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and here, i'll contribute more so you know i'm not trying to trap anyone or whatever. it's a bit of a testimony, so bear with it or skip to tl;dr this last weekend i wentto go to some kind of festival over on the east side at a place called "the little gay shop." i've never heard of this place nor had occasion to visit, but there it was. lots of vendors selling all sorts of things. due to some recent events in my life i've had reasons to reflect on this or that from time to time. anyways, i'm there in the middle of this chaos of sexuality with my wife, and i'm enjoying myself, even as we pass booths selling washable female sanitary napkins. none of this is my scene, really at all. suddenly, someone shows up with some runt of a dog, platform boots, a very elaborately well done make up job, and a huge smile. he? she? am i worried about that? no, actually. it took me a second to realize that i didn't care, as strange as that sounds. i'll never talk to this person outside of a "badass makeup" compliment, and that's pretty gender neutral anyways. it doesn't affect my life except to, for that brief instant, brighten it up a bit because of how much life joy that person was bringing along with them to the little festival at this little gay shop parking lot in little old east austin. i grew up in dallas suburbia hell. i didn't know it was hell at the time, but i came to know it as such. i was pretty cloistered. white boy, middle class in an upper middle class neighborhood. never hungry but rarely brand name either. also, never church or bible. or prayer. or anything much else to do with god aside from "goddammit." maybe occasionally my dad would wish out loud he was born jewish, "because they take care of their own." but honestly, aside from that, i was told told generally we were "methodist." i've sought faith most of my life. i'm culturally catholic, even though i converted later in life (20), i still consider it a pretty important part of my identity even if i don't practice. it's hard to explain. i will absolutely get defensive about it. it's weird. anyways, i grew up with the word "faggot" prominently featured in my pejorative vernacular. it was top 5, you made it there i was really mad at you for whatever reason. 18 year old me that went off to texas in austin had no idea what he was getting into. 18 year old me was pretty sure i knew some shit and i also knew i had a lot of questions. one thing i was sure of, i wasn't gay, and i'd kick your ass if you were and you came onto me or whatever. that kind of pent up toxic shit. anyways, i've grown up, gotten married, had kids, seen the world, gained a ton of perspective, with tons more to gain, and i had to laugh at the idea of 18 year old me traipsing through the parking lot of the little gay shop. right now, i feel like i have a lot more in common with the person in the platform shoes than i do with many self-professed christians. i was a lot happier in that parking lot with all this weird uncomfortable (for me at times) vague sexual energy swirling around and this very made up person who i should hate because they committed the cardinal sin of dressing up their poor fucking dog than i would be discussing whether or not i am drinking wine or blood or which creed is right. tl;dr: fuck it yall. be nice. that's pretty much it, ain't it?

why? about the conversation, not the me doing me part. i'm married. i do myself all the time.

i don't get this. this cannot be possible. you told us that you and yours were not subject to anything gay, so you don't get the big deal. is it a big deal now?

so i wasn't paying super close attention to this shit aside from some of the more comedic aspects, and noticing that herschel is broken. like, completely broken. it's not really all that funny any longer, and it's one hell of a fucking indictment on the party that wants to make mass shootings about mental health rather than gun regulation. this man is not well. and yet... what the fuck, republicans? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

that's the thing that annoys me the most. either poe is a fucking rube and a rhetorical tool for fucking liars, or he's a fucking liar. this misrepresentation is just so comical that there is no other way to interpret it. i can't reconcile this, so maybe poe can do so. why do you think that teachers are making homosexuality part of the curriculum? where are you getting that idea?

sure about this response? in the christ followers thread? empathy. sympathy. these are the paths you are looking for. right? right?

yet you've singled them out in a thread about...christ. why? you tacitly or overtly approve of all kinds of sins every single day. i also find it curious that you find gays in media somehow overrepresented. people like you were throwing a fit when the flintstones or mary kay and johnny put a married couple in the same fucking bed together. sins change. jesus himself proved it. how we treat the sinful changed with jesus. so, poe, how would you treat a sinner? if your clever answer remains "same as everyone else," that will tell me all i need to know about your intellectual curiosity, and also implies that you treat everyone the same, which you do not. or do you? the lost, huh? you're the guy that gets wasted and hateful on the political board from time to time, right? and hey, i ain't judging, i do too. how do you measure sin, johnny? i'm genuinely curious. they really reveal themselves when they speak in code to each other. they think of it as an ichthus symbol, but it's more of a scarlet asshole.

i mean, he's clearly mentally ill, right?

so this is a joke that just missed the mark right? or are you a legitimate crazy person who can't keep cloak room in cloak room?

60.5 on that over under huh? jesus christ one team will cover that all by their lonesome. i would want to bet the rest of my mortgage on that. so i guess definitely bet the under

uh when did tech go full aggie?

if we cared about baseball we would be watching it you fucks

hell yeah keilan

it's funny because it's mizzou. fuck em

haha a week. when was jan 6th again?

this level of analysis is without price. some of yall pay $9.95 for this? i could give you equally good or better information for half the price.

i dunno. i'm kind of glad to see it.

sending buses of human beings to the vice president's house in dc. i really hate him. using people as props. THESE ARE FUCKING HUMAN BEINGS, GREG, YOU FUCKING SHITHEAD. i really want bad things to happen to him. god help me but don't forgive me because fuck that guy. https://www.newsweek.com/buses-migrants-appear-outside-kamala-harris-house-greg-abbott-1743247

i'm very close to banning you for trolling. since i'm engaged with you, i'll let immamac or blacklab decide, but christ, what are you trying to accomplish here? you've answered very few direct questions. you've gone full chrispy, which is annoying by itself. but you don't appear interested at all in discussion, which is my mistake, apparently. i asked you reasonable questions, tried to find some common ground, and you just kept trolling. nice little tuesday, i guess.

and i wonder why my child has extreme anxiety about going to school. you got who to acknowledge what is real? and who won what, exactly?

how do we do that?

ok. ok. seriously. victims decide if an accused criminal out on bond is guilty? the fuck, dude. stop and think.

i'm just trying to understand where your constitution ends and mine begins.

who said that people out on bond are criminals?

tried, and still got the paywall. anyways, this information is interesting. i'd also be interested in how this compares to other metro areas in the us that are around houston's size. so the 221 murders represent alleged murders while out on bond for any offense, not merely violent offenses. further, i'd like to see some kind of analysis applied here if we are coming to the conclusion that houston is releasing too many people on bond. what are the crimes represented in these murders? is it low level possession or aggravated assault? what should we do with the accused until we can bring them to trial? i agree 100% the system is broken, and a focus needs to be put on violent offenders. i'm sure that we can find common ground there. who do we let out?