I don't like learning new things. My father and my father's father had a meaning for barbecue which is eternally going to be the correct one, regardless of any new experiences or information that tries to burrow its way into my thick, impenetrable skull. I will put my fingers in my ears and go, "La La La" if necessary.

Is this you being awesome then? Cuz it doesn't seem very awesome.

I don't like politics for just this reason. It turns people I like into cocksuckers. don't turn into a cocksucker, Flint. I want to still like you.

Oh, it's nothing to do with politics. I don't like bigots.

Bigots who hide behind politics or religion deserve to be publicly shamed. It's the right thing to do. We, as a people, need to call that behavior out and say, "Not OK." I think that's very awesome. Being on the right side of history is probably the most awesome thing we can do in our short lifetime.

Oh, it seemed like your angst was derived from what you thought he did with respect to blocking posts or something

That too. Don't like chickenshits either.

Why are you acting like you don't remember that I was always like this?

I guess I it's been too long. Why don't you stick around more. This kind of shit generates more involvement from the lookie lous too

Thank you I******* M***** for remembering that my post #9 made no sense with post #8 left like that. :D

Being on the right side of history is just picking the winning side, because the winners write history without regard for truth. The winners and losers will pass on to their decedents that they were in the right, making a permanent division on that topic. That's why there are still people claiming the masters and slaves were bros, who hung out on the veranda together after work. There are probably a few people who believe we shouldn't have gotten into either world war.. but probably most of them are German though.

Fred messaged me he isn't going to even lurk anymore so thanks for that, flint. But it's kind of unfair because he was already pretty inactive for some time.

And, this is how it works now.

You did a greeeeat job of bursting the bubble and figuring out how to have a productive political dialogue

Produce more converts by insulting the fuck out of them, nice movement you got going

Ask anyone in China. Tank man at Tienanmen Square never happened.

That's the definition of closed minded.

Too bad he's not around anymore to explain this.

I get the two wrongs don't make a right, but this sounds really close to the selective support for rules that I've been hearing from Drumph.

Not OK for you to do the EXACT SAME thing as I did to you... :facepalm:

Not really the same impact as "I was wrong to do that, I'm sorry."

i bid a farewell, for now, never say never, with this and I will not go into anymore detail than what I am about to say.

to the above quote, close minded? not in this case. Through personal experience that has happened to me in my younger years I will not ever be tolerant of the opposite sex in any bathroom. this is an example of one person ruining the party for everyone, so to speak. If it keeps even just one child from having to go through the experience of during and after said situation, by all means i'm for it. case closed for me.

good day.

When someone has a position they want to broadcast through meme after meme, day after day, they damn well better be able to defend that position in their own words. Meme propaganda invites an equally snarky response. That’s not how you start a discussion. If, the first time they encounter pushback, their response is to block people from engaging with them, then they clearly don’t want a discussion.

I don't know, but I'm suspicious that most of the people passing along memes do it because they find them more funny or clever than they could dream up. It may not be pushing their personal agenda. Granted repeated memes on the same topic looks suspiciously personal, the problem is you never get the reasoning behind that position.

On the bathroom thing I'm undecided. The trans population is awfully small from what I've seen/heard. Is making public restrooms more comfortable for them, worth giving carte blanche to a much larger population of perverts? Those unintended consequences are murder.