I almost missed this nugget. You know the country is bad when someone could honestly say this with a straight face. I'm sorry, the definitions havent changed. I deal in reality and truth. I will never call anyone born with a penis a woman.
Women are females. Men are males. Full stop.

#48 | Posted by boazreborn

F for effort, numbnuts.

What I meant was referring to women by their sex, not by the term women.

Had nothing to do with trans, but given your trans obsession it's no surprise you went there.

This is a significant factor in my assumption that Trumpers are simply stupid for supporting him.

This type of stuff is nearly the entire reason he's back in office. This was planned from the get go to be nothing but grift after grift after grift.

Trumper morons were warned that that was what they were voting for.

They either didn't care (despite their constant blathering about waste, fraud and abuse) or were stupid enough to believe the BS about Trump loving America and the American people and wanting to fix things to make their lives better.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Even the current standard test (Bruin) from SCOTUS doesn't give all inclusive, unrestricted rights to bear arms. To say 2A gives "an unfettered individual right to a gun" is not aligned with current case law.

"weapons of war" *facepalm*

In any case, SCOTUS has reused to take cases challenging state level bans and have in dicta to several 2A decisions indicated that they would uphold certain types of restrictions.

The key issue that isn't clear to me is whether they would still consider AR-15s to be unusual and dangerous weapons.

That's also irrelevant to you being a pedo supporter, pedo supporter.

I didn't support any of that Q ---- in #68.

#72 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Irrelevant to the broader fact that calling people pedos was commonplace for years from MAGA morons. It was commonplace here from people like you.

It only stopped being commonplace when it became clear that it was yet another case of the accusation being an admission from MAGA leadership.

Cutesy wordplay is your tell.

Just slink off and stop trying to have the last word.

I figured this would be a pedoringer thread.

you opine that it does.

Nope.

I know you love to shadowbox by labeling everyone a "neoatheist," but I don't claim to know.

All I claim is that attributing things to God because we don't currently have an answer is intellectually lazy. It's throwing in the towel.

That's it.

More descriptive claims, no arguments.

You just don't like my arguments because you can't C%P your way out of it.

"We don't know why anything exists at all. Nine things we still can't explain about the Universe" (2/26)

Clearly, must be God then...

God of the Gaps! God of the Gaps! God of the Gaps!
Ya gotta lotta lotta gaps... more and more each year it seems.

Do you have any idea how foolish you look shrugging off your intellectually lazy logical fallacy? It completely belies your supposed quest for truth.

And no, there aren't more every year. Just more questions once we get some answers, as good science always goes.

I could go on.... we gotta a lotta Gaps!

#144 | Posted by Corky

Like a good little trained monkey, you centralize your God of the Gaps nonsense around the admittedly most perplexing and difficult to support scientific idea. Meanwhile, your crusty old man discussion went super deep with the insight that the Big Bang supports Genesis because it says...there is a beginning...

Wow. Super solid, paradigm shifting work there. Holy. S*&^.

You know what else it supports then? Every other God damn origins myth ever to come from a human's brain.

Glad you found a box to put me in... we wouldn't want you going around all confused.
#145 | Posted by Corky

Confused? No. But it did clarify several things, like why you have zero arguments. Ever. Why you throw around logical fallacies like it's your job. Always. Why you fundamentally misunderstand the science you purport to know. Also always. What you've learned is through a distorted lens of charlatans and pseudointellectuals who came to a conclusion first and use the non-existence of answers to their loaded questions as answers, all while producing zilch as far as knowledge of actual usefulness and substance.

Yes, there was indirect evidence that led physicists to seek direct detection in the first place.

Direct detection confirms its existence and gives us the physical characteristics of it.

Now go ahead and say something stupid about truckers and frat boys, pedo supporter.

Pedo? This is what loser leftists do when they can't have their way. Sick little bastard.

This stupid pile of s*&^ doesn't think we remember Pizzagate, QAnon, the nonsense about Wayfair ect ect.

They casually threw around the accusation of pedophilia for YEARS with zero evidence or cause but now want to act like it's verboten because it turns out the man pushing it all is their Lord and Savior Donald "Epstein Files" Trump, who is and was one of the world's worst sexual predators and whom they continue to support without question.

So, f*&^ off you pedo supporting dips*&^. You earned it.

The MSM isnt dying a slow death, it's slowly committing suicide.

#85 | Posted by BellRinger

Yes, largely because polarization has led people to seek "independent media" that tells them what they want to hear or that conforms to their "side."

That's not to say they haven't made mistakes, they have. But those mistakes have been blown out of proportion to justify listening to other sources that are blatantly and demonstrably far far worse.

Trust in corporate news media is at a historic all time low, Zed.
It's why I stand by my last post.

#77 | Posted by BellRinger

You stand by your post for the same reason you wrote it - intellectual laziness.

Labeling is SO juvenile.

Or it's, you know, using language to communicate and understand. Why are you afraid of the label?

Let me ask you, when you see a new model car on the street, what is your assumption?
Do you assume that it was the result of hundred of billions of years of molecular shenanigans in a mindless process, or do you assume there was a car designer and builder?

Do you not understand the biological underpinnings of evolution? Because only in that context could you ask this question with a straight face.

Snoofers is right about the Universe, btw. We really haven't a clue... current debates in astrophysics include does matter really exist, does dark matter exist?
What about gravity, how does that really work?

You're playing God of the Gaps. BTW they just directly measured dark matter.

And science has a really low bar, btw... if we find phenomena that we can attribute to an even semi-plausible source, then that assumed source... some effect that we see... it becomes a working theory.

No, it doesn't. Don't throw around the lay usage of the word theory and expect to be taken seriously.

So, I take into account all sorts of information when I consider my opinions, which, also btw, I know are opinions rather than confusing them with facts.

#135 | Posted by Corky

So, all of that just to avoid saying yes, you are an intelligent design proponent. Got it.

He believes science does not rule out a creator

Again, not at all relevant.

None of your logical fallacies are. That's why they're logical fallacies.

#129 | Posted by Corky

So what? Not at all relevant that people living in the 16th and 17th centuries were religious. Everybody was religious.

It represents a "triumphalism" that assumes progress has rendered past generations, traditions, and beliefs obsolete and inferior.

When it better explains the world and allows for faster or increased progress in understanding it does exactly that.

Watching more of that video, I can see where corkandpaste gets his argument style from.

Also, I just realized one of the panelists is a higher up at the Discovery Institute and is an ardent Intelligent Design proponent.

Corky, are you a proponent of Intelligent Design?

Sooooo...it's not only not going to be privately funded as promised, but it will now cost 2.5x the original price if (big IF) there are no cost overruns?

And I'm betting much of this will go to contracts awarded without bids to shell companies that are mere days old that are associated with companies one Trump spawn or another has a stake in?

$1 billion will buy a ton of tacky decorations and gold spray paint from Home Depot.

The hypocrisy of both the left and the right in the story itself and the reaction to it is absolutely amazing. Both sides using Illegal Immigrants as pawns in a game of gotcha.

#9 | Posted by kwrx25

You might want to try not starting with a strawman before declaring equal hypocrisy on this one, sport.

-They're all fake.
are the dead people fake or are they really dead?

#6 | Posted by eberly

Are you really going to go the pedoringer disingenuous route?

You'd have a good point if the two examples weren't so glaringly noncomparable.

--This is why the dems should NEVER be allowed to govern again - in ANY role, whether it be President, Governor, Mayor, Senator or Congressman ...

#25 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You realize this post is an example of why you shouldn't be allowed to vote, right?

You're not in any way tethered to reality.