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  • Originally posted by firstfloor View Post
    ‘Twas ‘names’ not ‘user names’ he mentioned in reference to your infamous and deeply offensive LGBT manglements.
    Deeply offensive, snowflake? Do you need a safe place?
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    • Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
      So instead of casting shade at you should be aware that it is your own community that is regularly expanding the acronym until it has become an unmanageable jumble. IOW, it's yet another face plant for Tass and starlight.
      I'm just trying to be much more inclusive than the world infamous anti-Christian bigots here.
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
        After that word salad we are still left with the fact that it is the gay community itself that is turning the acronym into an alphabet soup jumble and to pretend that is somehow 's fault are asinine.
        In fairness, the poker of cows does tend to make up mocking variants of said alphabet soup, which is doubtless what starlight is alluding to.
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        • Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
          In fairness, the poker of cows does tend to make up mocking variants of said alphabet soup, which is doubtless what starlight is alluding to.
          Like I said, just trying to be inclusive. And, yes, it's an acknowledgement of the ever-growing 'alternate' alphabet soup.
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
            Here in the U.S. there are a number of gays that don't think LGBT is inclusive enough and needs to expand the acronym to add things like Q for queer, A for asexual, P for pansexual and K for kink etc. This was why the University of Wisconsin – Madison changed the name of their "LGBT Center" to the "Gender and Sexuality Campus Center."
            Ah, my mistake. And here's me thinking CP was mocking homosexuals with his “LBGQTRXSCJ” alphabet soup when all he was doing was seriously trying to be thoughtful and correct. Of course he was.
            “He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.

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            • Originally posted by Tassman View Post
              Ah, my mistake. And here's me thinking CP was mocking homosexuals with his “LBGQTRXSCJ” alphabet soup when all he was doing was seriously trying to be thoughtful and correct. Of course he was.
              You need a safe place, Tassy?
              The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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              • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                False.
                True!

                NONSENSE
                Not "nonsense".

                It's so easy arguing with CP because he never says anything.

                Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                You need a safe place, Tassy?
                ?
                “He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.

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                • Originally posted by Tassman View Post
                  Not "nonsense"
                  If you type it, it is.

                  But, go ahead and do the "rolling your big empty head" thing - that is becoming your trademark. That, and "NONSENSE!!!!!!!!"
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • Originally posted by Tassman View Post
                    It's so easy arguing with CP because he never says anything.
                    He is yet to realize that you need to provide reasons not just opinions.
                    "Yes. President Trump is a huge embarrassment. And it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing." Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler Jr.

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                    • Originally posted by Charles View Post
                      He is yet to realize that you need to provide reasons not just opinions.
                      That's all he's got, this is why he is reduced to mocking sound-bites so often.
                      “He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.

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                      • Originally posted by Charles View Post
                        He is yet to realize that you need to provide reasons not just opinions.
                        You and Tassy make a very cute couple.
                        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                        • Originally posted by Tassman View Post
                          That's all he's got, this is why he is reduced to mocking sound-bites so often.
                          You forgot to do your goofy "big empty head rolling around" thing, Tass. Come on, man, that's your trademark!
                          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                          • The government “is under siege” by appointees who are under-prepared, unsuited for their duties, in it for themselves, and ideologically hellbent on dismantling the federal government with little idea or care about the consequences, Lewis writes.
                            About 3 hours through The Fifth Risk. Well worth reading or listening to and relevant to this topic.
                            “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde
                            “And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” ― Bertrand Russell
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                            • Originally posted by firstfloor View Post
                              About 3 hours through The Fifth Risk. Well worth reading or listening to and relevant to this topic.
                              I've finished it now. Very interesting. Kinda emphasizes how little a lot of Americans know about what the federal government does, and what the departments actually do. It doesn't help at all that the departments are badly named, and that they are banned from advertising their successes to the public. Really the federal departments are in need of a decent PR campaign to educate the masses and help people understand what they actually do.

                              Rick Perry, of course, infamously wanted to abolish the Department of Energy (but couldn't remember its name) until he was appointed by Trump as secretary of the department and discovered it was actually the department of managing nuclear weapons and nuclear contamination. People think the Department of Commerce is about business and economics and don't realize it's actually mostly Weather Forecasting, Patents, and Census administration. And people think the Department of Agriculture is something about farms, and don't realize it's primarily about food assistance programs such as SNAP, and secondarily about helping rural people with housing. And that's only the 3 federal departments covered by the book... 15 exist in total.

                              I think the existence of libertarianism as a political philosophy in the US (to an extent it doesn't exist in other Western countries) is a product of the profound ignorance of most Americans as to what things their government actually does. If you don't know what the government is doing / assume it isn't doing much, then the question of "why even bother to have a government at all?" seems sensible. So they like "small government". But if you actually were to take the same person down a long check-list of things the government is currently doing, and ask for each individual item whether they thought it should happen or not, you'd get a very different answer, starting with "should the government manage its arsenal of nuclear weapons?" At the end of the checklist, people might still have different ideas about the total size they want government to be, but they'd be fewer morons saying "why don't we just not have a government?"
                              "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                              "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                              "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                              • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                                Rick Perry, of course, infamously wanted to abolish the Department of Energy (but couldn't remember its name)
                                A brief mind blank that happens to everyone, it was just unfortunate for him it happened while everyone was watching.

                                until he was appointed by Trump as secretary of the department and discovered it was actually the department of managing nuclear weapons and nuclear contamination.
                                Except he already did know that. The whole claim he somehow didn't came from a random New York Times writer who simply claimed he didn't know on no apparent basis other than the journalist's magical mind-reading abilities and then people started reporting that uncritically. The only source offered was something Michael McKenna said, which (1) didn't actually support the claim, and (2) is something McKenna said was taken out of context anyway.

                                Sure, Perry changed his mind on getting rid of it, and perhaps there's room for criticism in that about-face, but it wasn't because he somehow wasn't aware of what it did.

                                I think the existence of libertarianism as a political philosophy in the US (to an extent it doesn't exist in other Western countries) is a product of the profound ignorance of most Americans as to what things their government actually does. If you don't know what the government is doing / assume it isn't doing much, then the question of "why even bother to have a government at all?" seems sensible. So they like "small government". But if you actually were to take the same person down a long check-list of things the government is currently doing, and ask for each individual item whether they thought it should happen or not, you'd get a very different answer, starting with "should the government manage its arsenal of nuclear weapons?" At the end of the checklist, people might still have different ideas about the total size they want government to be, but they'd be fewer morons saying "why don't we just not have a government?"
                                You seem to be confusing anarchism with libertarianism. Granted, some anarchists do identify as ilbertarians, but in my experience outright anarchists are a small minority among libertarians.

                                Also, while there might be some who are unaware that the Department of Energy handles nuclear material in addition to more general energy stuff, most people I've seen actually advocate the abolition of the Department of Energy are aware of it handling nuclear-related matters, they just want that part of it put under a different part of the government's purview (unless we're talking about anarchists, who I assume would want the government to get rid of the nuclear weapons on its way out, but I'll admit I haven't really looked much at the anarchists think, mostly because I don't really care what anarchists think).

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