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Alexthegreat



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My girl is a Staffordshire Terrier/Husky mix.

I will not deny that they have a certain reputation and it was definitely earned through violence.
It just blows my mind personally when the “all pit bulls are bad” arguments are made because of my personal experience. If we eliminated pitbulls, we’d be getting rid of all the good ones too and that would just be shitty.
I don’t have a problem agreeing to disagree though.
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: Alexthegreat] 1
#28533609 - 11/07/23 10:15 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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I’ve met some really sweet pitbulls.
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stareatclouds
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TheStallionMang said: This happened near me yesterday. I can’t link the Facebook discussion I heard about because I’m not on there but most comments were from pit bull sympathizers basically saying “let’s not jump to conclusions”
Pit bull attacks 3, kills one
Yep. Just another day. I am okay with "getting rid of the good pit bulls" to not have this happen. Holy shit, just get another dog (one that won't murder people for no reason). Christ.
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stareatclouds said: Nobody is born in the wrong body
i agree with the pitbull part. how do you feel about hermaphrodites?
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stareatclouds said: it is scientifically impossible
can you explain this to me?
What part do you need explaining? Intersex people are like .001% of the population and are not at all what is discussed with gender ideology.
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: stareatclouds] 2
#28533668 - 11/08/23 12:22 AM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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stareatclouds said: Gender ideology is completely fucking terrible and is 100% harming our children. Nobody is born in the wrong body, it is scientifically impossible, and we will look back on this time in total horror like with lobotomies. The studies that purport gender-affirming care being responsible for plummeting suicide rates are all horseshit, some of which completely made up their results, which should be criminal. We are butchering healthy children and the train is JUST leaving the station on that front. With us teaching kindergarteners they can be any gender, possibly switched, they'll inadvertently confuse that with sex (which most people still use interchangeably anyway); tons of new "trans-kids" will continue being allowed to ruin their bodies. 80%+ of gender-stressed prepubescent children wind up being fine with their bodies post-puberty; most are just gay. We are sterilizing gay and autistic children after brainwashing them into thinking society hates them for being different. It's massively fucked up.
Cool buzzword.
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The concept of gender ideology does not have a coherent definition and covers a variety of issues; for this reason, it has been described by academics Stefanie Mayer and Birgit Sauer as an "empty signifier" and by Agnieszka Graff as a catch-all term "for all that conservative Catholics despise". The term gender ideology and related terms gender theory and genderism, used interchangeably, are not equivalent to the academic discipline of gender studies, within which significant controversies and disagreements exist. Anti-gender proponents are often unaware of these debates and disagreements.
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stareatclouds said: What part do you need explaining? Intersex people are like .001% of the population and are not at all what is discussed with gender ideology.
Your % doesn't track with multiple studies, including genetic testing of statistically significant sample populations. Intersex rates in the human population are typically claimed at 1.7%, but also have published rate estimates (again, based on genetic testing if sample populations) between 1 in 400 (0.25%) and 1 in 1000 (0.1%). This is orders of magnitude larger than what you're claiming.
And by insurance claims on medical procedures, a total of 20,341 claims of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgical procedures were claimed for patients under 18 between 2017 and 2021. For that time period, the total number of kids between ages 5 and 18 was at least 65.2 million. That's a maximum incidence rate of 0.03% for all gender-affirming procedures. For purely surgical procedures, the number drops to 835, for a max incidence rate of 0.001%. By your logic, these rates drop into the range of not being relevant to the conversation, by orders of magnitude if you consider the actual rates that you claim to be insignificant enough to exclude from consideration. It makes it difficult to figure out why you would care about this issue at all.
Something to think about
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: stareatclouds] 1
#28533735 - 11/08/23 04:20 AM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Obviously there’d be a small percentage in every population of chihuahuas, poodles, etc that are just genetically more violent, as in the human population.
Do you feel that humans are simply at some unique point on the well adjusted - serial killer spectrum at birth? Environment during upbringing has nothing to do with it?
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#28533921 - 11/08/23 08:09 AM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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I live with and have trained several very sweet "bully breeds". Frankly, my hardest and most dangerous rescue dogs have been more than welcomed by society but abused early in their lives. They do get a bad wrap, and it is unfortunate that they are used for bad things -- but they are certainly not all bad dogs.
Respect for others views. If the owners of said dogs (and this is on the owners) aren't managing them properly, sure, they're beefy as fuck and can do damage -- but so can a golden.
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: xVadisx] 3
#28533929 - 11/08/23 08:18 AM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Since we’re talking about dogs, another pug should never be birthed into this world. We should love and cherish those we have, but their existence is pain and making more is an act of human cruelty. Let the pugs go. They can’t fucking breathe.
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: Smellyhobbit]
#28534002 - 11/08/23 09:00 AM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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This is another perfect example of what I was talking about. A pug bread with a different breed. To have a slightly longer snout. Is a beautiful animal. With very few of those health defects. Look at this beauty!
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: mandrax360]
#28534135 - 11/08/23 11:04 AM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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mandrax360 said: Boerboel is a cross between a mastiff and a bulldog.
I live at the edge of heavily subdivided small farms, desert, and mountains comparable in climate to South Africa.
Every animal I keep tends to be unusually muscular and long lived for their breed, but I need something with longer legs to keep up with me.
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I'm not supposed to say the Durban Beach meme...
I go out walking, in clothes for walking, and a group of people is saying they see some kind of bad ass and wonder what is in my bag.
Never fails in warm weather.

A taller and chunky dog for a person of like proportions.
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: spirit_shadow] 3
#28534214 - 11/08/23 12:28 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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UO Unless something particularly amazing just happened. Or unless I am playing the sport. Watching sports is a waste of time.
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GenesisCorrupted said: UO Unless something particularly amazing just happened. Or unless I am playing the sport. Watching sports is a waste of time.
Facts
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: spirit_shadow] 3
#28534292 - 11/08/23 01:31 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Unless you're acquiring food/water, eating food, drinking water, pissing, shitting, breathing, fucking, raising young, or removing yourself from danger...then you're wasting time.
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1940: On Pleasure Island, Pinocchio sees humankind turned to beasts of burden through venal amusement.
1955: Disneyland opens amusement park.
post 2015: Park goers defecate where they stand.
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Jean-Luc Picard said: Unless you're acquiring food/water, eating food, drinking water, pissing, shitting, breathing, fucking, raising young, or removing yourself from danger...then you're wasting time.
I hope this isn’t an unpopular opinion captain.
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GenesisCorrupted said:
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Jean-Luc Picard said: Unless you're acquiring food/water, eating food, drinking water, pissing, shitting, breathing, fucking, raising young, or removing yourself from danger...then you're wasting time.
I hope this isn’t an unpopular opinion captain.
It probably is for people who can't accept that most activities that people enjoy are technically wastes of time and energy
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If we bred pitbull/pug hybrids they would be too short of breath to be angy
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#28534539 - 11/08/23 04:59 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Much easier to stomp out, too.
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: Nonagon]
#28535697 - 11/09/23 01:05 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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Nonagon said: If we bred pitbull/pug hybrids they would be too short of breath to be angy
Mine are a cross between overfed and over exercised.
I played with an American Bulldog until it got thoroughly tired.
Also a yappy terrier.
They get hungry and grow muscles.
The vets always say they have never seen one like that, even when I take a cat.

The laying hens and Bernie the drugs eating squirrel know who is their best feeder and outcompete everyone else.
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Re: The official unpopular opinion thread [Re: durian_2008]
#28535801 - 11/09/23 02:33 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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Treating animals excellently. Produces excellent animals.
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stareatclouds
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Jean-Luc Picard said:
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stareatclouds said: Gender ideology is completely fucking terrible and is 100% harming our children. Nobody is born in the wrong body, it is scientifically impossible, and we will look back on this time in total horror like with lobotomies. The studies that purport gender-affirming care being responsible for plummeting suicide rates are all horseshit, some of which completely made up their results, which should be criminal. We are butchering healthy children and the train is JUST leaving the station on that front. With us teaching kindergarteners they can be any gender, possibly switched, they'll inadvertently confuse that with sex (which most people still use interchangeably anyway); tons of new "trans-kids" will continue being allowed to ruin their bodies. 80%+ of gender-stressed prepubescent children wind up being fine with their bodies post-puberty; most are just gay. We are sterilizing gay and autistic children after brainwashing them into thinking society hates them for being different. It's massively fucked up.
Cool buzzword.
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The concept of gender ideology does not have a coherent definition and covers a variety of issues; for this reason, it has been described by academics Stefanie Mayer and Birgit Sauer as an "empty signifier" and by Agnieszka Graff as a catch-all term "for all that conservative Catholics despise". The term gender ideology and related terms gender theory and genderism, used interchangeably, are not equivalent to the academic discipline of gender studies, within which significant controversies and disagreements exist. Anti-gender proponents are often unaware of these debates and disagreements.
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stareatclouds said: What part do you need explaining? Intersex people are like .001% of the population and are not at all what is discussed with gender ideology.
Your % doesn't track with multiple studies, including genetic testing of statistically significant sample populations. Intersex rates in the human population are typically claimed at 1.7%, but also have published rate estimates (again, based on genetic testing if sample populations) between 1 in 400 (0.25%) and 1 in 1000 (0.1%). This is orders of magnitude larger than what you're claiming.
And by insurance claims on medical procedures, a total of 20,341 claims of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgical procedures were claimed for patients under 18 between 2017 and 2021. For that time period, the total number of kids between ages 5 and 18 was at least 65.2 million. That's a maximum incidence rate of 0.03% for all gender-affirming procedures. For purely surgical procedures, the number drops to 835, for a max incidence rate of 0.001%. By your logic, these rates drop into the range of not being relevant to the conversation, by orders of magnitude if you consider the actual rates that you claim to be insignificant enough to exclude from consideration. It makes it difficult to figure out why you would care about this issue at all.
Something to think about 
1.7% is claimed by the moron who said there were 5 sexes. She also incorrectly (and probably purposely) added a bunch of conditions that are NOT considered intersex conditions. The real numbers are much, much, much smaller.
I am not saying "numbers are so small they're insignificant" either. I am saying that gender ideology, which isn't being used as a buzzword, is never referring to intersex people like you claim. People like you shoehorn it in where it doesn't fit and use it to discuss the broader issue of gender conveniently replacing sex.
Let me know if you're capable of discussing the salient point I am actually referencing and not diverting the argument into something irrelevant.
Something to think about!
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