You don’t know much about US political history if you think “lobbying”, whatever you think that means - you seem to think it means “ask nicely” rather than “hand out bribes”, which is the usual meaning of that term - is more effective than mass protest at advancing progressive interests. You’ve heard of the civil…

That depends on why the divisions in question were created. If they were ginned up in order to keep a particular athlete from competing, because certain members of the community bear this athlete an animus, then the correct response is for the courts to say you’re not allowed to have long- and short-armed divisions.

“what is intended by the division of men’s and women’s sports, which is literally divided due to the quantifiable physical advantages that men have over women”

It’s not the “killing a white woman” part that would be a problem for them - some of their biggest heroes are murderous incels.

Blackstone’s formulation is absurd, perhaps deliberately so (it sounds like figurative language) but it’s a standard we don’t even reach in sexual assault cases - more than ten predators go free for every man falsely convicted.

Metoo has gone too far, even though the overwhelming majority of sexual assaults are still not even prosecuted? You might as well own up to calling for the effective decriminalization of sexual assault, because that’s what your position amounts to. I, for my part, will accept the risk, to society and to myself of…

“Grovel enough and we might offer some assistance; offend us and we'll give you four more years of trump cutting the social safety net."

The specific phrasing they want to use is already spelled out in the document - don’t sub in your own arguments because you are embarrassed by the ally you are trying to defend. They specifically want to argue that women should not be subject to a “one-size-fits-all” approach - they are giving up on any argument from…

That approach - tailoring your message to what currently polls well - is a doomed strategy. It means you are not pushing the overton window, while your opponents are, which means you will inevitably lose ground. The reason conservatives have dominated the past generation is that their messaging is always…

It’s the internet, pissbaby, not your safe space. You are not entitled to be protected from the truth anywhere. Keep your hatred and whining to yourself, lest somebody get a bad impression of you.

You of all people are referring to someone else as a koolaid drinker? Your lack of self-awareness is comical. I suppose it’s impolite to laugh at you, though, since you so desperately need this to be a safe space. Far be if for anyone to interfere with your thumb-sucking ...

If playing inside the division is like a bye week for them, then playing outside the division is, too, given their track record outside it. Easy to make the playoffs when you have 17 bye weeks because the rest of the league is inferior.

Teaching your three year old to box wouldn't exactly be stellar parenting, either.

Let's be real here, you want the child abuse allegations to be false because that would be easier for you. That's true of anyone who has ever sought to doubt child abuse allegations.

Not really. As the article details john allen chau was a pro who studied and prepped intensively for years - pretty much his whole adult life - for his intended particular suicide mission. Chau was an expert at what he was doing and employed an extensive support network to get where he intended to be, whereas…

No, dude. If you’re going to be pedantic you should make an effort to actually be right, and if you’d done any research to confirm what you think you know, you’d have learned that barn raising is a cliche (have you never heard the term before, is that the crux of it?) because in the 19th century it was a communal…

Among other things you need to look up “strawman” before you (mis)use it again in conversation. Or you could do everybody, including yourself a favor and just never express yourself ever again.

“The overall median waiting time in crown courts for defendants in sexual offence cases tends to be higher than that for other offences due to a lower guilty plea rate for these cases.”

A lot of american males are sexual predators. A lot. Like, let’s say 10% of the male population, depending on where we’re laying the bar for predatory behavior. Now think of all the hundreds? Thousands? Of political appointees and consider the math. If reporting seems to be up that’s probably a good thing, as it…

You wish. When conservatives challenge executive overreach in those areas miraculously the plaintiffs will be found to have standing. Conservatives are limitlessly dishonest and selective in their use of pretexts to accomplish their partisan political goals.