Yeah, @FlyBehaviour .... her response to me pointing out basic facts about taxation and representation -- covered in most middle schools in the USA and Canada-- was to say "whatever you want to believe" and then block me.

Homeschool curriculum for this next go round the sun has been ordered. $555.84 after the 15% discount. Add another $500 or so in books and subscriptions... then another $300 or so in supplies, maybe $300 more for one offs here and there, and that's about what we spend annually educating several children (6 presently at home for school.) Why are government institutions doing it so poorly and managing tax money so ineffectively?

Actually, you're not taxed w/o representation, in any way, shape, or form. You have elected officials, school boards, and the chance to vote in local, municipal, state, and federal elections.

See second response to you. If you think housing costs and transport costs are free... labour costs come in paying for personal doctor care, for chiro care because I'm on my feet all day... Then there are water, heat, electricity... all not free and we pay for it twice because we are also paying school taxes. There's nothing dishonest about my representation. I'm taxed, as is every homeschool family, without representation.

If you've ever looked at a line item of a district budget ($1B in SPPS with declining enrollment and disgustingly low test scores) you'd see that the tax monies collected pay for admin bloat.

"they are sterilizing kids"--- who is "they"? is this "sterilization" a government procedure? are the "kids" young children? does this happen at school? (T***p was claiming this absurdity.) which schools, when? this is actually news to many Americans who (presumably) don't watch Fox News or other rightwing outlets that have been demonizing a tiny fraction of the US population. but trying to understand those who do; realizing that, for those who believe that this is a threat tantamount to the threat of climate change/ our endangered environment, it is a very real issue.

Ah, the "Fox News, I'm Done Here" play. Is it ok for hundreds of children to have their body mutilated every year, as long as it's not thousands?

That data is a bit older (see below) but the point stands: We, in fact, are permanently altering children's bodies due to gender confusion and we should stop. Justifying this by pointing out a different procedure is not honest. "Leor Sapir, PhD, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute whose areas of research include pediatric gender medicine, shared that anywhere from 5,288 to 6,294 double mastectomies were performed on girls under age 18 between 2017 and 2023 — and that 50 to 179 of those girls were just 12-½ years old or younger. The actual numbers could be higher, the Manhattan Institute claims, because researchers did not include patients who paid for the procedure themselves without submitting an insurance claim." foxnews.com/health/gender-af…

This kind of wordplay is what you get when Martin Rothblatt is added to the Mayo Clinic board. Larger ideological venture to pretend sex isn’t real, as he laid out in a book in the 90s