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TubularTittyFrog

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  • GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids

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  • OK.

    it is about me, and about you. it's about everyone. I used to teach. funniest part of it was people think it was a some sort of deep revelation when they learned something.

  • MAGA ‘was all a lie’: Marjorie Taylor Greene torches Trump in scathing new interview

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  • she's making a lot of money though. weird how being a psycho turd makes you rich from booksales and media appearances.

    almost as if she mostly cares about that. as do most of the politicians and pundits...

  • Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

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  • You just went full circle and now are arguing in support of what I originally claimed.

    You're just mad I didn't spout off specific incidents and made some grandiose claim that one incident is the 'root' of all of this.

    You are just being petty and trying to 'one up' me. Yeah, it's a ad hominim attack, because you're attacking me for an ad hominem reason. You don't like the way I said something.

    I don't regard you argument as nuanced at all. I regard it as crude and biased to living memory as if our current atrocities are somehow unique and special, they aren't. Americans always have hated each other and should out internal enemies amongst their fellow citizens. The enemy just changes over time, but there is always one.

    This is why the left in this country is such a joke. lots of petty people trying to 'have the better argument' rather than just shut up and agree. or worse, trying to be 'more enlightened' about an issue, or 'more woke' or whatever buzzword virtue status bullshit they are chasing for clout.

  • Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

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  • so violence is cool, as long as it's against anyone who isn't like you, or doesn't look like you, right?

    And if anyone says maybe that's not cool, they aren't one of you, and violence is justified against them.

    awfully convenient.

  • We Want Collapse

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  • you are just quoting propaganda. repeatedly. and claiming it's evidence.

    then when i claim something as evidence, you claim it's propaganda, not evidence.

    and around and around we go.

  • They can't answer this

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  • So is everyone who is progressive now conservative?

    Or it's only on certain issues. If I'm for weed, but against immigration, am I progressive or conservative?

  • Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

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  • sorry, do you think all stories must be a certain way? or subscribe to a certain structure?

    i mean, there are lots of different types of cars. a monster truck isn't for travel, not is drag strip racer.

    No, I'm just not a twat who threatens people with violence with they have a different perspective. Do you want to go beat the crap out of Stanley Kubrick because he didn't make the movie you wanted him to make? Does it offend you that thinks you don't like or enjoy, exist?

  • Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

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  • depends on how much money you have.

  • GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids

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  • I mean we clearly both understand it.

    You can't stop it from happening. Anymore than you can stop yourself from needing oxygen to breathe. Reality is limited, people are limited. My perspective is rare and only a product of certain luxuries that many people don't and will never have and many people are totally hostile to my perspective to the point they'd kill me if they could.

    I've been threaten with violence and physically attacked by people on the right and the left for my own viewpoints. Because violence is a great way to silence people who are different than you. Reason I left reddit was because I was constantly being banned for my perspectives that human beings are what they are and there is no changing us into beings of perfect good, and believing you are a being of perfect good is the more surefire way for you to justify violence and evil upon others.

    I just pursue my own good and focus on what I value as bettering myself. Other people disagree with me deeply about that and often tell me that I'm a stupid idiot for not doing what they think I should be doing, which is mostly agreeing with them and validating their choices and beliefs. But my choices come at a cost, I don't get to 'belong' or be a part of any tribe because I won't pursue the party line of 'us vs them' and people think I'm a selfish-jerk for not doing so. Even in personal relationships, I refuse to see the world in 'us vs them' terms and it drives my partners insane because to them the point of a family is to form a unit to 'protect' itself from the 'evils' outside of the unit.

  • You have got to be shitting me

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  • The democrats obsession with 'professionalism' is what alienates them from a broader voter base. They refuse to let their candidates be relatable to average people.

    A 'dumb yokel' democrat would be a presidential winner. Carter, Clinton, Obama all won on charm, not policy.

  • Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing an influx of new members

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  • they are both tools for a job.

    you seem to think the only point of owning a gun is to commit violence against other people. you're wrong.

  • 'No, That Is Not Your Job,' Say Critics After Schumer Claims 'Job' Is to 'Fight for Aid to Israel' | Common Dreams

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  • oh wait, was i suppose to pretend the genocide doesn't exist or something?

    it doesn't matter if they are monolithic or not, the ones with the money largely are.

    follow the money.

  • GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids

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  • I mean if you truly feel that way, you will be rejected forever. Because people naturally want to form exclusionary groups and they don't like people who want inclusion.

  • GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids

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  • Yes, but they get rejected by society largely, because people don't like people who don't want to be a part of the tribe.

    And you want everyone to die. Because everyone wants someone to die. If not physically, at least spiritually.

    What you don't get is that anti-queer people see queer people as a existential threat. Hence why they are very motivated. You want to say they are crazy and delusional, and they are, but that doesn't mean their feelings aren't real. They very much believe queer people are going to steal their children if they don't stop them.

  • GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids

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  • Even if tomorrow trans people stopped being an issue, there would be some new group to cause controversy over or who wants recognition that isn't getting it.

    In my town there are now debates over the legalization of polyamory, for example. Because here queer/trans issues are largely over and done with. One city in my state legalized it, but it's such a tiny minority of people it's not a big deal yet. Also, since only one town legalized it, it has no broad hold on state-wide laws or institutions. It just means that they allow you plural filing of marriage licenses in the town clerk office and town employees can have their multiple spouses covered under healthcare, etc. And knowing some poly people... they love to go on about how society oppresses an is unfair to them and how monogamy is evil.

    And yes, there will always be backlashes. That's how people are. The answer to your question is to just... campaign better. Liberals/leftists don't really fight, because they don't really believe. People on the right, fight and believe, and have been fighting for decades. They simple care more about being against you and thus they tend to rally more support. They fought against abortion for decades and decades and the left mostly didn't care about it, so they lost.

    the liberals fought in the 1960s and won. then largely chilled out for the next 50 years and the conservatives started being the belligerent and winning and the left has been on the defensive ever since.

  • Forces given ‘blank check’ to kill protesters in Iran, senior official says

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  • Sort of an existential external threat, pretty much.

    If aliens invaded, we very much would start cooperating. But once they were fended off, we never much would go back to tearing each other apart.

  • Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing an influx of new members

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  • Guns can also just... be a hobby.

    I have bicycles. I don't ride them as some political statement. I ride them because it's fun.

  • Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing an influx of new members

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  • So is driving a car. Is driving a car stupid and pointless then?

    I got a gun because I want a gun. Just like I have a car because I want a car. I barely use my car, but it's sure awesome to have one when I need it and a lot better to have it and not need it than to not have one at all.

    I'm not campaigning against ICE. I am not under any delusions of grandeur here that my .22 pistol is going to stop what is going on. It's for target shooting and being halfway decent when i go shoot guns with my family on the holidays.

  • Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

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  • It's not an argument. It's literally the point of the movie dude.