daz28

The loonies on the far right and far left create most of our problems.

I'm not sure how we stop Iran from going nuclear, but the only thing it looks like Biden is going to send them is your tax dollars via 500-2000 lb bombs for now. It's not going to be easy to make a deal to stop proliferation with anyone if you have presidents pulling out of deals on a whim. Ask trump if it was worth $150B of Iran's own money to stop it, and he'd say no. Now we have very limited options, but it would have been harder for them to build it with the deal in place Here's what trump said, “The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. In just a short period of time, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons.” Here's what trump did to stop it: NOTHING(ie the art of the deal)

That was an unfreezing of Iranian assets, which was part of the nuclear agreement between pretty much all the civilized nations of the world. That money, which was held up as sanctions, did not come from the USA, but rather was tied up in foreign banks. Trump is the one who bailed on that, and made it a huge waste. All of this is contrary to Trumps tweets and Facebook memes.

A lot of the difference in relative strength likely comes from body fat %, which is mostly due to hormones. Even among top athletes women have a higher %. Some strength difference is due to twitch fiber, but the difference in strength there is made up by endurance. Otherwise, men and women gain strength at the same rate at the same level of intensity. You can look that up. The only way trans man vs women would be fair is if the trans person were on hormone therapy. A man with 4% body fat who wears a dress would certainly hold the strength advantages that Brents claims.

Trump started this who can be a more despicable person than me party. Even if you believe what her sign says, it's still fully inappropriate. She's complete trash.

It's not quite so simple. All humans have varying amounts of testosterone and estrogen. Those hormones are the things that determine our sexuality, not necessarily just your chromosomes. This is evident, as you can control the way your body sexually matures by taking these hormones. A man can indeed grow breasts, and lactate. A woman taking hormones can grow facial hair. As far as this relates to the topic, there are probably very few young boys taking estrogen so they can get big and strong, and beat up all the other girls. It's counter-intuitive. It's also very, very overblown the impact people are trying to say it will have on people's lives. I try to think of it as a sliding scale of masculinity and femininity, which we all lie on somewhere. So there's really 2 sciences at work here. The chromosome AND the hormones.

What you're not understanding is that in MMA you will not be fighting a larger opponent. There is no weight advantage. Truth be told, it's highly unlikely there's a lot of boys who think they are girls that are just dying to decimate the ranks of female MMA when they grow up. I know this is a topic that fear mongering has everyone terrified of, and I know I probably won't convince anyone either. I'd say people are probably 75-80% against this. Also, by your own logic, there's no way a woman could beat you, but we know that's not true. There's guaranteed mad amounts of women out there that could whoop you. Afraid or not, you'd lose badly to a lot of them. Bet

To be fair, it's both. Just double the dosage of whatever meth derivative they gave him during the campaign, and hope his body can handle it.

Bro, not just walking in the middle of the street, but not even putting the stolen merchandise in your pocket to conceal it? Then mouthing off, then attacking?? That's a Biden; C'mon man. It's almost like Brown was saying, arresting me is not enough officer, I'm begging for you to shoot me. As we've learned since gunpowder has been invented, people are very averse to being shot. Maybe we'll find some lost tapes. One lady did say she recorded it, and gave to police. Not sure if that was true, though.

People knew this, and STILL thought it was better than t-rump. What's that say about your boy??

The only thing that was in favor of Democrats was large dumps from metropolitan areas. You're not going to get large dumps in rural areas. Surely you can understand that. Everything else you listed has no bias to either candidate whatsoever. Now, who in 2020 said, "stop counting the ballots", because he saw that the large cities where it took longer to report(due to sheer amount of tabulations)were closing the gap?? That would be Donald J. t-rump. What could possibly be FISHIER than that, besides maybe him claiming it was rigged before it even started. He tried everything in his power to subvert the election, and you have NO issue with that at all. Sad!

The last part of it is likely the most overlooked, yet the most damning. The stock market might be the least accurate measure of how well 98% of your citizens are doing on a personal level. Before someone brings up retirements, keep in mind that all of it can be lost as quickly as it was gained. Should hedge managers be allowed to pick away at our retirement? If Americans have to spin the wheel of fortune to hope for a decent life after working hard for 50 years, then that's pretty sad. I'll just take the pensions like people used to get, before shareholders took all the dividends and CEO's all the profits. I think a 'WHAT TRUMP SAID ABOUT COVID ONE YEAR AGO TODAY THREAD' is in order. It would put the stupidity in perspective.

I played football a long time ago, but don't see the relevance here other than a possible machismo jab, which is about totally useless on an internet forum. Now, what you have done with your photo is provide evidence for me. What do those 2 men have in common?? They are THE SAME SIZE. Which MMA do you plan on participating in that has a guy with a gigantic weight advantage taking on another???? As I've already said, wrestling/boxing/MMA, pretty much any mano mano(no pun intended) physical combat is going to be with people of relatively equal stature. Lastly, I'm not the one afraid of a woman my size coming into MMA, and whooping my ass.

We probably agree on a lot more than you think. This ones a no brainer.

Then by that standard, after the insurrection, the right has no more claim to Democrat socialist ruining America, because no one has gone farther down the craphole than them. I agree the far left goes too far, but were mostly just discussing policing here. it seems that you're starting to understand that socioeconomic status is also a large factor here, too. I certainly can't see how anyone could try to say that humans who left Africa sooner than others are less likely to commit crimes. I think everyone would agree that any humans predisposition to commit crime is not based on how much melanin their skin has. It seems we may agree on this more than we initially thought.

I wasn't trying to make it political. It just doesn't take into account what Michael Brown could have been thinking. There's nothing logical about what they said his actions were. What sounds most logical to me is that he was running, and when he heard bullets whizzing by, he thought better, then turned around to surrender. Saying he decided that he must have thought it was a good idea to turn, and cover 35 feet with his pants falling down to try to get to the guy firing at him makes no sense at all. I'd also guess the cop was terrified, because he had already had to fight MB for his weapon, and wasn't going for round 2 of that, so in that respect I can see how it's justified. We'll never know what really happened.

Bigger, stronger players meet smaller, weaker players in football on every single play, many times causing injury. It was designed that way. A 200 lb running back is almost always met by someone much larger and stronger. As far as MMA/boxing, they have weight classes, and you aren't forced to fight anyone you don't want to. Money is the name of the game there, and people take fights based on that and only that. Like I said if they offer to pay a women handsomely to fight a transgender, they will almost certainly take the fight. Logic, on the other hand, would dictate you should only fight someone you think you might beat.

Good point. If you're statement on human rights abuses is we won't play bobsled and luge with you, then you aren't all that worried about human rights.

So basically if it has a fence around it, then it's a concentration camp, regardless of what's actually taking place inside it. When the Russians took back Auschwitz, and all the Nazi's were gone, was it still a concentration camp??

If we paid her to fight again, but paid her like Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, I wonder if she'd still cry about it. This is purely a political statement. I can't believe America is going to fight over volleyball scholarships. How about work on making college affordable for everyone, then we can get rid of the stupid sports scholarships, which are designed solely to allow universities to cash in on athletics. As usual the Republicans are ignoring the REAL problem, and hiding it behind something divisive. Every sport known to man has different sized athletes, and those that don't have weight classes. Why does no one get mad that Beasley weighs 170, and benches 180, while Suh weighs 315, and benches 400? Also, why can't sports be inclusive? The old, stupid argument used to be because of the locker rooms. Lastly, and maybe most importantly, sports are just games created for fun. I found this interesting tidbit, which seems to shed some light on the "Karen effect" of why older women are unreasonable: Popular opinion may state otherwise, but our data shows that women are actually more logical than men, at least before they get older. In fact, women scored an average of 63% in our logical reasoning tests, compared with an average of 59% for men. Interestingly, these scores were almost completely reversed after the age of 55, with men scoring 64% and women coming in behind at 59%.

You know all the rhetoric, so I won't bother posting it all. Few bad apples, etc, etc There NEEDS to be accountability, and the system has to admit it has a problem before it can start fixing it. Not many bureaucracies are going to throw egg on their own faces.

Drivers and passengers complained that seat belts were uncomfortable and restrictive, but the uproar over mandatory seat belt laws was mostly ideological. One of Hollister’s colleagues in the Michigan House called the seat belt bill “a pretty good lesson in mass hysteria created by a corporate-controlled media” and warned that the government would outlaw smoking next. Another said that anyone who voted for the bill should be recalled. Does that sound familiar???/ Blaming the media is not a new idea, but it's still just as stupid. “An enormous political backlash ensued,” says Jerry Mashaw, professor emeritus at the Yale Law School and co-author of The Struggle for Auto Safety. “Congress received more letters from Americans complaining about [the interlock mechanism] than they did about Nixon’s ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’” Also sounds VERY familiar/// People really felt masks didn't work, but wore them to make Trump look bad??? C'mon man. Also, why not just tell people NOT to touch the mask, instead of insinuating it might get you infected. testing and contact tracing are VERY effective, and have saved tons of lives, which in no way "makes us look bad". What makes us look bad if having an idiot in charge.

...or you can have a president who responds to unnecessary automobile crash fatalities by saying wear a seat belt/don't wear a seat belt I don't care. -President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he believes some Americans are wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic to express their disapproval of him and not as a preventive measure. -The president also said his issue with masks is that people sometimes touch the facial coverings, which increases the chance of infection. -He went on to say he thinks "testing is overrated," adding, "I created the greatest testing machine in history." -Trump said, however, that more testing in the US has led to an increase in confirmed cases which "in many ways, it makes us look bad."

Did we get to pre-Spanish Flu, pre-polio, pre-smallpox, pre-MMR??? Also, do you mean balance risk like wearing a seatbelt? Having airbags installed? In 1973 there were 30 commercial aircraft accidents of 19 or more fatalities. In 2017 there were 0. Looks like using data, and making changes works sometimes.

...and if you don't look at something, it doesn't exist, right? I think it's pretty common knowledge that our justice system is not blindfolded, carrying a beam balance, and a sword.