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Per Fox’s own lawyers, no reasonable person…
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What do you mean by “classical liberal?” Like, I know it’s going to be a difficult, amoral answer, but go ahead.
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Republicans have no moral clarity. It’s been brainwashed out of them. All that’s left is a sense of grievance. The job of a Republican president is only to make cishet white conservative Christians feel like they’re back in control and everyone else is being punished for nonconformity. Stupid or evil. Nikki is evil, my relatives are stupid. if it helps, my relatives are also no longer certain that slavery is a bad thing, and maybe we should bring it back. She’s just got to try to navigate statements that make a splash on CNN while being ignored on Fox. Only Fox matters.
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I sort of disagree. She's prepared for the role. She'd just be an evil piece of shit who left the country worse off than when she walked in, which is to say she's a Republican. She would very competently remove all abortion rights across the country and women would die. She would very competently implement the removal of marriage rights at the federal level for anything besides a relationship approved by Christian moralists. She would very competently end federal welfare programs and people would freeze to death and starve and die of treatable diseases. All while competently implementing the evil that Republicans desperately want. But they don't want her because woman and brown. They want the tall white slovenly obese guy who reminds them of themselves, or who they wish they could be.
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The ELCA churches are decent. Some better than others. In the 70s and 80s there was some moderating in the Missouri Synod, but that got stamped out in the late 80s and early 90s. Wisconsin Synod, where Michelle Crazy-Eyes Bachman attends has always been batcrap crazy. Getting kicked out of the Missouri Synod church I grew up in because being gay is really the only unforgivable sin was probably the best thing that could have happened to me.
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Hope you feel better and stay healthy.
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Bareback Bastards video links go here
NEDenver replied to HardOneLA's topic in Bareback Porn Discussion
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Are Democrats ashamed of Michael Dukakis?
NEDenver replied to highcountrybb's topic in LGBT Politics
It probably has one chance, because the orange ferret stool is old and sick and probably going to die fairly soon of natural causes. Once that happens, if the Republicans and the country are lucky, the power centers will fight amongst themselves and hopefully remove each other from the political map with no real successor remaining. (See the aftermath of the death of Alexander the Great.) -
We’re locked in the paradox of intolerance at this point. We’re not alone. Notably, Russia, the UK, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Uganda are all in the same space. Other places also I’m sure, but just listing places where the hateful right is flexing or dominant is depressing. Until you resolve the eliminationist Right, you just can’t move forward.
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Thanks to 3 decades of Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda, we’re here. I, the first veteran in my family generation and only second including the two older than me, was first told by a family member that I was the enemy of America in 1994. There are no conservative adults. There’s no moderation on THE ONE SIDE and hasn’t been for at least 3 decades. I had a friend in college intern for moderate Republican Senator Slade Gorton as a moderate pro-choice Republican in 1991, and already by then, she was telling stories of hushed meetings and quiet lunches with other moderate Republicans even knowing that moderate right wing Republicans were getting challenged and purged in primaries. Until and unless normal R people take out the entire Republican infrastructure and convince voters to quit scapegoating everyone else, nothing will change. Given how useless the Lincoln Project is, there’s no hope. Regardless, the only one hurting young people are conservatives wanting to starve and de-home them, inflict conversion therapy on gay teens, and just support their parents kicking them out, remove funding for Medicaid, and then leaving them with conservative male role models who do groom and molest them.
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For perspective, they’re banning the gay penguin book in red states. There’s no sex in the gay penguin book. The penguins are as abstractly gay as Will from Will and Grace. If a drag queen reads the gay penguin book there’s no sex. Shrek had more sexualized content, and no one is banning Shrek. The one Florida teacher got in trouble for showing Strange World because teh ghey!!,!!!! There’s no sex in Strange World. No one is banning Shrek and Donkey has sex with a Dragon with offspring.
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No. That’s stupid. Republicans are trying to get people to conform to white cishet norms. So if you want to be in with them just stop having sex with men. It’s the only way they’ll be happy with you.
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It’s disheartening watching so many willfully obtuse people here. The Republicans aren’t trying to save children, or they’d be looking at food stamps, housing, and cutting child poverty. Instead they’re looking to blame other people when their children occasionally turn out to be trans or gay. And the gay and bi people here supporting this as some kind of “pick me” are sad. I’d say pathetic, but more syllables. These discussions are as depressing as old family dinners in the 80s, 90s, 00s (when I stopped going), and family Facebook discussions in the 10s and 20s where people discuss if Latinos will ever work as hard as white people, why won’t black people let them use the n word, why are black people so violent, followed up with why are black people upset when a black person is shot by the cops for failing to signal a lane change in a white neighborhood, why don’t gay people just marry someone of the opposite sex, anyway? Every once in a while, the right wing reminds Ben Shapiro that he’s not white, that Dave Rubin is not straight and shouldn’t have kids, that Blair White should still just stop being trans, and they just bow and scrape meekly. And conservative gays think they’ve got a place? After what the Texas GOP did to the LCRs, what CPAC does every year to them? Just a bunch of sad try hards hoping to be seen as useful, but as soon as they can, the conservatives will take your jobs, home, family, and set your number for the gallows. Or just a fun game of beat the fag with the hockey stick.
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May I suggest watching “Yellowstone” or “The Last of Us” or any of the new Star Wars series? Whole lot of masculinity going on. And that’s just three pieces of entertainment in our media promoting masculinity.
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No. If their priority is to funnel resources from the bottom 99% of society to the top 1%, they're evil. If they're pretending it's not happening or something else is more important, they're stupid. "It's more important that gay people can't teach in schools than that I can eat and have a roof over my head." Stupid.
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Republicans (conservatives elsewhere also) are best understood using the Republican dichotomy: All Republicans are either stupid or evil. Then you just need to figure out for any Republican which category they fall into. And then, really, because they serve no other purpose, you have to decide if you’re willing to fuck a guy who is stupid or evil.
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I don’t think it’s as true that Democrats suck at messaging as it is that the people who control media apparatus are determined to minimize the spread of the Democrats’ message.
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Why is it so difficult to accept that someone is gay?
NEDenver replied to MoonDreamer's topic in General Discussion
Moondreamer, you also mention that things are this way in your country. Some countries are very hostile to LGBT people, mostly because scapegoating is a good way for authoritarians to maintain power. You are under no obligation to risk your safety. If the potentially former friend can cause you harm, then please make a plan for your safety. -
Went through it 15 years ago. Probably the hardest part was cycling through a half dozen pcp’s to find one that’s not homophobic. Haven’t had the homophobic doctor problem since moving to the VA, at least.
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I think that another couple months of Fox cherry-picking stories to be anti-gay/trans and they’ll be primed for sodomy laws. Especially if it removes 10% of the voters from a reliable Democratic voting pool.
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Yeah, my hiv pill is twice the size of my husband’s prep pill. If you’re struggling with the former, you don’t want to need to take the latter.
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He still votes 100% for all the Republican things like starving children, corporate takeover of agriculture, pre-existing conditions in healthcare, monopolization of every industry, bonuses to companies that move overseas, and shifting tax burdens from large corporations and wealthy individuals to the vanishing middle and working classes. Same with Cheney. There are no good Republicans. There are just two who aren’t quite ready to murder the Republic.
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The states congressional districts are still massively gerrymandered. Colorado just redistricted after a referendum that said every district should be as competitive as possible and they still packed Denver into one district and are giving most of the states to Republicans. There are really only two ways to counter that, strategic moving and finding new unaccounted for voters, and the Democrats seem to be passively hoping post Dobbs the latter will happen.
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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.
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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.
