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Well if they're cute and can prove anti Putin activities ...

Agreed they are not equivalent but being a foreigner in Thailand with no access to money could get real serious sooner or later.

Date of new extension.

Not necessarily.

Many Russians have escaped to places like Armenia and Georgia but that doesn't mean their problems are over.

Of course none of them will admit to being a Putinista but once they get home the Z's come out.

Agreed not all. But unfortunately plenty are. As an American with our trumpist / tucker carlson problem I can't throw stones.

We really shouldn't hate them just because of their passport. That plays right into paranoid Putin's hand.

I want to clarify some points. My focus here is about politics and perception as opposed to settling the question about objective unfair advantage. After all most trans women athletes LOSE. But regardless of any objective truth about unfair advantage I believe most of the general public including fellow athletes will perceive unfair advantage when trans women win. Whether that perception is objectively true or not, it's hardly an insane perception. Also to note I am not suggesting that everyone against including trans women in women's competitive sports is a bigot! Some are and some aren't. But when anti LGBT activists legislate against such inclusion its almost always part of total package of other laws that are bigoted such as about bathroom access, etc.

Then it won"t be resolved because that won't happen. Not enough so called others. Most trans women would not accept to compete in that category even if there were. Red states would never fund it. It's a complete non starter.

I use Mountain Spring. Not on a schedule. I call the morning I need it and get same day. Sometimes they can't do same day and am told next day. Fluent English spoken on phone. To me they're a keeper.

The suggestion that there should be separate divisions for trans athletes is totally absurd! There aren't nearly enough such athletes to support that. I've heard that suggestion before and I find it a disingenuous copout. Solve a difficult issue with a completely impractical FAKE solution. Nope. This is a question of fairness. Fairness to the athletes. There is no solution that is going to be seen by all as fair. Some things in life are like that, and this is one of them.

This is a can of worms issue, but here goes. If trans women competitive athletes never won anything, this wouldn't be such a big issue, but it gets magnified when they do, as just happened in the NCAA. Lia Thomas becomes first trans woman to win NCAA swimming championship (usatoday.com) While the right wing is focused on mean spirited widely discriminatory laws to ban trans girls and women from ever competing at all, on the other side, the mainstream LGBT politics is for full inclusiveness within defined guidelines around things like hormone levels. Even if it was true that a trans women never had an unfair advantage based on birth gender, the damaging political optics of this issue are never going to go away, particularly when trans women win. After all, in competitive sports, tiny advantages make all the difference. My question here is whether blindly supporting inclusiveness without taking into account the constant and predictable backlash (that will never go away) is really worth it? This issue isn't about everything in the lives of trans women or all or most trans women. It's only about a small minority of them that wish to participate in formal athletic competition. For them not to be able to do that would be a loss for them of course. But the question here, is if this one aspect of such a small number of people within a minority really WORTH it? Considering the public sees LGBT as a monolith type thing, should support for this inclusiveness be moved from knee jerk always for to NEUTRAL. Not to join the bigots but to just back off even if it will be seen by some as throwing people under the bus? Keeping in mind the cliche pick your battles wisely, should this be a battle that LGBT politics should wisely choose to NOT pick? Doesn't support for this highly controversial niche issue DAMAGE the rest of the LGBT political movement's equality goals?

War criminal AND fascist?

I don't think Ukraine will be bombing them.

In Russia people are whining about stores closing in malls.

Yes and we might be in world war 3 already it's worth understanding the background of it and that includes the mindset of enemies.

I have some issues with the tone / slant of the domestic US comments in the video (as I don't worship Reagan) but the vast majority is about Russia and Ukraine with a very esteemed historian.

Compared to Putin's arrogance, a mere trifle.

Yes they are more of a danger to the future of the USA than ANY external enemy.

I think by now everyone has heard the narrative that the west "forced" war criminal Putin into this by expanding NATO east. Well I suggest people consider a highly intelligent rebuttal to that rationalization in this video:

Very true. This "special" whatever they call it can potentially last for many years.

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They're wrong.

She wouldn't do her job. She should have been fired immediately.