Number 5 is “are willing to accept any negative info about Trump as fact”

Saying “you voted for a rapist” does nothing because they refuse to believe he’s a rapist. They hand wave it away with conspiracies about witch hunts and the deep state.

You can’t shame somebody over something they don’t believe is true.

This is not what I meant, there are actual (but very VERY small) differences between male and female brains, and we’re able to measure those differences. See my response to the other person for links to studies demonstrating this.

The difference between make and female brains is very VERY small, but it’s not immeasurable. The critical point is that the differences seem to be exclusively concerning 1) the brain’s “map” of the busy, ie the brain is wired for certain hardware, and 2) reproductive instinct.

But even those areas are not 100% predictable, ie everything is a spectrum.

Here are a few studies demonstrating what I mean.

The brains of trans people more closely resemble those of their chosen gender identity than their natal sex https://www.ese-hormones.org/media/1506/transgender-brains-are-more-like-their-desired-gender-from-an-early-age.pdf

A trans person’s brain more closely resembles their chosen gender as demonstrated by their brain’s response to olfactory stimulation with androstadienone https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2014.00060/full

Estrogen signaling pathways identified which tell the brain to develop as one gender or the other, as well as mechanisms by which physical development can happen in one way while brain development can happen in the other https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53500-y

I wonder how many things they’re going to try before they decide they need a solution that’s a little more final

I don’t think that’s quite the strategy we need.

What we really need is a genuine grassroots movement with significant movement, like the Tea Party but not astroturfed, today gets more progressive in the Democratic party.

BUT

We need them locally, not on the federal level, because locally is where voting rules are established. The Progressives can then push for Rank Choice Voting. City by city, county by county, State by State, we get RCV implemented everywhere possible. This in turn breaks the Two Party System by allowing voters to pick third party candidates without fear of their vote being wasted.

The only problem is that the best time for this strategy was fifteen years ago, and not enough people cared back then to do it. The second best time is now, of course, but…

What these people refer to as “gender ideology” is actually just slightly more advanced science. Gender is a real thing that exists in the brain, multiple means by which the brain and body can develop contradictory gender/sex characteristics have been identified, and almost 150 years of scientific research support the validity of transgender people and the benefit of gender transition for people who need it.

Being anti-trans is being anti-science.

same way an LLM is able to produce coherent and convincing sentences by statistically determining what word is likely to follow another

To me this implies that the navigation AI is going to hallucinate parts of its model of the world, because it’s basing that model on what’s statically the most likely to be there as opposed to what’s actually there. What could go wrong?