We’re talking about both. Gender was traditionally identical to sex and this issue didn’t come up much till relatively recently. Outliers, like people born with both sets of organs, were just that. To be consistent with this philosophy, race must also now be done as “whoever identifies as such”. After all, it’s just as much of a societal construct.

That was the covid spending, the inflation reduction act, the constant wars. Literally the one thing both sides agreed on.

Yea, but sex isn’t. And the way it’s done now is that gender is invoked as identical to sex when it’s beneficial and rebuked when it’s not.

Yea, you can put down whatever you want on government forms. That’s no mystery. Whether people at large accept you as that what you claim is on them. The government isn’t an arbiter of reality any more than you are.

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And so what if they do? Nobody is throwing you in jail for selecting the “wrong” box. And if there is some special program you’re defrauding… well… treating people differently on this in the law isn’t part of my philosophy.

Same as how I’m paying into social security I’ll never collect. Same as how inflation punished me for saving and cut the value of the currency almost in half.

But this is a biological thing. It’s a medical condition. It’s not your gender if you were born with both sets of organs. The point of equality was to get rid of laws being selectively applied. By your philosophy, race also works similarly. Someone who is latino is whoever says they’re latino.

It’s an edge case. Does a government form determine reality? They can put down one, both, none.

A hermaphrodite. What is any other genetic condition?

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This has always been the case though. I’ve seen someone retire and they offer you a choice on how to structure your SS and pension, monthly, lump sum, etc. Generally those pensions are going to be much higher than social security anyways. For the few that still get them. i.e. predominantly public sector employees.

These provisions reduce Social Security benefits in proportion to a beneficiary’s pension amount, which impacts individuals who receive pensions from employment not covered by Social Security.

So you get a pension and your SS is reduced by that amount? Isn’t that the point of the pension? Big nothing burger.

This is what government does. It finds you breaking some arbitrary rule and makes the worst possible outcome for all parties involved. Then they pretend and act like it’s for your own good.

Squirrels don’t normally carry rabies. There were plenty of other options.

Maybe they should go fight in the wars they start. The sentiment isn’t wrong. Who can even claim this is some kind of violent threat with a straight face.

So don’t sign up. Go without.

You all lived through a trump presidency before and we are about to live through a whoever runs the biden one. None of this crazy shit is going to come to pass. It’s just going to be more of the same.

The only thing consistent since obama’s second term has been the decline.