carolina73 (10-04-2021),The Booman (10-03-2021)
The correct assessment is that the mainstream feminist movement in this country, and much of the Western world (not so much elsewhere) gradually came to embrace the concept of gender over the course of the 1980s and '90s. It's a case of the women's movement being substantially colonized by what we today call the gender identity movement.
I admire your courage to do this...and your ability to see you can not bring up certain subject with the left without being dogpiled.
You know damb well it would happen.
As I told you before, this is exactly why I joined a political forum.
To heard BOTH sides, but, as you have also experienced....few of the radical left want to actually DEBATE.
They think you are some kind of cro-magnun for just wanting to talk about something.
ALL questioning voices must be shut down.
Not with me.
It also irks me as to how they have hijacked the LIBERAL moniker.
LIBERALS....believe in free speech
believe in open debate.
Would LOVE to talk to you about some issue
and are open to listening to you.
They may still believe what they will, but they will listen and also allow you to talk.
Radical leftists do not believe ANYONE has a right to question ANYTHING they say....and will do all they can to shut you down.
You remind me of the liberals of the 60's, and my liberal buddies in the Navy.
We might disagree, but I know you, and they have my back 24/7.
If this is my last post to you...remember this above all else.
You ARE a LIBERAL of the classic sense.
Something to be proud of.
The searing pain has kept me bed ridden since Friday.
I took 20mg of hydrocodone and 75mg of Lyrica just to play a game of two deck Spider Solitaire and log on here.
I feel I need to say my peace to a lot of people here.
Your friend, Dave
Last edited by Retirednsmilin308; 10-04-2021 at 12:56 AM.
When it is not allowed to be questioned, it is not science, it is PROPAGANDA
IMPress Polly (10-04-2021),stephenpe (10-05-2021)
Well I certainly hope, and believe, that this isn't my last reply to you! I know you're gonna make it, dude, just hang in there!
Couldn't resist mentioning that one of the three people I mentioned responded in a private message yesterday afternoon and it was an absolutely classic confirmation of the point you're getting at. I wish I were allowed to quote it in full here (it was three sentences, so not a long read), but apparently the forum rules dictate that, even though I could just avoid specifying his screen name, doing so would nonetheless violate his right to privacy. The summary version though is that I'm apparently a stupid Republican who just wants to exchange insults and has no intention of exchanging views in good faith, as evidenced by the fact that clicking on the seven-year-old tPF blog linked in my signature yields an error message (something I didn't even notice until he pointed it out, and which doesn't matter anyway because the opinions contained thereon are long since outdated). I responded by pointing out that I'm a fellow leftist (a fact that one need only search my back posts to verify), that my whole purpose in setting up a one-on-one debate was to have a more meaningful exchange of opinions than might otherwise be possible, and by finally asking why hell he's on a political debate forum if he's not interested in debating anyone with differing views on the grounds that they're all idiots acting in bad faith. Radio silence. Absolutely classic cop-out.
I predict I will either get no response from the other two or else that any such response will be similar in nature. To that end, I may just go ahead and divulge some of the points I wanted to make elsewhere on the forum today, as there's clearly going to be no meaningful debate anyway. Guess you were right: it's a waste of time to even try debating with people woke enough to be surprised that Alana McLaughlin won his debut MMA fight in the women's category after just six months of training compared to his clearly more skilled opponent's decade of preparation, or at least not on such issues as this anyway. Naturally people who can't defend their positions don't want to debate them. The real question is why they join debate forums.
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Retirednsmilin308 (10-04-2021)
Your post deserves more than just a LIKE.
So now you are a "stoopid Republican" ? Whoodda thunk it ?
Funny how the labels people put on you change from person to person and day to day...issue to issue.
I got my back and neck smashed all to hell facing Americas enemies, and right wing extreme jagoffs say I am a disloyal person for not thinking exactly like they want me to think.
Those labelers of your and those labelers of mine are two cheeks of the same ass.
They think exactly the same way.
DEBATE, critical thinking, and hearing what the other guy has to say are completely foreign concepts to them.
I would LOVE...literally LOVE to see you debate one of them in open combat in the arena.
...but I think none of them would dare.
If you like, I would enjoy debating you on something.
Not really political so much, but almost as emotional.
Let's see if any of them have the courage to face you in open combat on the field of honor first.
PS...the topic I would like to discuss with you is whether all humanity would be dead after an all out nuclear exchange.
In my experience, I say NO. There will still be humans on planet earth, and there will also be some cities and towns untouched.
but let's see how you fair with your deal first, OK ?
When it is not allowed to be questioned, it is not science, it is PROPAGANDA
IMPress Polly (10-05-2021),Thom Paine (10-04-2021)
Thanks so much for the compliments!!
We could have that debate about the ramifications of a hypothetical nuclear war except that I'm in agreement with your position, so it might be kinda pointless.
Anyway, it's been days now. Clearly no one's going to take me up on this, so I'll just post some of the stuff I wanted to in the debate context elsewhere on the forums later.
Who's labeling you a disloyal person??
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Retirednsmilin308 (10-07-2021)
Lefties challenged to debate...
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Retirednsmilin308 (10-07-2021)
I have read a little about transgenders. I observed children for forty years in my career working in school settings (mostly elem). By 2/3rd grade I could usually tell if a child didnt fall perfectly into the boy or girl category. I taught a girl 30 yrs ago who looked just like a boy. When we had competitions against other schools I was asked why a boy was allowed to play against other girls. She went on to be in the Navy and is gay. I taught a girl 7 yrs ago who said she was a boy. Her older sister said her and grandma were angry about it. She looked like a boy to me. One thing that has puzzled me over many years is how people so easily accept the diversity of humans in so many ways but kick back hard when its about sexual identity. People come in all kinds of ways (I called it being wired differently). I have also read many instances where a person said they felt trapped in a man or womans body but felt the other way. Mostly, I feel sorry for people that feel so different or behave so different in a society where they are at best tolerated and worse criticized often and looked upon in disgust. I love the saying "God does not make junk" I have also observed very conservative families eventually accept and fully embrace their children that march out of step this way. My two cents FWIW
IMPress Polly (10-05-2021),Retirednsmilin308 (10-07-2021)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist