@raphjd said in Democrats throw "birthing people" under the bus:
"You people" are the idiotic left.
You know, the same ones that claimed Kyle Rittenhouse killed 3 black men in Chicago, even after the trial.
As opposed to you idiot Trumpites who still think Trump won in 2020?
Hmmm... one seems to have been a misstatement, while the other appears to be a heartfelt belief... along with the belief in Leprechauns, Wizards, and Space Aliens! 
Come and let us pity white people. They are the real victims here.
That, in essence, is the battle cry that’s powered much of American politics for the last 30 years, the last 15 in particular. It has echoed from the halls of government to the set of Fox “News” to the far-flung strands of the world wide web.
Poor white people. They are being overrun by caravans when not murdered by illegals or terrorized by Muslims or tyrannized by masks or oppressed by vaccinations or canceled by culture or lied to by media or lied upon by media or cheated by elections or blamed by Blacks or vexed by “Press 1 for English.”
Or replaced — evicted from their God-ordained preeminence by “others” who will be obedient voters for the liberal left. So says the so-called “Great Replacement Theory,” which originated in the fever swamps of white supremacy and now has a regular megaphone on Fox, courtesy of Tucker Carlson.
But that hasn’t been his message alone. It’s also been the message of New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, would-be Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, of conservatism as a whole, in response to a demographic shift first forecast years ago: that by 2050, people of color will constitute a majority of the population. Where some of us saw in that prediction change and challenge, they saw the gains to be made by fomenting white panic.
Thus, it was shocking and painful, but also predictable, that a stupid white boy with a stated belief in the replacement theory allegedly walked into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday and shot 10 Black people to death. Indeed, this was no more surprising than last year’s massacre of Asians in Atlanta, 2019’s massacre of Latinos in El Paso or 2015’s massacre of African Americans at a church in Charleston. Panicked people do terrible things.
But yes, come and let us pity white people. Many certainly pity themselves.
That’s how you get a country where critical race theory is banned by law, but you can learn “great replacement theory” by turning on Fox. Where voting keeps getting harder and gun ownership easier. Where Colin Kaepernick is unemployed, and Carlson is not.
Speaking of which, he addressed the shooting Monday on his show, somehow managing to blame “professional Democrats” without once mentioning the racist theory that he and the alleged shooter both happen to believe.
Garnell Whitfield Jr. was also on television that day. In a grief-tattered voice, he spoke of his family’s anguish at the loss of his 86-year-old mother, Ruth, who died in the shooting. “But we’re not just hurtin’,” he said. “We’re angry. This shouldn’t have happened. We do our best to be good citizens, to be good people. We believe in God. We trust Him. We treat people with decency and we love even our enemies. And you expect us to keep doing this over and over and over again. Forgive and forget. While the people we elect and trust in offices around this country do their best not to protect us, not to consider us equal, not to love us back.”
And suddenly, you knew he was speaking out of a bereft exhaustion that encompassed not just him and his family but all of us who have been betrayed by America and its dream. “What are we supposed to do with all of this anger,” he pleaded, “with all of this pain?”
The question resonated, as it has for years unending. And, as for years unending, no answer immediately presented itself.
But yeah, sure, let’s pity white people. Let’s never forget who the real victims are.
- LEONARD PITTS JR.
Miami Herald, ca. 2022
@raphjd said in Democrats throw "birthing people" under the bus:
Um, from clowns like you.
If you can't see that with your idiotic and hypocritical stance throughout this thread and others on the topic of "trans", then I can't help you.
You said "but they aren't men, though" (paraphrased) in this very thread.
You people got extremely butt hurt when Posie Parker and others said "but they aren't women, though".
Just a month ago you people couldn't define "woman".
"you people"
straw man... by its very definition!
How long have you been losing arguments - HEATED arguments - with yourself? You may want to consider getting help... PROFESSIONAL help! There are conservative therapists too!
Spin the bottle... wrestle to see who's top first!
@raphjd said in Democrats throw "birthing people" under the bus:
It's funny how liberals suddenly became the TERFs they hated prior to the SCOTUS leak.
"But, they aren't women, though" is the new liberal mantra.
Where are you hearing this? One of my more liberal news sources is NPR (and they're pretty damned liberal!), and I haven't heard this crap from THEM!
My dear, are you arguing with your own straw man again?
Its not a 1-way road (from studio stardom to chaturbate and OF largess)... the 2 guys who go by "twinkzz101" (Jacob & Harley) have become 2 of the most sought after actors in studio films in recent years... even straight studios!
This is one of the things we're having to get used to in the Birth of the Internet Age: there are myriad ways for creative people to make money - sometimes a LOT of money - and often with little-to-no startup or "infrastructure" costs!
I do NOT begrudge performers (in ANY genre - from porn to musicians to visual artists) making money! And if they find a way to make a LOT of money, good for them! (So long as they aren't STEALING it, of course - there was a case of a "porn star" who was escorting & stealing from his clients... not the same thing at all!)
@raphjd said in Florida joins other states to ban protesting outside someone's home:
Illinois and several other states have bans on protesting funerals (thanks to Westborough Church).
I can't remember all the details (for Illinois), but the gist is that 30 minutes prior to 30 minutes after a funeral, there is a 150 feet threshold (I think, but it's the same for abortion clinic entrances) away from the church, funeral route and gravesite for written and/or spoke "fighting works" harassment, etc.
SCOTUS rejected the case, letting a lower court ruling stand that sided with Illinois.
Don't conflate my curiosity as to how the current court would rule NOW with a belief that the 1st amendment rights are unburdened by limits! I don't believe that at all!
My point is that the line of where you CAN and CANNOT impose YOUR 1st amendment rights onto others changes over time, and especially with different ideologies... and where we are TODAY is a FAR CRY from what the founders imagined!
But that is the BEAUTY of our Government: The founders did NOT have the HUBRIS of today's Trumpites: they didn't believe they had all the answers, nor even that the answers they HAD at the time were RIGHT!
Where we go from here, I can't say - but I CAN say that it won't stay put! It'll continue to change, and we'll continue to learn the old-fashioned way: by our mistakes!
@raphjd said in Democrats throw "birthing people" under the bus:
As a Pelosi Repub, you will use any excuse to justify your trans-phobia.
You are denying Thomas Beatie's maleness by your statements.
Let's not forget, I learned my stance from your side.
It was your side that said "my penis is biologically female" so the opposite is also true. Thomas Beatie's vagina is biologically male. You people made up the rules and are now getting butt hurt that the other side is obeying your rules.
No one (save you) is confusing Male with Trans-Male... the rest of this is you trying to hide your fear of being replaced by non-White Trans-Men - who are superior to you! They're coming for your house, your job, and eventually your spouse!
You clowns created this mess, with your crackhead mental gymnastics and now it's come to bite you in the ass.
The only one denying anything is the guy in YOUR mirror... There is no mess... you're looking at a lawn of green grass and fretting that each blade isn't exactly as you would like it! It's a perfectly beautiful lawn - even with the occasional weed, and even a few bare patches!
@raphjd said in Is it legal to protest outside justices’ homes? The law suggests NO:
Typical Pelosi Repub response.
LOL - a 1-liner calling me a name!
@raphjd said in Fairfax County VA public schools to suspend students who misgender:
Yes, it does allow parents to sue, but seeing all the TikTok teachers, they needed to be sued.
You, oh great moral arbiter for the entire world, are NOT paying school taxes in Florida!
@raphjd said in Fairfax County VA public schools to suspend students who misgender:
I do love how liberals lie about the Florida law.
It forbids discussing sexual matters with kids below the 4th grade and requires schools/teachers not to keep secrets about what is being taught in class.
That is like saying the US Tax Code encourages home ownership, but little else...
The Florida Law goes WAY beyond the teaching of sex to young children - indeed, that provision in the law is a RED HERRING! Designed to be a LIGHTENING ROD to steer conversations AWAY from the real purpose of the law:
School boards across the state are already re-working budgets to allocate 2x, even 3x more funding to their legal departments to defend against these lawsuits...
Where is that money coming from?
I know this will be a shocking statement, but here goes:
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I take it seriously because OF slowly kills all other kinds of sources of porn. The porn quality accross the board is lowering - in terms of actors, in terms of scenario and in terms of abundance.
This is much more valid for extravagant types of porn like bdsm where we can only dream of the times 2009-2017. Most bdsm related studios and sites have stopped filming or dropped significantly the quality. I mean why would a handsome guy take a role in a bdsm film if he will get the same money for an OF video where he shows his cock?
I'm sorry, but this is just "growing pains" for the Internet!
The Music industry had a COW when people started streaming content, or sharing content on Napster! They warned it was the end of the line for musicians! They'd all starve because people wouldn't pay for albums/CDs anymore!
It didn't work out that way (though it STILL evolving)... but streaming sites pay royalties to artists when people listen to their songs, and by ADAPTING to, and LEVERAGING the Internet, artists today are sill doing pretty damned well!
Porn will adapt! It did when VHS came to market (killing the 8mm film industry), and when DVD came along. Now it's streaming and yes, torrenting... they will adapt, and new ways of enjoying sex and porn will be created...
@Kekkaishi said in Florida joins other states to ban protesting outside someone's home:
@bi4smooth there's already a law that forbids protesting outside of judges' homes. If the new law violates the US Constitution, then so does the old one. I wonder...
I think you miss my point - which is that the rules really ARE different when you're talking about Gov't officials... and JUST HOW DIFFERENT has changed over the years (even the decades/centuries)... and it will CONTINUE to evolve.
The FOUNDERS of this country DID NOT WANT special privileges for the people who served in Gov't... quite the opposite. So, I'd be curious to see if the "fundamentalist" and "originalist" justices of today would feel the same as the liberal "modernist" justices of the 1980s...
@raphjd said in Is it legal to protest outside justices’ homes? The law suggests NO:
Did you read the bit about the federal law that bans this kind of thing?
The federal law (discussed in the article) clearly makes this illegal, even though the White House and DOJ are ignoring it because it suits their agendas.
ROFL - you act as-if the law is clear-cut and boundless... so, all those demonstrators in front of the White House are terrorists (and are in violation of this law)... because the White House is the residence of the US President!
Likewise, people demonstrating outside Speaker Pelosi's house every day should be arrested and deported to their ancestral homes....
Balderdash - of course there are limits (which is what the law REALLY addresses)...
but for YOU - nah... for YOU it's more like:
@raphjd said in Democrats throw "birthing people" under the bus:
Thomas Beatie was legally a man when HE gave birth to all 4 of HIS kids.
Being "legally a man" doesn't stop Mr. Beatie from being a TRANS-man... and Coconut "milk" being "legally milk" doesn't mean "milk" isn't dairy.
AND YET AGAIN, if I dared say that men can not get pregnant or have periods, you would call me a transphobe.
If you had a dick (somewhere other than in your head), we'd call you a man...
I'm sorry, Martha, but not mentioning Trans people in every breath or sentence that references male or female doesn't make you a trans-phobe! Indeed, insisting that every reference to gender include trans is a form of trans-phobia, because you use them as ways to marginalize and "cheapen" the unique existence of Trans people. Indeed, YOU use it as an opportunity to denigrate and even degrade them!
I think there is a clear difference here:
Think: picketers outside the Mayor's house vs the KKK Rally on the lawn of some random black or Jewish family's house.
NOTE: When I'm elected King of Earth, I'll fix all these murky issues with simple, always applicable rules - no exceptions, no judgements, no grey areas... everyone will know right from wrong!
Interesting - the 1988 SCOTUS was a rather LIBERAL court... I wonder if the more Conservative court of 2022 would find the same.
I'm betting this goes back to SCOTUS eventually.
However, this one might not, because it may very well be a violation of the Florida Constitution (vs. the US Constitution).
@jujulette
There are no rules about collections, except that they have a common theme... Oh, and that there has to be a file list in the description.
Be careful how you name your files, I guess?
@raphjd said in Democrats throw "birthing people" under the bus:
@bi4smooth said in Democrats throw "birthing people" under the bus:
@raphjd said in Democrats throw "birthing people" under the bus:
Ah, so there aren't any gay trans-men.
The rest of your post is just typical liberal bullshit.
I know you are too fucking stupid to get it, but I have not argued on either side of the abortion issue. I have just pointed out that you idiotic liberals are all over the map on every topic to suit your current agendas.
What about bald trans man? When they get pregnant, are they denied abortion rights because they're bald? because they're trans? or because they're pregnant?
What about rich, White trans men? When they get pregnant, are they denied abortion rights because they're White? because they're trans? or because they're pregnant? Oh, wait! They're White - they're not denied anything... White people don't want abortion rights, they're too perfect to need them!
So, riddle-me-this, bat-shit-crazy-man? When a Trans person is given a speeding ticket, is it trans-phobia?
More proof that you are nothing but an idiot.
You said men can't get pregnant.
Men cannot get pregnant... Some pre-op Trans-men can, but that's like saying "Milk is dairy" and then being corrected that "Coconut Milk isn't dairy"...
That you cannot accept that simply shows the juvenile nature of your "logic"...
Some little white boys who get bullied on the playground just NEVER grow up, do they?