Posts made by hubrys

@blablarg18 I don't see anything in either of the articles you've provided that ties the Chinese flags to liberals with anything less tenuous than the mere fact that the events occurred in a California city.

You do realize that California has the largest population of Asian of any state, right? You're aware that it has roughly 1.5 million Chinese, right?

I mean, you must not, because it otherwise would mean that you are a colossal fucking dumbass not to have suspected that those massive Chinese residents (many of whom are still Chinese citizens) were likely the ones holding up those flags. I mean, you can see them in your included picture.

Wow, you are stupid. Sometimes it staggers me. There are people who have spent thousands of dollars and endured hundreds of hours of guided meditation just to achieve only a fraction of a head empty of thoughts like you have naturally.

@blablarg18 said in USA military can't recruit:

So - what's different or unique, to these last few years?

Military recruitment has been decreasing ever since 1987. It's about a third lower now than the end of the 1980's.

Even by the military's own evaluations, of the US population within the military's target 17-24 year old demographic, only about 23% of Americans would satisfy the current standards for military service (e.g., increases in obesity, decrease in physical abilities, etc.).

And then you have to subtract from the above 23% all of the younger people with other disqualifications. For example, the military does not allow recruitment of persons with visible tattoos on the face, neck, or hands. The military doesn't allow recruitment of persons with criminal records, including drug use convictions.

The military also does not recognize states' legalization of marijuana, meaning anyone who has smoked "legal" weed are disqualified. Also, the military considers legal medications for ADHD to be simulant usage that disqualifies a candidate.

You also have the fact that probably a majority of young folks consider America to have recently lost a war, which historically has always resulted in a lowering of recruitment. Whether youngsters are right or wrong, the younger generations consider America to have lost the war in Afghanistan, especially with the way it was ended by the current and former Administrations. Additionally, years and years of the "No Blood for Oil" narrative because of the choices of the Bush Administration has undermined youngsters' view of the military as an institution.

Conservatives have basically put the military into a "damned if you do; damned if you don't" situation. The military struggles to meet its recruitment goals, and the minute it reaches out (with targeted positive messaging) to new demographics (e.g., to the LGBT community, to women, to online influencers, to video gamers), the conservatives attack that outreach as "going woke."

"Fuck you, faggot. Now hold this gun!" isn't a very winning campaign slogan to help recruit the gays.

Oh, if only there were a way to know why young people don't want to join the military! Oh if only!!

Oh wait, there's actually a task force for that inside the Department of Defense called the Joint Advertising Marketing Research & Studies (JAMRS). According to its research:

@raphjd said in Republicans abandon principles...:

Who voted Hamas into power in 2006 and kept voting them back into power ever since?

Voting them back into power? There have been NO elections for Palestinians since that 2006 election. Thousands of the children killed so far weren't even alive when the election occurred. Some of the adults killed now weren't even old enough then to have voted back in 2006. I'm sorry, but you can't hide behind the idea that the dead deserve what they got because they voted for Hamas.

@raphjd said in Republicans abandon principles...:

Why are you focusing on the 11k dead muslims? Don't the innocent jews matter?

I agree with you that the killings and kidnappings by Hamas and its agents was a terroristic action and terrible. I don't carry water for Hamas.

However, all of the dead, wounded, and displaced aren't Hamas or Hamas agents. At some point, we have to look at what Israel is doing and say "Enough is enough. Your response is no longer proportional."

@raphjd said in Republicans abandon principles...:

Why do people think they can pick a fight with someone, then cry foul when the other person punches back?

In what way did all of the 11,000 dead Palestinians "pick a fight" with Israel? The vast majority of them had nothing to do with the Hamas attack.

Is it your opinion that Israel is targeting civilians in order to "punch back?" There's a phrase used to describe punishing civilian targets, and its called "war crimes."

@raphjd said in Republicans abandon principles...:

The video isn't available outside the US.

I'm sure you can use a VPN or find it within your local YouTube.

Hamas's terrible terrorist attacks resulted in approximately 1,200 dead Israelis. Israel dropped more than 6,000 bombs in 6 days (more than the US dropped in Afghanistan in an entire year) on a narrow strip of land.

The death toll of Palestinians is currently over 11,000, with about 4,100 of that number being made up of children under the age of 18.

When do we get to start talking about maybe Israel's response no longer being proportional? There's no way that you believe all of those 11,000 dead were guilty and deserved it.

@raphjd said in Currently in the US there are 11 lawsuits by detransitioners:

"Meritless" because YOU think everyone should be transed.

Meritless because they are alleging causes of action that don't exist in the law or ignoring well-established affirmative defenses. Courts don't and shouldn't function as soapboxes for politicking.

@raphjd said in More Racism of Low Expectations:

If I was a liberal,

I didn't ask for "if you were a liberal" or your supposition of what blacks know.

Why do YOU, raphjd, think blacks do worse on the tests?

@raphjd Serious question: Why do YOU think the blacks do worse on the tests?

From what I can tell, the majority of these suits fall into either of two categories:

(1) Meritless, nearly frivolous, suits funded and brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom in its pro-Christian, anti-LGBT legal crusade.

(2) Brought by a single law firm which specializes in bringing such suits; however, their cases seem to focus on the poor work done by the doctors, not the fact that they did the work in the first place. For example, one plaintiff suffered severe pain because of poor hormone therapy oversight. Another suffered pain and aesthetic damage due to poor nipple placement after a mastectomy. In other words, they aren't suing because the doctors transitioned the patient; the lawyers are suing because the doctors did a bad job transitioning the patient.

Link: Shockingly Evenhanded Commentary on Israel/Hamas War

Please take particular note when they discuss people who lump all Palestinians together for purposes of saying the Palestinians deserve what Israel is doing.

LINK: Republicans Not Backing Down On Abortion Bans Despite New Election Losses

I thought the GOP was for "States Rights" and leaving issues up to the State. Weren't we supposed to be shrinking the Federal government?

However, when voters start enshrining abortion rights into state constitutions, suddenly the GOP is in favor of federal solutions. From the article:

“We can’t give in to the idea that the federal Congress has no role in this matter because if it doesn’t, then the pro-life movement is basically not going to exist, I think, for the next couple of years,” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) warned on Wednesday, calling the results “depressing.”

@raphjd It's sad that you think acknowledging that gays exist is "liberal propaganda." You must truly have a great deal of self-hate.

@raphjd said in Rep. Mike Johnson elected 56th Speaker of the House:

They didn't indoctrinate us into queer theory

How is this "queer theory?"

That's why they invented transmogs.

https://people.com/matthew-perry-dead-at-54-7501992

RIP Chanandler Bong

This is the 2023 amendment approved by DeSantis and went into effect on July 1, 2023. The crossed-out words were removed from the codified statute, and the underlined words were added. I did your "research" for you. Stop being lied to by Fox News, OANN, Carlson, or whatever news source you rely on. This, below, is the REAL world and what the REAL law says.

@raphjd said in Rep. Mike Johnson elected 56th Speaker of the House:

I've done a bit of research and I'm finding articles from Florida that say it's below 4th grade.

I suggest you keep researching until you find where it's amendment changing the text was approved by the Governor on 5/17/2023 and went into effect on July 1, 2023.

You can find it here:

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1069

@raphjd Poor raphjd got his ass handed to him and now he's trying to change the subject.

You said the "Don't Say Gay" bill was about sex and preventing pornography in school libraries. You can have your own private opinion, but you don't get your own private facts.

I showed you what the actual law says. You were proven wrong.

Now you're tucking your tail and trying to throw out a red herring.

Wow, you're pathetic!

Fox News, OANN, Tucker Carlson, or whoever you were listening to about the "Don't Say Gay" bill was lying to you. You were lied to. Just admit it and learn from it.

@raphjd said in Rep. Mike Johnson elected 56th Speaker of the House:

OK, so it was a higher age than I remembered

Not only a higher grade level, but also it doesn't say SEX. The bill explicitly says

sexual orientation or gender identity

This isn't an anti-sex bill. It's an anti-LGBT bill.

@raphjd said in Rep. Mike Johnson elected 56th Speaker of the House:

You people put porn in school libraries and this is the blow back.

Then why didn't Florida pass a law to prevent porn in libraries? Again, the "Don't Say Gay" bill does nothing about pornography.

@raphjd said in Rep. Mike Johnson elected 56th Speaker of the House:

You put porn in school libraries

Also, why didn't Florida pass a law to ban putting pornography in school libraries? The "Don't Say Gay" bill doesn't do that.

As I pointed out, that bill has no effect on a book featuring heterosexual pornography. If a pre-K school library has a book called, "Baby's First Titty Fuck," this bill does nothing.

Now, if there's a book about Sally having two mothers, no nudity or discussion of sexual intercourse at all, then the bill WOULD ban that book.