Posts made by hubrys

@raphjd said in Why people need to lead by example:

A fake photo.
You lie.

Your original post is a fake photograph that has been edited. Are you seriously denying it?

@raphjd I have no doubt that the WSJ newspaper, overall, is read by more liberals than conservatives, since it's written at a college degree reading level and read by mostly affluent persons (which happens to have more liberals in its demographics). However, the WSJ's Opinion page (which is where what I linked is located) is notoriously conservative. It's owned by Rupert Murdock's News Corp., you know, the same company that runs FOX News. It also endorsed Trump for president.

@raphjd said in Trans serial killer strikes again in NYC:

Talking about a trans-person doing bad is not saying that ALL trans-people do bad.

I agree. Which is why I asked the original poster what the motivation for this post was, especially since it was posted in "Politics & Debate." What political or debate issue does NY having another serial killer touch on? It seemed like the OP was responding to something unstated in his post.

Doesn't Netflix's "Altered Carbon" have a few nude scenes as well, at least season one?

@raphjd said in Trans serial killer strikes again in NYC:

Are you against talking about when trans-people do bad things?

I'm against talking about individual crazy people and trying to generalize their mental problem onto an entire class of persons who happen to share a trait with the crazy person.

This serial killer is as much evidence that trans persons are murderers as Jeffery Dahmer is evidence that gay men are cannibals.

@raphjd said in Why people need to lead by example:

I never said anything about ALL liberals.

Then please delineate the specific, discrete, and distinct liberals that you were referring to. If you truly were not casting aspersions about all liberals, then you should easily tell me explicitly and in detail which specific liberals you were directing your comments.

If you can't do the above, then you were obviously making generalized statements about a category of peoples and the quoted language from you above is a pitiful defense.

Also, you posted a fake photograph.

Well, first, we need to reiterate as frequently as we can that you've been caught now spreading fake, edited photographs and that needs to be a millstone hung around your neck from now on, and I encourage all of your frequent opponents on here to consistently and constantly throw it in your face.

Second, I'm amazed it never occurs to you how absurd your reliance upon this example to prove "how all liberals think." Even if we assume that this professor was not being satirical, what was the response? He was condemned by his liberal college and forced onto administrative leave.

"Drexel became aware today of Associate Professor George Ciccariello-Maher's inflammatory tweet, which was posted on his personal Twitter account on Dec[ember] 24, 2016. While the University recognizes the right of its faculty to freely express their thoughts and opinions in public debate, Professor Ciccariello-Maher's comments are utterly reprehensible, deeply disturbing, and do not in any way reflect the values of the University. The University is taking this situation very seriously. We contacted Ciccariello-Maher today to arrange a meeting to discuss this matter in detail."

In other words, you focused on what one dumbass said and universalized it onto all liberals while actively ignoring the response from liberals to that statement. It's almost like you're a biased asshat.

@raphjd said in Clinton-Backed Haiti Pastor Indicted on Child Sex Charges.:

It's strange that only I only ever hear what Qanon believes from liberals.

[https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-is-qanon-what-we-know-about-the-conspiracy-theory-11597694801](link url)

There's a high-level summation. And if you think the Wall Street Journal is "liberal," then you are a <monumentally stupid person whose level of ignorance and lack of cognitive ability is truly and magnificently staggering.>

Edited for compliance with the rules.

@raphjd said in Why people need to lead by example:

but as I showed later in the thread, we have heard that kind of thing before from white liberals.

“On Christmas Eve, I sent a satirical tweet about an imaginary concept, ‘white genocide’. For those who haven’t bothered to do their research, ‘white genocide’ is an idea invented by white supremacists and used to denounce everything from inter-racial relationships to multicultural policies.... It is a figment of the racist imagination, it should be mocked, and I’m glad to have mocked it. White supremacy is on the rise, and we must fight it by any means.”

• George Ciccariello-Maher

@bi4smooth said in Clinton-Backed Haiti Pastor Indicted on Child Sex Charges.:

No, he's taking joy in the fact that the sicko child molester was - in any way or at any time - associated with the Clinton's.

Clearly what's going on is that the Clintons are in on a global child-molestation ring wherein they extract brain chemicals from the abused children in order to make immortality potions for wealthy Liberal elites. And, God, I wish that last sentence was a joke and not literally what some QAnon people truly believe.

@bi4smooth Is the point of this post to let us know NY has another serial killer, or is this a commentary on trans persons? Crazy knows no demographic boundaries.

Can you guys take the Kyle Rittenhouse shit back to the forum thread where it belongs, so that this thread can get back to the real subject: raphjd posted a doctored photograph and is refusing to acknowledge his mistake.

Crap like this doesn't help anything. MTG is enough of a shitshow all on her own; you don't need to make up stuff. Now, her defenders will constantly refer back to this in order to deflect attention away from the next bullshit thing she says.

Wow, are you a dumbass!

"The original photograph has been online since August 2017 and was most likely taken at a counter-protest to the “Unite The Right Rally,” a white supremacist event held in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of one person. The pictured protester was urging “white people” to do their part in ending racism, similar to a number of other protest signs seen at the rally, including one in the background of this photograph which reads “White America: It’s on us. Fight White Supremacism.”

[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/protest-sign-end-white-supremacy/](link url)

I don't understand what the point of this post is supposed to be. Are you trying to allege that the Clintons knew Corrigan Clay was a child molester when they started working with his ex-wife's charitable organizations? What's your evidence for that?

If that's not your point, then how does this man being a child molester in any way tarnish the charitable good that the Clinton Foundation attempted to do here?

Are you just taking joy in the fact that a minor was physically, sexually, and emotionally damaged because it might, in your twisted mind, harm the Clintons? Geez, you mean your hatred of the Clinton's is greater than your empathy for children? Shame on you!

[https://www.newsweek.com/i-didnt-understand-jussie-smollettuntil-i-compared-him-trump-opinion-1686831](link url)

As correctly pointed out by the commentator in the link above, all you need to do is keep repeating your lie with the support of a vocal minority and the acquiescence of everyone else on your side of the political divide. Keep doing that and you won't really suffer any punishment in Cancel Culture. Smollett maintaining his innocence despite overwhelming evidence and investigation is no different than Trump maintaining he won the election despite overwhelming evidence and investigation.

@bi4smooth said in Florida to Enact "Don't Say Gay" Bill:

You cannot "learn" to be homosexual - but you CAN learn to accept homosexuality as a natural occurrence! One seen in nature far beyond humans and other primates!

I would amend your statement to: You cannot learn to be homosexual, but you can learn to be empathetic. Empathy comes from understanding. Understanding comes from exposure and experience. This Bill is an attempt to use State Power to prevent children from being taught empathy toward homosexuals.

I'm reminded of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, where Shylock, a Jew, is trying to explain to Solanio and Salarino that a minority is not much different than the majority.

"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die?"

He's trying to explain to them that Jews are not so different than Christians, and if the Christians would only focus on the commonalities, not the differences, then they would have peace. This Bill is trying to make sure that children cannot be taught that homosexuals are really not that different than heterosexuals.

Also, ignorant assholes like Florida's governor only think of homosexuals in terms of our sexual activity. Homosexuals are, in their minds, defined by the act of shoving cock up assholes. Homosexuality is purely the act of sex between two men or two women. Homosexuality is not companionship, emotional support, or love. In fact, I bet if you asked this Bill's backers if homosexuals are truly capable of loving each other, they'd answer no. I've talked to enough ignorant Southerners and Bible-thumpers to know that a large plurality (if not majority) of them don't actually believe in homosexual "love." Homosexuality is merely deviant lust, not love. And they don't want children taught about anything derivative of deviant lusts.

Also, it's not a mistake that these laws are cropping up now when they are. Anti-gayness has always been a good replacement for the old Southern Strategy, now that open and blatant race-baiting and racism is no longer acceptable. Getting out the vote means triggering people's biases, and there's still a lot of homophobia to motivate voters.

Also, these laws are the product of projects such as Project Blitz, which is responsible, in part, for all of the anti-abortion laws being pushed simultaneously. The idea behind Project Blitz is to insidiously entrench Judeo-Christian laws into America by re-branding them in more palatable forms. For example, don't tout a bill that allows discrimination against LGBT+ individuals directly...instead, either rebrand it a "religious freedom" bill or brand it as protecting something like "children" or "parental freedom."

For those interested:

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blitz](link url)

Frankly, I don't know how any of you can defend this law. Its purpose is to erase our community's existence in order to comfort and ease the passing down of ignorance from one generation to the next. It's fucking codifying our community's "Otherness."

It fundamentally assumes that conveying to young children tropes, themes, images, narratives, representations, etc. of heterosexual relationships does not equal "instruction on sexual orientation." It is, though.

[https://www.amazon.com/Berenstain-Bears-Family-First-Time/dp/0679881859](link url)

Take, for example, a teacher reading the above Berenstain Bears book to her class. That book is for 4-year olds with vocabulary that a 4-year old would understand. But what does the book also teach the children? It teach little Payton and little Abigail that a "family" is a Momma Bear and a Daddy Bear, with Grandma Bears and Grandpa Bears. Heck, there's even a Berenstain Bears book about Momma Bear having a baby. It's teaching the children about sexuality and hetero-normative behavior.

But the advocates for the bill don't even contemplate that such material teaches about sexuality. Again, it certainly does! As long as the material is hetero-normative, then it's just normal, ordinary, common learning material to the bill's supporters. Only materials discussing non-hetero-normative behavior is "special" material that needs to be locked away in the closet until the children get older.

In other words, hetero-normative images, stories, depictions, etc. are "normal" or "common" or "ordinary" because they are so ubiquitous and numerous. Homosexual or transgender material is not "normal" or "common" or "ordinary" because it is not ubiquitous.... And if this bill is passed, then the might of State Government will ensure that such material NEVER gets the chance to be commonplace. It is state-enforcement of the "Otherness" of the material.

[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-governor-desantis-defends-dont-say-gay-bill/](link url)

Apparently, Florida's conservative government believe that our LGBT+ community needs to be erased in order to comfort shitty parents' ignorance.

Interestingly, I've read the Bill and it doesn't actually limit speech to LGBT+ discussions. I seriously hope that some LGBT+ parents sue the shit out of some Florida school systems for mentioning or showing depictions of heterosexual relationships. Teaching about man/woman, husband/wife, or mommy/daddy relationships also violates the Bill.

@raphjd said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:

Even my 4 formerly drug-addicted cousins are furious that this program has absolutely no money for rehab.

Why would it have funding for rehab? That wasn't the purpose of this specific block grant proposal. That's like saying "How dare the military's funding for the manufacturing of this jet not include money for troop housing!" Paying for jets and paying for troop housing are two different expenditures. Here, harm reduction and rehabilitation are two different expenditures.

Your complaints are ignorant and nonsensical. You are REACHING to try to find something wrong here.