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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:23 am
So Darth, did you shit on my rare piece of good news in a generally grim time as an exercise in sadism, an attempt to shock me into learning something about myself, as a form of petty minor revenge, or a little bit of all three?
Well, can't speak for Darth, but I assume he was just poking fun at the handwringing that the Left (speaking generally, not about you in particular) often engages in that the sky is falling and EVIL CONSERVATIVES are coming for everyone and everything they love. Gay marriage is about to end! Row vs. Wade is on death's door! Illegal immigrants are on the verge of being gassed on masse!
It's silly, and by no means limited to the Left..they're coming for your GUNS! OUTRAGE!!!...but since the Right is currently in power we hear it more from the Left these days. Just give it the good ol' Sensible Chuckle and move on.
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:23 am
So Darth, did you shit on my rare piece of good news in a generally grim time as an exercise in sadism, an attempt to shock me into learning something about myself, as a form of petty minor revenge, or a little bit of all three?
Well, can't speak for Darth, but I assume he was just poking fun at the handwringing that the Left (speaking generally, not about you in particular) often engages in that the sky is falling and EVIL CONSERVATIVES are coming for everyone and everything they love. Gay marriage is about to end! Row vs. Wade is on death's door! Illegal immigrants are on the verge of being gassed on masse!
It's silly, and by no means limited to the Left..they're coming for your GUNS! OUTRAGE!!!...but since the Right is currently in power we hear it more from the Left these days. Just give it the good ol' Sensible Chuckle and move on.
If they could they would come for the guns unless their leaders change online, offline and in the legislatures.
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:23 am
So Darth, did you shit on my rare piece of good news in a generally grim time as an exercise in sadism, an attempt to shock me into learning something about myself, as a form of petty minor revenge, or a little bit of all three?
Well, can't speak for Darth, but I assume he was just poking fun at the handwringing that the Left (speaking generally, not about you in particular) often engages in that the sky is falling and EVIL CONSERVATIVES are coming for everyone and everything they love. Gay marriage is about to end! Row vs. Wade is on death's door! Illegal immigrants are on the verge of being gassed on masse!
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:23 am
So Darth, did you shit on my rare piece of good news in a generally grim time as an exercise in sadism, an attempt to shock me into learning something about myself, as a form of petty minor revenge, or a little bit of all three?
Well, can't speak for Darth, but I assume he was just poking fun at the handwringing that the Left (speaking generally, not about you in particular) often engages in that the sky is falling and EVIL CONSERVATIVES are coming for everyone and everything they love. Gay marriage is about to end! Row vs. Wade is on death's door! Illegal immigrants are on the verge of being gassed on masse!
In other words, baiting?
No, I wasn't trying to get any kind of reaction. I was making fun of the way many of the elft see the right while at the same time noting progress made on the anti-anti-LGBTQ* front.
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:23 am
So Darth, did you shit on my rare piece of good news in a generally grim time as an exercise in sadism, an attempt to shock me into learning something about myself, as a form of petty minor revenge, or a little bit of all three?
Well, can't speak for Darth, but I assume he was just poking fun at the handwringing that the Left (speaking generally, not about you in particular) often engages in that the sky is falling and EVIL CONSERVATIVES are coming for everyone and everything they love. Gay marriage is about to end! Row vs. Wade is on death's door! Illegal immigrants are on the verge of being gassed on masse!
In other words, baiting?
No, I wasn't trying to get any kind of reaction. I was making fun of the way many of the elft see the right while at the same time noting progress made on the anti-anti-LGBTQ* front.
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:23 am
So Darth, did you shit on my rare piece of good news in a generally grim time as an exercise in sadism, an attempt to shock me into learning something about myself, as a form of petty minor revenge, or a little bit of all three?
No excrement was intended. Surely trying to push toward decriminalization of homosexuality isn't a bad thing just because Trump does it? I hope?
No, it's not, but if you imply that this progress happened because of Our Glorious President 45 rather than in spite of him, I may have to have some blunt words with you in a Denny's parking lot.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
clearspira wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 7:49 pm
For a country that prides itself on freedom, you do have a lot of problems with race and homosexuality. Proposing an Anti-LGBT law would have got you laughed out of Parliament twenty years ago here. You certainly wouldn't get elected; in fact one Prime Ministerial candidate in 2017 - Mr Tim Farron - had to choose resignation over being pushed after it emerged that he though gay sex was obscene.
You have some points, but you also need to remember that we aren't the country that forced Alan Turing into chemical castration.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:23 am
So Darth, did you shit on my rare piece of good news in a generally grim time as an exercise in sadism, an attempt to shock me into learning something about myself, as a form of petty minor revenge, or a little bit of all three?
No excrement was intended. Surely trying to push toward decriminalization of homosexuality isn't a bad thing just because Trump does it? I hope?
No, it's not, but if you imply that this progress happened because of Our Glorious President 45 rather than in spite of him, I may have to have some blunt words with you in a Denny's parking lot.
^ Exactly. Though I feel Cruz is a worse homophobe, Trump is no friend to the LGBT community. At all.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:23 am
So Darth, did you shit on my rare piece of good news in a generally grim time as an exercise in sadism, an attempt to shock me into learning something about myself, as a form of petty minor revenge, or a little bit of all three?
No excrement was intended. Surely trying to push toward decriminalization of homosexuality isn't a bad thing just because Trump does it? I hope?
No, it's not, but if you imply that this progress happened because of Our Glorious President 45 rather than in spite of him, I may have to have some blunt words with you in a Denny's parking lot.
What did I say that implied Trump pushed through the pro-LGBT legislation? I think you read too much into it.
