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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] United States military is not allowing mentally and physically disabled p

« on: July 26, 2017, 06:58:54 PM »

https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=312045.0

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Off Topic / Re: [noose] transgenders not allowed in military

« on: July 26, 2017, 05:23:36 PM »

Not mine. I have my own sweet potato farm and I hunt deer. Unless they're LSD micro-dosing all the farm land and wildlife in America I should be fine.

Should everybody grow sweet potatoes and hunt deer and subsist only on that?

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Off Topic / Re: [noose] transgenders not allowed in military

« on: July 26, 2017, 05:19:02 PM »

Dying is a natural process of the human body. Increased life expectancy is going to lead to problems down the line, just FYI, hope you're prepared because I am.

If my mother hadn't had her appendix removed when I was 11 or 12 she would be dead right now. Imagine if that was your mother.

Also, even if increased life expectancy is going to be a problem down the line eventually, you didn't even address the fact that most of our food comes from artificially bred organisms that would be impossible to find in the wild. There's presumably also many other examples of phenomena arising from the fact that us humans have augmented our reality that make our lives much better than otherwise.

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Off Topic / Re: [noose] transgenders not allowed in military

« on: July 26, 2017, 05:08:55 PM »

You realize that losing teeth is a natural loving process right? Do you still have all your baby teeth? Do your rooster and balls automatically fall off when you realize you're transgender? People getting their wisdom teeth pulled out is a cosmetic concern because it's a social expectation to have "organized" teeth, as compared to thousands of years ago when there wasn't any profit to be made in the dental industry.

BTW I love rp'd your sister on Blockland like a decade ago, just remembered that thank for for mentioning that rally

It's called LSD micro-dosing. Look it up if you feel like learning anything except what your left-wing college feeds you. If you get too far down the rabbit hole and a guy comes to your door at 2AM asking about a lost dog, just tell him you supported Hillary and you'll be considered too dumb to be a threat.

Your appendix bursting is probably the result of natural processes in the human body. Should your burst appendix not be removed?

This appeal to nature argument doesn't hold much dice because most of the human condition today is engineered already. Most of our crops have been selectively bred from relatively disgusting to eat wild variants over thousands of years. The dramatic extension on human lifespan is derived from artificial, engineered medicine; imagine if your grandfather died of old age at the age of 40 or even less.

Presumably if genital modification surgery were that debilitating to someone it simply wouldn't be done. Even if it costs these people their love lives, they're much more mentally healthy being spared from the gender dysphoria feeling like they are the gender of their choice.

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Off Topic / Re: [noose] transgenders not allowed in military

« on: July 26, 2017, 04:53:32 PM »

nope
here's a more accurate graph

Discretionary spending on the military in 2015 is still over $500 billion and amounts overall to $1.1 trillion. This presumably accounts for spending when mandatory spending is added on. Give me a source and I'll review your argument further.

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Also I see no numbers or any kind of reference point alluded to in that graph. Pure percentages don't really mean much.

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Off Topic / Re: [noose] transgenders not allowed in military

« on: July 26, 2017, 01:27:32 PM »

Gender Dysphoria is a mental illness which the best treatment for is transition.

Presumably someone having transitioned fully to the gender of their choice who is being accepted by their peers is far less likely to suffer whatever people having not transitioned do suffer.

It should also be said that transgender people form what is essentially 0.6% of the adult population in the United States today. Of that small percentage of people who desire to join the US military, transition for those who haven't transitioned according to a study linked in the linked article would probably amount to a fraction of the probably millions if not more that the government spends now on military healthcare in general.

Considering the prevalence of transgender servicemembers among the active duty military and the typical health-care costs for gender-transition-related medical treatment, the Rand study estimated that these treatments would cost the military between $2.4 million and $8.4 million annually.

The study didn't include estimates of these costs for reservists, because of their “highly limited military health care eligibility.” It also didn't include estimates for retirees or military family members, because many of those individuals may also have “limited eligibility” for care via military treatment facilities.

“The implication is that even in the most extreme scenario that we were able to identify … we expect only a 0.13-percent ($8.4 million out of $6.2 billion) increase in health care spending,” Rand's authors concluded.

By contrast, total military spending on erectile dysfunction medicines amounts to $84 million annually, according to an brown townysis by the Military Times — 10 times the cost of annual transition-related medical care for active duty transgender servicemembers.

EDIT:
2015's military budget as compared to every other facet of government spending as well as the specific amount of spending dedicated to the military is displayed in the picture below.

As compared to the military budget in 2015 (It's doubtful that military budget has decreased or even increased by that much), $8.4 million is .001% approximately of $598.5 billion. It would be extremely insignificant to even pay ten times that (the amount paid for ED pills as indicated), which itself would translate into .01% percent of 2015's military budget.

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Off Topic / Re: battle for the net

« on: July 11, 2017, 04:15:07 PM »

many times ever since like 2012

how many times have they tried to remove net neutrality laws now?

that's why you loving sign the form so they know when to stop

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Off Topic / Re: battle for the net

« on: July 11, 2017, 04:03:22 PM »

THEY GOT researchHUB

would you rather your research goes slower or faster

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Off Topic / battle for the net [update]

« on: July 11, 2017, 03:37:45 PM »

i feel obligated to share this since after all i don't think that any of us actually want slow internet
https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/
Please actually sign the forms if you can

You are now able to use the site to quickly send e-mails to your local legislator and/or the FCC. Try it out using the link above.

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Creativity / Re: thekid can't hold all these frogs (art ft. snoop dogg)

« on: July 10, 2017, 10:42:58 PM »

Would you ever draw my avatar?
you draw cute art by the way

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Off Topic / Re: The shifting politics of inequality and the class ceiling

« on: July 08, 2017, 01:38:13 AM »

of course, that's the natural order of things. you're providing your service in exchange for money, and you are at the will of whoever is providing that money. It's the same thing with communism, except doing service and expecting one centralized entity to return the money, while in capitalism you have a thousand different entities which you can offer your services to

There are multitudes of ideologies that advocate a decentralized communism.

It should also be said that by nature theft and bearing of one's power upon another in a setting in which it is decidedly clear who has most of the ability to do so is still such and is in itself a form of violence against the individual who can't fight for themselves. Even if there is a million unique opportunities for employment, most of them would still not involve any kind of real, inclusive workplace democracy or ownership of the workplace (a definitive goal and maxim of socialist ideologies), just as with the Soviet Union.

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Off Topic / Re: The shifting politics of inequality and the class ceiling

« on: July 08, 2017, 01:13:13 AM »

What I am explicitly referring to is the fact that workplace democracy does not exist under Capitalism. Workplace regulations historically have never implemented this and will not since doing so would be the antithesis of Bourgeois control over production.

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Off Topic / Re: The shifting politics of inequality and the class ceiling

« on: July 08, 2017, 12:56:55 AM »

having things you invest money in be taken from your ownership and given to the public is literally theft. factories count in this category of investments

instead, just put in place regulations like labor laws and condition inspections at the factory's expense to ensure that workers are being treated fair

Having most of your work taken from you and treated as a commodity on the market without your prior consent is also theft.

Don't say people consent to being employed in such an environment either, because it's either that or starve, or attempt to found a co-op, which from what I've heard is very difficult to get any kind of funds for since nobody will loan to co-ops.

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Off Topic / Re: The shifting politics of inequality and the class ceiling

« on: July 07, 2017, 11:51:08 PM »

what the forget are you even on about? how is the diversity of the far left relevant to communism in particular having a disproportionately bloody track record comparable to fascist regimes?

The majority of authoritarian violence on innocents though comes from authoritarian arguably socialist regimes like the Soviet Union and its satellite states. Anarchist and Libertarian Socialist rebellions, for example, as can be seen in Revolutionary Catalonia, Anarchist-controlled Ukraine, and the Zapatista movement in Mexico all have a political base which is both heavily opposed to and has been aggressively suppressed by the likes of the Soviet Union, making them all far less likely to enact violence and state suppression of civilians, as was the case with the aforementioned Russian state and its allies.

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Off Topic / Re: The shifting politics of inequality and the class ceiling

« on: July 07, 2017, 11:20:17 PM »

literally not a strawman. he's pulling the antifa-tier no true scotsman bullstuff.

meanwhile, you took something that nobody actually talked about in this thread - socialism in the most general sense possible - and tried to say that i said it does not work. show me where i said this.

The second image demonstrated that are a great variety of different far-left Socialist ideologies with different views on state control, methods of organization, and even which thinkers they were influenced by (although this is not to say that they do not share similarities in at least some regard). The differences between said ideologies are significant enough so that a comparison wouldn't be a matter of mere subtleties and differences in opinion but rather more like a comparison between apples and oranges.