While I don't agree that medical providers shouldn't be involved in important healthcare decisions. Unfortunately, at this point I agree the American healthcare system has largely failed the trans community, among others.

I think medical providers should be doing their jobs and keeping their personal beliefs to themselves. If a patient is wanting to transition they should have access to a provider who can make that transition as easy and safe as possible.

How dare you remind me of the impermanence of time. I'm not old.... you're old.

I'd def agree with that before him wanting resources.

will post the recipe below/above.

Thanks, I'll have to give it a try! I'm not a die hard puritan like my mom, I'll basically eat/make anything as long as it's tasty.

Oh neat, Ive never made Baechu kimchi with anything other than napa cabbage. Do you use fish sauce or fermented krill, or just add a little additional salt?

Always neat to see people expanding on kimchi, I really only know what my mom taught me and she's what I'd call radically traditional when it comes to Korean food.

original comment I responded to was "let's not act like a gun control zealot is what the US "left" needs right now".

Yeah.....? And your response was so off point that even you decided it was worth deleting.

Right now, we don't have those stricter gun control laws, so your theoretical universe with the slippery slope is irrelevant.

Lol, the person you were responding to was specifically calling out David Hoggs and the DNC dying on the hill of gun control.

This is a race for NY Mayor, and Mamdani is exactly what we need right now.

Wut? We were specifically talking about David hogg what does mamdani have to do with our conversation? You might remember what you were talking about about if you didn't delete your own comment, fucking coward.

Unless they're airlifting it all out. In which case it still has to fly over terrain that's not to their advantage.

Why would they have to fly anything out of the valley? If the military is able to secure supply lines in war zones that have more than small arms resistance I don't think it's going to be a challenge to secure them in Cali.

we also make the missiles here.

Who's we? It's not like the entire country is going to support a rebellion, especially not anyone in the military industrial complex. Even if you have missiles, you don't have the weapons platforms or even know how to operate them.

The best option for them would be the port of oakland. Theres lots of shitty tech bros there, but you still see tributes to the best and best dressed mlm's to ever pick up a rifle, some of whom are, while far past fighting age, still kicking around a dense high tech city-and this would be for their food supply line, so it wouldn't exactly be possible to starve them out.

What are you talking about? Why would food have to go to Oakland? You don't ship food from California to the rest of the country on boats.... Nor are some old dudes with small arms going to be able to do anything to military convoy.

The farms are all staffed by people who hate them. Every single one, not just here but especially here. Even the small/mid sized farmers-and i have talked to them-hate this shit, or are literally beibg chased out of the fields, literally as i type this. The logistics lines are disproportionately worked by those same people.

Work gangs, prison labour, political prisoners, hungry people willing to capitulate to feed their families.....you know the same thing that has happened throughout history. Plus, there's plenty of conservative chuds in the valley.

I'm not sure they could control the means of production here.

You don't think a military force could control the supply line of some farmers? Most of which are already owned by large conglomerates that would gladly follow the orders of the government.....

A lot of it is in and around areas that arent ideal terrain for fighting on their side.

Have you been to the central valley? It's just large open fields and orchards surrounded by gentle rolling hills, it's not the fucking korengal valley my dude.

Yep, what we consider to be level is relative to what you use to establish an axial plane.

It's not really based on facts, more of a matter of opinion. I agree that the democratic party needs to be shakin up, I just think it needs guidance from a more militant left winged voice to counteract just how far right the GOP has gotten.

And in the face a fascism we should be telling people on the left to disarm themselves?

He's better than the establishment in the DNC, but that like saying oral herpes is better than getting your lips ripped off by a pitbull. It's still not a great scenario either way you look at it.

Berlin would disagree with you.

What? Are you referring to Berlin prior to the Nazi takeover? There were leftist and fascist having all out battles in the streets of Berlin for over a decade prior to the takeover. Which eventually happened because the centerist of the weimar republic decided not to fight back.

Waco should be all the history you need to know about to know what actually happens in the scenario you're encouraging.

You mean the event that led the federal government to be afraid of policing radical right winged politics for decades? The event that is often quoted as responsible to the free spread of right winged nationalism across America.....leading to the election of an ultra conservative president we tolerate today?

You have no idea what you are talking about, everything you said was wrong.

You really should educate yourself before trying to tell others what to think. Try reading the death of democracy by Benjamin Hett. It goes over the parralelles between the fall of weimar republic and our current situation.