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[Yuwipi Woman]

Ok so this is just funny... not making fun of tall people .. but it made me laugh .. apologies to anyone over 7 feet tall.

It's the second video clip..

Am I the only one who suspects that Barron isn't Trump's kid? Looks nothing like him.

 

[chandlerp]

Melania's bodyguard has entered the chat

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Melania's bodyguard has entered the chat

After doing a search, it appears that I'm not the first to have that idea. There are a couple of suggestions. One of the head of security at Tiffany's. The other is a Romanian basketball player.

 

[breadandcircuse]

As she's an Episcopalian bishop saying pretty much what one would expect an Episcopalian Bishop to say, she's in no real danger. It's a mainstream protestant denomination with a lot of liberal middleclass congregations, before 1776 it was the Church of England. More fool Trump for agreeing to the service in the firt place.

Bishops are not the sort of people who are going to suffer under this administration.

You're very trusting. I don't think anyone who crosses the monster is safe. He will follow the fascist playbook. I know this is used often, but it is very true, and scary. Different words are often quoted, but it is telling that Niemoller was a Nazi to start with, but ended up in a concentration camp, after he became a critic of the Nazis takeover of the Church. We all know the orange one is a fan of Adolf.

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

It is applicable to all of the groups the thing has targeted. I don't think her being a Bishop will have any restraining effect on him.

 

[Yossarian]

Am I the only one who suspects that Barron isn't Trump's kid? Looks nothing like him.

I don't know, he looks a bit like some of these Trump siblings (Trump is the one on the left)

 

[breadandcircuse]

I don't know, he looks a bit like some of these Trump siblings (Trump is the one on the left)

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I think he does look like him, and the other siblings. Jr and Barron are similar chinless wonders. He also has a look of Ivanka.

 

[Funky_monks]

I'm no scientist either but as I understand it we start as female and the switch to male happens later, but genetically there is probably a difference already before it manifests physically.

Its kind of weirder than that because of the (mad) wording they used.

"'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. 'Male' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell."

That fries my brain on so many levels.

Firstly nothing is producing sex cells at the moment of conception. Conception is the moment the sperm and the egg join. It then undergoes division, into firstly, undifferentiated cells. All foetuses develop along female lines until 6 weeks or so, but even then, neither is producing sex cells. And whilst, ultimately, women are born with all the eggs they are going to release over their lives, spermatogenesis does not begin until puberty in males.

So, is everyone female until puberty?

The mind boggles.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Its kind of weirder than that because of the (mad) wording they used.

"'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. 'Male' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell."

That fries my brain on so many levels.

Firstly nothing is producing sex cells at the moment of conception. Conception is the moment the sperm and the egg join. It then undergoes division, into firstly, undifferentiated cells. All foetuses develop along female lines until 6 weeks or so, but even then, neither is producing sex cells. And whilst, ultimately, women are born with all the eggs they are going to release over their lives, spermatogenesis does not begin until puberty in males.

So, is everyone female until puberty?

The mind boggles.

The ideology of 'person' is leading this wording, I think, and very revealing. A zygote as 'a person' already. Among other things, this is anti-abortion-speak.

Even talking about conception as the moment the zygote is created is ideological. Why not the moment the blastocyst, a ball of undifferentiated cells, is accepted into the womb and able to finally start to differentiate and develop? Too woman-centred? Not individualistic enough?

IMO, those who fixate on the moment the zygote forms are also mistaking the instructions for making a thing with the thing itself.

 

[Funky_monks]

The ideology of 'person' is leading this wording, I think, and very revealing. A zygote as 'a person' already. Among other things, this is anti-abortion-speak.

Even talking about conception as the moment the zygote is created is ideological. Why not the moment the blastocyst, a ball of undifferentiated cells, is accepted into the womb and able to finally start to differentiate and develop? Too woman-centred? Not individualistic enough?

IMO, those who fixate on the moment the zygote forms are also mistaking the instructions for making a thing with the thing itself.

I mean, it reads like it should have been written in crayon, so perhaps we are over thinking this somewhat.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Probably, and a lot of this is probably unconscious, but I think those biases are there, and are manifesting themselves in various ways.

It's not even about mistaking the instructions for the thing itself really. DNA isn't a set of complete instructions. It is a code that only makes sense when it is interacting constantly with the rest of the cell - bits of it being turned on and off in response to feedback - to produce structure.

 

[editor]

As she's an Episcopalian bishop saying pretty much what one would expect an Episcopalian Bishop to say, she's in no real danger.

She's already received death threats.

 

[tim]

She's already received death threats.

I would imagine that nearly all public figures, anywhere do. At least as a bishop she'll be well aware that putting her life on the line may he part of her calling

16 ‘I have said these things to you to keep you from stumbling. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God. 3 And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me. 4 But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them.

 

[editor]

Trump is a veritable meme machine

 

[Monte]

Ok so this is just funny... not making fun of tall people .. but it made me laugh .. apologies to anyone over 7 feet tall.

It's the second video clip..

He looks like young Gru

 

[Monte]

Trump is a veritable meme machine

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Is that why he hates drag queens too?

 

[spring-peeper]