Posts made by hubrys

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.

I think the saddest part of all of this is all of the crack users that could have been helped by this program that will not receive that help. Glass pipes (expensive) help prevent lip burns which contribute to the spread of HIV and hepatitis amongst crack users. Plastic or metal pipes can cause irreparable damage to crack users' lungs.

One can take the position that we shouldn't be helping a drug user take drugs, but that's ignorant and not the position taken by the actual experts in harm reduction. Even the commission created by President Trump came back with a recommendation to distribute safe drug syringes to prevent disease spread.

Keeping a drug user from contracting HIV while they're using drugs isn't the government enabling their vice. What it means is one less person living with a lifetime of HIV after they get clean.

It was a Jewish space laser that shot her in the brain and caused her to misspeak.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-crack-pipes-racial-equity/

The news made me sadder than I thought it would. I watched several episodes of Golden Girls yesterday in her honor. I guess we have to start spending our prayers and mental energies trying to protect Dolly Parton now. There are so few universally-loved celebrities left.

I agree with the above commenters. Our community has quite enough to deal with already without becoming a death cult that glorifies intravenous drug-use and nonconsensual, unprotected sex.

@raphjd said in NYC Dem councilwoman is racist against latinos:

Check the other thread.

The one where you forgot to log out of your sock puppet geobear40 account and back into your raphjd account before responding to my post?

@geobear40 So, according to your article, the book was not available at any of that school system's elementary schools. It was included in a general list of books produced by an outside high school oriented literacy organization for use in out-of-school voluntary literacy clubs.

So, basically, raphjd is full of shit?

@raphjd said in NYC Dem councilwoman is racist against latinos:

You called me an "asshole" for not wanting porn to be provided to kids as young as 6.

Still waiting on you to support your statement that the LGBTQ book was in elementary school libraries.

@raphjd said in Karen in FL files criminal charges because school library didn't censor a LGBTQ book.:

This book was being provided to kids as young as 6, in elementary school libraries.

So far, we only have your repeated, but unsupported, statements that it was available in elementary school libraries. All of the articles I have read about this book refer to its removal from high school libraries.

So, show me where this book was in an elementary school library.

@bi4smooth You'll have to excuse me for the late response. If certain people on here worked to make this Forum a more engaging and inviting area for discussion, then I would probably check back in more often.

@boltvolts said in NYC Dem councilwoman is racist against latinos:

Again, your utter disrespect with a hair trigger is worse than absurd, but self revealing, and knows no bounds. The Latin legal concept of "is repsa loquitor" has never been more appropriate.

I think you meant res ipsa loquitur, i.e., "the thing speaks for itself."

@raphjd You dominating this forum with your shitposts and personal attacks reminds me of a very dumb dog barking at every sound while sitting in a tiny backyard covered in his own shit.

That's you; that's how you appear to anyone who happens to stroll thru here.

If any new person did want to come in here and have an enjoyable experience, then you constantly ensure that that will never happen. Frankly, I don't know why the 3-4 people that ever come here keep interacting with you. If they would just stop, then this place could become the corpse you are trying so desperately hard to make it.

@bi4smooth Don't you understand how the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" narrative with Conservatives will go?

If the Biden Administration downplays Omicron, then it's doing it because it knows that Omicron will hurt the Dems in 2022.

If the Biden Administration plays up Omicron, then it's doing it because it knows that Omicron will hurt the GOP in 2022.

Regardless of what happens, the retards already have a working narrative to inject into their echo chambers.

@raphjd I love how Tucker Carlson's "journalistic investigation" is a guy on Twitter and a guy on YouTube just making shit up and circle jerking each other.

[https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-big-time-right-wing-trolls-andy-ngo-and-tim-pool-tied-waukesha-killings-to-black-lives-matter](link url)

From the article:

"First, Ngo insisted Brooks had shown his support for, “BLM causes, George Floyd & black nationalism,” in various old social media posts allegedly belonging to Brooks.
...
He mentioned that Brooks had shared a falsified and antisemitic Hitler quote. He’d also praised a George Floyd mural and stuck positive emojis above cartoon about racial profiling by the police. Other posts allegedly attributable to Brooks and distributed by Ngo included a soundcloud track critical of former President Trump and a photo of a fruit bowl that had been carved into a raised fist plus the letters “BLM.”

None of those posts, or others floating around online and purportedly shared by Brooks, display anything resembling participation in the Black Lives Matter movement....

But if Brooks ever attended a protest or planned political action, violent or otherwise, he didn’t bother posting about that."