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Kids can be up to a year older than their classmates due to the way kindergarten start date cutoffs work. These kids who arbitrarily end up older tend to outperform their peers, because a 7.9 year old is stronger and faster than a 7 year old. This is a real difference - the NHL did a study on this and found that their players disproportionately have early-year birthdays due to how this effect lines up with hockey camps.

Do you care? Of course not, nobody cares about the competitive fairness of kids’ sports, the point is just to get them to exercise and have a hobby. We can verify that nobody takes this seriously by looking at high school sports, where suddenly a four year age gap is acceptable.

Okay, so why does this suddenly matter when it’s what team a trans kid should be on?

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If 220,000 people uproot their entire lives for political ends, form a fucking army, you absolute dweeb.

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If Cheney really believed this he’d take Trump quail hunting.

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Hahahaha fuck me I just realized this means a Trump appointee will be in the court when they judge whatever coke-addled election fraud scheme the Republicans are going with.

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I hope “anarkiddy” becomes the new “tankie” and all the MLs in the audience have to put up with being called it. It’s only fair that we swap once in a while.

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don't open this message within 100 meters of a lathe
  1. The states fail to come up with a plan

  2. The federal government declares that they’re cutting the water off

  3. The states ignore the decree

  4. The federal government fails to enforce its decree

  5. Further decline of the US’s ability to enforce law

  6. Massive droughts and power outages because this was actually important

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Capital should be punished.

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How is it that train tracks are an ominous tax expense but roads are just a naturally occurring feature???¿??

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But your friend is right?

  1. There have only been a handful of communist heads of state.

  2. There have been an awful lot of monarchs.

  3. Most monarchs throughout history have died.

  4. There are more dead monarchs than communist heads of state.

  5. The only good monarch is a dead monarch.

  6. There have been more good monarchs than communist heads of state.

Anyway, go give your friend a wedgie for me.

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Wow. Up until this point I thought every culture had that thing where they think that loving food and force-feeding their guests was unique to them.

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