@Spintendo what exactly about this whole case did Snopes get wrong give me all the details. And don't tell me to look on Google. Since you know what Snopes did to get this wrong only you can describe what those details are
Posts made by Spintendo
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RE: "Bonus Hole"
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RE: "Bonus Hole"
@raphjd in which court were those cases? Federal court, like where Trump is being prosecuted or state court like where Trump is also being prosecuted. I want to hear your opinions on those court cases since you value facebook's court cases so much
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RE: "Bonus Hole"
@raphjd so you admit to posting misinformation that's been previously debunked by Snopes. We're finally making progress here I see
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RE: "Bonus Hole"
@raphjd A single charity's glossary for medical professionals doing cervical screenings is being misinterpreted as a recommendation for all health professionals to change their methods.
When one examines the nature of the document from which the rumor originated, it appears to serve as an educational resource, not a policy mandate or proposal.
Nobody was recommending that the word vagina not be used in all medical settings. Instead, the charity — in concert with a large LGBTQ+ rights group in England — listed the terms "bonus hole" and "front hole" as wording suggestions for medical staff specifically doing screenings of trans women should they feel that would be appropriate. The document did not recommend, or "urge," providers to use the words in all appointments, with all patients.
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RE: NATO Says It Will Invite Ukraine to Join When ‘Conditions Are Met’
@blablarg18 Retranslation from your misinterpretation: There first has to be a formal application in order for there to be a rejection. Since Ukraine has submitted no such application, there was no rejection. Ukraine formerly entering NATO is a bus that has already left the station. Their arrival at that destination is only a matter of time.
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Turkey Drops Opposition to Sweden's Admission to NATO
While Europe and the United States were trying to isolate Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey referred to Russia’s president as “my friend.” While NATO leaders worked to enlarge the alliance, Erdogan held up the process by seeking concessions for his nation.
Then on Monday, Erdogan suddenly flipped after more than a year of being treated as an in-house spoiler by Western allies. He dropped his objections to Sweden joining the alliance and allowed a NATO summit to convene on Tuesday with a new sense of strength and unity.
Erdogan has yet to comment publicly on his decision, much less explain his change of heart, but he appears to have concluded that he had little more to gain from continuing to block Sweden — and that he could potentially benefit more from mending his sour relationships with the United States and other NATO allies.
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NATO Says It Will Invite Ukraine to Join When ‘Conditions Are Met’
NATO leaders agreed in a joint statement to offer Ukraine an invitation to join, but remained vague on how and when, wording that essentially marked a victory for Biden, who said before the summit that Ukraine was not ready to be a member.
The alliance’s leaders, meeting at a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, had struggled to agree on language about how to describe a timeline and conditions for what everyone agrees will be Ukraine’s eventual membership in NATO.
The leaders of the 31 member states said in their communiqué that Ukraine would receive an invitation “when allies agree and conditions are met,” and that there would be regular reviews of the country’s progress toward meeting NATO standards on democracy and military integration.
Zelensky was attending a dinner on Tuesday evening with leaders of NATO countries, according to Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general, and is to attend the inaugural meeting on Wednesday of the NATO Ukraine Council, a new group that will give Ukraine an equal voice on key issues alongside full member states. Biden is planning to meet with Zelensky on Wednesday.
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The GOP Backed Him on Hunter Biden Claims. Now, He's Been Indicted
The co-director of a Maryland-based research group who claims to have damaging information about Hunter Biden has been charged with arms trafficking, sanctions violations and acting as an unregistered agent for China, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Monday.
In an eight-count indictment, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York accused Gal Luft, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, of violating the Arms Export Control Act and the Foreign Agents Registration Act in brokering arms deals between Chinese companies, Iran and countries in the Middle East.
Mr. Luft, promoted by some congressional Republicans as a keystone witness in their efforts to show corruption by the Biden family, is a fugitive from justice. He was detained by law enforcement officials in Cyprus in February in connection with the indictment, but fled after being freed on bond while awaiting extradition. If convicted, he faces up to 100 years in prison.
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RE: Study: Fully vaxxed? you have higher covid risk
"I do not know anything about Mr. Charles Keating's work or his business or the matters you are dealing with. I only know that he has always been kind and generous to God's poor and always ready to help whenever there was a need. It is for this reason that I do not want to forget him now while he and his family are suffering. Jesus has told us Whatever you do to the least of my brethren YOU DID IT TO ME.' —
—Mother Teresa, in a letter to the judge overseeing the prosecution of Charles Keating, indicted for savings and loan faud.
Reply, from the prosecutor in that trial:
"Mr. Keating was convicted of defrauding 17 individuals of more than $900,000. These 17 persons were representative of 17,000 individuals from whom Mr. Keating stole $252,000,000. The victims of Mr. Keating's fraud come from a wide spectrum of society. Some were wealthy and well-educated. Most were people of modest means and unfamiliar with high finance. One was, indeed, a poor carpenter who did not speak English and had his life savings stolen by Mr. Keating's fraud. The biblical slogan of your organization is As long as you did it to one of these My least brethren, you did it to Me'. The least of the brethren are among those whom Mr. Keating fleeced without flinching. As you well know, divine forgiveness is available to all, but forgiveness must be preceded by admission of sin. Not only has Mr. Keating failed to admit his sins and his crimes, he persists in self-righteously blaming others for his own misdeeds. You urged the Judge to look into his heart -- as he sentences Charles Keating -- and do what Jesus would do. I submit the same challenge to you. Ask yourself what Jesus would do if he were given the fruits of a crime; what Jesus would do if he were in possession of money that had been stolen; what Jesus would do if he were being exploited by a thief to ease his conscience? I submit that Jesus would promptly and unhesitatingly return the stolen property to its rightful owners. You should do the same. You have been given money by Mr. Keating that he has been convicted of stealing by fraud. Do not permit him the indulgence' he desires. Do not keep the money. Return it to those who worked for it and earned it! If you contact me I will put you in direct contact with the rightful owners of the property now in your possession."
—The prosecutor never got a reply.
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RE: USA stops its official racism in uni admissions, so Obamas tweet about "oppression" - from a luxury yacht
@blablarg18 said
Did you know Joy Reid was flaming homophobe, back in 2000s?
She was also promoting that documentary Loose Change back then. You and her could have shared a tub of popcorn back in the day, talking for hours and hours about the stolen gold and the Jewish people setting those bombs the night before and then calling in sick to work the next day. What fun!
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RE: France enriched by diversity, while Poland suffocates
@blablarg18 I'm wondering, if you had found yourself being born and raised in Cote d'Ivoire, and because of your ability to work hard and make some money you started to better yourself would you stay in Cote d'Ivoire or would you figure "I want to move to Paris... I think I'd have a good chance there. They speak the same language, good place for opportunities, i'll make a go of it". Or would you tell yourself "no, this is where I belong... here in Cote d'Ivoire. I shouldn't move to France I should stay here where I belong." Tell me ....which would you choose ....would you try and make it in Paris or would you be a chicken and stay in Cote d'Ivoire with all the rest of your friends and family. I would say friends, but they're all going to Paris too without you. What would you do?
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RE: Report: FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old With “Brain Development Issues” to Become a Terrorist
@blablarg18 I'm still waiting to hear what evils they found on the laptop. So far, crickets
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RE: Report: FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old With “Brain Development Issues” to Become a Terrorist
@blablarg18 Actually I don't care for Greenwald as a person at all. He's a lawyer who ultimately identifies more with higher ups, rather than people lower than him -- unless he's dating them, and then it would definitely be lower (in age). Now that he's a widower he's going to have to find some new blood. That being said, I'd still consider his publication the Intercept to be trustworthy.
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RE: "Flab Pride" guys show junk to kids
@blablarg18 said in
Your blathering about cheerleaders & straight hypocrisy, while accurate on its own terms, is beside the point.
"Accurate on its own terms", which is to say, It's squarely on point.
Where is all the campaigning against sexual displays by the so called "straight society"?
For you to leave them off the hook whilst highlighting gay society and their displays seems pretty lopsided.
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RE: Nike is celebrating Pride Month by partnering up with a doctor who performs mastectomies on adolescent girls
@raphjd said
Let them live as the sex they claim to be until they are a legal adult
So says the man safely ensconced in his nature given gender appropriate body. Anyone not that privileged... screw em, right?
@raphjd said
You want to have your cake and eat it too.
Actually what you meant to say was I want to "eat my cake and have it, too".
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RE: Nike is celebrating Pride Month by partnering up with a doctor who performs mastectomies on adolescent girls
@raphjd those 5% of change their minds should not want us to stop transcare .....they should want us to make transcare better.... Better at identifying those who are more prone to change their minds, better at identifying the ones who aren't really sure.
Wouldn't that approach be beneficial for BOTH the 5% and the 95%
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RE: Nike is celebrating Pride Month by partnering up with a doctor who performs mastectomies on adolescent girls
@raphjd dealing with a person's mental health requires a level of a dynamism (AKA skirting age requirements when the benefits outweigh the detriments). That dynamism is vacant in your cookie cutter approach to age limits.
I'm not saying cookie cutters are bad... they work wonderfully for a whole lot of things.
There are very few things in society that should broach our standardized cookie cutter age limits that we have in place for things like voting drinking driving etc. trans care is one of them when it's done in capable hands, not the ones of the horror stories that you've heard about ...people who change their minds, they probably weren't in capable hands, unfortunately for them.
Just like people who die in plane crashes ....you would think gosh those planes crashing, that really should have been fixed by now..... yet they still crash... but each one makes us safer.
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RE: Nike is celebrating Pride Month by partnering up with a doctor who performs mastectomies on adolescent girls
@raphjd imagine if you were a man trapped inside a woman's body. Think about the level of psychic depression that would bring upon you.
Would a tattoo help you change your outlook? Would being a prostitute help you change your outlook?
Probably not because neither of those behaviors are ones that really help to counter a deep seated depression arising from being trapped inside a body that you don't feel is yours.
Getting a tattoo and being a prostitute are respectively, frivolous and potentially infectious. Maybe that's why there's age limit to those things (for prostitution, at least in Nevada... I don't believe there's an "age limit" anywhere else for that). The benefits to transitioning care for someone who feels trapped in their body is enormous and easily justifies the age restrictions already in place
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RE: Girl Sues Hospital for Removing Her Breasts at Age 13
@blablarg18 I can see the excitement in your eyes just hoping and praying that more and more of these 'thought-they-were-trans-but ended-up-changing-their-minds' type of people, because without them it's just you yelling at some nonbinary child receiving tablets from a pharmacy.
Unfortunately for you the numbers are pretty static at about 1 to 5%. I know you wish there would be a larger number because that would make your argument much more smoother but unfortunately 1-5% is where it's been for the past 20 years. And as social workers get better at filtering out the "changed minds" that number can only go lower
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RE: Nike is celebrating Pride Month by partnering up with a doctor who performs mastectomies on adolescent girls
@raphjd said
If a serial rapist can't go to jail because he wasn't 25 when he was finally caught, then the same standard needs to be applied to sex changes.
But by your own logic you're not applying that same standard
So the serial rapist wouldn't be punished for the criminal actions they wanted to take while under 25, so why are the 95% of likely successful transitions being punished for the criminal actions they want to take (If transitions were banned?)