Greg Gentry

The number of people out here defending New York's antiquated view of voluntary intoxication and consent (summary: If someone is upright and wasn't slipped a roofie, they can consent. One drink away from a coma, that's fine.) is astounding. www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

In New York, voluntary intoxication can be a defense against a specific intent crime, like in most states. So, you can be TOO DRUNK to form the intent to commit a crime w/in a building. And it can make a contract voidable. You can be TOO DRUNK to sign a contract. But sex? No way!

The number of people out here defending New York's antiquated view of voluntary intoxication and consent (summary: If someone is upright and wasn't slipped a roofie, they can consent. One drink away from a coma, that's fine.) is astounding. www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

It’s amazing how swiftly X went to “well, NY’s law says that if you voluntarily consume alcohol or drugs you can consent up until you’re literally unconscious, so I guess these boys aren’t rapists. *shrug*” Yeah, that’s a shitty law and only 19 states still have that abomination.

New York should be ashamed that TEXAS changed their law before them. Last year Texas made their law that it’s rape if you knew or should have known that someone was too intoxicated to consent. Regardless of whether they voluntarily drank/did drugs or not.

“Zombie arguments” are arguments that have been debunked years ago, but whenever a new generation of conspiracists comes on board they get resurrected and trotted out. Like, “Vaccines cause autism.” But, I think the oldest must be, “these immigrants don’t assimilate like those of yesteryear.”

@benryanwriter.bsky.social lies AGAIN about gender affirming care, claiming there's "no evidence that ... surgeries reduce suicides." This is the same bullshit claim about COMPLETED suicides that he repeats ad nauseum and which has been debunked over and over.

Whether it's Gender-affirming care, SSRIs, DBT or school-based interventions, any specific mental health related intervention is measured against proxies for suicides - whether the intervention lowers suicidal thoughts (ideation), attempts, ER visits, episodes of self-harm. All of them!

@benryanwriter.bsky.social lies AGAIN about gender affirming care, claiming there's "no evidence that ... surgeries reduce suicides." This is the same bullshit claim about COMPLETED suicides that he repeats ad nauseum and which has been debunked over and over.

@benryanwriter.bsky.social Ben Ryan is lying again and it is so annoying. He says the Guardian is making “false or unsupported claims” about pediatric gender care. He claims that “[g]Ender treatments do not “demonstrably” reduce suicide” because they don’t reduce completed suicides. A lie!

The Guardian didn’t say it “reduced suicide,” they said it reduced “suicide and mental health RISK!” For someone like Ben who nitpicks every critic to misrepresent that must be deliberate. And, of COURSE it is. Ben’s been told a BUNCH what’s wrong with his statement.

The race realists pointed to this map today. The top 100 runners of the 10,000m race. Kenya and Ethiopia. Pretty good evidence, right? Except, where are the genes for being born near where world-renowned running coach Colm O’Connell is doing his mission work?

Okay, this is just wild. SEGM posts this screenshot of the WPATH brief against the FTC claiming that AI created the shots to, “stitch text across page breaks & suppress hanging sentence fragments.” But, those lines represents DOZENS OF PAGES of ellipses!

The whole debate about the 14th Amendment started up again in response to Barack Obama. Birthers, having struck out in claiming he was born in Kenya hit on the nonsense claim that since his dad was a student, he wasn’t REALLY American. There’s a direct line from Orly Taitz to yesterday’s ruling!

In other words, we were one vote away from Dred Scott II because Trump got obsessed with the idea that Obama was a “fake” American. And he got obsessed with that because Obama made him look like an ass at the White House Correspondents’ dinner!

Elon is claiming DOGE made a real effort to contact grant recipients before cutting things at USAID. Just a reminder. They arrived at USAID on Friday or Saturday, Jan 31 or Feb 1, 2025 demanding the keys and by SUNDAY night Elon was bragging he HAD fed USAID into the woodchipper!

The same tech bros who think AI can do law also think Elon can sue over these comments by Ro Khanna: “You know, they’re celebrating that he created 4,400 millionaires, but they don’t talk about the 4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID.”