Silentiea

If only there was a single chance in hell of making it happen, yeah.

Anything with just a really good purple. Deep purples and indigos and such that are so purple they're blue and so blue their purple.

I would be interested to see data on how much capital gains tax is paid by people in whichever (income) tax bracket, or how people's proportion of income tax vs capital gains tax lines up.

Savings interest and such is already taxed as income, no?

Hitting retirement accounts would make investing enough to retire harder, but tax brackets could be set so as to limit this effect (which, again, wouldn't happen) while still capturing an awful lot of real estate sale income. Almost any house in my city has gone up by enough to immediately put you in upper-middle-class range for your income by itself if you bought it even just a handful of years ago, so selling/trading/working in addition to that would tax the sale significantly.

I get that there would be a burden to "common folk" but I would really love to see how much, compared to closing the easy out for richer folk.

I mean we could start taxing capital gains as income, except no we can't because that would never happen.

I mean I get that this is satire, but was there actually a Pokemon thing?

Tried to make a sex joke about tasting people but I guess I just literally don't know what about that is sexy, so someone else do it

The categories that encompass "man" or "woman" or whatever are socially constructed. The outlines of those categories especially are so far from being absolutes of nature or physical constants.

But people still have an innate sense of themselves and their own identity. So even though the rules are made up and the points don't matter, people can still know which box they go in based on that sense.

For some people, they're just comfortable in the box everyone right they'd go in and never think about it. Stone people don't care which box they're in and so never bother to think about it. There's all our cis folks. Stone people don't really care which box they're in, but they do still think about it and decide they go outside any of them. Some people think they go in one box sometimes and either box at other times. There's the nonbinary folks. And then there's people who can tell they fit in a box, but everyone seemed to think they're actually in the other one until they mistake was pointed out.

The boxes themselves are totally made up, but they still exist. And since they exist, people can still tell which ones they go to. The fact that the boxes are fake doesn't make them not "real", it just makes enforcing them and telling people you know what big they should be on better than they do stupid.

I mean, they're hobbits. They turn to food for comfort.

Agreed on basically all points, but tbf there are more people imprisoned in the us than an awful lot of more popular categories than trans folks.

Sorry, but... "scientific"?

"I see," said the blind man
to his deaf dog
who was sitting on the corner of the round table
on the third floor of their two-story building.

And I get that the business maybe "has" to be run that way, because of the way it exists in the economic system it exists in, but I'm definitely taking issue with the language he's employed here. He's not a prisoner being forced to run things this way.