Donner,

"Thoroughly ridiculed and humiliated."

I stopped caring about personal insults a long time ago. You think this place is the first arena where I've been given grief? I think I've always stressed that on this site. Gay people shouldn't feel they need approval from the straight world. If they accept you, great. If they don't, don't internalize it. Confidence comes from within, not from applause.

My living "out" years were the mid-70s into the 80s. That wasn't exactly an openly gay era. But I was never ever closeted. Anyone with any sophistication today, can see straight thru me without me saying a word.

What kept me afloat was my skills. I could take a PC apart, setup a LAN and hand an owner financial statements more accurate and defensible than anything they'd ever seen. Accounting and computers were my strength.

It definitely wasn't charm.

Working directly with owners and upper management, not to mention training employees who fought change, you either had a back bone or you were ineffective.

So no...I don't feel humiliated by anyone here.

Donner,

"thoroughly ridiculed and humiliated"

What makes you think I feel humiliated?

I don't internalize the insults. They mean nothing. Just don't talk about my family. That pisses me off.

Also, anyone who attacks my life choices from living a gay lifestyle to marrying a woman, I consider a complete hypocrite and write them off.

Actually, I appreciate other opinions to consider if I find any validity to them.

John,

"Protecting those people who engage in sex trafficking is defending sex trafficking."

I'm against human trafficking, period.

I'm simply not arrogant enough to pretend I know how to navigate international intelligence, diplomacy, and criminal networks from behind a keyboard.

I'll leave that to the experts.

Laura,

I like that name...wish we could change our aliases.

Afraid I have always been BillJohnson. I don't post as other names and certainly no one has posted as me.

Snoofy,

"So now you're contradicting yourself and you don't even realize it."

The nuance went over your head.

If you can't see it, then you can't see it.

Dan,

If it had been decided during COVID to use mobile voting with vans driving to each city block, you'd be crying voter suppression when things went back to normal.

What's next? Knocking on every door and handing out ballots and pens?

Dan,

"And yet mail has over a 99.5% success rate when the address is correct."

I have sent out 1000's of payments to suppliers during my accounting career and you are absolutely correct. Very few checks get lost. About half of the ones that get lost and are replaced, eventually show up.

And so what? I know that.

My objection with mail-in ballots is multi-faceted.

I'm not getting into it again. Read my older posts.

"You're making excuses to make it harder for "certain" people to vote."

The mass mailing out of ballots to all registered voters was a workaround and the result of COVID.

Now its voter suppression if it isn't continued.

Early voting removes the voter suppression argument. If you can't get out for some reason, apply for an absentee ballot.