WARNING!  DISGUSTING AND EMOTIONAL AND DISTURBING AND CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS

So in the Dean Phillips thread I mentioned that Jordan Peterson now favors banning ALL transition surgeries, which my first reaction, as a libertarian (small “l”) is, no, if you’re an adult and you want this, no matter how stupid it is, go for it.  Just don’t make me pay for it.

After listening to just the first ten minutes of this, I’m starting to see where Peterson is coming from.  As long as the truth about these surgeries is suppressed, how can an adult make an informed decision?

Scott was 42 when he had the fake penis surgery.  Anyone would assume he was mature enough to understand and consent, and he was mature enough, but the medical community and media withheld information he needed for informed consent.  Yet another reason the First Amendment is so important.  In this case it is capitalist “greed” on the part of the gender reassignment industry that is to blame, but it is vastly enabled by the sick transgender activist movement which has wormed its way into the leftist ideological propaganda machine.  Without that part, the truth about these surgeries would quickly come into the open.

But the problem with simply banning these surgeries for everyone is that the right has the tendency to go to the extreme, making problems for people who aren’t the targets of the policy.  My biggest beef with the right at the moment is the movement to ban IV fertilization.  The issue is that the fertilized egg is now a full set of human DNA and in order to produce one live baby, you have to sacrifice a few more of the zygotes.  The right, being pro-life, considers this equal to abortion.

My objection to that characterization is that rather than subtracting a human life as the net result, which regular abortion does, you are actually adding a human life to the world by using this process, that otherwise would not exist.  Yes, you must create and then sacrifice one or more other zygotes to get one to survive, but in this case they are actually literally a “clump of cells”.  Unlike what they become just a few short weeks after implantation into a womb.  They are not differentiated cells; there is no central nervous system so no possibility of consciousness.  Yes they have a full set of human DNA but so does any one of your skin cells: that doesn’t make a discarded skin cell a “person” with a right to life.

I don’t like the idea of needing to make several zygotes to get one of them to grow into a baby, but that’s where the technology is right now.  I’ve heard conservatives suggest you should just make one and implant it, but they lack understanding of how this works.  If you try to do it that way the odds are you will need to make many attempts before you’re successful if ever, and women have a clock running out on their ability to carry a pregnancy. To me the goal is to make more babies. IVF is doing that. Leave it the hell alone.

I suspect that what’s got a bee in the bonnet of the conservatives against IVF is the fact that gay couples are now using it to have children.  To that I say, you are against abortion, so you are fine with a low IQ welfare mom in the ghetto having the unwanted baby who will grow up to be a criminal thug, but you have a problem with a gay couple who might be well off tax paying citizens having a baby.  I admit that’s not ideal:  I firmly believe children are best raised by one man plus one woman in a committed marriage.  But I’m talking about public policy and the unintended consequences.  The majority of IVF clients are heterosexual married couples with financial means. You ban abortion and IVF, you get fewer children of traditional straight couples, and more children growing up without fathers in poverty.

Anyway how this relates to gender surgeries, is if we were to ban these surgeries for adults, what about the soldier who had his junk blown off in war?  What about men with penile cancer who would like some sort of package approximation rebuilt?  Oh we can make exceptions for that; well that didn’t work out so well for banning the abortion pill. They made exceptions for miscarriage, but in the real world women ended up unable to get the pills to treat miscarriage because of doctors’ legal fears.  They had to let the dead baby rot inside them for a while and then undergo surgical removal.  This damages a woman’s ability to try for another pregnancy.  If the goal is to have more babies, and I think that should be the goal, we need to be very careful not to address these matters with a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel. 

I have the same reservation about Peterson’s proposal to ban transition surgeries for adults. But if I had to vote on it right now I might well vote to ban, but I prefer dismantling the whole grip the left and their sick ideologies have on society right now.

VAERS has been around a long time, but all the sudden during the scamdemic it was deemed unreliable.   

It was always anecdotal and therefore somewhat meaningless.  Never meant to be a scientifically accurate set of data, but rather a collection point for all the perceived and real side effects of drugs so that they could then be addressed and studied. One of the results was the requirement that all “known” side effects be listed with any prescription drug you get, hence the completely useless mice type they give you listing dozens of every kind of woe you can imagine: headache, constipation, diarrhea, fatigue; the ever popular “anal leakage”, and so on and so forth.

That VAERS was ever reliable in the first place was the lie.  But it was at least a source of some data besides the formal studies that drug companies made of their own drugs, with the insane expectation that they would be unbiased.  And as Peter and Jim point out, even a good study has to account for the placebo effect.

The truth is we will never know the truth about the vaccine.  The truth has been hopelessly and permanently compromised.  There are only a few facts we know for certain:

1.  It causes myocarditis in young males (but so does covid the disease).

2.  It is not anywhere near 100% effective at stopping transmission.

3.  It does seem to lessen severity of disease in certain groups (the old and sick).

4.  It becomes less effective as the virus evolves.

5.  It is a massive money maker for the drug corporations.

That’s it. All the rest is speculation, conspiracy theories, or utterly muddled conclusions from incomplete data.  The speculations, conspiracy theories and muddled conclusions may be true.  They also might not be.  Probably some are and some are not or some are in a modified way. 

It’s reasonable to conclude that in certain groups the possible risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefits and therefore those groups should never receive it. Children and young adult males first and foremost.  Beyond that it should be the personal choice of every individual. Mandating the vaccine to keep your job or stay in the military or for children to go to school, for a disease that we quickly figured out had a death rate not much worse than influenza is deplorable authoritarian overreach made possible by portraying a flu-like illness into a terrifying monster so the public would be frightened into accepting these mandates.

However, making the vaccine into a similar horrifying monster is also not helpful.  There are men now who refuse to consider marrying a woman who has had the vaccine because of the belief the vaccine is “in her DNA” and will contaminate her children.  Is banishing someone who has had the vaccine any different from banishing someone who has not?  Extremism on both sides. 

This whole thing needs to go away.  Get out of our collective minds. Covid has become just a bad cold. The vaccine and boosters need to go away now and we need to put this whole catastrophe behind us.

What we need to do now is make sure it never happens again. Not the pandemic, there will be other pandemics, but allowing government to use a pandemic for a power and money grab, to force us out of our jobs, destroy our businesses, damage the supply chain, lock us into our homes, arrest us for walking on the beach, and fix an election with unvetted mail in ballots.  That is the real threat, not anecdotal side effects of the vax.

Maybe we are now too complacent and pussified to make sure this never happens again.

Now you know why physicists never get invited to parties.

Or laid very often.

The problem you have, petey, is you think your pathetic attempts to sound superior and better informed actually fool anyone except other egotistical assholes, trying to cover their leftism by inserting bullshit.

As far as your keyboard warriors complaint, you have played that card so many times it sounds like a broken record, but it's all you have, so you keep pretending that it's all you need.

If your infinitesimal points matched your enormous ego you would already know that pretentiousness doesn't equal substance.

The world is full of demanding, little, men, playing at pretending to be tough warriors of unquestionably useless opinions.

...and for the record, demanding a wager to 'prove' your intellectual bravery makes you sound like a sexually insecure seventh grader threatening smaller children for their lunch money.

If you can't decide if you're queer or straight, try therapy instead of false bravado.

I will neither support nor dispute your charges of Pete’s pretentiousness or egotism, nor do I know who is right in the matter of the proposed wager, but in the matter of bravery, I will assert that he backs up his intellectual position on at least one subject with action that in my opinion indeed requires courage.

https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/doctor-charged-bringing-ar-15-phoenix-airport/

Every time the media or a democrat uses the word "democracy", simply change it to "The State" and everything goes into sharp focus.

CNN: President Joe Biden commemorated January 6 as a day of American infamy, marking the third anniversary of the 2021 insurrection with a call for Americans to join him in defending The State from former President Donald Trump, who by comparison has promised to pardon the insurrectionists.

Biden:     This gathering has been on my mind for a long time for a simple reason: In the face of sustained and alarming challenges to The State, universal human rights, and — all around the world, The State needs champions.

I was hoping for a different kind of post.

I can give you our mailing address....

We have “hard sauce” on the mincemeat which is a concoction of butter, powdered sugar and brandy.  Or whiskey.   I don’t even want to think about how many carbs are in that stuff nevermind the pie.