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NameAlreadyInUse

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  1. Why? My experience is this group loudly proclaims they are patriotic while doing just the opposite. Back then, the patriotic thing to do was to help protect your neighbors by wearing a face covering, so of course they weren't going to do that. Also, back then the patriotic thing to do was to honor the results of the election, and obviously they weren't going to do that either. These people are not patriots and they take every opportunity they can to prove it.
  2. The most shameless defense of unethical behavior I think I've ever seen: So tell me how Clarence Thomas is the legal guardian of a child (from 6 years old) who is both less fortunate and at risk. Make that make sense to me.
  3. I don't know how you set up a PAC and then complain about dark money.
  4. I'm not giving a single dollar to someone who can't get more descript in what they stand for than "Smart people with common sense." What would this PAC stand for explicitly?
  5. Yep. I used to be included in FWD FWD FWD chains from my mom. When I started pointing out the inaccuracies in those FWD FWD FWD chains, she didn't change her mind, she just stopped including me in them. This sums up my experience with trying to change the minds of 99% of the people on the right. They don't care about truth, they care about narrative. If you can tell a good enough story, you can be completely fact free and will be considered a truth teller. Is the PAC hiring security for these super smart people? Because we're seeing more and more people like you describe leave politics because they are tired of fielding the threats of violence against them and their families.
  6. I'm convinced you can't become a fascist unless you start out as a snowflake. So @BevoAbyss, I think both terms are correct.
  7. Yeah I didn't get to pick the word fag either, so we both have that going for us, which is nice.
  8. I said it in the other thread, but what she's really saying is that since she was a failure as a parent, she wants the government to fix it for her, and if that means a bunch of dead kids, including hers, she's perfectly ok with that. And she thinks she's a failure because she has a trans kid. She doesn't realize that the failure is her inability to accept the reality of that situation. These people's brains are broken.
  9. What the fuck does 3.14159265359 have to do with this? It's not March!
  10. Are they fucking kidding with us right now? WTF
  11. But what she's actually saying is "I'd prefer a shit ton of kids kill themselves if it keeps my daughter from transitioning." Let's be honest here.
  12. Not to stereotype or anything, but this Don't say gay stuff is starting to make a whole lot more sense.
  13. If he's a hardcore southern baptist he shouldn't be drinking at all, or standing around other people that are drinking. Motherfucker is breaking one of the Baptist commandments.
  14. Groomers
  15. Obligatory Fuck Bud Adams
  16. Every person has some bright line boundaries. Me getting married was one of my dad’s. He was ok with me being gay but struggled with that. Him not going to my wedding was a bright line for me. When he told me he wouldn’t go I told him to have a nice life. It took him a month to figure out I was serious. He then got to make the choice for himself. At the wedding reception, he and I were talking and he let me know how shocked he was that this wedding was just a normal wedding, although way more stylish and classy and less tacky than normal. To this day I have no idea what he thought happened when gays tie the knot, but as he’d been a baptist for 60 years at the point, I’m sure it wasn’t anywhere close to accurate. I don’t begrudge parents who need time to process. The time and place they grew up, their religion, their friend groups, the news they consume all have a powerful effect on people. What I do not forgive are those people who let all of those built in prejudices keep them away from their children in the long run.
  17. But I'm confused why you were saying that you didn't say it, when you were able to remember you said it just fine in response to my post. No one had to even go looking for it, because you repeated it for us all. And yes, lots of people change their minds when a thing hits them closely enough. Seeing as how you were saying a few posts after mine that you looked forward to your grandchildren arguing with other people's grandchildren about this same issue, I think I'm pretty clear that your position is that nothing should change. Which just means it hasn't gotten close enough to you yet. Some of us have to burn our hands on the stove, first, I guess. I hope that you find the place to compromise before your kid's get shot or before you lose the protection in government that's keeping you where you are now. One of those two things is likely to happen, and neither of them will be good for you. Finally, I'm not 100% sure that I've even stated my position on this topic, aside from the idea that absolutists need to be ready to not be absolutists before they lose power, because they won't like the outcome if they weren't willing to work in good faith with the people who are out of power. I have guns sitting downstairs in my closet right now, in fact, so I'm pretty sure that whatever position you think I have, you are incorrect.
  18. I remember a tree breaking him a few years ago. I also remember him suing and winning money as a result of that suit because the tree broke him, and then voting to make sure others who got broken by trees couldn't do the same thing. So yeah, I'm not ready to call him compassionate or agree that he cared about others.
  19. See to me, when you say you have given it enough thought that you already know you would change your tune if your kids were gunned down, the only conclusion I can draw is that other people's kids don't matter to you, because you haven't changed your tune yet. It reminds me of my family full of smokers. I had asthma as a kid. My entire family smoked, inside, nonstop. My dad and step mother only stopped when my dad had a heart attack when I was in my teens. My grandparents only stopped when he got lung cancer when I was in my 20's. They didn't let the fact that their kid/grandkid was asthmatic get in the way of them enjoying their smoking habit, it was only when it affected them directly that they changed their behavior. Sometimes consequences have to get really really fucking close before you are going to notice them, and what I read from your reiteration of your position is that the consequences haven't gotten close enough to you yet. I hope that remains true for you.
  20. But if it's not dismissed with plaintiff paying attorney's costs, I could make a pretty good case that Trump's goal is to intimidate Cohen into silence where Cohen could be a witness against tfg. Could this not be used as evidence that he's trying to intimidate Cohen as a witness?
  21. Sadly, fatty, I saw your post where it certainly looked like you said that. I also saw the post where you asked him to prove you said it. I also saw the post where multiple people pointed you back to the post where it certainly looked like you said that.
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