Posts made by raphjd

@royalcrown89:

@aadam101:

But your premium isn't based on how many services you are using.  The risk adjustment process isn't taking into account the risk of each individual person.  Medical underwriting was eliminated under ObamaCare.

African Americans account for a higher percentage of heart disease and diabetes cases.   Should we charge them more?

I wish you hadn't asked that question because now we're going to get a racist response from him. …................

Uhuru, Y'all

So it's racist to say that medical insurance should be underwritten like all other insurance?

What is racist is to say that whites have to subsidize the health insurance of black people.  Blacks would have a hissy fit if they had to subsidize white people.

Like with feminists, you claim to want "equality" while demanding special rights/treatment.

I keep forgetting that you can't have any discussion without declaring anyone who disagrees with you as a racist.

ME: I like yellow cars
YOU:  That's because you are racist

ME: I like cookouts in the summer.
YOU:  That's the most racist thing anyone could say

Yada, yada, yada

He's a cute guy.  :love:

Even back in 2003 when GBW appointed him to his current job, Pryor was declared "unfit to judge" due to his positions on most issues by many groups, including Judicial Watch and People for the American Way.

The article explains that the demarcation between being "gay" and having same-sex desire is a societal claim. So people claiming "gay" requires Thiel be on board with all the political leanings of gays buy into the recent societal prescription.

YES, the hive mind.  I hate the f'ing hive mind.

But that this label in itself is meaningless to the origins of the term and only recently used as a definition that includes behavior outside of same-sex attraction.

I gave 2 other examples of words that have changed to mean something else.  Words and phrases do that over time.

Every stat you look at shows that women use more health care than men, hence why women paid more.

Every stat shows that women, while having more accidents, they are at lower speed, thus costing less, hence they pay less.

Every stat shows that women live longer, hence they pay less for life insurance.

Obama-care has men subsidizing women's health care, but men don't get subsided by women for the other forms of insurance.  It's the feminist version of gender equality.

Heck, the BBC fired a woman doctor because she said that men need to stop going to the doctor so more women can be seen, even though she admitted that women were already the vast majority of GP patients.

Best Deaths has never tried to claim anything other than their videos being fake.  Watching them you can see why they don't try to pretend they are real.

CONGRESSMAN John Lewis is not beyond reproach.  He blatantly lied to the American people.  He has also declared the last 2 republican President as "illegitimate".  He's a partisan hack.

Trump is a douche bag, nobody is denying that.

The John Lewis you keep talking about hasn't existed for at least 30 years.

Obama-care is anti-male sexist.

Unlike every other form of insurance, Obama-care charges everyone the same amount regardless of need or want.    Women use a lot more health care than men do, yet both are charged the same amount.

Until all insurance goes gender blind, then this is discriminatory.

The EU went gender blind because women got butt hurt about having to pay more on certain types of insurance, but then had a hissy fit because other types of insurance went up to match male insurance costs.

@remydrh:

No, that's not what they meant, what they mean is, that to most people, "gay" is seen as a collective thing with specific traits. That you have to be in the hive according to society's explanation. But that Tiel rejects that expectation.

Sorry, but being gay is nothing more than same sex attraction.

So they aren't making a judgment call. They're just saying you can be whatever you want without fitting into the gay "mold" or the hive mind as you put it. Because "gay" is a label, not a real thing. Rather than attack Thiel's position, they're explaining his mindset: I can love men without being "gay" and this is why he also rejects the usual political activism. They're doing the opposite of what Breitbart claims, they're attempting to explain why Thiel can be so contrary to what people would expect from a "gay".

Is he "gay" by the usual definition? No.

Does he like dick?  YES, so he's gay.   Just because he or I don't wear assless chaps and dance in the middle of the street to YMCA doesn't mean we are not gay.

Is the gay definition meaningful? Only as a societal construct to lump people together. It's a term used for this that's probably less than 100 years old. (Anyone else remember the Flintstones having a gay ole time?)

Fag is/was a stick and later a cigarette.  Queer meant different.  So what?  HuffPost demands that gay no longer exists and that we are all queer now.

Are there people outside that construct that reject it? Well obviously.

AGAIN, just because I'm not clubbing until 4am and taking it up the ass behind the dumpster after the club closes, doesn't mean I'm not gay.

So why is Thiel so hostile to gay political goals? Because he doesn't identify as "gay" in the accepted definition.

I know gay people, who fit the lifestyle collective, who are against the "gay agenda".   We have plenty of them here as members as well.

@remydrh:

I got super long winded again.

TL;DR

The Advocate says this:

Peter Thiel is not "gay" in the sense that the term is loaded to mean a single homogenous community that must be a certain way, act a certain way, dress a certain way, vote a certain way. Thiel rejects this definition of gay. The definition of "gay" as understood today is a social construct and not real or even long-lived historically.

Is Thiel a homosexual? Yes. He likes dick.

I do not think Thiel would disagree.

Sooooooooo, the Advocate is advocating what I have been saying for ages.  Being "gay" is a hive mind thing.  I guess I have to turn in my "gay" membership card then.

We fought for the right to be different, but Generation Special Snowflake has decided that "different" is evil when it comes to the hive mind.

Beyond that, he never apologized to John Lewis nor did he prove John Lewis wrong.

Did Rep John Lewis apologize for lieing to the American people about never missing a Presidential inauguration before Trump?    Maybe he's too senile to remember that he skipped GWB's 2001 inauguration because he too was an "illegitimate President" according to Lewis.

You need to go back to that PDF, specifically page 5.

You are right that on 7 Jan 2009,  GWB did a civil filing.

HOWEVER, in the paragraph before that,  it says that in July 2009 the AAG declined to file criminal charges.

I live in the UK because GWB gave amnesty and priority to illegals in the green card queue.  My (now) husband's green card application was pushed back and wouldn't be finished before his work visa expired, so he had to leave.

Maybe you should go back and check that PDF again.    Look at the name of the author and do a bit of research.    Thomas E Perez

He was one of Obama's boys, not GWB's.

He chose to only do a civil enforcement, not a criminal prosecution.  He made a career out of defending people like the ones he's supposed to prosecute as AAG in this case.

No matter what, there will always be illegal ballots cast.  It's just something that happens.  Mentioning it doesn't mean he's saying he isn't actually President.

If the Dems stop pandering to the SJWs, then they have a good chance of winning the midterms and beating Trump in 4 years.  Identity politics drove a lot of traditional liberals away from the Democrats.

@tempbo:

Like the poster above, I didn't realize I'd stumbled into a Breitbart lunacy competition. I think that the forums and the site would be better without the politics and debate section.

You are willing to insult people, while complaining about having this section.

Quite telling.

If you don't like this section, you should just ignore it.

The rules says fantasy vs real and/or appears/claims to be real.

You will need to properly label the video to warn anyone who may find it offensive.

"Butt married?" Oh my, that's so disappointing that you would refer to something so important with such disrespect. Think of all the people who died never getting the chance to be "butt married" because of this country's stance on same-sex marriage and LGBT rights.

Finally, something we both agree on.

Are you saying that CNN fairly and honestly reported the news, with no Clinton bias?!

It shows you have nothing when you need to personally attack me, not my point.