Do you have kids Snoofy? I'm thinking no, turning a blind eye to people pushing adult agendas and topics onto kids is not the same as just letting others have differing beliefs.

Do you just shrug when the neighbor pulls his belt off to keep the wife and kids inline? I mean if you don't like it, don't look.

from the headline alone...

My sons drama school puts on a regular Drag Show, for Adults. No one has ever had a problem with it.

So, I'm pretty sure that for a huge majority it's just when the Drag show is "Reading Time at the Library".

Just as long as it's not used to point out any duck like properties of the left. If that happens, it's an abhorrent comparison, and the speaker will be cancelled.

I agree, we should call em like we see em... both ways.

I know you're smarter than this snoofy...

My point is we are choosing if someone is a criminal based on who the victim is.

Gina used nazi/Jewish reference against the left so she's a criminal.

Now in this case it's not only okay to call the far right nazis, it's imperative to do it.

If it's based to use nazi/Jewish analogies it should be across the board.

Picking and choosing when to be outraged by or applauding comparisons to Nazi's or tactics used against the Jewish people is remarkably hypocritical. The specifics of Gina Carano actually said vs what people think she said and reacted to are very different, yet she is no longer on the Mandalorian.

Activities can't be good or bad depending on if we agree or disagree with who it's used against.

I don't have a horse in this race, but...

My wife had Covid before it was recognized, Dec'19.

Hit her hard. She got vaxxed and boosted, and still got it again, and hospitalized. Her friend is a nurse in that ward, and was the one who encouraged her to go. The doctor she works with is the head of that deptartment. In the cocktail of meds she was given was Ivermectin.

We didn't know she was getting that. She has recovered well since then. I'm not saying it was the Ivermectin, but it was in the mix.

Yeah, horrible place... just look at the line to get in, and people cutting it too.

#4 Because in a world where we have a camera everywhere, we will always have access to evidence that we want to argue a point. When we do uncover bad behavior it should be dealt with swiftly and properly. Blanket labeling an entire profession is shorted and fool hearty.

Can we really be sure of the accuracy of these polls, how can we tell their genders?

if solar in it's current incarnation causes costs to the overall system it should be absorbed by the state. I'd rather they cut a service or energy initiative to cover the cost, and not de-incentivise the adoption of solar. It has to go through the growing pains to be viable.

If this were a thread about how workers are compensated... The argument that the executives are being doing well, and the corporation is making record profits would be laughed at and used to against the person using it as further evidence that it's all at the expense of the poorest worker.

For some reason though here it's great that the state is doing well, and the rich are thriving there even though others cannot afford to exist there.

Just more evidence that most people here are just partisan and hypocritical

"It's putting the GOP congress on Record voting against it"

Something their base, and a good portion of the middle support. I'm sure there real nervous about the consequences.

In other new Pat Benatar admits to not really knowing a what metaphor is

#2 - the tails are wagging the dogs.

The parties are allowing their extremists to define them.

of course there's more to it, but that's the cliff notes version.

#623. fair counter. I can certainly agree to it being the one of many choices I'm glad to not have been faced with.

#593...

So to be against murder in general, I have to be in favor of a slew of social programs designed to help those that are less fortunate?

I see where a caring person could support both easily. But to claim they're intrinsically linked is a bit of a stretch.

You can't really say your against gunning a man down if your not for medicaid for all!!! You just want to control people!.... I don't know, that doesn't fly for me

#14...

~"In what world is not the better decision" - lose quote, I don't want to scroll back up.

Anecdotal I know...

My wife while in highschool accompanied a friend to an abortion clinic. Her friend regretted her decision immediately and was traumatized by the experience and the regret, she has never really gotten over it. So much so, she cemented my wifes position of never wanting to have one. She and I support a womens right to choose, we just know it wouldn't be the one we choose.

so not arguing one way or the other, but I don't think it always works out to be the best decision.

--note, I've only read to point 14, maybe this got discussed in the other 400+ posts

#138... This is why this is one of the ultimate wedge issue.

I think most people agree that a vast majority of people believe women have autonomy over their bodies. It would take a pretty backwards thinking person to not agree.

Also

I think most people agree that terminating a developing life is infringing on that life's right to exist.

The issue is that these two things cannot coexist in the case of human reproduction. It becomes the ultimate wedge issue is that you then have to favor one over the other, and neither side can comprehend that the other side doesn't favor the same one they do. To the point that they are evil for doing so, and no compromise can be made with the evil other side.

I'm pretty sure angrydad considering me a "fuggin moron" is actually a compliment.

Things I've not said in this thread... Roe should have been overturned, yet it is claimed above that's what I believe and have voted for.

Number of republicans I've voted for in the past 20+ years, 0. Yet is claimed that it's their beliefs I support and why I vote them in.

This site used to actually have discussions. Now it's an echo chamber, and if you vary from the echo in the slightest bit, you just get extreme positions assigned to you.

If you don't believe that an all caps headline of a 10yr old isn't floating the shock value, and will prompt some crazied righty to find what they consider their "gotcha" headline to sensationalize their side of the story, fine. I think you're wrong and we'll continue to go round and round with all cap gotcha headlines on both sides. This was the only point I was making. It doesn't fit the echo chamber, I got it.

you really are brain damaged... My stance isn't all abortions all the time, so you have to make it out that I'm some crazy extremist.

My point is that while horrible, this is an extreme case. So to hold it up as the poster child of the evils of the SCOTUS ruling, only causes crazies on the right to find some corner case story to the opposite extreme to hold up why this ruling was right.

My only point is that arguing the extremes gets us no where.

Of course you then take that and twist it into some crazy take, proving the point that no on is really interested in finding common ground, they just want to shout down anyone who might not agree 100% with them.

#25 do you know how to f'n read? I blatantly stated that my example was a made up, extreme case. Saying that railing using 10 year olds as examples on one side will be posted one day.... then someone will post an extreme opposite view the next... The conversation needs to be in the middle where abortions are allowed, but they are also not what would be viewed by the far right as too easy.

If saying the abortions should be legal but not trivial makes me far right, you've lost your g'd mind. Reading is fundamental.

This is what sucks about this being a black and white issue... I'm sure someone will post a story about a woman getting a 35th week abortion for likes on tik tok.

There are the extreme stories on either side, we'll only make progress on this with some sort of compromise. We were in a semi stable condition, but neither side could leave it alone. The extreme left wanted to keep moving the bar one way, the extreme right wanted to move it the other way.

Can't we make abortions legal, but not trivial. Get anywhere near that and I think the vast majority could move on to the next topic.