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ORIGINAL: bounty44

I was thinking the exact same thing and have said it before---the only totalitarian-like behavior I see these days comes from the comrades.

the "marching boots of fascism??"

voting booths being limited??

scarce abortion clinics? (the incredible irony lost on them there no doubt)

do you ever look the left and wonder what the heck are they looking at such that they can say things like what you responded to?

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More and more people are coming to the honest conclusion that the left have collectively lost their fucking minds. Many people use the same sort of description for their behavior that I have been using, that they live in cartoonish alternate realities

And nothing can reach them. No facts, no realities. They can justify anything, stretch any nothing into the crime of the century... And they seem to think this is working for them somehow

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
In addition, queers were subject to police harassment, physical attacks by gangs of 'queer bashers' who invariably went unpunished, and from time to time, murder. . . .

So queers were forced to live their lives in the shadows, living in dread of exposure, imprisonment and ostracism. The queer rights movements that began after Stonewall in the late 1960s reversed all that.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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More and more people are coming to the honest conclusion that the left have collectively lost their fucking minds. Many people use the same sort of description for their behavior that I have been using, that they live in cartoonish alternate realities

And nothing can reach them. No facts, no realities. They can justify anything, stretch any nothing into the crime of the century... And they seem to think this is working for them somehow

Don't you find it a bit spooky that pretty much the entire world says exactly the same of Trump and his supporters?

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

It seems clear that A'ness isn't aware of the privileged position of the Orthodox Church in Putin's Russia. This 'news' is only about two decades old:

"And while much attention has been paid to the growing authoritarianism of the Kremlin and on the support for Putin's regime on the part of the Russian oligarchs whom Putin has enriched through his crony capitalism, little has been paid to the equally critical role of the Russian Orthodox Church in helping to shape Russia's current system, and in supporting Putin's regime and publicly conflating the mission of the Russian state under Vladimir Putin's leadership with the mission of the Church. Putin's move in close coordination with the Russian Orthodox Church to sacralize the Russian national identity has been a key factor shaping the increasingly authoritarian bent of the Russian government under Putin, and strengthening his public support, and must be understood in order to understand Russia's international behavior.

The close relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the Russian state based upon a shared, theologically-informed vision of Russian exceptionalism is not a new phenomenon. During the days of the Czar, the Russian ruler was seen as God's chosen ruler of a Russian nation tasked with representing a unique set of value embodied by Russian Orthodoxy, and was revered as “the Holy Orthodox Czar”. Today, a not dissimilar vision of Russian exceptionalism is once again shared by the ROC and the Kremlin, and many Russians are beginning to see Vladimir Putin in a similar vein – a perception encouraged both by Putin and by the Church, each of which sees the other as a valuable political ally and sees their respective missions as being interrelated."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulcoyer/2015/05/21/unholy-alliance-vladimir-putin-and-the-russian-orthodox-church/#3352a99527d5

Your attempt to cover your mistakeignorance by ranting incoherently is amusing, but ultimately futile. You've been schooled again, you inarticulate moron.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

It seems clear that A'ness isn't aware of the privileged position of the Orthodox Church in Putin's Russia. This 'news' is only about two decades old:

"And while much attention has been paid to the growing authoritarianism of the Kremlin and on the support for Putin's regime on the part of the Russian oligarchs whom Putin has enriched through his crony capitalism, little has been paid to the equally critical role of the Russian Orthodox Church in helping to shape Russia's current system, and in supporting Putin's regime and publicly conflating the mission of the Russian state under Vladimir Putin's leadership with the mission of the Church. Putin's move in close coordination with the Russian Orthodox Church to sacralize the Russian national identity has been a key factor shaping the increasingly authoritarian bent of the Russian government under Putin, and strengthening his public support, and must be understood in order to understand Russia's international behavior.

The close relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the Russian state based upon a shared, theologically-informed vision of Russian exceptionalism is not a new phenomenon. During the days of the Czar, the Russian ruler was seen as God's chosen ruler of a Russian nation tasked with representing a unique set of value embodied by Russian Orthodoxy, and was revered as “the Holy Orthodox Czar”. Today, a not dissimilar vision of Russian exceptionalism is once again shared by the ROC and the Kremlin, and many Russians are beginning to see Vladimir Putin in a similar vein – a perception encouraged both by Putin and by the Church, each of which sees the other as a valuable political ally and sees their respective missions as being interrelated."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulcoyer/2015/05/21/unholy-alliance-vladimir-putin-and-the-russian-orthodox-church/#3352a99527d5

Your attempt to cover your mistakeignorance by ranting incoherently is amusing, but ultimately futile. You've been schooled again, you inarticulate moron.

A'ness pops out of his hole occasionally to slander a few posters even when it isn't yet groundhog's day. Have you noticed?

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

I wouldn't participate in a gay rights parade because I am still in the camp of believing that sexual orientation is a fetish. All fetishes are naturally occurring at birth. You are either into it or not. So if you are into the same gender, sure, it's just a sexual orientation, a sexual fetish. If you are Bi, it's also just a sexual fetish.

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ORIGINAL: stef
Yup, you're still an idiot.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

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ORIGINAL: stef
Yup, you're still an idiot.

Your ad hominem just makes you look childish. You know, sometimes, you post in this forum like a 15 yr old bratty child, but I guess you can take that as a compliment, since for women, being called youthful is not even really a bad thing.

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ORIGINAL: stef

The tenor of my replies is directly proportional to the idiocy I am quoting.

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

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ORIGINAL: stef

The tenor of my replies is directly proportional to the idiocy I am quoting.

Stef baby sweetheart. You know nothing. Except what you know. Which isn't much.

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
You can always regress, and refusing to believe that it's possible makes it a lot easier for those who want to wind the clock back a few decades to do so.

Yes well, those people are becoming less and less. Most people have at least one loved one who is bi or gay and once it affects your loved ones, you tend to become more open-minded.

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ORIGINAL: LadyPact

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
You can always regress, and refusing to believe that it's possible makes it a lot easier for those who want to wind the clock back a few decades to do so.

Yes well, those people are becoming less and less. Most people have at least one loved one who is bi or gay and once it affects your loved ones, you tend to become more open-minded.

Sorry, but I'm with WM on this one. I happen to be of the opinion that any law we write or any decision that comes down from the Supreme Court can always be reversed. Case law isn't about public opinion. It's all about precedent.

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ORIGINAL: tamaka
Well maybe we have to determine whether this is legitimately a real thing and a real status or whether this is somehow a threat to the overall system on which humanity is based.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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More and more people are coming to the honest conclusion that the left have collectively lost their fucking minds. Many people use the same sort of description for their behavior that I have been using, that they live in cartoonish alternate realities

And nothing can reach them. No facts, no realities. They can justify anything, stretch any nothing into the crime of the century... And they seem to think this is working for them somehow

Don't you find it a bit spooky that pretty much the entire world says exactly the same of Trump and his supporters?

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ORIGINAL: Edwird

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
In addition, queers were subject to police harassment, physical attacks by gangs of 'queer bashers' who invariably went unpunished, and from time to time, murder. . . .

So queers were forced to live their lives in the shadows, living in dread of exposure, imprisonment and ostracism. The queer rights movements that began after Stonewall in the late 1960s reversed all that.

Well thank goodness.

How did we ever lose that wonderful term? I'm glad somebody else has held onto it.

I always liked the designation because in the first place, "queer" said "different," which always attracted me, since I was 'different' even if not attracted to males. In fact, I'm about as hyper-heterosexual as they come.

I'm tired of having to distinguish between 'gay' and 'lesbian' all the time. Why can't we just do like in the good old days, say "queer" and be done with it?