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Speaking of windmills girlio, I responded to Rusty regarding pornographic things being unAmerican, and your TDS made you jump in with a MAGA$#@! whataboutism. Seek help, maybe take a break from this place. Maybe listen to some TED talks from intellectual pseuds so you can feel smartz again.

A Tribe Called Quest? Is that a DEI entry? I couldn't name a single song of theirs, and looking them up, this was in my wheelhouse of music. I'd take 90% of your original "artist that aren't in but should be" over a lot of these. Buffet not in as a performer is a travishamockery

Great non-answer, right-leaning conservative. You reinforce your political ideology with every post. Let me type slower. I don't think a repair shop should have a calendar with nekkid women on display where children could see them. Heck, I don't think they should have them period, because women can repair things too. Do you think young children should tip scantily clad drag queens?

No no no, he's a right-leaning conservative. If not for Trump he would support the only reasonable answer to this question.

What's your thoughts on young kids attending drag shows and tipping the dancers? American or not?

I went back and read it. And then I read Nomad's response to you. This is basically how I feel, you addressed none of my points. There is no "tremendous value" TO THE 5 YR OLD CHILDREN to receive confusing messages about gender so that drag queens can feel normal. The value is to the drag queens, in not only acceptance but, possibly (as per my earlier points) growing their ranks through such confusion. And... I hate to drop another reality bomb on you, but drag queens are extremely abnormal. My daughter has Type 1 diabetes, that is abnormal. She cannot, or cannot easily, become a pilot, join the military, do many other things. Society has decided, rightfully so, that you can't just pretend away her abnormality and put her in situations which are not good for society in general because it hurts her feelings. Similarly, drag queens should not read to impressionable 5 yr olds because it would hurt their feelings to do otherwise. Feel free to extend this analogy to things like: biological men in women's sports. Finally, shame on you for lumping drag queens in with all gays. Comparing the two is extremely disrespectful to non-drag gay people.

So like, what, God is going to send a flood or plague of locusts or something? It is fine, even good, to pray to God for guidance. Prayer, meditation, excellent ways to clear the mind and get clarity. But at the end of the day you need to pray for guidance that impacts the human world.

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?