A lot of firefighting company actually used to be private, owned and operated by insurance companies

they’re utterly incapable of defining male as anything but a 20 year old getting drunk, playing sports, and breaking things.

Don’t forget ramming his cock into any woman he wants, regardless of whether they could give consent or not.

You know, now that you say it, it makes sense. They’re affirming their gender to deny their age. When they look back at their teenage years and/or their early 20’s, that’s when (they believe) they were at their “most maximal manliest manliness”, or in biology terms, the point when their testosterone levels were at their highest. As soon as a man hits 30, it’s all downhill from there. And I speak from experience as a 35-year-old white guy. Some of my shit doesn’t work how it did in my 20’s. Some parts of me now ache that previously did not. It’s harder for me to get up from a sitting position than it used to be. But I don’t think the answer for that is to amp up my testosterone levels to try and go through puberty again.

Hmm. I didn’t think of it like that, but I never considered that either gender has an “ideal state”. It’s also, I suppose that, for them, at least, that gender doesn’t really factor into their desired state.

UPDATE: After taking all the responses to this into consideration, I now understand testosterone therapy to indeed be gender affirming care but Hegseth and the “Manosphere” crowd he identifies with prefer to affirm their gender by denying their age. They still want to be the “studs” they (thought) they were in high school. They’re the same guys who wax nostalgically about their “glory days” when they were on the football team and how they “led the team to win the regionals”(but not state) and they “coulda gone pro” but one of “those people(you know who they’re referring to)”, “stole” their scholarship.

Then the judge needs to add provisions that say ICE and Geo Group must prove that the jail is an office building. Same thing for if they claim it’s a hospital. At which point I’m sure ICE will burn through its massive budget to sell the lie. Like, they turn the cells into offices really quickly, make the detainees wear a uniform that looks almost like “business casual” and coach them on how to sound like they work in an office or whatever.

You know there was an opinion piece I read in the Guardian about the reason the wealthy love private jets. It’s because of the reduced number of human “touch points”. They yearn to glide through life without ever interacting with another real human.

Watch them claim that the holding cells are actually hospital rooms. Hell, why not say that the entire detention facility is actually a hospital? But it’s a very special hospital that only admits certain kinds of patients and they also cannot be discharged. Of course, good luck getting the inspectors to believe the guards are actually all doctors and nurses.

So, basically like that one episode of “SuperJail!”,? That one where the Warden basically takes over the US and turns all the citizens into inmates?

Basic necessities contingent upon obedience to the billionaires. Don’t like it? Tough shit. Take what we give you, and keep any complaints locked in that empty, non-rich hat rack you call a head. In fact, we mandate that you smile and thank us as we pass you by on the street, grateful that we have granted you the privilege of another day of living. But be mindful, we can revoke that privilege any time it so pleases us.