You were strawmanning me. You have no evidence that I support those actions or beliefs, which I don’t.

Literally never watch or read Fox, lol. Stop strawmanning.

This is an example of what I personally want in this community. A conservative echo chamber limits free speech and criticism of conservative values, which weakens conservatives and conservatism.

It’s c/conservative, not c/ConservativeEchoChamber.

I am just a lowly mod; not the creator, admin, or head mod of this community.

I see liberal comments, but I wouldn’t say this is a liberal community. Maybe more moderate than you like, but I don’t know your views.

I am very much conservative, and every day living in California with friends who say they hate conservatives and would never date a conservative or break up with someone who has conservative views further cements my conservatism.

I believe this is a great example of a “straw man argument”. A false and easy to knock down claim is made and said to represent your opponent, then it’s knocked it down and said, “see how weak your position is?”.

What was my false claim? That those identifying as trans are going through psychological stress because they’re uncomfortable with their bodies? If someone identifies as trans and it isn’t because they aren’t comfortable with the body they were born with and truly believe they belong to the opposite sex, I’m pretty sure that’s just cross-dressing. If the trans community truly wants acceptance and support, they need to distance themselves from those who are just “trans” for a kink or internet and social points.

Minors are almost never offered permanent physical modification …

Almost never isn’t never. It should be never.

That’s the whole point of puberty blockers, they delay potentially horrifying changes to allow a few more years to for such a major life decision.

That’s propaganda. Do you seriously believe stopping a normal biological process has no lasting effects? Even if it was true that a biological process could simply be paused, if a child is uncomfortable with their current body, would “pausing” it in that state not further make them hate themselves? Sounds like abuse to me.

I didn’t become trans because a drag queen read me a book or trans lady made a bud light video, that’s the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard.

I don’t think anyone ever has. Also, who’s straw-manning now?

Besides all that, my comment was that if you’re having psychological stress, seek psychological help, not surgical. I don’t see how that’s controversial.

This is a new community on a platform that has had a massive surge of users, so there are going to be growing pains for a bit. My goal as a mod is to allow for conversation on both liberal and conservative ideas, and I believe several other mods agree with me. We may become more strict if this does become a liberal community, though.

An important tool for the mod team too is you guys flagging/reporting posts and comments. I check in almost every day and have received no reports for over two weeks. As the community grows, this will become even more important since we can’t read every post or comment. I have read nearly every one though, lol.

c/LostLemmyUsers

The mindset of someone going out of their way to go somewhere or see something that they know will offend them, then lashing out and saying that thing or person shouldn’t be offending them is ridiculous. Just the thought of something existing that they don’t agree with infuriates so many people.

This is in every political, social, racial, ethnic, sexual, etc group, too.

Conservatives, liberals, mainstream media, and social media all play a part. I don’t think I can blame any one group; maybe social media is the worst offender since it has the most reach. And yeah, he is the former president and current presidential candidate so he’s gonna draw clicks and views, so I see the incentive.

Do you have a source for that? I know people who are liberal rate as “happier”, but idk about more artsy. Also, Idaho and Utah are just two states that are red and known for their sights. You could argue conservatives are more inclined towards natural beauty since they lean towards living away from cities and in rural areas while the largest, population dense concrete jungles are liberal.

Republicans or conservatives as a whole? I assume you’re talking about Trump, whom I and many other conservatives very much dislike, even if his interactions are entertaining. I’ll believe a “conspiracy” if presented with enough substantial evidence.

I of course can’t speak for every conservative, but neither can you.

Important to include:

This data is part of an early study and doesn’t paint the whole picture. “Our study has several limitations. First, our mortality data, while detailed and recent, only includes approximately 80 percent of deaths in the US. However, excess death patterns in our data are similar to those in other reliable sources,” the study said. “Second, because we did not have information on an individual’s vaccination status, analyses of the association between vaccination rates and excess deaths relied on county-level vaccination rates. Third, our study is based on data from the only states where we could obtain voter registration information (Florida and Ohio); hence, our results may not generalize to other states.”

Vaccine status probably has some effect, but we can’t know from this study. I assume the greater factor is age: older people tend to be more conservative.

I pray for the day when society can move past Trump. He’s fun to watch, but he’s so narcissistic and abrasive that he’s also irritating. The media and people on social media don’t help either since they “hate” him so much they can’t stop talking about him.

They definitely are doing it responsibly; I just don’t agree with it. I’m generally against any form of plastic surgery or body modification. Teenagers can also be hormonal, stupid, heavily influenced by others, and rebellious. With current cultural norms, at least in the US, I wouldn’t trust any child to make an adequately informed decision, especially without heavy influence from politically active parents. I work with children, and know multiple prepubescent boys and girls who talk about being the opposite sex or about being some other form of LGBTQIA+ when they haven’t even developed sexual attraction yet. That’s another conversation though, lol.

Completely agree. The one nice thing about the terrible state of US journalism for me is since no one source can be trusted, I’m compelled to look at multiple sources and critically think more.

They are just one hospital, and they still do chest surgeries on children 15 years or older.

I seem to have misunderstood your post too, lol.

And if there’s systems in place to deal with unmoderated communities.

This made me (incorrectly) assume the intent of your comment.

The moderation tools are pretty similar to most other platforms, as you neatly laid out.

This community is moderated. We receive reports and will act on them if the reported content breaks the rules in the sidebar: there is no racism or bigotry, no personal insults, and u/stanleytweedle has not been spamming.

We tend to forget that other people’s ideologies can’t be boiled down to left or right, so we get the “conservative = bad” or “liberal = bad” mentality. Which is unproductive and only increases the radicalism that most people of most ideologies hate.

If a child is under any psychological distress, permanent physical modifications shouldn’t be an option: the distress is psychological, not physical. Psychological distress should be addressed by a psychologist, maybe a psychiatrist, not a surgeon. Personally, I believe that care should include helping the child to be comfortable with themselves in their own body, as that will help not only in the case of the child’s current gender dysphoria, but also later on in adult life when reality really hits you.