Go find the posts where I ripped into Texas about their failed power grid after the hurricane that hit Houston a couple years ago. Oh, that's right! I didn't use a natural disaster for partisan political posturing.
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I dish it as well as I receive it? You mean the little old one of me versus the 7 or 8 of y'all? 🤣 Maybe as well, but definitely not as much.
President Biden's being one of the 3 worst Presidents of all-time -- a concession in itself I've forced you to make, as you were claiming he was the absolute worst until recently -- is an indefensible position. It's not an example I dismiss. It's a bad example I tear to shreds with 3 names. Call it nitpicking is just a cover for your vocabulary failings. I've explained this clearly repeatedly, including today. And lol at the guy claiming the left is 100% evil telling me I dismiss all your "evidence."
I'm neither innocent nor a victim of anything here. Target, sure.
So you’re saying the leadership of California has been good? Quit playing party politics. It’s either right or not. But again, you’re just a party hack.
Your last paragraph says it all. You will believe anything your side spouts out. The climate is always changing, it’s just a big money grab. Big pharmacy is the same, you probably got 8 covid boosters by now.
I saw where our new Governor Josh Stein (Democrat) is offering campers for those left homeless in the NC mountains. He gained my respect for doing that. Cooper did very little to help those in need. Dattier would never give props to Trump or other Republicans.
If Trump gave Datt a Hundred Dollars, he’d complain that it was wrinkled.
You aren’t paying attention. I do this with the utmost integrity. I did it A LOT in the aftermath of the election.
Uh, no, that’s not at all what I said. I gave an example of my not doing exactly what you accused me of doing. You’re ignoring that and moving the goalposts.
I don’t keep up with California politics, and neither do you. In connection to the fires, you’ve been fed talking points from the extremist alt-media who hold your puppet strings.
It’s really rich for you to make fun of the media I report. I mean really rich. Especially after what MSM tried to do for the last 5 plus years. And I’m being generous calling it 5.
My opinions have been supported by several independent to left wing thinkers since before Trump won the election. You just refuse to acknowledge it.
We know why. You refuse to admit your puppet masters have been lying to you.
It has been well documented that policies in California from sweeping forests, to control burns, to removal of dead wood, to rerouting rain and snow melt into the ocean instead of into reservoirs when you have millions of people living in drought and fire prone areas, to cutting funds to the fire department, to focusing on diversity and so much more have not caused the fires, but made them worse and crippled response efforts. You don't have to closely follow California policies to see their humongous fvck ups. You just have to take 15 minutes to learn about them. You're being a deliberate fool by challenging this narrative.
The same talking points used by local residents and the fire chief herself. It’s such a huge right wing conspiracy even the LAFD has been infiltrated!
Just like Democrats didn’t use Katrina or a pandemic for partisan political posturing. Right on
Former British child star dies on family estate in LA fires after ‘water shut off’
British-born star, who was born blind and lived with cerebral palsy, was unable to be rescued
www.independent.co.uk
She wants to hold someone accountable. This, along with the fact that she was on Jesse Watters the other night, suggests she’s about to go AWOL from the Hollyweird group think cult
But, but, but, there’s no grooming going on in educational settings.
Imagine the sh- storm if she were an evangelical and she talked to the kids about Jesus
She’s a trailblazer Or did she jump on the bandwagon at precisely the right time? To become famous due to her gender identity She’s overcome nothing, but ridden the coattails of wokeness to a nice life. I wish her the best however
She has her own truth, her own journey. Groovy. Couldn’t you say the same about pedophiles though? Where do you draw the line? Separating the normalizing of mental illness and society saying enough is enough.
That's gracious and kind of you.
You could, I guess, but why would you? I would draw that line decidedly between adult and child, as would every person in society except for some actual pedophiles and statutory jailbait. (I think even most pedophiles probably recognize it's wrong and would draw the line in the same place.) I don't understand how an attraction to adults of any gender or identifying as a different gender than your biological sex has anything to do with pedophilia. Even if according to your own morals it's "deviant," how would it be any more connected to pedophilia than to shoplifting or any other crime society would deem as deviant? Even if you consider it mental illness, why would it have any more connection to pedophilia than clinical depression or schizophrenia?
Gender confusion or dysphoria was once, very recently, considered a mental illness by the Dsm IV and psych community at large. Why was it removed? As far as I know, by pressure from the Left and Alphabet community. If the political winds change with the help of the ever complicit Legacy media who knows what heretofore deviant behaviors will be considered acceptable down the road?
Every society draws that line between adult and child in a diff place, though. Many adherents to Islam don’t draw it all. Iraq is trying to lower the age of consent to 9, although it doesn’t matter much since the child bride epidemic in Muslim countries is seldom taken seriously and European countries refuse to address it out of fear of being called racist
I think the medical field is far more influenced by growing knowledge than from political pressure. Gender dysphoria existed for a long time before it was politicized.
"Consenting adult(s)" is a key phrase throughout all matters related to sexual activity and gender. That forever excludes pedophilia from future acceptance.
In countries with arranged marriages and child marriage, the custom is to wait on sexual activity until later. I had a student from Saudi Arabia who was promised to a man back home. She was cool with it because she trusted her parents to make a wiser choice than she would. 🤷♂️
Even in the US, different states draw the line in different places. It's 16 in NC (not sure if there are stipulations like "with a partner up to 19"). It's 18 in other (most?) places. I think it's appropriate to distinguish between pedophilia and ephebophilia, the former being absolutely unacceptable and the latter having some gray area. It's still cringy and icky to me, personally, but I recognize there is gray area. We all had peers when we were 16 who were more mature than some people we knew at 21, for example. In fact, the human brain doesn't finish developing until 25! Clearly we're not going to consider everyone under 25 a child, so I accept that the line may not be so clearcut. It ain't 9, though, for sure.
