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  • Evkob@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWhelp
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    29 days ago

    I live in Canada, so I’m obviously biased in the sense that we’re one of the countries most affected by US politics, what with them being our largest trade partner and having a massive land border with them.

    That being said, are you unaware of the global rise in right-wing extremism and fascism following the 2016 election? The US is the richest country in the world, with the largest military, and they also have a tremendous amount of soft power (at least in English-speaking countries) through their cultural influence in media exports.

    I don’t understand what you gain by pretending the US isn’t a massive global power with huge influence over international relations.



  • Care to share sources for any of these claims?

    I assume by “the trans athlete in swimming” you’re referring to Lia Thomas. Here’s an excerpt from her Wikipedia page:

    In March 2022, Thomas became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in any sport after winning the women’s 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:33.24; Olympic silver medalist Emma Weyant was second with a time 1.75 seconds behind Thomas.

    1.75 seconds is hardly “30 seconds” as you claim. Note that this is the only event she won, no one seems to care that she also placed last in the 100 freestyle event, or that even in the event that she won she was over 9 seconds slower than the women’s record for 500 yard-freestyle.

    As for the MMA fighter, after a quick search I’ll assume you’re talking about Fallon Fox? It’s true she did injure one of her opponents, Tamikka Brents. I don’t know much about MMA, but seeing as it’s a sport where people punch and kick each other violently, I’d assume injuries happen.

    Let’s assume she did have an advantage as a result of going through male puberty as a teen. Where do we draw the line in regulating biological advantage in sports?

    Caster Semenya, a runner who was assigned female at birth and has lived her entire life as a woman, has higher levels of testosterone than the average cis woman. Should she be banned from competing?

    Michael Phelps, a cis man with many Olympic medals in swimming, has an unusually large wingspan, double-jointed ankles, and produces around half the lactic acid of an average person, all of which gives him a biological advantage. Should we rescind his medals?

    Why is “unfair biological advantage” in sports only brought up in the case of trans women (or in the case of Caster Selenga, gender non-conforming women who are mistakenly assumed to be trans?)





  • Evkob@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat word or term annonys you?
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    1 month ago

    I work as a barista and get much too annoyed by people ordering a “regular coffee”.

    Like I know that 99.999% of the time they mean a drip/filter coffee (excluding that one lady that one time who was surprised I didn’t parse “regular coffee” as a latte), but like can you just say drip coffee? Or even simply “coffee”!

    I honestly don’t even know why it annoys me this much.








  • I’m glad David Coon kept his seat

    Same, he and Megan Mitton in Tantramar are excellent MLAs and we sorely need voices other than Lib or PC in the legislature.

    I’m sad for Green candidate Kevin Arseneau who lost his seat in Kent North, he was a very dynamic speaker in Fredericton.

    I hope the remaining Green caucus pushes hard for electoral reform; the Lib majority tonight was won more off of Higg’s failures than by the actual Liberal platform. As always in NB elections, we voted a government out rather than voting one in. I wish that would change, but it won’t as long as we have first-past-the-post.