Dragons don’t care about tourism or the economy. They only care about gold and being feared.

Hey family, who wants to go to Alligator Alcatraz this year?

Don’t get me wrong I would love to see her run for office. I think it would need to be something with authority though to do as much good as she is now.

Like Prime Minister or whatever they call the top position in her country.

Even if she didn’t win, she could move the needle a lot.

But that’s just one country, what she’s doing now moves the hearts and minds of folks globally.

There’s politics and establishment politics.

What Greta is doing is a political act, it raises global awareness, which puts pressure on politicians to act or risk losing their offices to folks who will.

Voter turnout in the states that mattered most was high.

Trump still won, probably because they hacked the election.

And if needed the tech fascists will pull a Weekend at Bernie’s using AI and body doubles. Assuming they don’t believe JD is up for the job.

Fascism isn’t ending with him dieing.

Bet your life on it.

National Guard in major cities.

I was also uncomfortable being in there. And I agree with you that the article doesn’t give us enough background of what was going on, because obviously there’s a lot more to the story if the school board did find that these kids were bullying.

And I agree that filming wasn’t appropriate, presumably there would have been a lot of boys in there that weren’t bullies.

Anyway, I think there is a lot more to this story than what is in the article. So us from the outside, it’s just conjecture. The scoreboard made a decision on what they thought was going to keep kids safe. And their decision was to suspend kids they perceived as being bullies.

I have a kid too, and it eats at me.

But I find comfort in the fact that life will carry on, even if my kid can never have the future I hoped for him when he was born.

It’s what gives me some comfort. Taking a larger perspective than just worrying about how humanity will fair.

Yeah, but that would make him a martyr.

Him keeling over from a heart attack because AOC beat him in a foot race would really drain the swamp of a lot of toxic masculinity.

I’m going to circle back around, there was an investigation launched. They don’t launch those investigations without evidence. And the boys were suspended, which means that the school board, with their experience dealing with bullies found that this was a situation where a trans boy was being bullied by his peers. The school used it’s experience to determine the answer question you posed. And suspended the bullies.

In your comment that I initially replied to, you pushed the idea that these kids truly believe that this is a girl. I think it’s far more likely that they know he’s trans, and view him as a freak. Calling him a girl wasn’t there perception. It was the language they chose to bully someone they see as different.

And incidents like this are why suicide rates are high in the trans population.

If there was a girl in my locker room in school, I would have been uncomfortable too.

I was referencing specifically this part of your post.

But I agree with your take overall. And see that in the quoted text you were referencing the boys perceptions. But it also sounds like this harassment was ongoing, hence the trans boy feeling the need to record it. Calling him a girl was likely part of that harassment. They likely know he’s trans. But are learning a lot of exclusionary rhetoric from their peers and likely adults too. Which they used to harass and exclude the trans boy.

We need education, inclusion. And yeah, safe gender neutral spaces too.

Civilization doesn’t equal the world. Life will carry on and heal from the damage us ‘smart apes’ have done in our hubris.

It sounds like there wasn’t a girl in the locker room, but a trans boy.

I’m not saying that isn’t awkward, but your perception of events aren’t exactly accurate either.

I’m trans personally, and I think the solution to this is more gender-neutral spaces. If I use the men’s room, I make men uncomfortable because I’m a woman. If I didn’t pass, I might make folks uncomfortable in the women’s room instead.

The issue is the gender binary and our cultures discomfort of anything outside it. Not that a trans boy was more comfortable in the boys locker room.

That said, I don’t think the trans boy should have been filming. I get the he wanted to catch the harassment on video, but an audio recording would have served the same purpose.

I’d like to see some women Democrats challenge him to other fitness activities.

Considering he bragged that he could beat basically any woman at any sport, because men are just better.

Hit him in his ego and his fragile masculinity.

And hopefully God and a heart attack will do the rest

Because they are taking the entire cost of the operation, and dividing it by the number of folks deployed.

So that includes logistics, housing, food, equipment maintenance. Including those big expensive fucking trucks, etc etc. And of course, the MIC gets a big cut too.

Payroll is probably a small portion of that $530.

If you’re tired maybe take a nap

I hear you. And honestly we need to be better about using the hate crime enhancer for violent crimes generally.

But, I’d prefer to live in a society that doesn’t tolerate hateful criminal behavior. If someone wants to call me a trans slur that sucks, but if someone spray painted hateful slurs on my property, I’d like that to be prosecuted with a more serious consequence than simple vandalism.

And, I have no idea how to frame it so that more violent offenses aren’t watered down. But, as I mentioned at the outset, we don’t use the enhancer often enough as it is. And maybe if we used it for less violent offenses, with smaller enhancers, we’d normalize using it more generally.

Most folks have an ego. It’s the last thing to go on the path.

I understand the defensive reaction, but that is ego.

I have one too. I’m not a meditation master.

Something I’ve noticed hanging out with hippies and studying Buddhist meditation masters.

Folks with no ego don’t declare they have no ego. At least not since the time of ancient India.

Folks with massively inflated egos on the other hand, often pretend they’re above everyone else, by proudly proclaiming they don’t have one.