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Freezing the pay of government employees might be considered conservative since it "protects taxpayers"? Who knows, in this sort of thing the reasons are made up after the conclusion so it is hard to predict what the excuse might be.

Given this, I'd be curious if situations of legislating right wing dogma onto medical decisions would be considered liberal or conservative by the methodology.

I can't help if you consider those useful analogies to the religious beliefs that I mentioned earlier, but I didn't bring them up.

Can we substitute in other groups whose self-identity isn't based on empirical verifiable facts? Because the last time I tried, that was labeled as showing contempt for the group. But for some reason the post I'm responding to seems to say it is fine. Wonder when it will flip flop back yet...

Weird how me simply asking a much less accusatory question led to an accusation of showing contempt to the groups in question. Seems like this sort of judgement is very fluid. Such as?

It's always instructive when my simple questions about a previous talking point require the talking point to be abandoned in favor of jumping to a different one.

Really? Because that's what I got accused of when I asked if we needed to validate certain types of self identification that couldn't be backed up by objective facts.

The one being taught in public schools that certain minority groups seem to want to escape. Yep, taking money that was earmarked for funding public schools and using it for something else simply because certain groups want to avoid integrating into society.

The money is earmarked for funding public schools, not funding children. The money doesn't "follow" the driver if they decide to fly instead. Just like money is for public schools for students to use them, but the money doesn't follow the student around if the decide to pick a different option.

And here I thought that post 865 made it clear that refusing to accept non-science-based self identification was "Showing contempt" to that person. Funny how the rules change depending on which talking point is being sold.

If only I'd get one in return. Remember, the questions were But back to the subject at hand, does a person self-identifying as something create a burden on others to go along with those feelings? And is the answer different if the something is religion vs. gender identity? I can't help but...

Just checking - the argument is that having an identity based on non-scientific beliefs is mental illness and delusion? And that it is perfectly fine to tell people that to their face?

You're complaining he wasn't charged with more than the 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents he was already convicted of?

Because right wing propaganda sources have found that selling manufactured outrage about it is effective in getting voters to choose candidates who otherwise work against the best interests of the voters they're targeting.

It's also a way of attacking LGBT people while having plausible deniability. For example - CPAC Speaker Michael Knowles Says “Transgenderism Must Be Eradicated”, wherein the person claiming to want to eradicate transgenderism tries to sell the idea that it has nothing to do with trans people.

And yet here is a thread where people are advocating for withdrawing from that culture ... and trying to get the government to pay them to do so.

Why would money earmarked for public education go to private individuals instead? If I don't drive in a particular part of my state, should I be able to paid the tax dollars which would have gone to them? Or if I don't use the legal system, should I be paid money taken from police officers'...

And how do you know they're biased against Trump? Because they say it was a fair trial? Funny how having evidence and the law on one particular side of the case works out.

In some cases yes, in other cases no. For example, people can choose what flavor of ice cream to order. They can't choose to murder other people on a whim. Or to address the OP, in some GOP controlled states, choose to work with their doctor to figure out the best care for a particular issue if...

Which group is continually being called mentally ill, delusional, lying about biology, and so forth? Heck, in this very thread using the exact same argument about LGBT people against religious believers was viewed as "contemptuous". If only this feeling were backed by any sort of reason to...