Flat, we are all human, including you and we ALL are imperfect, including myself. All church goers leave church and fail at perfection, which could be viewed as hypocrisy as you state. If it makes you feel better to focus on those particular hipocrits, which you tend to do, I hope you can look inward to figure out why.
JDL is letting his feelings be known....
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at this point I have no choice but to believe that Scott is trolling the entire site by keeping this thread up.
Possibly the longest match of "I know you are but what am I?" I've ever laid witness to.
Anyone know if you can ignore a single thread?
Possibly the longest match of "I know you are but what am I?" I've ever laid witness to.
Anyone know if you can ignore a single thread?
Just want to say I hear you on this. I also am not a fan of either party. Just to take one example, it's been obvious for decades that we needed massive infrastructure spending, especially in the 2010-2020 decade. Both parties were obstructionist and unreasonable, loading proposed bills with garbage when it would favor them, and refusing to come to the middle on things that obviously needed to be addressed, all since the party in power would benefit from the fiscal spending at the time.
More generally, I find politics and associated polarized, biased media (on both sides), misleading and simplistic social media memes, snippets, and endless arguing, immensely frustrating. I have found it useful to try to ignore it to the extent possible. I occasionally check out some news sites briefly and get a lot from social media without looking for it (unfortunately), but I haven't watched any kind of "news" online or on TV in about a year and a half. Shutting all that off has been much better than having biased, garbage "news" designed to piss me off thrown in my face all day or the subject of talking heads yelling at each other.
I still get enough information to handle my and my family's affairs, which is very little due to most of that being entirely out of my control, and it's much healthier. Absolutely nothing in the last 18 months that I would have seen in financial media or found out about from politics-obsessed people online would have been actionable whatsoever. Think about that ... I could have been obsessed with this crap for thousands of hours, making me miserable, and it would not have given me a single actionable insight to do anything that would impact my family or me.
Up to you, but consider giving it a shot. This isn't one of those virtue signaling posts, BTW. I still consume media and don't always spend time in some kind of virtuous way. The never-ending arguments with people online about matters that never will be resolved or lead to anything actionable, though, will just take your time and energy. Think about being on your deathbed someday and looking back to all the time wasted on arguing with guys on a football board about politics, where absolutely nobody's minds are changed, we don't even know the names of 99% of people on here and will never otherwise interact with them, and we sure as hell aren't impacting any casual observers outside of the few dozen people who frequent these boards.
I've written this to you a long time ago, but it's really interesting to me how being around all these far-right guys in Kansas has altered your perspective. I had the opposite experience when spending time in an extremely far-left environment for several years. Viewed myself as center-left going into there, but being around extremists pushed me the other way if anything. I get it, but without trying to be preachy, I would avoid getting sucked into that crap if you can. Just recognize those guys for what they are ... a bunch of far-right partisans in one small area of the midwest. Who cares. If you were in SF, you would probably find a lot of the partisans there irritating as hell, too (understandably), and you would find yourself pushed more center-right by seeing how ridiculous those people are. On both sides, the extremists are full of shit.
Ditto this entire post.
Quit twitter, got rid of anyone on fb who posted political crap only, and have only recently started watching the local news again.
I've been much happier and I've told friends and family who seem to be fixated on the issues that unplugging is a great option.
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The right doesn't want to cut little boys balls off and have a dude, whose now a "woman", read to kids on his lap. Sorry, if the right has to take all responsibility of the "far-right" then the left has to take all responsibility for the weird green haired pedophiles using their sex change as an opportunity to get closer to their victims.
Yeah - just one more reason of too many to count that I’ll be cancelling my WaPo subscription. Already ditched the WSJ due to their Mickey Mouse opinion pages.
yeah, but... that's not really the issue, is it? Wouldn't a better discussion center around why only our society has decided to placate these individuals, who formerly were classified as having a mental disorder? We can't even use the terms "normal" and "abnormal" without the fear of *gasp* offending someone. I find it much more offensive to ignore a problem that could be addressed instead of placating these individuals and telling them "yes, adopting the identity of the opposite gender is perfectly fine and normal and we should all be doing it, we're just not as brave as you."
Many of these people have a host of other mental health issues, but we stand here and go "we'll treat you for depression, bi-polar, borderline personality, but we'll ignore your trauma and act as if being trans isn't a symptom."
If someone is otherwise well adjusted and wishes to live a trans lifestyle or fully make the transition, more power to them. However, I don't think its a coincidence that this group has an abnormally high suicide rate, and blaming it on the one asshole in high school who called you a "fag" is failing to address the bigger issues.
Also, MtF do not get to compete in womens sports. Period. End of story. I don't care how low your testosterone is, its a hard NO. IIRC there was a FtM who competed in a combat sport, and to coin a phrase, he "f'd around and found out."
IMHO.
OH MAN ED YOU TOTALLY GOT ME! MY ONE POST TOTALLY KEPT THIS 14 PAGE POST ROLLING. I'M SUCH A SHITBAG - OH ED, YOU TELLER OF TRUTHS...
Every time I'm like, "yeah, it's best to let this stuff go", someone posts stupid sh!t like this. It's sad that you have no clue about how stupid your post is and how dumb it makes you look.
I've got plenty of issues with the left and it infuriates me to see idiots supporting men participating in women's sports because I believe that it is inherently unfair to the girls and women who just want a fair environment. The right is completely delusional and bombastically stupid about just every other transgender issue.
Only a fool thinks that people are "choosing" to be transgender so that they can satisfy pedophile urges.
Instead of suggesting that I look inward, maybe you should suggest that all those churchgoers look inward and question whether or not they are really following the teachings of Christ when they worship at the feet of Donald Trump.
FWIW, I have looked inward....and the reason that I'm so angry about Trump and the right's support of him is that I have too much integrity and ethics to ever debase myself to support a man like him. The selfishness and greed of the Christian Right is astonishing to see in person. The folks on the left are obviously flawed too, but far fewer of them like to spout religious platitudes as they ignore them in practice. Lots of Christians walk through life being sh!t human beings hoping that the whole "Jesus Saves!" thing is going to work out for them.
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Hahahahaha go run the plates on those people and then get back to me.
But yes, that /\ crap has to stop. That dude needs help. Where are all the pink vagina hat wearing liberals?
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Great post, and yes there is a bigger issue that needs to be addressed. The suicide rate is around 42% I believe now, which is absolutely absurd, you bring that up though? You will get "cancelled".
Sad times
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The 21% pay increase was to match the REAL inflation.
Wowzer....i guess that is one take. I found this post a bit strange, and totally out of left field. The first one was ironic. I made no comments on who you are personally. Or that your behavior is one way or another. How does saying a post is ironic get morphed into you scum...? Similar to your vaccine comment that those who dont get vaxed are "dirty". That is a bit strange....from where I sit on my computer.
What do you mean "only our society" and "placate"? Just to make certain we are talking about the same thing by "placate", are you referring to something other than basic non-descrimination in society?
This is a AMAZINGLY complex issue with zero absolute perfect solutions.
But for starters, do you recognize gender-dysphoria as a real, legitimate thing?
This is WAY more complicated than you realize. You do not appear to be up to speed on this issue. But we could have a civil discussion if you'd like. Taihtsat
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Right. As soon as it get turned back around on the left it's immediately, "You don't know what you're talking about!", "It's complicated".
Womp womp womp.
Cause many times those are the people trying to shape policy and have biggest voice .
JC .. aren’t you anti mandate that people should have the right to do what they wish with their bodies ?
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Not when the person is under 18. Let kids be kids.
I dont care what people do when they're adults. However the suicide rate is 42% among transgendered so...
Your statistic is misleading. According to some studies, about 40% of transgender youths report that they’ve attempted suicide. I haven’t found anything that indicates a success rate, although obviously if they report an attempt, they did not succeed.
In the overall population, about 60% of attempts are successful. The success rate is much lower among all youth populations, but suicide remains the #2 cause of death for populations age 10-34. It’s in the top 10 for the general American population.
The highest suicide rates - and the highest success rate - is actually in adult men. They’re about 75% successful on their first attempt, likely at least in part because they’re most likely to use firearms.
The bigger concern, I think, is that rates are climbing among almost all American age groups and ethnicities. It seems pretty clear that there’s a systemic problem. There’s almost certainly some form of mental health issue at work (which is likely also at the root of mass shootings, workplace violence, and a number of other social ills) which is not being addressed. I think narrowing the focus to say that the suicide rate among transgender is too high is inappropriate. The suicide rate is too high, period. That should be the focus, but within a broader mental health campaign. If that campaign also impacts “gender dysphoria,” great. If not, at least we can try to reduce the number of people who believe their best option is to end it all.
Perhaps the reason that the suicide rate is high for transgendered kids is because people like you tell them that they are future pedophiles and you treat them as second class citizens? You can hold your head high because you are doing your part to drive them into depression and suicide.
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Oh right, it's my fault they decide to kill themselves, it's definitely not the fact they mutilated their genitals in an attempt to be something they can never be.
I don't want anyone to commit suicide or feel like that is their only way out. People need help, and the help these people need is too hard to get right now in this country.
Well …you are correct it isn’t your fault because you clearly see them as human beings and the right to live in the manner in which they choose.
Twenty years ago it was gay rights . The country was going to hell because gay people could get married . Is that really the problem ?
I see it much more damming to allow people to classify people .. for example , kids who were conceived out of wedlock .. bastard child . Who would name a kid that way ? Or a kid who was not planned … “ a mistake”. We got so use ti these terms we don’t bother to thing about the labels young kids have to deal with.
There is a five year old boy who lives down the street. Always has a pink skirt on. Do I know how this kid will turn out ? Not at all. Will he be gay, straight, try to have a sex change ? Couldn’t tell you . But what I will tell you he is a nice kid . And however he turns out o bet he turns out to be a nice adult . Do i wish he would make life easier on himself ? You bet .
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Instead of giving each other reach arounds perhaps you two intellectual titans could explain how this is his fault and what he is supposed to be doing to fix it.
The fact you have to ask other people to explain how the current issues facing this nation are directly tied to the policy decisions made by your weak ass president, only exposes you as a complete tard. Untard yourself so that you won't make a complete fool of yourself anymore.... If that's entirely possible.
As expected: a non answer.
If it’s so obvious to you then it should be easy for you to explain how this is Biden’s fault and how you would fix it.
You think he would have an answer.
Of course, if Trump was president, the GOP would be saying that inflation is a necessary side effect of the incredible economy that he had created. They would be touting the low unemployment and GDP growth and reassuring everyone that price increases would moderate as supply and demand rebalanced. All the negatives would be ignored. Of course, to be fair, democrats would be focusing on the negatives then. Team sports, baby! Go Team!
Well, I didn't bring a "left" or "right" political angle into this. Can you have a discussion that doesn't involve That about something you are ignorant (not stupid) ignorant on? You lack the appropriate scientific/biological knowledge to be saying the things you are saying with any credibility.
Do you think sexuality is binary...strictly make and female? And if so, why do you believe that?
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Yes of course it's male and female, anything else is psychological issues/disorders.
Why do I believe that? Because you're either born with a cat or a rooster. What happens after birth with influences and pressures disfigures some people into believing something that's not true and not natural. I think a lot of transgender think that the conversion will fix all of their problems and it doesn't because there is underlying issues that need solved, which is the reason for the high suicide rate.
