birthright citizenship won’t change that.

Citizens are already being born without any questions about their character. And voting. And changing politics. Because foreign influence doesn’t come from some kind of sleeper agent citizen who was bred to take down governments, it comes through social media, embargos, lobbying and data harvesting—which is way easier than some kind of Bourne Identity plot.

But it’s become clear you’re arguing in case of a specific worst case scenario that I don’t believe is any more likely when jus soli comes with few or no conditions.

Unkess you have specific data to support jus soli’s direct responsibility for the modern day manipulation by foreign influence, I don’t want to continue this conversation.

Have a good one.

That’s assuming foreign parents who had no intention of staying in a country decided to take the option of granting their child citizenship to that country for no reason. Then, that child lives somewhere that allows dual citizenship. And then, that child, once grown up in a foreign country, who has no commitment or interest in the nation of their birth, goes out of their way to vote and exert political influence on the country to which they have no commitment.

In those few, extremely rare cases are enough to fuck up a nation’s politics, immigration isn’t the problem.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/optional

The joke, if you paid attention, is that the trans agenda isn’t a thing. They’re just trying to survive. So yeah, not supporting someone’s right to exist is some psychopathic behavior.

The fact thay you think there’s a trans agenda outside of just trying to survive doesn’t make you a psychopath, but it does make you an idiot.

Wrong place wrong time.

You’re vilified because you’re acting like a villain. People don’t want to debate your neckbeardedly presented well ahcktuallies while they’re fighting for the right to exist.

We don’t have this fight when it comes to other medical matters. Like if kids with cancer should get treatment even though chemo and surgery could have long-lasting repucussions. The alternative is they die. People who don’t get proper medical treatment die. Trans kids die of depression and suicide without treatment. Those are real things, there are real risks to not treating a medical condition. It’s not a matter up for public debate just because some dickwads are trying to distract everyone by making healthcare for a specific group of people political. It’s medical, we have facts and data that say trans people need healthcare to support their transition to live healthier longer lives. There are fucking doctors out there with years of practice who say yes, these kids need medical intervention. And here you are bitching that no one will debate you in a place where, again, people are fighting to exist. And you’re bringing up tired arguments because you gotta be that guy.

We have data on trans performance in sports and there is no clear advantage.

Besides, if you’re a world-class athlete, you already have a way different kind of body than most people. There are plenty of biological advantages that are celebrated in sports rather than weeded out. Want to start making sure everyone is the same height and weight for every sport, too? Same lung capacity? Reaction time? Born in the same country? Live at the same altitude? Same race? If you want to get advantages, there are clearer divisions along racial lines than trans status. No, I don’t advocate for segregation in sports because I’m not a goddamn monster of a person who can’t think for two seconds about why that’s idiotic.

Fuck off. Stop being a moron. Show some goddamn empathy.

I can’t wait for the inglourious bastardsing of ICE agents.

I prefer the thermarest because the shape keeps it in the hammock instead of getting messed up with my tossing and turning. It just conforms when I’m on it.

I have never had a situation where I couldn’t find trees to camp in. Assuming any dessert campers out there know what kind of land they’re exploring before they pack their gear. With a few extra pieces you could anchor to rock, too.

Because it should always be an option? An option is optional, which means you don’t have to use it.

The question wasn’t about expecting people to be born in the country they wish to live, it was about whether citizenship by jus soli should be an option without conditions.

As a whole, yes, I believe immigration should be easier. Citizenship by birth should be one of the routes available.

But they are sustained through time-labour and costs. Someone is still paying and devoting their time while the rest benefit, you didn’t state a lower limit.

I’ve run a free library and managed an online service for an old job.

After initial costs of ~ $300, the library took about an hour a week to maintain. I kept it clean and actively procured good items for it, and offered to pick up donations to keep the library stocked. If I billed for my time at my then-wage, transportation, cleaning supplies and repair costs(screws, stain, replacing wood) over the course of a year, it would have averaged around $100/month.

Alternatively, the web-hosted service required three domains at about $40/yr and a webserver that cost $25/month. Once it was going, it didn’t require much maintenance outside of answering user questions. I had to call up the dev around once a month to actually fix something, billed at $35/hr for no more than an hour or two. The company didn’t charge as the service promoted the larger business.

I never considered the users of either service to be “freeloading.”

Hammocks are the best tents, especially for solo camping. Some pack up so small I can fit the hammock, tarp and bug net into the pockets of cargo pants.

Thermo-rest is your best friend, even in a hammock. Having a wind pass under your body will make you real cold.

Scout campsites thoroughly for poison ivy, poison oak, anthills, wasp nests, etc.

Pay attention to sleeping bag ratings and remember that a 0°C rating just means you won’t die at that temp, not that you’ll be comfortable. Sleeping bags are one of the few things with a strong cost/quality correlation.

Always have rope. Bring lots of rope. Know what makes a good rope.

Little free libraries would like a word with your reasoning.

Lotta people in here have never had to immigrate. If the first thing you think of when you hear “immigration” is brown people trying to trick their way into a country, you might be a terrible fucking person.

Jus soli should always be an option because the harder it is to get citizenship, the harder that family’s life is going to be, regardless of circumstances. No single person should have to suffer just because of where they or their parents were born when there are other options.

Like Ah, yes I need a trusty elastic around my ribs to gather sweat in the night so I can sleep.

Just them. We all think it’s super weird.

Hell yeah.

Next question.

What’s it like to not have seen or heard a current joke in thirty years?

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I’ve heard so many explanations I’m pretty sure Saskatchewan is like the Joker, coming up with a different lie every time someone asks.

Here’s another article that doesn’t require a sign-in.

Long story short: People in Saskatchewan call hoodies “bunny hugs” and no one knows why.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/good-question-bunny-hug-1.7125965