The limits for me are force and coercion. Let people be and all is well.

I’m not against dress-up and pretend, nor would I tell people what to think and believe. But I won’t easily conform to someone else’s belief in the same manner.

I disagree with that. But I love your phrase “galavanting flesh”. I’m going to use that one, with all credit to you, of course.

So why pretend the person is both male and female? The reality appears to be the biology, while the denialism remains in the sphere of identity.

The people of Wyoming booted her out. I won’t lose a wink over it.

A trans woman is a biological male, then, according to your formulas.

I love it. She lost to someone I never heard of, despite being coddled and fawned over by the legacy media, despite being a war monger and torture defender.

Fair enough. You accused me of denying reality, so I just wanted to know which reality I was denying. You could easily point me to one shred of evidence of human males producing eggs but won’t, for whatever reason. I suspect you don’t have any.

If simple human biology has no place in a discussion of reality and gender, I apologize.

It didn’t. Hence your failure to quote someone properly.

It’s like a bloodline.

That was the dictionary, actually. So you think a male can produce eggs?

Of course your rationality left out the most relevant parts. Brilliant.

So you don’t associate females with the sex that can give birth to young or produce eggs?

Why do you always misquote me by removing much of what I said?

Does society not associate females with the sex that can give birth to young or produce eggs?

Female: belonging or relating to women, or the sex that can give birth to young or produce eggs:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/female

Male: used to refer to men or boys, or the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or eggs itself:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/male?q=Male

The government where I live has fallen on some hard times, so hard in fact that it’s liquor and cannabis distribution workers are going on strike, with other state industries soon to follow. Besides a lack of product for drinkers and smokers, this poses a problem for small business owners, many of whom are still trying to make ends meet since the government shuttered their businesses during the Covid days. Since the state has taken it upon itself to monopolize liquor distribution, there is little to nothing these businesses can do. It is expected that workers will be out of a job before long. Eat the poor indeed.

It’s just the death throes of another establishment political dynasty. The Cheneys, the Clintons, the Bushs—all are heading towards the trash-bin of history.

A woman is an adult female human being. A man is an adult male human being.

And men are not able to. No one alive or dead was born of a man.

Right, an important distinction for this discussion thank you.
My understanding is gender is the way you feel about your sex, and sex being the biology of how you were born.
I thought that was the generally understood distinction?

Gender is best utilized as a staple of language, not of biology or psychology. Sex is a better descriptor, in most cases.

I’m saying that people who give birth and breastfeed are women.

I don’t know what any such characteristics would be. I can imagine waking up in a woman’s body, whether by magic or a brain transplant, and yet I’d continue to identify as a man, so it certainly doesn’t have anything to do with my body. And I can’t think of what psychological traits I have, except the obvious of identifying as a man, that would count as being such characteristics.

You’d be a woman because you could give birth and breastfeed. No amount of imagination can change that.

All this weird hand-wringing about rhetoric means little in the wake of such actions, in this case the unprecedented actions of federal law enforcement. Bill or Hilary were never raided, even when they lifted furniture from the Whitehouse or when they ran the fat cat hotel out of the Lincoln bedroom.

Sounds about right. The FBI has such a sordid past that it boggles the mind that anyone could trust them.

Victim: "The Stasi spied on me."

Stasi Spokesman: "All of it was above board.”

Then why did they return the passports? Because they shouldn’t have taken them. In this case the contents wasn’t theirs to take, and they knew it. Corruption, incompetence, stupidity.

Legal or not, it just goes to show their incompetence or corruption. They were there for classified documents and walked out with personal documents. Pretty basic stupidity

No I think it was ironic and wrong to take Trump’s passports.

No, they ought not to have. They should have grabbed “All physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 793, 2071, or 1519”. The parenthesis “and all contents therein” is simply a way to weasel out of constitutional violations and other incompetent or corrupt moves, such as taking Trump’s passports.

You’re defending the FBI taking things they ought not to have. That’s embarrassing.

Did they raid the house for Donald Trump’s passports? The answer is “no”. There is no need to weasel for their incompetence or corruption.

I’m not sure why you’re leaving out the first sentence, but passports aren’t “physical documents with classification markings”. It doesn’t matter anyways. The 4th amendment demands that law enforcement know what they’re taking before they take it.

It’s not reasonable to take people’s passports when you’re there to seize government classified documents. The FBI ought to know what they’re taking before they take it, and if they don’t, they are either incompetent or corrupt.

Stealing documents.

The irony.

Is it better to serve the self as an individual or see the self as all things and thus serve all things/others equally as your own body/personal needs.

It is certainly worse to see the self as all things and thus serve all things/others equally as your own body/personal needs for the simple reason that it isn’t true. As soon as you are unable to see yourself as an individual you cannot see others as individuals as well, and you risk sacrificing their individuality on the alter of your own ego. A good rule of thumb is “don’t live for others any more than you expect them to live for you”.

Magistrate judges are appointed by the court, not the president. (https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-trump-appoint-judge-who-approved-fbi-mar-lago-raid-1732495). This magistrate judge happened to recently recuse himself from a civil racketeering case that Trump has brought against the DNC, but never said why. (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article264444421.html).

He never said it was a sudden evening raid. He said it was an “unannounced raid”. (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-gf6pdxrpau2342)

Trump’s lawyer said she was basically kept in the parking lot during the raid.

The search warrant was personally approved by AG Garland, who is suspiciously missing from your inconvenient truth. “I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter.” (https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-garland-delivers-remarks)

Trump has been very vocal on Truth Social and his official website all weekend, despite your claims he has “gone dark”. (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump)

OK. What is the difference between Amazon competing for control over internet sales and government competing for control over violence?

You say one is a monopoly, the other isn't.

The government has jurisdiction in a given territory over which it has the supreme and final authority. Amazon doesn’t. The motives, the commodities and services, and the scope of control are entirely different.

I can’t help it. I have never had any faith in their idea of justice, nor the American justice system and her institutions. The FBI has been especially odious in this regard and the historical record proves this.