• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    Says can’t trust experts because they are clouded by ideology and bribed by industry quotes an judicial expert who’s entire job is to inject right wing ideology into the judicial branch while being motivated by bribes.

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    What a pos. nobody is “pushing” these medicines on kids. it’s ultimately the kid’s decision about whether they want these medications or not and I’m not aware of any cases to the contrary. also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental? how do you expect people to trust you when you lie so blatantly? glad he got banned.

    Happy Pride Month ❤️

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      also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental?

      Honest answer: the drugs are being used off-label. It’s not even experimental, it’s basically a wildcat way of using them. An experiment would involve control groups and a double-blind trial, among other things.

      I’m saying this because this is what rightoids are saying as criticism and you need to be able to counter that with facts. Right now, there just isn’t enough information and that’s what they’re capitalizing on.

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        there just isn’t enough information and that’s what they’re capitalizing on.

        40 years of using hormone blockers for precocious puberty. “Not enough info.” Fuck the whole way off.

        double-blind trial

        No. The data is fine. It doesn’t need to be perfect.

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          This is the exact opposite of what the reports out of the UK, Netherlands, Sweden, etc. are saying. They’re all very seriously restricting their youth transitioning clinics because the quality of the available data is so poor it cannot be relied on. Beyond the replicability crisis, there are ideological actors on both sides making absolutely junk studies.

          Hence the need for proper experimental data.

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          I want the strongest possible set of information for this and any other question so we can make informed decisions. Right now there are more questions than answers.

          It’s just like intelligent design and the “god of the gaps” arguments, where the space God/gods could have done their work slowly shrinks as our understanding of the world around us improves. I have no clue if we’ll ever close all the gaps, but every time intelligent design takes a hit, more people jump ship.

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    I still can’t believe that a deranged asshole like him is legally allowed to be VP of a nuclear power

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    Stay classy, MAGA. You don’t give two shits about your country, you actually did steal an election, and the backwash is coming.

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    Imagine thinking that one Clarence Thomas is less corrupt than thousands of doctors.

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      Coming from Vance, I like how the logic underlying the statements presumes a profit motive undermines the result.

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    Make a new account, immediately start spewing unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, get banned

    I gotta say, I am liking blue sky so far

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    The biggest delusion in modern society is thinking that a Twitter-like social media network is “the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis”.

    I keep hearing the media repeat this bullshit. Twitter is not and never was the “public square”. It’s a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.

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      Makes me wonder if the actual public squares, sans idealization, were also a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.

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      Exactly. Why would they give patients long out of patent meds that aren’t even habit forming for this? Nah, if you want to make money with medicine you gotta go the Sackler route. Every trans person I know’s HRT brand of choice is “generic please”

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        Not only that, but targeting the ~20% of the population that’s post-menopausal cis women with all the benefits of HRT would be a WAY bigger market than the 1-5% of the population that might be trans. If it was about making money on HRT, they’re certainly not going for a very large market.

        Not only that, but wouldn’t Big Pharma™ be lobbying heavily against all the anti-trans healthcare bills? Seems like they’re doing a pretty awful job of maintaining their market.

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    And this is the point where he playbooks “i was just asking questions i was just being reasonable why are you so mean unreasonable leftist echo chamber etcetc”

    Which only works when people let it. A swift “you started ranting crazy bullshit” is what is needed here.

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    Apparently, they reinstated it saying they just wanted to confirm it was really him before fully activating it.

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    "a screenshot from clearsky showing jd vance's account as the most blocked in 24 hours on bluesky"

    it’s going well.

    also lol’ing at the fact that he’s jd-vance-1 because jd-vance was taken by a parody account which has a big banner reading “I did not fuck a couch”.

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    be me

    young

    want to have long hair

    such a thing is not allowed because i cannot consent to it

    also my opinion is probably bought by big shampoo