Of course you know about the religious right...

[The Barbarian]

Drag Queens don’t qualify as transvestites?

Well, maybe some of them...

 

[The Barbarian]

Always true. You're confusing precision an accuracy. Since we're measuring apples to apples, you get the same result. On the other hand, if you're claiming that something has affected reporting over those years, you'd have to come up with a checkable and specific claim. What do you have?

Wouldn't it just be better to accept the reality?

Yes. I don’t know why you reject the reality that the reporting does not reflect 100% of the crime.

You merely made that up and pretended I said it. Shame on you. It might have felt good at the moment, but now everyone here sees it and knows about you. Again, if your claim is that the 40% drop in homicides over the past few decades is not due to fewer actual homicides but fewer of them being reported, I suggested that you find some means to support your claim.

Instead you panicked and lied about what I wrote. Try to do better.

 

[BCP1928]

Drag Queens don’t qualify as transvestites?

Transvestites are usually straight men; drag queens are usually gay men. They wear women's clothes for somewhat different reasons, but even that is something of an oversimplification.

 

[The Barbarian]

While the overall violent crime rate has steadily declined on average over the past 20 years, the Pew Research Center suggested that voters might be reacting to specific types of violent crime, such as homicide, which saw a 30% increase between 2019 and 2020 — one of the largest year-over-year increases on record.

The "Trump Bump" in homicides on Trump's watch was tiny compared to the decades-long decline in homicide
And it was temporary...

Driving the news: "Murder plummeted in the United States in 2023, likely at one of the fastest rates of decline ever recorded," writes Jeff Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics, which tracks homicide numbers across the country.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop

 

[BPPLEE]

Always true. You're confusing precision an accuracy. Since we're measuring apples to apples, you get the same result. On the other hand, if you're claiming that something has affected reporting over those years, you'd have to come up with a checkable and specific claim. What do you have?

Wouldn't it just be better to accept the reality?


You merely made that up and pretended I said it. Shame on you. It might have felt good at the moment, but now everyone here sees it and knows about you. Again, if your claim is that the 40% drop in homicides over the past few decades is not due to fewer actual homicides but fewer of them being reported, I suggested that you find some means to support your claim.

Instead you panicked and lied about what I wrote. Try to do better.

No panic on my part The reporting is 71% at best.
“Across the country, law enforcement agencies’ inability — or refusal — to send their annual crime data to the FBI has resulted in a distorted picture of the United States’ crime trends, according to a new Stateline analysis of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program participation data.”
You try to do better

Yes, the new FBI data is poor quality. But we’ve always needed better.

Before the FBI released its 2021 crime statistics last week, expectations about the quality of the data were already perilously low . To estimate national trends, the FBI collects crime reports from thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. Last year, the FBI—through the Uniform…

www.vera.org

 

[Belk]

A cassock is not a dress.

Good grief.

 

[Bradskii]

This is all about the language police.

Nobody mentioned 'language police'. This is entirely up to you. Mary appears to be simply a woman. You've know her for some time. Such a nice person. Very helpful. Great company. Then you find out she used to be Dave. So do you now call Mary he or she? No-one has asked you to do one or the other. No-one has said 'this is what you must do.' It's entirely up to you.

So no excuses about being forced to do something you don't want to. I want to know what your personal decision is.

 

[BPPLEE]

Nobody mentioned 'language police'. This is entirely up to you. Mary appears to be simply a woman. You've know her for some time. Such a nice person. Very helpful. Great company. Then you find out she used to be Dave. So do you now call Mary he or she? No-one has asked you to do one or the other. No-one has said 'this is what you must do.' It's entirely up to you.

So no excuses about being forced to do something you don't want to. I want to know what your personal decision is.

I doubt Mary would fool me. I know a Carl that used to be a Mary but I just call him friend.

 

[Bradskii]

I doubt Mary would fool me. I know a Carl that used to be a Mary but I just call him friend.

Don't make me post pictures, please. You know exactly what I mean.

 

[BPPLEE]

The "Trump Bump" in homicides on Trump's watch was tiny compared to the decades-long decline in homicide
And it was temporary...
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Driving the news: "Murder plummeted in the United States in 2023, likely at one of the fastest rates of decline ever recorded," writes Jeff Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics, which tracks homicide numbers across the country.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop

The bump was due to the pandemic

 

[BPPLEE]

Don't make me post pictures, please. You know exactly what I mean.

I’ve only seen a few that could pull it off.

 

[Bradskii]

I’ve only seen a few that could pull it off.

Well use one of those as an example.

 

[Belk]

I’ve only seen a few that could pull it off.

That you are aware of.

 

[BCP1928]

Well use one of those as an example.

Forget it, Bradskii. Some people have Gaydar and some just don't.

 

[Bradskii]

Forget it, Bradskii. Some people have Gaydar and some just don't.

Was someone talking about gay co-workers? Sorry, I missed that conversation.

 

[The Barbarian]

The bump was due to the pandemic

Of course. Trump has never taken personal responsibility for anything he's messed up. As you know, he admitted to Woodward that he knew the pandemic was going to be bad, but lied about it to us "to avoid a panic." And hundreds of thousands died thereby.

President Donald Trump knew in early February that the coronavirus posed a unique and deadly threat to the United States, and was “more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”
At the time, Trump repeatedly publicly downplayed the virus as no more dangerous than the flu.
The revelation is one of many in journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, “Rage,” for which Trump granted Woodward a series of interviews.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call with Woodward. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”

“This is deadly stuff,” he repeated.
“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward on March 19, according to a copy of the book obtained by CNN. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”
But by ignoring reality in public, the president didn’t prevent panic, he provoked it. Many statements Trump made as the virus spread in the U.S. were outright falsehoods:
“We have it very much under control in this country.” “It’s going to be just fine.” “It’s one person coming in from China.” “We’re doing a great job with it.” “It’s going to have a very good ending for us.” “We’re in great shape.” “We have 12 cases — 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.” “Just stay calm. It will go away.” “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”

Trump Admits He Lied About COVID-19 Threat In New Woodward Book

While Trump said publicly it would “just disappear,” he told journalist Bob Woodward that he knew the coronavirus was “deadly stuff.”

www.huffpost.com

Later, a Trump spokesperson lied again, denying that Trump ever lied to us about it.

Video: White House Press Secretary Claims Trump “Never Lied” to Public on Coronavirus

The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, defended President Trump when asked whether he knowingly downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, as reported in a new book.

www.nytimes.com

 

[ozso]

So you've equated transvestites with drag queens? I think we've found the problem.

And I don't think "we would like to be not abused by other people, and accepted as human" is an ideology, although it might be an agenda in places where people do abuse them.

It might ease your anxieties to read up on the differences. Or, possibly aggravate them. Whatever.

You keep narrowing things down so that you don't have to deal with the bigger picture.

 

[The Barbarian]

So you've equated transvestites with drag queens? I think we've found the problem.

You keep narrowing things down so that you don't have to deal with the bigger picture.

It's a lot harder to blow smoke when it comes down to specifics. And yes, I suppose that's frustrating for some people.

 

[BPPLEE]

Of course. Trump has never taken personal responsibility for anything he's messed up. As you know, he admitted to Woodward that he knew the pandemic was going to be bad, but lied about it to us "to avoid a panic." And hundreds of thousands died thereby.

President Donald Trump knew in early February that the coronavirus posed a unique and deadly threat to the United States, and was “more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”
At the time, Trump repeatedly publicly downplayed the virus as no more dangerous than the flu.
The revelation is one of many in journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, “Rage,” for which Trump granted Woodward a series of interviews.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call with Woodward. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”

“This is deadly stuff,” he repeated.
“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward on March 19, according to a copy of the book obtained by CNN. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”
But by ignoring reality in public, the president didn’t prevent panic, he provoked it. Many statements Trump made as the virus spread in the U.S. were outright falsehoods:
“We have it very much under control in this country.” “It’s going to be just fine.” “It’s one person coming in from China.” “We’re doing a great job with it.” “It’s going to have a very good ending for us.” “We’re in great shape.” “We have 12 cases — 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.” “Just stay calm. It will go away.” “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”

Trump Admits He Lied About COVID-19 Threat In New Woodward Book

While Trump said publicly it would “just disappear,” he told journalist Bob Woodward that he knew the coronavirus was “deadly stuff.”

www.huffpost.com

Later, a Trump spokesperson lied again, denying that Trump ever lied to us about it.

Video: White House Press Secretary Claims Trump “Never Lied” to Public on Coronavirus

The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, defended President Trump when asked whether he knowingly downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, as reported in a new book.

www.nytimes.com

What is this thread about?

 

[ozso]

So you've equated transvestites with drag queens? I think we've found the problem.


It's a lot harder to blow smoke when it comes down to specifics. And yes, I suppose that's frustrating for some people.

I'm at a loss as to how this thread became about "transvestites". Are you running with the accusation that 'Catholic priests are transvestites because they wear dresses'?