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Poilievre renews calls to defund the CBC renewed after journalist laments death of Hamas leader | True North (tnc.news) We did a CBC thread not long ago so I don't know how much we need to talk about this, but just one more example of proof why the CBC should be defunded or possibly outright shut down. If you want to stick up for terrorists, you don't need to do it on public money

Its interesting that even though this is a woman with natural hormonal differences, the right wing consensus is that it still needs to be dealt with. A lot of top athletes excel at their sports because of biological traits that exceeds what is normal. why is your natural level of testosterone different? I always thought this was about policing masculinity, but I think this case and others like it suggests that it's really about policing femininity. Britney Griner looks like a man they say. Caitlin Clark has a slightly protruding Adam's apple, etc. It's a bizarre fixation.

Given that all women have naturally occurring testosterone, this would mean no women could compete in women's sports lol.

So it's just like I said: not even @robosmith, @Rebound, @herbie, are trying to go along with the mainscum media's that Kamala didn't bail out violent rioters. They're trying to pretend that I accused Kamala of denying it, and I never said that it was her that denied it. All of these weasels here know that ther mainscum media is lying about Kamala 24/7 and they're happy as clams about it.

I'm not sure why we don't have a thread on this. There has been a lot of controversy over two boxers in the women's event, that are men. It is clear cut, women and men are not on the same level physically and women should not fight with men in any situation. It is dangerous. But, allow me to muddy the water. Apparently both boxers have a genetic mutation called 46, XY DSD: “Morris syndrome is now called 46,XY DSD: androgen insensitivity syndrome. These people have an extremely high level of testosterone and other male sex hormones, but the testosterone does not affect the foetal cells that usually develop into male sexual organs because of a mutation in the androgen receptor gene. These people therefore have male chromosomes but are women socially and in external appearance. They do not have internal female sexual organs, and they form testicles that remain concealed in the abdominal cavity.” That is a lot harder to parse, in my opinion. They are women in their lives because they have every aspect of a women. Some can even get pregnant and have kids. But they are enjoying a lot of the physical advantages that men have because they produce testosterone at a higher level. I'll throw this out for the debate: Women's sports should be limited to people that are born female and have no testosterone. If they have this 46, XY DSD, they should be required to take testosterone suppression treatments.

So the media is making something out of nothing. Never mind the POTUS threatened to kill the Speaker of the House. Trump, rightly, questioned what race Kamala is claiming this week: Trump questions whether Harris is 'Black' at conference of Black journalists She claimed she was Indian: California's Kamala Harris becomes first Indian-American US senator Then she claimed she was black: Eight years after Trump beat Hillary Clinton, Harris could be the first female president and the first Black woman to hold the nation’s top job, as well. But dont forget about being South Asian too: The Lesser-Known Side of Harris’s Identity: Asian American So what is she? She's mixed. And the only people that really care are the people that want to use her skin color as a qualification rather than an identifying trait. So she looks like she has a nice tan. So? What are her policies? That's what disqualifies her.

Hmmm... and Khelif lost to Kellie Harrington (ireland).. so any supposed advantage seems to have not worked on that day.

You know this person has lost several times to other women, right? This isn't a clear cut case of someone absolutely dominating the competition because of their genetic advantages. Do you not see how narrowly policing the boundaries of who is a woman based on physical appearance or rare conditions where someone has elevated hormone levels is detrimental to women in general?

It if wasn't a huge burden on the quality of discussion on this board and elsewhere I would shut up about it, believe me. But the attention to given such things is a bigger problem than the lady-man athlete threat that middle-aged fat guys are so concerned about...

Did he have a bouncy castle? Because I can't take it as a serious threat without a bouncy castle.

Let me guess, you also believe we were only Mike Pence *this close* to becoming a dictatorship with King Trump if only Pence had proclaimed him King. THIS CLOSE! OMG

That's all that leftards can do is accuse others of being liars. They can't try to name the lies because when they do they get put in their place. One of the main things that leftards like to call a "lie" around here is Trump's claim that it didn't rain during his inauguration speech. They'll say "OMG at least twenty droplets fell in 17 minutes: it was a deluge!" They compare that 'lie' to lies like "Russian collusion", mostly peaceful protests, gentle giants, just buying Skittles, safe and effective vax, kids need a vax, Trump referred to immigrants as animals, the laptop is Russian disinformation, no inflation, Joe is mentally fit, Trump isn't fighting covid, Cuomo is a covid hero, it's ridiculous to say that the Dems cheated on the 2020 election, J6 is comparable to 9/11 and Pear Harbour, etc. Leftards did nothing but lie and incite riots for the past 10 years - absolutely nothing - and their refrain is "conservatives lie". It's gaslighting on an epic scale. It's their only move.

Typical MAGA baloney. Trump said, “She became a black person.” Now you’re backpedaling and pretending he said something different. He wasn’t even asked about that, he just blurted it out and it’s nothing but a racist tirade. Her mother is Indian and her father is black. The more you fools talk about it, the more ridiculous you sound. Give it up.

REMEBER WHEN EVERYONE WAS ANGRY BECUSE A FEW CONVOY PROTESTERS PUT A CANADIAN FLAG ON TERRY FOX?

It's weird that you would run your mouth like that to me, knowing that you're gonna get spanked again, little boy. 1. My post said the MSM is saying those things, not Kamala herself. Learn to read you illiterate twerp. 2. Name a Trump lie as big as "no inflation", Russian collusion, 'gentle giant', safe and effective, etc, etc... You can't. You've got "20 droplets of rain in 17 minutes". It's hilarious that you're backing the mainscum media while simultaneously calling Trump a liar. You're completely out of touch with reality. Buddy, you are the garbage that just spilled onto the page. And FYI, here's the CBS claim: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/donald-trump-kamala-harris-minnesota-freedom-fund-donation/ 1. For sure Harris did help raise millions for a fund that bailed out rioters. 2. CBS's article doesn't cite a time when Trump blamed Kamala for donating her own money (not that it's better that she didn't: she just asked other people to give money and gave nothing herself. It's even more pathetic than if she actually practiced what she preached) Here's their Trump spiel: Quote from CBS regarding Trump: "Trump claims Harris helped raise millions and personally donated to a fund that got extra support to bail out protestors in the aftermath of George Floyd's death. Part 1 of that is totally true. Trump did make that claim, and it was 100% accurate. The bail fund that Kamala was pimping raised more than $30M in 2020. Part 2 of that is a straw man argument: Trump didn't say how she helped them bail that guy out, just that she helped them bail him out, and she quite clearly did help them bail him out, and many others. "One of the dangerous criminals Kamala helped bail out of jail was Shawn Michael Tillman," Trump said at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. "You know that name. A repeat offender who, with Harris's help, was set free. He then went on to murder a man on a train platform in St. Paul, Minnesota, shooting him in cold blood six times, lying on the ground." Another true claim, by the way.

Hillary Clinton Meets With Kamala To Help Her Improve Her Black Accent This is being fixed as we speak.

She's africindian. Now leave her alone or i'll put a cap in your ass, i swear to cow!

Sorry Michael , for i second there i thought i could keep up with the mental master of the universe....I'm trying to let it go, and bow to your superior intellect, but it is like an internal struggle in my mind between bad and good guys on my shoulders... on one side the bad guy, ( thats you Michael) is saying the entire climate change thing can not be proven, not by science, or intellect's much smarter than you or i...and that sometimes we just have to lean on someone's opinion "you call it logic"... And at one point of time someone once said the earth was flat, Unproven of course and was based on nothing more than their logic or best guess....Sorry for puking up my ridiculous theory once again, but i think they are very comparable. mine is ridiculous and yours is to be taken as gospel just cause....thats the new thing today...just believe.... I agree humans are causing climate change...."if" there was such a thing...who else could it be really....we are poisoning, and destroying this planet in every way possible thats a fact proven by science and smart people...is this damage effecting the climate, nobody knows or nobody can prove that at the moment... The whole climate change has driven many on this planet to be hysterical...I'm not one of them...with the extremists of climate change driving people away from even entertaining the thought that climate change may be real.... We have poured bils upon bils into a issue that has not been even proven to exist that is not good fiscal management....even the major car companies are slowing down production or stopping production of electrical vehicles...and our liberals have poured their hearts and minds into that project...leaving us a huge bill and nothing to show for it... Climate change was invented by the rich to force us into thinking our future depends on spending trillions of dollars to help them become richer...

I learned a lot about the NDP when Bob Rae was running Ontario. After the NDP won a majority, I was curious about how they were going to perform. I'll never forget my coworker going on a rant about how we have to watch out for these 'effing' socialists. He was 100% right and after experiencing an NDP government for the first time, I've had an intense dislike for that party ever since.

Don't know but Serena herself says she would get destroyed in a match with a ranked male player.

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I read the actual name for that part of the routine in rehearsals was "The Last Supper on The Seine", so it's interesting how people are trying to defend it as some kind of Greek Bacchus thing now.

nope.

Right, that was that thing that you don't care about at all but keep taking the time to post about as if you cared about it Anyway go make one, there's tonnes of free meme generators that are simple to use, post it here and we'll rate it. Maybe it'll catch on.

I see lots of conservatives trying to be irate about this. But isn't the albaiban boxer in question literally a woman? Granted not a particularly feminine woman, but from what I've read not a transgender person as many people are claiming.

Except for right wingers who have a natural aversion to thinking and a strong affinity to simplistic binarism. LMAO

This comes up every Olympic cycle, and there is usually a lot of misinformation to go with the misplaced outrage. I wont' pretend to know the medical situation of the specific athletes in question, but regarding the OP, people with Morris syndrome can't become pregnant. They don't have the parts. But they also don't have usable testosterone. Androgen insensitivity is core of the mutation to begin with. If they were able to use testosterone they would have developed as males in utero. In fact, typical women have far more usable testosterone. So testosterone doesn't really seem to be the issue at all. IIRC, there was a large study of elite athletes connected to this topic a few years back and, surprisingly, testosterone didn't seem to have any direct correlation with elite athletic ability. A lot of the male athletes had abnormally low testosterone and a some of the women had high testosterone. But, women with androgen insensitivity (and indeed, they have been women all their lives) are overrepresented in elite athletics, so there is seemingly some other advantage being conferred, even if it's not testosterone. But in any case, it's not a new phenomenon. Women with and without AIS have been competing as long as there have been women's sports. Some win and some lose. Those with AIS clearly don't have an unbeatable advantage or anything. It's NOT like competing against men or even someone who developed as a male and then transitioned. What I find interesting about this topic is that it forces people to come face-to-face with the reality of a gender spectrum. There's a lot of chemistry going on in our bodies that makes us who we are, and a huge spectrum across most of it, much of which we don't entirely understand. I know people are, by nature, reductive. We like simple, binary situations that don't make us think too much. But every time this topic comes up it rather forces the issue. Thinking must occur. And in that thinking process people are more inclined to make room in the world, society and sport for our fellow humans.

Not at the same level as men. In fact, women have very low levels compared to men: Testosterone Levels in Men vs. Women Normal testosterone levels are usually described as: 300–1,000 ng/dL for men So, yes, a test would be a valid way to determine if a woman has a comparative, biological advantage due to a genetic abnormality.

I realize this is slightly off topic, but Winnipeg destroyed BC Lions 25-0 in CFL Football yesterday

You mean like Kamachamelion. Harris.

Most armed nation in the entire world by a long shot, and you would have to believe that they intended to overthrow the government and not a single one of them brought a gun

Oh how you wish it was so. You need your boogeyman.

Once again, he is not concerned what ethnicity she is. He is saying she uses it to play politics. You may think he is incorrect. But it is not bigoted.

Your lies do. And you do that frequently.

There is nothing racist about accusing someone of faking an accent. You can believe that someone is doing that without believing one race to be superior to another. And the accent sounds "put on". That's because it is. She is just not that good at it.

In a move that was previously unimaginable in the United States, Trump tried to overthrow democracy and seize power in a coup attempt. Literally. That's not an imaginary monster. It's a very the real monster. And what's scary about it is that a huge chunk of America is apparently willing to go along with such behavior. You'll stand for the national anthem with your hands on your hearts. You'll sing the words. You'll salute the flag and recite the pledge of allegiance. You'll praise the heros who died to win and preserve our freedom. And you'll do it all lying through phony grins, because the truth is that you care so little about this country that you'll line up to support a man who has already tried once to end the American experiment.

The overnight increase had nothing to do with taxes, other than GST. It was oil companies that decided to eliminate refineries in BC, not government. Half of the original Trans Mountain capacity ( about 150,000 barrels a day) goes to refineries in Washington. There will be no new refineries in BC for couple of reasons. A: The environmental movement and government will make it impossible to build them. B: Oil companies are not going to spend billions on new refineries just so they can get less money for their product. Restricting supply means higher prices and more profit for them.

Well said. This whole fearmongering thing is so 2016. "He's going to be a tyrant." "He wasn't the last time he was in power". "Yeah but that's all we got so we're going to go with it even though it didn't work last time either". So lame.

Kamala Harris attended and graduated from historically black Howard University. So she’s “identified” as being black since at least age 18. She can be black and Indian, and female. Being one does not mean she is not the other. Kamala was the first black AG of California, and the first Indian AG of California. Jerry Brown’s sister was the first female AG of California. You and Trump are racists.

Oh please. The moment anyone on the right says or does something to mock your sacred religion of the LGBTQ you guys will be crying.