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@nomebullyyou

From what I heard

Lysander Spooner tried to compete with the government post office resulting in laws prohibiting corporations from being the final delivers of mailed letters but allowing package delivery

These corporations are paid to sort the mail for the United States Postal Service because they are allowed to sort mail but not be the final deliverer

This results in lousy service because you can not say if government or corporation is to blame when both sort your mail

@Djeep

Tire machèt ("pull [the] machete") is a Haitian martial art; a form of fencing with machetes.

The origin of the practice lies in the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, in which rebel slaves, many armed only with the machetes they had used to cut sugarcane, defeated the French colonial army...

It is traditionally practiced in secret.[2] These secret societies inflicted punishments on fallen insiders and external enemies.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_mach%C3%A8t

@Tfmonkey @Gonzo17

39 minute mark

She says that they usually give custody to the violent parent in the family court system

Someone could clip out some things she says about family courts and do a video commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNghoj7m1D8&t=2340s

Video Title
Steven Hassan talks with Bandy X. Lee: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and Censorship of Experts

Channel
Dr. Steven Hassan - Cult Expert

Platform
Youtube

@JohnGritt

I do not know

How is that something that has not been used for thousands of years

How is the book of Revelation in the Bible not stream of consciousness?

@suquili @Will2Power

I just assume that A list celebrities are transgender but they have body doubles of both genders

That explains why some photos of the same celebrity look transgender and others do not look transgender

Some of the photos look like that celebrity could be a man to me

Adeline Virginia Woolf (/wʊlf/;[2] née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

Refute that this woman was the first person to invent this writing technique or style

This seems to me like more trying to give women credit for things that other people did before them

Deus Ex takes place in 2052,[c] as it exists if real-world conspiracy theories turn out to be true.[14] These include speculations regarding black helicopters, vaccinations, and FEMA, as well as Area 51, the ECHELON network, Men in Black, chupacabras (in the form of "greasels" and "karkians" which in game are transgenic creatures created by genetic engineering by a corporation), and grey aliens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex_(video_game)

Video game description

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Wikipedia says
Bacha bāzī ...

refers to a pederasty practice in Afghanistan in which men exploit and enslave adolescent boys for entertainment and/or sexual abuse.

The man exploiting the young boy is called a bacha baz (literally "boy player")...

The practice is reported to continue into the present as of 2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi

For example, Talia Avrahami, a transgender Orthodox woman, follows the opinion of the late Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg, known as the Tzitz Eliezer, who ruled that a trans woman who undergoes gender affirmation surgery is a woman according to Jewish law.

Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/queer-yeshiva-publishes-first-set-of-jewish-legal-opinions-by-and-for-trans-jews/

In her teshuva, she provides several approaches to emulate the complicated counting cycle that tallies the days a woman is considered ritually impure following menstruation. She suggests using a seven- and 11-day cycle originally proposed by Maimonides, the 12th-century scholar and philosopher. De Cordova also suggests that the imposition of a cycle not based in biology means ancient and medieval rabbis had some understanding of womanhood as a social construct.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/queer-yeshiva-publishes-first-set-of-jewish-legal-opinions-by-and-for-trans-jews/

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A ban on conversion therapy by Israeli doctors will help protect gay people from treatments that claim to make them straight, but more work needs to be done with religious groups that support controversial 'cures', activists said on Wednesday.
Members who perform conversion therapy could now be expelled from the Israel Medical Association (IMA), which represents 90 percent of the country's doctors

Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lgbt-health/israeli-doctors-ban-gay-conversion-therapy-as-risks-mental-damage-idUSKCN1P328E/

https://web.archive.org/web/20190110013025/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lgbt-health/israeli-doctors-ban-gay-conversion-therapy-as-risks-mental-damage-idUSKCN1P328E/

Prosecution of sexual abuse allegations in the ultra-Orthodox community has been hampered in the past by the intimidation of witnesses. In this case, Mr. Hynes’s office brought charges against several men for allegedly trying to interfere with the case, through bribery and threats. Then, during the trial, three other men were charged for taking cellphone pictures of the victim, in violation of court rules... supporters of accused abusers have dominated the gallery

https://web.archive.org/web/20121211001344/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/nyregion/hasidic-man-found-guilty-of-sexual-abuse.html

An unlicensed ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor...was convicted...of repeatedly sexually abusing a girl in his care...

Mr. Weberman was convicted on 59 counts, consolidated by a judge from the 88 brought by prosecutors...

“We firmly believe that this jury got an unfairly sanitized version of the facts, and as a result the truth did not come out,” he said. “The struggle to clear an innocent man will continue in full force.”

New York Times

https://web.archive.org/web/20121211001344/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/nyregion/hasidic-man-found-guilty-of-sexual-abuse.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/nyregion/hasidic-man-found-guilty-of-sexual-abuse.html

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