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Pretty sure I wasn't the first, just clarifying the problem. Once someone brings up racism (I believe it was you), we now have a political thread.

Boy how I wish that were true. Well, seafoam is, I'll give you that one.

LOL, so we passed "it didn't happen", now we're at "ok, it did happen, but it wasn't that bad"?

No, that was my bad. It was CNN, not the AP. Sorry. Scroll up 2 posts for link.

It was CNN who said Trump fell. https://web.archive.org/web/20240713230145/https://edition.cnn.com/

Looks like the AP is a little late to the party. Aren't they the ones that said Trump fell? Also, I like how they say "gunman", not his name.

It won't matter. Just like at FBG, it will infest other boards/threads. It's what they do.

This is what the Democrats' biggest achievement has been to this country... The Victim Olympics. Who's the bigger victim, the black man or the gay flight attendant? Another gift is Cancel Culture. Anyone who's seen as the aggressor against the higher protected class in the Victim Olympics, needs to be fired. We need to stop acting like whiney garbage can Leftists and act like normal everyday conservatives. The flight attendant was having a bad day and overreacted... it happens. He doesn't need to be fired or take some sensitivity class. Terrell Davis did nothing wrong upfront but probably felt he was going to lose in the Victim Olympics, so he had to bring in his trump cards, wife and kids. He needs to tell them "He's having a bad day, it's nothing personal, let it go." No one needs to make a big deal out of this. Social media forces people to take sides and thanks to the Democrats and their wonderful Identity Politics agenda, there needs to be a victim and there needs to be a bad guy and there has to be outrage. Oh, and now someone is going to have to be sued.

No, I don't think so. Her best case scenario is that she wins the states that Hillary won.

I think Harris is the best move for the DNC. They know that anyone they put out there has no chance of winning. Putting her up against Trump gives them a chance to get rid of her without anyone realizing what they did. They only picked her to be VP in the first place to pander to minorities. She's probably less likable than Hillary. She got destroyed by tons of non-California's in the California primary 4 years ago... she's done nothing since then to make herself more likable. The only people who would vote for her are the far leftists in this country. The DNC knows this and would be happy to make her a sacrificial lamb.

I don't think that of Biden. I know that Biden has dementia and is a pawn. I think the people pulling his strings want to stay in power, so they say whatever they have to, to keep people like you voting for them. If that means painting Trump as a target, so be it. If it means to take his speeches out of context, so be it. It's what you do here every day.

You think the Biden administration isn't filled with sycophants? I think you need to consult the real world.

I don't see "crosshairs" as violent rhetoric... nor do I think is "bullseye", they're figures of speech. I believe @RLLD's stance is that as well... though, the non-stop violent rhetoric from the left makes bullseye worse. If you want to say that Palin started it, fine... but I don't even remember that let alone any other violent (if you want to call "crosshairs" violent), rhetoric just like I didn't even remember Biden saying "bullseye". But really, was there any other comments back then... at all? I'm willing to bet there isn't because no one on the Left has brought it up. The reason why I believe @RLLD's stance on Biden's comments is more harsh than Palin's is because Biden's is among an extensive list of violent rhetoric statements made at Trump since 2015, so it's not like that was the only one. We have people on this board like @squistion, @GutterBoy, and @Pimpadeaux (and his 50 other alias'), constantly call Trump Hilter or a dictator, or a threat to Democracy, or a threat to the country, just like the media and Left in DC. It's non-stop. They constantly have taken "bloodbath" out of context as well as "very fine people on both sides", and use that as a hammer for violent rhetoric. Let's even take the most recent example of the assassination attempt. There were plenty of left-wing news outlets saying Trump "fell" or that "loud noises" were heard at the Trump rally, completely downplaying what happened. Then, after they were forced to cover the assassination attempt, they started victim blaming... while 'ho hum let's back off the violent talk'. Biden comes out and acts presidential, but 24 hours later, he's back to calling Trump a threat. So, as isolated incidents pertaining to crosshair's and bullseye, they're a nothingburger in my opinion. Amidst the constant onslaught of violent talk from the Left over the last 9 years, bullseye is just one of the many things that the left has said on a regular basis. Keep in mind, even MSNBC had to sideline their worst examples of this with the Morning Joe show the day after the assassination attempt because even MSNBC knew that those two are horrible people and couldn't be trusted.

Right, that's authoritarianism. The government is giving the education system the leash to withhold information from parents that a parent could feel they have a right to. Also, this legislation also protects the school/teachers/entire education system, when they lie to the parent if said parent asks them a direct question. I'm curious. Let's say a kid who is going through this and said information is kept from the parents, and because this information is withheld, they are out of the loop.... and said kid commits suicide. Can the school, teacher/therapist, government be held responsible for being complicit in withholding information that could've saved that kids life?

Exactly.

Ok, so just so we're clear, if a kid tells a teacher that if their parent will be angry with them... the teacher can ONLY without that information, if it relates to them being trans? Gotta love it when people are acting as if discretion should only be held by the government over it's constituency, but the other side are the fascists.

You're assuming that. Their study didn't say that.

What if the kid cheats on a test and the kid tells the teacher not to tell their parents? That's ok to keep from the parents too? If so, why do the parents need to be told anything?

I didn't make anything up. Apparently we have a different opinion on what that link said. I read it as the abuse came before the kids transitioned... you, for some unknown reason, think the opposite.

It's not at all a different story... it's the same thing. When a kid says "please don't tell my parents or they will go balastic and kick me out of the house ", that's not a form of abuse?

Says the person who's prior link proved the other person right.

@The Real timschochet does. He's the one who brought it up (link). To be clear though, you're saying that a kid can go to a teacher and say my parents will harm me if they find out, the teacher will just say "ok" and everything will be good? I'd like to think that if a kid thinks the child would be harmed... REGARDLESS of the reason, the teacher should absolutely say something and get a "Wellness Check" on that kid. If a child thinks they are in danger from their parent(s), then there's a LOT more issues at home than pronouns and transitioning where keeping quiet is NOT the right thing to do.

Dude, you think very backwards. LOL

Ok, so you're saying that the Republican's started it and while you put "some" blame on Palin for the incident, you don't have a problem with Democrats doing the same thing (because I've never seen any of your posts condemning them), and with that, it's only the Republican's being inconsistent? As for me not being inconsistent... I never said I had a problem with Palin's comments nor will you find a post of mine blaming Biden for his comment. That seems pretty consistent... does it not? Where you hear me blaming Democrats for, on their rhetoric, it's pertaining to identity politics.

This doesn't prove @kilroy69 wrong. In fact, it proves him right. These kids are already being abused before any essence of transition is happening. Yes, I could buy the stance that the transitioning is happening because, as this study finds that girls are the most frequent target, that they're transitioning on purpose to be a boy, in hopes they stop getting abused. This still would back up @kilroy69's stance because in that scenario, the transitioning is a result of the abuse, not the cause.