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ya think?

He is a CA engineer. I'll bet he has very soft hands and he probably pays a packer most of the time!

Yes, resistance is futile. We are doomed. So we may as well party on and explore our many sides. It may be time for us all to experiment with our sexuality because we all have nothing to lose!

You would think that evolution would favour a virus it does not kill its host quite as much. So that may be what happens. On the other hand this new variant may be mostly circulating among relatively young healthy people.

Why is this discussion of PLFs happening in SC?

I'm fairly confident that there is no one here who did not realize that long ago.

Least dynamic POTUS ever. Makes Jeb look "high energy". I can see why he's hard to get excited about. But he knows how to govern and how to pull strings to work with what he's got. He is probably the right man at this time. No one in the current situation could push the USA together. But Biden will at least will not work to pull it apart.

I blame your primary system and the lack of participation in it. But on the other hand I have also seen different systems produce poor candidates so I have no answers. The answer entirely depends on what media you are talking about. Trump went out of his way to make enemies in the media for his own purposes. The better media sources seem to be doing well. There is just so much less negative things said by Biden. Trump went out every morning and fed the media tweets. He got exactly what he wanted. A lot of people talking about him.

????? What the hell are you complaining about? Biden is a politician and at the time he was running against Trump for the highest office possibly on the planet. Do you think he should have simply looked for nice things to say about The Dotard? Trump clearly had an agenda that was not only about Covid mitigation. Trump clearly is a freaking racist. That is the difference. The man has a long record.

It is about YOU complaining that what YOU call "the media" "mistreating" someone.

Almost all nations are doing the same thing. Pull the rag away from your face, now ain't the time for your tears. Like most Trumpists you are too nativist to even look elsewhere.

It likely wouldn't. But so what?

And they were sure that they were completely justified. After all, that black man with dirty toenails had a choice. Submit like he was ordered by his superiors, or die. After all, Trevon's murder was justified. What a difference a video recording can make. Twice in a week.

The obvious thing is that nylon is sensitive to heat damage and glue guns have hot tips.

'cuz the times they are a'changin.

If you are going to insist on calling "woke" a religion, then it is just as valid to consider your "anti-wokism" a religion as well. There goes your claim to be an atheist right out the window.

What utter nonsense. There is no "woke religion" despite your need for something to be offended by. And Hitchens was a pompous asshole.

??? All kinds of different people harm others or come to harm for all kinds of reasons. Acceptance is a completely different issue.

That article is long on opinion and short on detail. But that aside I will just say that vaccination does not prevent infection. It does give the body a head start on clearing the infection. I am vaccinated and am getting a booster in a few days as I have reached the 6 month mark. But even so I fully expect that sooner or later I will be exposed to and infected by the virus. Most likely I will get sick enough to be tested and become one of the numbers in the "break through" infection population. But I will have only a very small chance of being hospitalized for it. That has always been the goal. Not to get very sick. We will all get infected by this thing eventually. Where I live new infections are now about 50/50 between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. But almost all the portion of people in the hospital are either unvaccinated or have other conditions that weaken them. The vaccines are saving lives and are also saving people from long covid which in the long term may be even more important.

What is new is the demand for acceptance and the willingness of much of society to give it. I'm pretty sure that more people are not feeling gender fluid than before. What is happening is that they are no longer quite as afraid to be more public about it. But there is now a lot of push back from those who are not willing to accommodate them for whatever reason. Yes, it does seem like a big change and it is happening in a relatively short time. And it does offend conservative sensibilities, but it actually harms no one so in the end you will learn to just get used to it.

I agree with you there. Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, it's a mixed up jumbled up shook up world......

I'm going to agree that this one is perhaps a bridge too far. The potential for abuse here is obvious. This is not like sharing bathrooms. This is putting women in serious danger. I don't know how to draw the line on this, but there clearly needs to be a line. The logic is not that all trans woman are fakes. The logic is that there will be some men in prisons who see an opportunity and will take it.

Right-wing politics supports the view that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable,[1][2][3] typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, or tradition.[4]: 693, 721 [5][6][7][8][9] Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences[10][11] or competition in market economies.[12][13][14] Right-wing politics are considered the counterpart to left-wing politics, and the left–right political spectrum is one of the most widely accepted political spectrums.[15] The term right-wing can generally refer to the section of a political party or system that advocates free enterprise and private ownership, and typically favours socially traditional ideas.[16] In Europe, economic conservatives are usually considered liberal, and the Right includes nationalists, idealists, nativist opponents of immigration,[17] religious conservatives, and, historically, a significant number of right-wing movements with anti-capitalist sentiments, including conservatives and fascists, who opposed contemporary capitalism because they believed that selfishness and excessive materialism were inherent in it.[18][19] In the United States, the Right includes both economic and social conservatives.[20] Sounds about RIGHT!! There is also the belief that anyone who would move to the left is just plain evil. https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2018/how-the-right-wing-convinces-itself-that-liberals-are-evil/

Steven Truscott was sentenced to death in 1959 as a fourteen year old. Commuted to life, paroled in 1969 and conviction overturned in 2007. His conviction was based on circumstantial and forensic evidence. However the forensic evidence was largely made up garbage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Truscott

None of that stuff is what I am talking about. There is a movement to suppress the obvious changes coming by marginalizing anyone who is not of the correct mind and body. Do you remember the resistance to integration? Well, those people actually won for the the most part, but they want more. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/