They don’t care about trans people and they never will. They use it as a distraction topic and nothing else. There is zero point in engaging in that debate with anyone who identifies as a Republican.

If voting didn’t work they wouldn’t try this hard to stop you from doing it

I watched a few at someone else’s place and it didn’t get much better. It felt like the whole show existed just to get Nic Cage using a 1920s detective accent. To be fair, that was pretty funny, but it’s also supremely distracting from the plot.

Come over here big boy and I’ll find you a handy

I have no idea if this is true but it’s inconsequential so I’m going to choose to believe it.

Sure, but if the law doesn’t stop them then somebody else is going to have to anyway.

The longer it takes for the justice system to do anything useful the more it feels like that’s exactly what we need.

Flash floods are terrifying even with easy access to high ground. I can’t imagine experiencing one in a place like the bottom of the grand canyon.

Platner is better than Collins. How much better is certainly up for debate but saying stuff like you just did makes it sound like you prefer Collins. Even if you don’t that’s the outcome you’re going to get by pushing Platner out.

It was until it became clear that you either can’t or won’t comprehend the obvious fact that you can tell some people are trans. What your reasoning for that is doesn’t matter. I’m no longer interested in debating self evident statements with you.

You’re either being intentionally obtuse or are actually just dumb. Either way I’ve spent more time explaining this simple concept to you than it should take so I’m done with this. Feel free to call me transphobic since that’s clearly the only answer you were ever going to accept

I care about it a lot. What difference does that make?

No

You’re crossing wires a bit here. The first one doesn’t matter too much but it’s that I never actually said this person looks trans. Someone else did and I confirmed that it is a thing, although not necessarily in this particular case.

The main confusion seems to be that you don’t think trans people can have distinctive features brought on by surgery or hormone therapy. Some of them definitely do. There are other kinds of tells that apply to people who get other types of work done. MAGA face is one example. Different groups of people tend to get different types of work done and groups of similar people tend to have similar work done. It’s certainly not universal but it’s enough to notice a pattern with specific types of people. This applies to all groups of people who get work done, but it does present differently for each group.

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that surgery oftentimes leaves clues that it was performed or that lots of trans people have had surgery. Those are just two facts about the world that have nothing to do with any kind of moral judgement on trans people.

The statement you quoted is the most general statement I made. It was worded that way precisely because this phenomenon is not exclusive to trans people. That’s just how the topic came up.

So no, it makes no difference that this guy isn’t trans because that’s only one subset of visible characteristics brought on by body modification that we’re talking about. There are many other kinds, some of which definitely apply to him.

You are welcome to your own interpretation of the world but I think most people would agree that there is a common set of characteristics associated with any kind of surgical or hormonal body modification. You are right when you say that some trans people exhibit those characteristics more than others but they definitely exist. You don’t have to ignore that reality to avoid being bigoted towards trans people.

That may be true but it doesn’t impact whether or not such a “look” exists. The intent of the person pointing something out is not relevant to the existence of the thing being described.

Just so happens I have some myself. It is air pressure based.

It’s pretty good stuff. Plant based, easy to apply, higher smoke point than olive oil.

Doesn’t mean it’s not a thing