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🤣 but it doesn’t even have to be raw fucking. All you have to do is touch the person you’re having sex with, which leads to questions of what exactly straight people do together.

Are you saying vaccination works similarly regardless of virus type? Or are you saying a coronavirus vaccine should protect against a pox virus? Because those are completely different statements. There’s no reason to think coronavirus vaccines would work on a different virus like monkeypox. Similarly, flu vaccines don’t work against coronaviruses or polio viruses.

But even if he shows up to the leather orgy, he does get to decide who fucks him and who he fucks. Still, a 5-years-after threat of "you assaulted me because the foreplay was aggressive" is over the top. Seriously, maybe I should put "I like hard aggressive kissing and foreplay" in my profiles just to scare off whiners.

Just checked with the ID clinic and with my boss at the VA and there’s nothing resembling a plan. It’s really disappointing. We know the disease, have a vaccine, have tests, and a treatment, and literally none of it is being moved into place 3 months in.

Got a quick pump and dump from a guy I met on Scruff. Hot daddy with a thick cock. He rocked back and forth until he pushed in. Pumped in good and hard for about 5 minutes, asked where I wanted the load and he blew it inside for me.

So quit falling for cheap marketing tricks. The Republican Party is one big glittering generality with a bunch of bandwagons and your Clinton whataboutism.

I know my gay history to know that 1) He signed the Defense of Marriage Act to delay a Constitutional Amendment. The Defense of Marriage Act wasn't lobbied for by Clinton, it was something the conservatives in both parties insisted on. By that I mean just about every Republican in 1996 and some Democrats. Now it's still nearly every Republican in the Senate, save the Mormons hoping to expand on same sex marriage to include polygamy. Not that I'm against that, but Lee and Romney are innately amoral people. They're not heroes, despite them being there for non-traditional man-woman marriages. 2) Bill Clinton was poised to allow open service in the military when the conservatives in Congress--some Democrats, but nearly every Republican--insisted that he not. As a compromise, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue became a thing. Just for some background, I was in the service at the time. I had some friends come out right after Clinton made his announcement who then got kicked out because they violated DADT. It's shitty, but the shit isn't from Clinton. The shit is from conservatives. That's not opinion, that's just straight fact. The bad things that happen are not from Democrats, despite your bizarre bait and switch attitude. The Republicans are not your friends. They want you back hiding in the shadows. Even the cowardly moderates like Biden aren't trying to ruin your life, they're just afraid of the next bigoted talking points coming out that you'll fall for. This strange Prager U worthy level of dis-education is disturbing, but it's basically falling for weak logical arguments, faulty premises, occasionally reaching back 150 years to find a grievance and pretending it's relevant today, and if it's repeated often enough, and your weak-minded family and friends all fall for it, it's easy to fall for it, too. It's all marketing and propaganda techniques, and they're used by conservatives because they know they work. After about 2 decades of everyone knowing that gays weren't predators hunting children, we're back to those arguments because conservative talking points and lies.

You poor thing.

They’re supposed to wear gloves and a mask already. The actual fuck, people.

So, because I'm currently a data scientist, and taught math in a previous lifetime (and am therefore a pedant), this isn't an exponential equation it's basically quadratic. An exponential function will have the form y=c^(x) (basically a constant raised to the power of x. If you have the data, you should be able to get Excel to spit out the exponential function for you. Something to watch out for with exponential functions is that there's almost always some type of logistics problem where the growth is eventually impeded by lack of a resource (people here is a resource). Anyway, have fun with math!

I think it's important to understand that Republicans have been trained that facts don't matter more than their feelings. I'm sure he feels abortion is riskier than pregnancy. From that point, reality doesn't come into play. It's like that stupid woman testifying in Congress that when the 10-year old rape victim got an abortion, that wasn't an abortion because she didn't object to it, and she objects to abortion, so everything's good. All we have to do is focus group every case by a bunch of goddamned motherfucking Republicans.

But sometimes. And that's what the Republicans are upset about. All of it. Wedding cakes, civil rights, everything. They're put upon and now they're angry and have been told they don't have to take it anymore, so they're coming for us.

[think before following links] https://xhamster.com/videos/breeding-xhB3meT

It was reality before 2015, which is really only 7 years ago. One partner would die, even with a will, the family would contest and win, and kick the grieving partner out of their home. Gay parents who had kids in previous marriages were denied custody or even visitation. Republicans are aggrieved because they can't keep doing all that. Just having to not punish people they consider less than them is enough cause.

I don't think he's trolling. I think he's just a Republican.

Think of the chaos that they could cause? The harm and liberal tears? Since that's literally the only thing remaining to the GOP platform, why wouldn't they? It's been 7 years. Roe v Wade was 50 and they obliterated that with an ideological whim. My understanding is that they can't really nullify the marriage, but they can revoke all of the rights and privileges that come along with it. I got married in 2014 in Maryland. Then I came home to Colorado and had to have a separate Civil Union because Colorado didn't recognize the marriage from Maryland. Imagine going on a road trip from Denver to Seattle and being married in Colorado, legal strangers in Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho, and married again when you get into Oregon and Washington. What happens if you get in an accident in one of the intervening states and the hospital righteously denies you hospital visitation or even any information on the status of your husband-in-other-states-but-not-shitty-Republican-states? What happens if they instead call his family for permission for medical procedures because you're not related to him and can't make decisions. They're Republicans. The cruelty is the point. (And Log Cabin Republicans are chumps.)

Oh. Also Thomas wants to pull a Clarence on Griswold, too, so no more guarantees on birth control, including simply condoms.

Abortion is far more safe than pregnancy, especially for poor women. Also, a bunch of fetal abnormalities are not seen until after the first trimester. In those cases bearing and giving birth is harder on the pregnant person and at best leaves an infant to struggle in pain until it inevitably dies. I’m not pro-unnecessary pain and suffering. It should be left to the pregnant person to decide with medical advice from their physician.

Biden’s attitude about the functionality is perplexing. Maybe he could find someone with a front row seat to the Senate’s dysfunction during the Obama presidency who could explain that the Republicans stopped cooperating in the governance of the nation.

My VA hospital’s ID clinic is expecting vaccines to be available sometime between late August and early October. In the meantime I have some resistance yet from my childhood smallpox vaccine.

Oh, wait. Did you mean high gas prices? That’s strictly the result of capitalists finally setting the correct price according to capitalism. Granted there’s some collusion happening there, and I expect prices are finally coming down because phone calls were made about antitrust and colluding to set prices high. Amazing how many right wingers I know don’t understand capitalism even though it’s there favorite thing—far better than Jesus, for sure

Biden has been okay. Not good, not great but okay, and that’s outperforming my expectations. However, as a normal person, Republican/conservative policies are a train wreck and have been for at least 40 years. So just having a Secretary of Education sitting on student loan forgiveness for victims of fraud is net positive. Allowing trans people to exist without harassment is net positive. The most terrifying thing for me is how red state gerrymandering is probably going to screw us all in November. Biden is fine only because the alternative is a nightmare.

[think before following links] https://gcn.ie/conservative-lawyer-access-prep/ Arguing on behalf of his clients, Mitchell writes: “The PrEP mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by forcing self-insured religious employers to underwrite coverage that violates their religious beliefs, and by making it impossible for religious individuals and employers to purchase health insurance that excludes this objectionable coverage.” “The PrEP mandate forces religious employers to provide coverage for drugs that facilitate and encourage homosexual behaviour, prostitution, sexual promiscuity, and intravenous drug use.” It's a lot of blah-blah conservatives want consequences for people they don't like.

They don't really care about what the basis of the previous decisions are. All that matters is that they're ideologically opposed to the outcomes of the decision. Lawrence is more important than Obergefell, because if they overturn Lawrence, the red states get to immediately lay felonies on 15% of the population, a population which overwhelmingly votes against Republicans. In one step they get to punish their political "enemies", weaken the political opposition's coalition, and be cruel. And then 3-6 months later, an expedited hearing from Texas about why they have to recognize marriages based on illegal acts. Anyone in a red state needs to have an exit plan. "Moving is expensive," is not a reason to not have an exit plan. Felonies are expensive. You lose access to most high-end jobs; you lose your vote; you'll probably have to register as a sex offender, further limiting where you can live. I live in Colorado, and it's probably safe, but I've still got a friend in the PNW who I can bolt and live with while getting re-established. I know what goes if all I can take is what fits in the car, and what gets packed and shipped if I need to fly out because I'm surrounded by New Mexico and a whole shitload of jackass states. And I'm probably safe. The red states aren't safe.

You are not required to do unsafe things. If they want to visit, they can come to you. If you're generous, you can help pay for plane/train tickets/gas.