Posts made by hubrys

@MrMazda My point is that @raphjd is an old snowflake getting triggered by something trivial.

@raphjd

This is a hollow bill. It doesn't do a damn thing that the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution doesn't already do. Under the FF&C Clause, if you're married in one state, then all other states have to give full faith and credit to that marriage. It's why when you elope to Vegas and then fly back home to Alabama, you're still married. Alabama constitutionally must recognize the legal relationship created under Nevada law.

Gay Rights advocates and attorneys have been arguing against the Defense of Marriage Act for this precise reason for decades now.

@raphjd I don't know anything about the threats part of the story, but calling him a "Huffpost Contributor" in an attempt to malign The Huffington Post is a stretch.

HuffPost used to have a "Contributor Platform" where anyone and everyone could post unpaid articles to their system. They weren't moderated or vetted by HuffPost beyond taking down posts after reader complaints. All of his articles are from that platform. He is not, nor was ever, an employee of HuffPost.

You might as well say "Frequent Reddit Poster..."

@raphjd Didn't he originally become an "influencer" by being obsessed with K-Pop, specifically Jimin from the group BTS? I think at one point he claimed to have married a cardboard cutout of Jimin.

Then he tried to become Jimin through surgery, claiming that he was trans-racial. People were upset by his claims of trans-racialism because he was trivializing the elements of a culture. For example, he had his eyes surgically slanted, and claimed that he wanted to get penis-reduction surgery so that he would have a tiny penis like Asian men.

He's an attention whore who has consistently gotten more and more outlandish in attempts at extending his fifteen minutes. He was never truly a trans person. He was a trans woman for six months, and now he's using his de-transitioning to get on shows like Tucker Carlson and extend his 15 minutes even longer.

@Rotron I'd also love to see the look on the faces of all of the MAGA Edgelords in his comments when they learn that Superman was created by two Jewish immigrants.

@Rotron To be honest, I didn't watch that guy's entire video because it quickly became apparent to me that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

It seems that his entire premise was that Son of Kal-El failed because it had "woke" politics in it, as opposed to classic comic books. Um, frankly, anyone who thinks that comics haven't been progressive since at least the 1970's wasn't really paying attention. Comic book writers, and I know and or have met quite a few, old and young, are generally progressive thinkers. From introducing black superheroes like Black Panther, having the X-Men be a stand-in for nearly all oppressed, marginalized peoples (gays, blacks, Latinos, etc.), to Watchmen being anti-Nixon to V for Vendetta being against Thatcherism.....I could go on.

Comics have always been pushing a progressive agenda. That's why they were attacked by traditional, conservative forces, e.g., Congressional investigations after the publication of "Seduction of the Innocent," or the establishment of the Comics Code Authority.

@lololulu19 First, I believe that Superman's son, Jon Kent, is technically bisexual, not gay.

Second, I think those comics are aimed at a younger audience, so I don't see them doing a dildo storyline. I don't think the Comics Code Authority, or what's left of it, would approve. I don't think they've done anything more than kissing in the books.

@Rotron said in UK - All charges over convoy who shouted ‘rape Jewish daughters’ are dropped:

I somehow understand the hatred about Jews, but have they really done anything that harms other people?

While I'm sure that some Jewish people somewhere did something bad to someone, that's true of all peoples, I'm sure.

People hate Jewish people because they are an insular minority that, throughout history, has refused to integrate or convert to the majorities around them. This makes them an Other, and Others are easy targets for hatred.

Also, humans generally have a hard time conceiving that historical events, on a large scale, are random and irrational. Instead, magical thinking leads people to believe that events aren't actually random, but instead are happening because of some cabal or illuminati guiding the seemingly-but-not-really random events. It's the same human tendency to put order onto chaos that leads people to believe in Q-Anon, Lizard People, or that Illuminati.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting

22-year old armed and armored gunman entered lgbtq Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO and opened fire. So far, they have announced 5 dead and 25 injured. Police have not released a motive yet.

LINK: Former Anti-Abortion Leader Alleges Another Supreme Court Breach

The façade of the Supreme Court being an apolitical institution takes another hit as it is revealed that Justice Samuel Alito leaked the result and his authorship of the Hobby Lobby decision weeks before the opinion was released. And now we have a peek into the ultra-wealthy, ultra-conservative individuals and organizations that swarm around the Justices in attempts to sway their decisions.

Andor is pretty good. Luthen is basically Space Batman.

@raphjd Personally, I would love to read, in detail, your personal explanation, in your own words, how Biden's plan is unconstitutional. Please, be as verbose as you like. Don't give me the TL;DR version.

Go ahead...

@Rotron said in Spore/Spores is now a pronoun:

Well he got banned fast at 39 posts!

Yeah, @raphjd tends to ban people when he can't defend himself against them in arguments. But such is the world when you give the wrong sorts even the littlest bit of power.

raphjd, why don't you go back to posting photoshopped pictures and then refusing to admit they're fake even when presented with the original, unedited photo.

@raphjd said in Ann Coulter Tells Trump To 'Shut The F---k Up, Forever!':

I just post what you ass clown losers say, in your own words, and you don't like it because it shows you for the kind of people you are.

The point is that you are a hypocrite because you recognize that Republicans and conservatives can have differing opinions and are not monolithic, yet you unrelentingly assume that anything any Democrat or liberal says is a shared belief of a monolithic Democrats or Liberals. In other words, you recognize distinctions on your side, but refuse to recognize them on the opposing side. That's why you're a moron.

LINK: Trump Wanted I.R.S. Investigations of Foes, Top Aide Says

The reason Trump is convinced that the multiple tax cases and DOJ investigations against him are nothing more than political hit jobs and witch hunts designed to make him look bad, is because that's what he himself did while in office.

"While in office, President Donald J. Trump repeatedly told John F. Kelly, his second White House chief of staff, that he wanted a number of his perceived political enemies to be investigated by the Internal Revenue Service...
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Mr. Kelly said that along with Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe, Mr. Trump discussed using the I.R.S. and the Justice Department to investigate the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan; Hillary Clinton; Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the owner of The Washington Post, whose coverage often angered Mr. Trump; Peter Strzok, the lead F.B.I. agent on the Russia investigation; and Lisa Page, an F.B.I. official who exchanged text messages with Mr. Strzok that were critical of Mr. Trump."

I guess Shakespeare was right. The lady doth protest too much, indeed.

@raphjd No, she's a Republican, which means according to the moronic rules you use when you come here and post some bullshit off Twitter from some nobody who just happens to identify Democrat or Liberal....she speaks for all Republicans.

I'm sorry. Those are the rules that you have set up. Either acknowledge them now, or be an even larger hypocrite.

@raphjd said in Liberals silent on "popular vote" - I wonder why:

Your fellow liberals say we need to go by the popular vote for who runs the country. One would assume that would include Congress.

I'm confused why you think the nationwide count matters in a mid-term election with no nationwide elections. The demographic of people going out to vote in the mid-terms is related to local circumstances.

For example, there were 20 states with Republican incumbent senators running for re-election against Democratic challengers. There were only 14 Democrat states. There were also 5 states with Republican incumbents who had retired, meaning a stronger push to get Republicans in those areas to come out and hold that seat.

Also, there's no guarantee that the election jurisdictions were spread evenly into districts with equal party affiliation. In other words, if just a few of the jurisdictions were heavy Republican districts, then the massive number of Republicans coming out for that district skews the numbers. Yes, there are more registered Democrats in America than registered Republicans, but that doesn't mean that average in applicable evenly across the election jurisdictions.

All of the above was a long-winded way of saying that your argument was based on fallacious reasoning and you're an idiot.

@Drwas Herschel Walker is a lying buffoon, and this is the least of this stupidity. That Texan should never have run for Senate in Georgia.