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On 4/25/2025 9:10 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-04-25 6:19 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 4/25/2025 5:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> On Apr 25, 2025 at 2:39:44 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/25/2025 4:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>   On Apr 25, 2025 at 1:00:01 PM PDT, "moviePig" 
>>>>> <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   "Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks
>>>>>>   [were] more likely to cite research papers than their right-wing
>>>>>>   counterparts."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   "There are striking differences in amount, content and character 
>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>   science cited by partisan policymakers ..."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   "Left-leaning think tanks were 5 times more likely to cite 
>>>>>> science than
>>>>>>   right-leaning ones."
>>>>>   Depends on what they consider science.
>>>>>   Remember, this is the crew that told us 6 feet distancing was 
>>>>> "the science".
>>>>>   That closing outdoor geography, like beaches and oceans was 
>>>>> necessary to
>>>>>   combat the Wuhan Flu, that you couldn't get it if you were 
>>>>> vaccinated, and
>>>>>   that men can become pregnant and there are 87 genders (and 
>>>>> counting).
>>>>>   This is what the Left considers "the science", so saying they're 
>>>>> more likely
>>>>>   to cite science isn't really the own you think it is.
>>>>
>>>> Who is "the crew"?  Nature magazine?  I'm largely unfamiliar with them.
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile, anyone with a basic grasp of science will know that "six
>>>> feet' is a threshold for an arbitrary likelihood of contagion, and 
>>>> not a
>>>> magic border that germs dare not cross.
>>>
>>> Not the point. We were told it was "the science" and only now, years 
>>> later,
>>> have the officials who told us that admitted that they made it up. They
>>> literally just pulled the number out of their asses.
>>
>> As I illustrated, different people have different degrees of 
>> understanding about what "It's the science!" actually means.  Public 
>> announcements, otoh, have to be one-size-fits-all formulations.
>>
>>
>>>> As for this being an "own", what *I* take from it (and I do think it's
>>>> credible) is that the Left public is less prone to take things on 
>>>> faith.
>>>
>>> If you believe men can get pregnant, faith is all you're taking it on.
>>
>> Did you know that, with modern aviation, pigs can, in fact, fly?
>>
>>
> Pigs have been able to fly for centuries; it has nothing to do with 
> modern aviation. Pigs could have been (and maybe were) carried aloft in 
> hot air balloons in centuries past. Gunpowder is believed to have first 
> been discovered in China many centuries ago when a pig sty containing 
> all the ingredients in gunpowder was somehow ignited. (I'm picturing a 
> Chinese farmer hearing a strange noise from his pig sty one night going 
> to check it out; since it's dark, he lights a torch so that he can see. 
> A spark from his torch ignites the gunpowder and KABOOM.) I feel sure 
> any pigs in the pig sty went flying at that moment.
> 
> But men still can't get pregnant and never have been. (I won't say they 
> never will because science may find a way to do it someday.) Merely 
> redefining women as men, calling them "trans-men" and then noting that 
> these "men" are pregnant is mere sophistry.

Can a hermaphrodite get pregnant?