jerryskids

I've said before: progressives don't stop anywhere short of 100%. It worked with the gay "marriage vs. civil union" discussion. And for trans, they want men in women sports, locker rooms, prisons, spas. I didn't really care about the former, but I sincerely hope women rise up against the latter.

What's your solution, weepaws?

Fair question. I'll say a few things. 1. There are more factors than "pedos go there." We would need to know how many/what percentage, for instance (I don't know). 2. There is significant value to the child in scouts, and church, and sports, which must weigh against the risk of abuse. There is very little value to the child with a drag queen other than the excitement of a brightly colored freak show. That all being said, I somewhat regret going down the pedo rabbit hole, because that's not my main concern. My main concern is confusing young children about gender norms. As Maher also points out, children are not "miniature adults." They are empty vessels begging to be filled with how to become a well-adjusted, functioning adult. At 5 years old, we should teach two genders. This "you can be whatever you want to be" is inane at that age. They want us to teach them, they NEED us to teach them.

Good morning. Ahh, Tim's amorphous "medical experts." What exactly have you heard them say? If you've heard them say that environment/experience cannot influence a person's sexuality, then they would be wrong, as per the scientific study I provided. I'm trying to parse this into 3 parts, and you are leaping to the end despite my attempts to break it down. 1. Can environment/experience influence your sexuality? Yes, scientifically proven. 2. Can a young child attending a drag show be such an environment/experience? This IMO is where the discussion is, not the above. 3. If #2, do some drag queens intentionally want to provide such an influence, perhaps for pedophilia reasons? Well, of course. Like Maher said, Willie Sutton robbed banks because "that's where the money is." Much like pedos are drawn to scouts, teaching, priesthood... some of the drag queens are pedos. That's just realistic statistics.

Yeah, Phoenix is under the current 9th Circuit ruling. Every public building downtown has homeless people sleeping there. It's not too bad though IMO. Part of the challenge is, as weepaws alluded two, there are two classes of homeless people. One, like the woman in this lawsuit, is the temporary down on your luck type. They want a home and work to change their situation. The other, and it seems the majority (I could be wrong tho), is the chronically homeless person. Mentally ill, drug addicted, wouldn't take a home if you gave it to them. I feel like we are trying to address both completely different situations with the same solutions. And that is why we have epically phayled with this problem.

You disagree with what? That experience/environment can influence sexual orientation? I posted a scientific article which proves it can. Once we agree on that, we can discuss your blathering ADL screed where every third word is "hate" or "bigoted."

Great, we've established that it can. I'm heading to dinner; perhaps we can hear from @The Real timschochetbefore the Lakers game starts. I'll follow up later or in the coming days.

No it's not. I'm a scientist, and you are... what, exactly? Anyway, the larger point is for folks like yourself and @The Real timschochet to accept the scientific fact that environment/experience can influence sexual orientation. Once you do that, then we can debate whether the experience you describe is such an experience.

Interesting... in our family, my wife is more the lyric person, and I'm more the music person. So it would be true to form that I found the songs boring. But my wife did as well. Maybe there needs to be some minimal amount of musical complexity to capture her interest. As a capitalist, I have no problem whatsoever with her putting this album out and, as you say, giving her fans a gigantic helping of what they want. But since I'm not such a fan, I stick with my review.

I don't know why you are sticking with the vocation argument, but I'll take this opportunity to point out that you are wrong about the ability of environment/experience to influence sexual orientation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535560/ Since you are a member of the party of science, I need you to accept and internalize this truth before we can have a meaningful discussion.

Who said groom to be a homosexual? I don't believe that all drag queens are gay. Are you saying it is good for society to program our male children to live a drag lifestyle? Let's finish that discussion before we address your "as a libertarian, parents should do absolutely anything they want with kids" argument.

Thanks!

These days I'm pretty comfortable with my driver, moreso than my 3 wood (I don't practice it enough). As such I'd probably go driver, long iron or 3 hybrid, and if I'm anywhere near the green, I'd leverage my (not) awesome short game to chip and putt 3-4 shots into the hole.

She has a new album out! We listened to it yesterday... ugh, it was song after song of what my wife called "the Taylor Swift song." They all sounded the same. And bad. I like a lot of her prior stuff and get the allure, but I think she jumped the shark with this one.

Quit the strawman of vocation, and answer my questions.

I'm... not quite sure how to respond to this. The obvious answer to anyone but folks like yourself on the far left is: it's wrong to groom the youth of a society in such a way. I welcome any of our resident "centrists" to tell me if they agree or disagree.

I've learned to speak Squistion some. I expect it to go like this: Squistion: I have no opinion. Me: So you agree that young children are impressionable and don't know with normal is? Squistion: I didn't say that. A Leftist bot is more cerebral than Squistion.

@squistion, your thoughts?

Because a 5 year old knows what "normal" is? And a 5 year old might not think that all the bright colors and face paint are neat, and want to be like that?

Jeebus, go read what you and Worms chatted about that I responded to. It wasn't that long ago. Cripes, you are where jokes go to die.

More prayers sent. Hope things are getting better.

You didn't want MAGA going after Hitler; I was painting a picture of your side doing it. Specifically the image of your Hamas apologists fighting a Jew hater; they'd probably build him a statue instead And I didn't even use the low hanging fruit of your fearsome transgender officers and coddled safe-space GenZ infantry.

I responded to you and worms who were discussing how bad it would have been if MAGA were in charge vs. Hitler.

Yeah, I read it a few years ago. Good book, I love alternative history stuff (also enjoyed The Man in the High Castle). I didn't know it was on Max, I'll look it up. That said, it's kinda comical that you'd propose sending in your Leftist army of Hamas loving Palestinian Americans and idealist academics to storm the beach of Normandy to help save Jewish lives.

Posty made your sign but not me.