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Poll —Should biological men be able to participate in female sports?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by UFLawyer, Aug 16, 2023.

Should biological males be permitted to participate in competitive female sports?

  1. Yes

    3 vote(s)
    3.7%
  2. Yes if they have had hormone therapy

    2 vote(s)
    2.5%
  3. Yes if they have had gender reassignment surgery

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. No

    76 vote(s)
    93.8%
  1. duggers_dad

    duggers_dad GC Hall of Fame

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    I could have sworn Hillary was carping about a stolen election and an illegitimate president. Ah well, memories are short.
     
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    Maybe if Trump had stuck to just carping about the election being stolen he wouldn’t be facing prison time. Ah well, not my problem, that’s for MAGA nation to deal with.
     
  3. UFLawyer

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    stolen?? Who? Someone on this Board thinks Trump won the 2020 election? Granted I only returned to this message board a month or so ago, so maybe I missed it, but I have not seen a single person claim that in any post.
     
  4. okeechobee

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    Not if we can beat China at their own game first......
     
  5. VAg8r1

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    She did complain. She also accepted the results and formally conceded within hours of the media calling the election for Trump. In case you missed it and I posted it several times over the last two and a half years. Haven't heard anything similar from Trump and almost certainly never will.
     
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  6. okeechobee

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    I also stated above that totalitarianism cannot exist without a complicit populace. You need both. That's how a totalitarian system comes about..the people allow it to fester until it becomes something they can no longer control. Then it becomes more of a survival tactic. Look at Nazi Germany. In the beginning, most Germans viewed Hitler as an extremist who looked like a psycho. Then they started believing lies about the Jews and on and on and on.

    That's a big reason a certain contingent is so flagrant about an open border. It'll be easier to manipulate those people and consolidate power. The people go along for the ride, because hey, it's way better here than it was in Nepal and Sudan. Hitler was offering a much nicer Germany (short term) than what Germany had become in the late 1920s and the people eventually went along with whatever he wanted to do. Hitler could not have reached high office without the people electing him to the chancellory in droves.
     
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  7. UFLawyer

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  8. mrhansduck

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    Here's one from about six weeks ago. I suppose it could have been satire with the poster actually mocking those who believe it - but didn't come across that way to me.

    Commie progs posing as white supremacists

    Yeah, well me and 80% of the GOP believe your chicom puppet party stole the election and planted the senile empty suit POS puppet in the white house (we just haven't been able to figure out how the hell they pulled it off). I don't buy that that 80 million ppl (like 20 million more than Barack Obama--yeah...okay!) voted for that half dead buffoon...
     
  9. gatordavisl

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    Good for you. It suggests that you hang out with folks who are better-educated than the average pub voter.
     
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  11. okeechobee

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    Merriam-Webster, lol!! Nailed it! We're glad you can open a dictionary. Is that your depth of knowledge on totalitarianism?
     
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  12. gatordavisl

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    So you doubt the validity of the poll and yet you question the legitimacy of the election results. :emoji_thinking:
     
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  13. rivergator

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    Yes, I know what the word means. And sports organizations setting their own rules about who can compete is not really a hallmark of totalitarianism.
    This is really something you want to argue?
     
  14. VAg8r1

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    While the quote is accurate it was excerpted from a 2019 interview. She was speaking as much hypothetically about Russian interference in a future campaign as she was about the 2016 campaign and her comments regarding the 2016 campaign were based on Mueller's findings. I would suggest that you click on the link below for context although I seriously doubt that you will even bother to do so.
    Hillary Clinton warns 2020 Democratic candidates of 'stolen' election
     
  15. okeechobee

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    I disagree. Sports is not a political subject, one. For one to be "okay" with a biological male competing in a women's sporting event, one has to lie to him or herself and say that it's the same as. Otherwise, what sports governing body would ever allow such a thing to happen? That would be cheating, correct? So they have to lie to themselves first to even get there, which is the broader point. That is the essence of totalitarianism. That is why we should be very alarmed when people start lying to themselves to such a degree that something that is so obviously unfair is sanctioned in a significant sporting event. Eventually, that's going to manifest itself in government, because the same people lying to themselves about a man being a woman are pulling the voting levers.
     
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  16. okeechobee

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    Not with you, because I'd have to spend days slow walking you through it.
     
  17. gatordavisl

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    Wasn't directed at me, but some quick thoughts . . . Claiming the U.S. is the greatest nation is about as tenuous as claiming that our p12 education is the best. It can't be done, largely due to the diverse needs of our citizens. Even our conservative friends might agree that the lack of a homogenous population presents certain challenges. I'd suggest that some of the greatest nations are Earth include Japan, Finland, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland. Netherlands and New Zealand are probably great places to live with high Q of life.
     
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  18. okeechobee

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    I mean, yeah, you're right. We are the great melting pot, which is why we have more social issues and challenges here in America. That said, I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world. I enjoy the diversity of America. Let the Scandinavians have their peaceable ways. They do have some hot ladies though... I can't disagree on that end, but there's way more hot beaches in America than in Scandinavia.
     
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  19. gatordavisl

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    Dictionary = bad . . . :emoji_thinking:

    Ignorance = bliss . . . :emoji_nerd:
     
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  20. okeechobee

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    No disagreement here either...