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You seem to have issues comprehending. Engaging with your writing is all that’s happened. What questions have you asked that you feel I’ve ignored? The only one here IMO acting like they have a fragile ego full of bruises is you.

I’d have to first give a shit what you think in order for you to be able to bruise my ego. Facepalm

Zapatos was kind enough to highlight one example already. Are more needed?

You seem clear enough to me. Communication style seems less relevant here than a seeming lack of self-awareness. Lol. I strongly suspect he wants nothing from you and doesn’t care enough about you to be offended. As for holding hands, maybe this is an example of that issue with communication style you reference?

From the outside, his view appears to be that your argument has holes which need to be highlighted. It seems you feel you’re the sole arbiter of what is moral and what is not, and he’s illuminating the validity of other perspectives.

Perhaps you feel otherwise, but when others direct questions to me and ask me personally to respond to their very narrow point, it doesn’t strike me as unreasonable to remind them of where my own position is focused. YMMV

The laws being passed in state legislatures are focused on school and youth sports, not elite sports. What backup do you request in support of this point?

Lol. Experiments confirm you’re wrong.

If my position is that this issue exists at the youth sports level and it’s school sports where children are being actively excluded via legislation due to being trans, then the percent is zero. There are functionally zero trans people at elite level of sports today to look up to. Elite trans athletes are also not the ones being targeted so it strikes me as a peripheral distraction to continually focus there. The problem is not with elite level sports. Nearly nobody who ever competes makes it to that level. Focusing there… where legislation is not targeting trans people anyway… is a mistake that derails meaningful discussion and possible progress.

I have no interest in hunting red herrings right now. Maybe later

Pot. Kettle. Black. Last I checked, elite athletes (all 6 of them) weren’t being blocked by state legislation from competing while trans.

Understood, and courts have affirmed their authority on paper, but in practice it’s far more unlikely they’d be involved (it’s a small force that’s rarely ever activated): https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL34097.pdf

No, but it’s wholly irrelevant to my own focus on the 99.9% of sports being played by kids in schools, as in those who are NOT engaging at the pinnacle most elite levels that nearly nobody who plays sports ever successfully advances to.

He did, and yet seems full of bile and vitriol and an inability to engage rationally now more than ever.

But congress does NOT have an enforcement arm. There is no sheriff or constable of the congress, for example. So, they can “hold someone in contempt” but the actual “holding” part gets rather tricky. It’s more of a polite request akin to a “sternly worded letter.”

Said another way

That's correct. The Congressional Committee is doing an investigation and ensuring the details of that investigation are put formally into the record. They are also referring potential charges to the Justice Department, but it's the DoJ's job to determine whether or not to pursue criminal charges. The body of congress cannot bring charges, and the DoJ under Merrick Garland must walk a fine line here. Any action they take will get painted as "politically motivated" regardless of how overwhelming the evidence.

The committee finished Day 3 hearings yesterday. Two more scheduled next week. A few points stand out: It was violent, intentional, and people got hurt. The goal was to hurt even more people than they did, especially elected officials Trump had been informed by nearly everyone on his team and in his cabinet that he lost, that the election was not stolen, that his comments were bullshit, and yet he kept repeating them Trumps team knew they were lying as evidenced by conversations they had, they were aware they'd lost, and yet still went out after acknowledging those things to say otherwise in public VP Pence told Trump repeatedly he had no power to overturn the will of the people, as did his own WH attorneys, legal team, and others, yet he kept suggesting otherwise in public and thus Pence's life was at risk from the mob Trump was feeding red meat to Trump used election steal lies to rake in something like a half billion dollars in donations to help him "fight the steal," but he's instead used those funds to put an infrastructure in place around the country to steal future elections 2024 will see the same thing happen, potentially worse, unless something more is done As today is also the anniversary of Nixon Watergate coverage regarding the illegal bugging of hotel rooms of his Democratic competitors, I realize another key possibility with Trump... Would anyone be at all surprised if we later find out that he also attempted to use the NSA and various US Intelligence services (or even just contractors with relevant access) to tap into the Biden teams phone, text, and email records in parallel to all of his various other election stealing shenanigans?

Again, except when it's not. Nor is the fact that it's MOSTLY segregated today supportive of the idea that it MUST be segregated tomorrow. Sports are literally an arbitrary set of rules that WE have defined. Those arbitrary rules can be changed at any time. Why is this so confusing to so many people? It's almost like you're emotionally invested in excluding people who are different from you.

I’ve been playing with the idea of putting a small rink in our yard over the winter for the kids. We don’t have tons of flat spots though, and not enough open area to make decent skating possible, so I’ve been dragging my feet. /also off topic

Yes, I have a view, but this is your thread and questions have been posed to you... questions you keep evading. So, you reply first and we'll go from there.

So, No? Source (like so many other claims you've been making here) is your butt?

Like it already is within psychology, sociology, anthropology, neurology, physiology, gastroenterology, and so many countless others?

Yep. You’re a troll.

You keep repeating, but utterly failing to validate (or even attempt to confirm) that. The most probable description here is that you’re just another pathetic little troll. I hope you can prove me wrong, but doubt you will. You have no credibility.