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  1. So you do oppose the right of people to make their own decisions about their own bodies, and you think you are qualified to make decisions for everyone. You may want to keep in mind that kids growing up today may want to exist and thrive in a very different society than the one you prefer. You and I will likely be long gone by the time they are half our ages. Of course you, of all the people on this planet, has designated himself to decide what every human being will think and believe long after you are dead. I wonder how you got to be so arrogant. Living on that mountain where you could look down on everybody? Perhaps. Being someone who believes that the individual should let an amorphous entity called "society" make the decisions for them, with you being the arbiter of what is acceptable in this society, makes you a (gasp) cultural socialist. And thank you so much for contributing to this great country by not voting. I only hope you can convince others of your kind to join you in boycotting the voting polls. That will make it much easier as we-young people really-enter the new digital age that is upon us.
  2. Which marxists/communists are you talking about? And how are they exploiting the transgendered issue? There may be a few of them around, but there are also right-wingers who support transgendered people. Most of those who speak out about the rights of transgendered people probably don't give two bits about politics. There are also Christians who support the rights of transgender people. https://www.hrc.org/resources/what-does-the-bible-say-about-transgender-people There has always been conflict between classes and groups, and some exploitation, not just by communists. And there always will be. I think the best thing to do is just let transgendered people make their own decisions about their own bodies, and mind your own beeswax because it doesn't really affect you. Thus, no chance for exploitation.
  3. If your talking about NeoMarxism then I consider that nonsense. Communism is dead. Stick a fork in it, it's over. Technological change isn't communism.
  4. Yeah like posting on a small town message board and refusing to vote. If you do more than that I would like to her it, honestly. Giving my own opinion on things is hardly spreading propaganda, especially since I am spreading it on a small town message board where about 99% of the posters who care about politics disagree with me. This country has survived a Civil War, a Great Depression, and other traumas. This division between urban and rural (which is basically what we are talking about) is small potatoes.
  5. How is allowing individual persons, even minor individual persons, get treatment for gender dysphoria that results in their eventually become the opposite sex? How does that work? For me that is an expression of individualism. I think society should be weak becomes busybodies who seem themselves as representing society tend to interfere with the rights of individuals, including their right to decide their own sex and gender. The law yes, society not so much, because if a law is shown to be counter-productive it can be changed. Again, allow boys who see themselves as girls to dress and act as little girls, and girls who see themselves as boy dress and act as boys; teenagers be allowed to get puberty blockers and hormone treatments under the supervision and authority of parents and guardians, and for adults, allow them to get the surgery if they wish. If you argue against these provision then you are the one who wants to take control of what other people can do or not do with their own bodies. You are the threat to the individualism that defines this country. Too bad you don't have much faith in American ingenuity. There are many avenues toward energy sufficiency. In ten, twenty years we may have harnessed fusion power. I'm sure there are energy sources we have not even thought of yet. There is also safer technology for nuclear power. But according to you, the coal and gas industry controls the country now because they are the ones who set prices people pay. I don't see it. If Mobil or Exxon or BP sent me an email telling me what I would be doing that week, I would send it to my spam file and delete it. I believe a handful of municipalities do allow illegal immigrants to vote in local elections. Since many of them likely hold conservative attitudes, many of them would likely vote conservative. I'm sure these laws will be rescinded once the electorate votes out those who advocated this. I don't see this as being a widespread issue. DuBois and Clearfield County don't allow illegal immigrants to vote, so what other places want to try out doesn't affect me. But at least those illegals VOTED, unlike someone on here who complains about politicians but who thinks they are too good to vote for a mere human who has the capacity to be dishonest, like 100% of all humans who ever lived. This person is waiting for perfect, innocent angel to flutter down to this realm to run for office. Not gonna happen. If you are talking about a president signing executive orders, they affect the Executive branch of government. When they go too far, lawsuits quickly corrects the problem. If you think a president is becoming dictatorial, then join your fellow citizens and hope your votes outweigh the votes of those for this would-be dictator.
  6. All I can say is, I would not let my kid get that kind of operation until they were 18. They can wait a few years.
  7. There is no need to give 4 and 5 year-olds hormone treatments. Older teens, perhaps. I believe in calling people what they want to be called just out of politeness. The English language has always been in flux, continuing changing, which is what makes it wonderful. If someone wants to call someone by a pronoun different from what they wish to be called, no law against it.
  8. Hell, honestly I'll be lucky to see the beginning of the 2030's.
  9. You are aware that the Bank of England isn't a private entity like the Bank of America. It's more similar to the Federal Reserve, which many regard as a socialistic authority. Thus Soros made a good financial killing off a socialistic power. Soros and capitalism: 1 Bank of England and socialism: 0 So what's your beef with him?
  10. Fedup, I think you and others on here want to live in a world like what we had back in the '70's, which is not going to happen because the world has changed too much. The Internet itself has made drastic changes in society and economics that are irreversible. That without going into changes in phone technology, automation, medicine, social attitudes among the young, etc. The 60's, 70's, 80's are gone, only to be revived in TV shows and movies. No offense, but with your attitude you're probably lucky you probably won't be around to see what awaits in the 2050's, 2060's, 2070's. I'm sad that I won't.
  11. The only economic-political group that I can think of that would support young children getting gender reassignment surgery are extreme libertarians, to the right of the Libertarian Party. These extreme libertarians are rare, without a presence on the Internet, but they are very much for the right of children to make decisions on sexual matters and drugs as well. Until fairly recently the Libertarian Party, which is very capitalistic, explicitly supported the right of children to have sex with adults. From the Libertarian Party platform in 1981: Non-quotes from those critical of the party at that time https://www.fortfreedom.org/b29.htm "We regard the tragedies caused by unplanned, unwanted pregnancies to be aggravated, if not created, by government policies of censorship, restriction, regulation and prohibition. Therefore we call for the repeal of all laws which restrict anyone, including children, from engaging in voluntary exchanges of goods, services or information regarding human sexuality, reproduction, birth control, or related medical or biological technologies." The 1986 platform preserved the above-cited language, but greatly expanded the "Children's Rights" article to include the following: "We oppose all legally created or sanctioned discrimination against (or in favor of) children, just as we oppose government discrimination directed at any other artificially defined sub- category of human beings." "We also support the repeal of all laws establishing any category of crimes applicable to children for which adults would not be similarly vulnerable, such as curfew, smoking and alcoholic beverage laws, and other status offenses. (...) We seek the repeal of all 'children's codes' of statutes which abridge due process protections for young people." "Children should always have the right to establish their maturity by assuming administration and protection of their own rights, ending dependency upon their parents or other guardians and assuming all the responsibilities of adulthood." These quotes make it clear to any thinking person that the Libertarian Party deems the recruiting of, say, six-year-old boys and girls into a life of prostitution, heterosexual or otherwise, an exercise of something the platform never defines - yet nevertheless refers to as "individual rights." Indeed, should the parents of children so used dare to question a procurer's "right" to engage their children in such a manner, let them read carefully before venturing to lift a finger to interfere. The Libertarian Platform (both versions) also reads: "We condemn the attempts by parents or any others -- via kidnappings, conservatorships, or instruction under confinement - - to force children to conform to their parent's or any others' religious views." The child-molester's "right" to entice children into "voluntary" sexual performances is defended at every turn in the platform. If the child is baited with candy rather than raped by outright physical force, the Libertarian pederast can declare the event a "consensual sexual relation," or a "voluntary exchange of goods and services regarding human sexuality," or even cite the child's "assumption" of the "administration and protection of its own rights." After all, the platform plainly describes the distinction between a fully-formed, rational adult and a preadolescent child as an "artificially defined subcategory of human beings." As for the parents, any attempt to interfere, especially if based on religious convictions, is classed as "kidnapping," a practice banned by force of Libertarian law. The Libertarian Party of today has changed to accept that children ought not to be making these decisions. But these arguments still pop on social media sites and comment sites once in a while. All in the name of freedom, economic, individual and otherwise.
  12. The extreme form of socialism, communism, will always fail because like all mammals we are a species that have a strong territorial instinct. Communism will only work when a limited number of people in certain groups agree to it. Monasteries, communes etc, and the children of these communes will usually leave when they reach adulthood because they disagree with their parents on common ownership. I have no problems with either.
  13. Capitalism itself is an outgrowth of liberalism. You tend to confuse extreme leftists with liberals. Soros, who is very much a capitalist as shown by how he made a fortune on the Bank of England's oversight, supports the mixed economy I discuss below. Regardless of anti-Semitic accusations that he has evil plans to run the world. f you interpret socialism as any government interference in the economy, then the U.S. Constitution promotes socialism because it give the government the power to print and mint money, which in itself give it a major influence in the economy. Bitcoin and other non-government curency may eventually replace government issued currency, but that won't happen-if it does-until both of us are worm food. Also, the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. I don't think there has ever been any serious attempt to amend that part of the Constitution. This country, like all industrialized countries I know of, has a mixed economy, a mixture of capitalism and socialism \, that works pretty well. Not perfectly, but we will never have a perfect society. Utopias are impossible, or rather utopias are utopias for the ruling class; they are dystopias for everybody else. I fail to see what transsexuals have to do with socialism, which is an economic system. One of the most famous transwomen is Caitlyn Jenner who supports non-surgical treatment of transyouth but who is otherwise a staunch conservative Republican, often disagreeing with some of the transagenda. You do conflate extreme leftists with liberals. The two are very different.
  14. One of the few times we agree. Mother Nature could wipe us out. By using technology, scientific knowledge and machines we have to make it harder for her to do so. Physically, for our size, we are among the weakest creatures on the planet. One chimp could tear apart someone like Arnold Schwartzenegger in his prime. Yet we have become the most successful species on the planet. We became the dominant species via science and technology. Chimps, our closest animal relative, are endangered.
  15. I was under the impression that this legislation was in opposition to any gender affirming care for minors, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, both of which I support provided its under doctor care and parental assent.
  16. I wanted to be a scientist but had to give up that dream because of difficulties I had in math. If I could have had an implant put in my brain to help me do well in math, such as Elon Musk's neural link technology, if it were perfected, I would have gone for it. Still hate this area for not doing doing more to help me succeed in math. Various mental issues, which lead to a stay at Warren and years on powerful psychiatric drugs that I didn't need forced me give up my backup dream of becoming scholar. When I graduated from college I was hoping to begin a minimum wage job as a cubicle worker, convinced that would eventually lead to a good paying job in middle management, preferably in a city. My inability to drive due to panic attacks make me very open to self-driving technology. I would have been willing to work as a retail clerk as well. None of that happened. Today I work as an associate for Goodwill Industries. If you want to blame anyone for the emergence of transexuals as a political issue blame scientific research and biotechnology. I see this as among the first steps toward adoption of transhuman technology, melding the digital with the human, our next step in our own evolution. Humans 2.0.
  17. There are a small number of operations undertaken under age 18. I oppose operations on anyone that young. Difference of opinion not brainwashing. Are you familiar with South African runner Caster Semenya? She was born female but was revealed to have internal testes instead of a womb after she won many races. I myself think trans women should not compete athletically with biological born women until treatment causes their testesterone levels to fall to that of a biological born woman. https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/semenya-offered-show-her-body-officials-prove-she-was-female-2022-05-24/
  18. Here's a lengthy paper on how hormones in utero can affect the brain of a male fetus, feminizing it. Same process probably happens with the brains of female fetuses that identify themselves as trans male after birth. https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/104/2/390/5104458
  19. Again, sexual reassignment surgery does not occur until a person is 18. One reported case where that happened when the child alledgedly was 15 may rightfully get the people who engineered it in deep legal trouble once it is adjudicated. I have never heard of this being done to a preteen except as an act of abuse
  20. That's what I would like to know
  21. You'll be thrilled to know that Don Lemon is out at CNN. With him it was saying female politician Nikki Haley was past her prime, and that a woman was in her prime in her 20's, 30's, 40's, and other sexist behavior. Don't know if he had to take sensitivity training. Something young people today, especially young men, have to learn is beware of those cupcakes.
  22. If men, so called or not, want to dress up like little girls or even adult babies, it doesn't affect my life in the least. I draw the line at bottle-feeding and changing their diaper. Should have said I draw the line at me bottle-feeding them and changing their diaper, though I don't even know anyone who does this. Someone else can roleplay mom or dad for them. But otherwise it's a big nothingburger what consenting adults do within their own walls.
  23. For proof just learned the most popular host on Fox News, Tucker Carlson, one of your go-to guys, has left the network. Unless this is some elaborate hoax, his last show was last Friday night. The announcement said the parting was amicable. We'll see. If Tucker's position wasn't secure at Fox News, then no-one's is.
  24. Well, if your boss heard that you had said something offensive, through gossip or rumor, he does have the right to fire you in most states. Maybe all of them. Your boss may be a cupcake but he can deprive you of an income real quick. You didn't answer my question either, if given the choice of being fired or get sensitivity training, which would you do?
  25. There is a lot to unpack here. This whole deal was nothing but a big nothing burger It still is a big nothingburger . It barely made the news anywhere outside Gettysburg. Even right-wing media thinks Hoffman went too far and therefore has no interest in covering the story any further. I would not have heard this story had you not posted it here. The business belongs to the owner. He can call his food or drinks anything he wants to a point. He certainly can. But if people do not want to eat at his establishment because of what he calls his food and drinks, they won't. Similarly if people do not want to work for him because they don't want to be associated with the aforesaid food and drink, he cannot force them to work for him. As you said, what is wrong with the word negro???? I knew what was wrong with that word. I posted a lengthy article to explain it to other people. I hope he does not serve "black" coffee. I remember an interview on TV with a couple of ladies who were trying to convince dictionaries to stop using the term "black magic" to describe magic used for evil. That effort went nowhere. You are grasping. Now think real hard, why don't you hear any liberal b1tching about the blacks who throw the N word around like it is nothing (which it is)? Ever hear of this guy named Rev. Al Sharpton? https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-protests-nword/sharpton-urges-divestment-to-clean-up-rap-lyrics-idUKN0726974220070807 One of my nephews (I have a lot of them) once asked why it was OK for black people to call each other the "N" word but it wasn't OK for white people. From my brother-in-law he's Italian, so I told him that if he and another Italian kid called each other d-a-g-o it would just be them being friendly. If a non-Italian called him that it would be insulting. Same with black people. My ten year old nephew got it. I wonder why some adults don't. Don't you get tired of the mouthy small minority running your life? Neither at work or home or anywhere else do I feel oppressed by any minority of any sort. Fauci I lost several friends to Covid 19 before the vaccine. If my wearing a mask saved just one person from getting sick, or saved me-I am 72 and overweight-then it served a purpose. No big deal to me. Trump pushing the vaccine is one of his IMO few noteworthy things he did as president. I did get Covid following a concert. I had already received the vaccine, and it made me horribly sick. Weren't for the vaccine I would not be here typing this. Since the vaccine didn't actually prevent the disease I have no problem I don't understand why this country had dealings with that lab in Wuhan, and if Fauci did indeed help engineer this virus, well, I won't make judgements until the truth-not the rumors-come out. Braindead and the brain deads. Is that the name of your new rock group? Cool. Seriously, if it comes down to Trump vs Biden again, and Biden wins by one vote, knowing you do not vote, that will be so f---ing rich. So hilarious. Ozone AL Anyone who cries climate change. https://curtis.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1492 So called men who dress up like little girls If men, so called or not, want to dress up like little girls or even adult babies, it doesn't affect my life in the least. I draw the line at bottle-feeding and changing their diaper. Doctors who cut up little kids and force feed them harmful meds I keep explaining that operations are not perfomed until the person is 18 and any drugs should be taken with the consent and observation of parents and doctors, but you insist in believing that an 18 year old man or woman is a little kid. Fine. You do you. To me a little kid is anybody under the age of 12 or 13. But you do you. anybody who thinks they need to be a boy instead of a girl or thinks they need to be a girl instead of a boy. Again that doesn't bother me one way or the other. I barely think about it. It is said that men who hate on gays are repressing their own gayness. Wonder if the same applies to people who hate on the trans community. Black lives matter For a while I considered getting myself a Black Lives Matter T-shirt to wear around town just to p-ss off the rednecks around here. But with my luck some redneck would likely shoot me so I decided not to. Any person who cries "defund the police" https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/08/11/senate-democrats-call-gops-bluff-on-defund-the-police-penalties-preventing-green-new-deal-and-more/?sh=661b143455b6 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-unveil-37b-budget-request-funding-law-enforcement/story?id=87167327 The first liberal or non white person who wakes up crying about something. Same with any white or non-liberal person who wakes up crying about something. This is America. Freedom of speech.
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