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Greenman

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Thats the cool shit. You dont have to participate. Just do what you do and people will learn to navigate around you. Its all good. You dont like them and they will learn to not like you. Carry on.
I think that's incorrect, but I could live with it. I'm at a point in my life where being popular isn't a big item on my agenda. All the people that matter know who and what I am, and they're all pretty darn comfortable with it.
 
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cytg111

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I think that's incorrect, but I could live with it. I'm at a point in my life where being popular isn't a big item on my agenda. All the people that matter know who and what I am, and they're all pretty darn comfortable with it.
Great. Then why do you care? Sticking your nose in other peoples affairs?
 

kt

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What could be more equal than giving every single person you interact with the same respect? Everyone gets it, homeless guy on the street or the woman who's about to write me a huge check. My doctor and my trash collector (notice I didn't say garbage man, I'm progressive like that) both get the same treatment. Simple respect, simple words, everyone knows and understands them. I'm even pleasantly respectful to the Q crowd when I'm arguing against the insanity they believe in (though that appears to make them even angrier).

Some things don't need to be redefined, they don't need to be made even a tiny bit more complex. If someone thinks they're special and require a different greeting than the rest of the nation, they need to find a way of making themselves readily identifiable so I'll know what to say. I'll also point out that if anyone forgets or chooses not call me "Your Majesty", I won't be at all offended.
Get with the time, Your Majesty. They are now called "sanitation worker" :D
 
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uallas5

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Why doe's this sexuality stuff bothers you?
Evolve and accept new ideas. You will feel much better.
Have you heard about the performance of the ultra masculine no gay russian army in combat? Rather patetic if you ask me. Proud our woke canadian army helped trained the Ukrainians on how to kill them.
Just saying.
This. The 3 most "woke" militaries in the world; US, UK, and Can, are the ones who have been training up the Ukranian defense forces since 2014. Ya know, the ones who have been stomping all over Fucker Carson's wet dream, err masculine dream military, the Russians.
 

Greenman

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Great. Then why do you care? Sticking your nose in other peoples affairs?
Isn't discussing issues both large and small the entire point of this forum?
I understand that you don't want to see a dissenting opinion in this little bubble world, but it's a part of any political discussion. So person up (note I didn't say man up, I'm evolving) and get used to it, or put me on ignore so you won't be troubled by nonconforming opinions. Simple solutions for simple problems.
 

ivwshane

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The guy who probably has more people on ignore is trying to tell us the point of this forum and how discussions work? Lol!!

Almost as funny as the guy who claims he wants to respect everyone equally while ignoring what others think that means.

No guy, what you want is for people to respect your beliefs and feelings while ignoring everyone else’s. It’s a one way street with you. You can lie to yourself but you aren’t going to lie to us.
 

zinfamous

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"The message of the direct mail letter must appeal to three base emotions; Fear, Hate and Revenge... (The) fund raising mailer must present you with a crisis — a problem won't do...That crisis must frighten you...If you are not frightened, you won't send money.
Then the direct mail letter must present you with a bogeyman against whom to focus your anger... Once you've been frightened and made to hate the bogeyman, the successful direct mail appeal must offer you a way to get revenge against the bogeyman — the payoff for your contribution. The more soul-satisfying the revenge, the better the letter pulls. All this must be dressed up in an appeal that appears to have a high moral tone, but which — without you realizing it — works on your lower emotions."
Written by Gottlieb and Ron Arnold

Those are the asshats that transformed the NRA back in the 70's into the nutjob shitshow it is today.

My dad used to register as R when living in Florida. He needed to read the mail. He wanted to know what kind of information was being fed to this demographic.

...it's actually horrifying. It is point by point, colors and yelling and demons and all the enemies that are making this stuff happen against them.

the words they use are drugs, crime, race, language [eg: not MY LANGUAGE!], others, crime, the devil, etc.

3 solid colors, basically. 5 word statements blasted all over these postcards to toss attacking words at your face. with images of evil democrat opponents. And it hasn't changed.

I live in basically 99% federal blue state MD, where actually 2/3 of the land is occupied by crabs and republicans ( thoughroughly 36% of the actual voter base in the state?). ...and some coal, but they shoved that over to the WV side and those dudes built some sheds around that little deposit. It's kinda weird. Go to Cumberland; this is an interesting place....anyhoo, I receive occasional mailers from previous owners/tenants of my house.

Today I got the same damn screaming GOP mailer about border issues and opium in Idaho. browns crossing the southern border. vote all of Jesus' army, the Republicans. ...this is Maryland. There is no fucking border. This is like...a 0.0037% issue for the people here, and ESPECIALLY the rural crab-farming people that are the only people that have ever lived there. THey fucking sit there and overfish, watch themselves get swallowed by shrining land as they ignore overfishing regulations and keep voting Republicans that have only ever, only ever promised to keep flooding their land, ignoring every single thing that absolutely matters to them: climate change and sustainable land--because they think borders matter TO THEM.

They Don't. Borders absolutely don't matter to any of these people, at all, in any possible way that has ever effected their lives in say, 4 generations of living there. But they keep voting on these issues as the water raises up to their knees and drowns them, their crabs die out, get out-competed, migrate to ever-warmer waters, that they keep voting for because they vote on brown invader issues and "elites say you can't do no crabs no more!" nonsense, that they just watch their homes eat them up because their same leaders are just shoveling cash to the industries that are killing them. OVER AND OVER AND OVER Again. literally no sympathy for shitfucks this, because their behavior dooms us all.

And it's why the GOP has to be defeated. This country certainly can not survive with these fucks around for much longer, I doubt the world survives much longer, after that happens, because the disease is already fairly-well spread through some 68% of the captive population of the world. It's fucking dark times, to be honest.


Well, now we wait for Brazil, everybody! Only 2 days away! WeeeeeeEEeeee

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Years ago I said someone needed to buy twitter and clean it up of idiots, pornography and those weird cartoons of people having sex. And those people who dress as animals. Now twitter has an owner who probably partakes in all of that and is one of them.
 
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zinfamous

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Here let me help you out:

You say, “Hey Mr. you dropped your wallet.”
Her, “Thanks! Oh and I go by Ms.”

Then you have a choice:

You can say, “Oh, no problem Ms. “

Or you can say, “Don’t push your radical leftist lgbtq ungodly agenda on me Mr! I won’t be your victim!”

Hope this clears it up.

Choose Your Own Adventure is so hot right now.

Honestly, this could help the spawn of little gaslit victims of conservatives, raised in such households. They need more stories with that structure that faces real life experiences.

The choices are always easy, and that's actually the point. The Boomers will always fail them by population numbers, and that is what will be strange, but of course obvious to everyone.
 
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zinfamous

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I think that's incorrect, but I could live with it. I'm at a point in my life where being popular isn't a big item on my agenda. All the people that matter know who and what I am, and they're all pretty darn comfortable with it.

Yes, and shouldn't that be enough? Why shouldn't have always been that way, in life?

I don't understand why this attitude isn't standard.
 

Zorba

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That should be "Your Majesty".
Unless they wear a sandwich sign how would I know how they want to be addressed? If I see a fellow walking down the street and he drops his wallet how do I gain his attention? Refer to him as person? Perhaps undefined human would work? Bipedal mammal?
Why does this have to be complicated? Sir or mam are perfectly respectful forms of address. they've worked for century's.
If your name is Richard and I keep calling you Dick even though you've asked me not to, I'm an asshole. If someone (who is most likely presenting as a woman) asks you to call them she and you continue to call her he, you're being an asshole. It's the continuing part that is the issue not the first incorrect guess.

Just like if a female coworker asked you to stop referring to her as a girl, you should probably stop just to be a decent person.
 

MrSquished

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Fenixgoon

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Jack Dorsey ready to start testing new social media app


Wait did he troll Elon into buying Twitter with all those sweet words and was building another ecosystem at the same time?
that would be pretty hilarious
 

A///

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He paid 44b for twitter, the golden parachutes for the executives he fired and advertisers are beginning to bail out on twitter. Jack Dorsey used to be presented as a ruthless egotistical ceo and founder. His pr people have softened his image over the years. Of course he played the shmuck that is musk.
 

Meghan54

Lifer
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lmao!

Wtf happened to you dude? How did you go off the deep end?

I remember back in the day you were just a regular Joe like most people here.

If I recall you are a single male that doesn't even have kids. As a parent of 2, please enlighten me how "they" (whoever the hell that even is) is pushing "this stuff" on my kids.


Remember all his "stories" about the "insane" Q addicts in his own family that he railed about? Guess it turns out that these stories were simply about him. Typical narcissist.
 

Heartbreaker

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Jack Dorsey ready to start testing new social media app


Wait did he troll Elon into buying Twitter with all those sweet words and was building another ecosystem at the same time?

But Blue Sky really pushes the decentralized and durable message, which means it's ideal for evading moderation and control. Perfect for hate speech with no central control to moderate it.