OligarchOpoly

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey No disrespect, but you're clearly terrible at applying evidence based practices. You have jumped to conclusions regularly without asking questions or gathering information on me. Do you act this way with your patients too?

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey :LOL: So you're claiming an expertise, because it starts at primary care?

Unsurprisingly, the anti-trans trolls in the comments are absolutely demolishing their straw person arguments about trans history, psychology, and science so they don’t have to confront what the experts actually have to say.

@chrishume_ @CalebChamberla6 My premise was driving into WHY people want one, that group splits into "those who want shoes" and "those who want Nikes" Commoditization comes for us all, which means we either have to white label, or we need to brand.

@OligarchOpoly @CalebChamberla6 Not talking about direct knock-offs like as in a Nike sneaker that isn't make by Nike I think someone wanting a wallet and wants to buy a metal one they would come across Ridge and others like Groove or Titan X (in a brief search) It's direct competition, same market.

Agreed. Look, we all want to bring manufacturing home. But it's beyond absurd to expect business owners to commit supply chain suicide by paying 3x (or more) for worse product made in the US. The moment you do that, someone else will take advantage of cheaper prices to knock off the product and put you out of business. We don't have to like it, but it's true. Criticizing Sean for putting money toward domestic manufacturing is silly. "Why don't you put yourself out of business, Sean?" For my part, I'm doing my best to give US manufacturing a competitive edge by making sheet metal fast, economical, and accessible here. But mass consumer products in particular are constrained by tough realities.

@CalebChamberla6 @chrishume_ The people who buy knock-offs aren't the people who buy the real thing. They are different markets and have to be treated as such. IMO: We get SO focused on low price, we forget that sales/distribution is about building demand in a specific customer base.

@chrishume_ I'm with you, but I think we are a minority. Most people don't care at all. A Ridge knock-off made in China is less of a problem when Ridge is also made in China.

@carynannharlos It seems if you can't make it pallatable to the masses (ie: through grooming and dress restrictions to conform to their existing expectations), it may as well not exist. What we do about this, I don't know.

@carynannharlos I've seen it in SO many communities and philosophies, now and in history. It seems to be a fundamental aspect of our societies. People who want to take power, will corrupt a good idea just so they can be the leader of it.

There have been communities in which facial hair is unprofessional. Maybe there needs to be a rule. Won’t you think of the children, errr, new members! Babydoll, if a new member can’t handle unconventional dress I seriously doubt their compatibility with the Libertarian Party and Liberty.

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey You seem to be taking an absolutist view on the administration of care. Gender care is a speciality, a branch of endocrinology. It's not a broken bone or a sinus infection.

@TaylorPetrey @OligarchOpoly Calling it a ‘heuristic’ doesn’t escape presentism, it names it. Retroactively recruiting ancient roles for a modern political project is dishonest scholarship. And it carries zero clinical weight for justifying irreversible interventions on minors regardless.

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey You keep reducing the argument to abusdity, then claiming you won. C's get degrees, right?

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey No serious care provider rubber stamps ANYTHING just because it's the "prescribed treatment". They analyize, understand, and discuss the issue, benefits, and drawbacks. Is this the first time YOU have encountered logic?

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey I do this because my friends who do this work professionally, are tired of having this conversation with "professionals" like you SO far out of their field so as to be called malpractice.

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey Saying "I say this respectfully", then making a backhanded insult. Is not respectful.

@CommishSmith We both know the state has the right to do whatever enough people can make happen. Laws are just the written record of it, for disambiguation. "Incredibly benefits society" - The position against citizens united is that it's incredibly HURTS society.

Agreed. Just like a state has a right to condition the defenses of contributory negligence and assumption of risk--shields from personal responsibility--on the surrender of 1st Amendment rights. Corporations don't have limited liability to shield people from personal responsibility--we provide limited liability because it is a legal rule that incredibly benefits society, including (perhaps especially) consumers.

If you think corporations are creations of the state, go to your state corporations division (or SecState or whatever agency handles registrations) and ask to see where they create the corporations.

@CommishSmith You'd think someone who worked at the FEC would understand the difference. But I'm old enough to understand that job is just a "I'm friends with someone, and they wanted me to be employed here" role.

@OligarchOpoly Ah, gotcha. So one person can protest ICE, but not two people acting together. Sounds like a good rule. Simpler.

@CommishSmith That's an adorable whataboutism <3

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey There are a few HIGHLY UNETHICAL cases of people attempting to "change" the gender of a person, to disasterous effect on the individual. It seems like the only evidence you will accept to agree we should let doctors and patients figure it out on an individual basis, is that kind

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey How can a study, about the sense of self, EVER be double blind? It's an impossible standard.

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey What you're interpreting as me "moving the goalposts" is me using the same tactics you used at the start. My original claim was that no anti-trans evidence would hold up to the same tactics and standards. So far, I seem to be sticking to that pretty well.

@xyathon @TaylorPetrey My goalpost was that you're holding pro-trans evidence to a different standard than anti-trans evidence. What pro-trans studies have you read that cause you to believe it's wrong? Or are you limiting to just a few papers that already reinforce your belief?

@CommishSmith As individuals, not the entity.

@OligarchOpoly And since they are a “bunch of people,” they get free speech.