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Vic

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Nope I want it to be universal. It's good to see both sides. I may ridicule the far left but I still believe they should have freedom to say what they want.
Yeah, but not the freedom to BE what they want. Because you're not 'ridiculing' them, you want them declared mentally ill and everything that comes with that. And how long after that before your 'free speech' demands worse?

You're only fooling yourself. The reason you perceive your freedoms as being under attack is because you're attacking everyone else's freedoms.
 
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VRAMdemon

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“Do you like me Y/N?” Well, this should improve investor confidence. Although Musk is under a lot of pressure from Tesla investors right now.

He’ll be ticked if the bots that are supposed to generate enough “No” votes go offline.

Q: How do you make crucial leadership decisions after spending $44 billion to buy a company?

A: If you’re Musk, you run a Twitter poll.
 

Vic

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Anyway, word is that the poll is a sham and his creditors and investors are requiring he step down. Not surprising given the damage his brief tenure has done to both his and twitter's credibility.
 

Vic

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Leaving the internet might do wonders for your mental health.
What would the world do without the twitter far right, who will tell people they believe in freedom and free speech while threatening to kill people for their speech at the same time, all the while completely unaware of their own hypocrisy?
 
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MrSquished

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What would the world do without the twitter far right, who will tell people they believe in freedom and free speech while threatening to kill people for their speech at the same time, all the while completely unaware of their own hypocrisy?
That's the real mental illness and a threat to society. Not trans people.

My freedoms have never been threatened by a trans person. The biggest threat to decency and freedoms are conservatives.
 

Vic

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That's the real mental illness and a threat to society. Not trans people.

My freedoms have never been threatened by a trans person. The biggest threat to decency and freedoms are conservatives.
You mean the people who call themselves Christians and present themselves as the sole face of Christianity while worshipping money and false idols, making heroes out of immoral men solely because of their wealth and worldly power, while attacking everyone else without the slightest trace of compassion or kindness? The Christians who step on the meek and the downtrodden and are eager to find any excuse to cast the first stone?

Those conservatives?
 
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MrSquished

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You mean the people who call themselves Christians and present themselves as the sole face of Christianity while worshipping money and false idols, making heroes out of immoral men solely because of their wealth and worldly power, while attacking everyone else without the slightest trace of compassion or kindness? The Christians who step on the meek and the downtrodden and are eager to find any excuse to cast the first stone?

Those conservatives?

AMEN! Those people are mentally ill. At this point I see no other way to describe their condition. I'd say it was due to a lack of living near lots of nature but I look at the electoral maps and the highest ratio of regressive assholes in the country are, gasp, all the closest to nature and less density!

CRAZY!
 
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Red Squirrel

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Yeah, but not the freedom to BE what they want. Because you're not 'ridiculing' them, you want them declared mentally ill and everything that comes with that. And how long after that before your 'free speech' demands worse?

You're only fooling yourself. The reason you perceive your freedoms as being under attack is because you're attacking everyone else's freedoms.

That's because it is a mental health issue. They cannot accept themselves as they are, to the extent that they undergo serious medical intervention to try to change it. It's sad that people even encourage them to do it. This is like encouraging someone to commit suicide because they are depressed instead of convincing them to get help and that they are worthy of living. These people often end up even more unhappy with themselves and are often depressed and become suicidal. By encouraging someone to undergo the surgery it's basically a step towards encouraging them to commit suicide. Messing with hormones and changing major aspects of your body will take a serious toll on mental health.

Then there's the whackjobs like that teacher with the giant prosthetic boobs. In more normal days this teacher would be put on leave and told to seek counseling. Not to mention the H&S issue given that teacher is teaching shop class!

But that said I don't want to remove their freedom either and never even suggested killing them, that's insane. I won't try to stop them from doing it but I will point out how absurd it is and how absurd it is that society encourages it.

Though I do have a problem when they start to push this stuff to children and that needs to be illegal. Not just the sex change stuff but all the sexuality stuff period like drag queens, indecent exposure etc. Back in the day you'd get arrested for that, but now it's celebrated. This world is messed up.
 
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IronWing

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That's because it is a mental health issue. They cannot accept themselves as they are, to the extent that they undergo serious medical intervention to try to change it. It's sad that people even encourage them to do it. This is like encouraging someone to commit suicide because they are depressed instead of convincing them to get help and that they are worthy of living. These people often end up even more unhappy with themselves and are often depressed and become suicidal. By encouraging someone to undergo the surgery it's basically a step towards encouraging them to commit suicide. Messing with hormones and changing major aspects of your body will take a serious toll on mental health.

Then there's the whackjobs like that teacher with the giant prosthetic boobs. In more normal days this teacher would be put on leave and told to seek counseling. Not to mention the H&S issue given that teacher is teaching shop class!

But that said I don't want to remove their freedom either and never even suggested killing them, that's insane. I won't try to stop them from doing it but I will point out how absurd it is and how absurd it is that society encourages it.

Though I do have a problem when they start to push this stuff to children and that needs to be illegal. Not just the sex change stuff but all the sexuality stuff period like drag queens, indecent exposure etc. Back in the day you'd get arrested for that, but now it's celebrated. This world is messed up.
I'll play. Show me where, outside of the current Republican Party, indecent exposure before children is celebrated.
 
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MrSquished

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Awww. One of the resident ignoramuses thinks drag queens are bad. Men should dress like men goddammit and it's sick to say otherwise!

Also I'm a small government conservatives!
 
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Red Squirrel

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I'll play. Show me where, outside of the current Republican Party, indecent exposure before children is celebrated.

Just a quick google search, found these from various sources:




Actual video: (NSFW obviously)

There's way more out there, just search "pride parade naked" or similar terms. This stuff was all over the place when it was pride month.

Now I'm afraid of what Amazon is going to suggest to me to buy after searching this. lol.
 

ivwshane

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A complete fucking tool!


When you have to link to tabloid publications and obscure and random sources to back your claims, you’ve already lost the argument.

The non psychologist giving their expert opinion on human psychology was also a really nice touch!/s
 
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MrSquished

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I think squirrel should build a huge church resort on his piece of land. Get as many fucking regressive morons to live there as possible. Off the grid away from humans. Please get these people away from us.
 

Lanyap

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Just a quick google search, found these from various sources:

There's way more out there, just search "pride parade naked" or similar terms. This stuff was all over the place when it was pride month.

Now I'm afraid of what Amazon is going to suggest to me to buy after searching this. lol.



Probably dildos and butt plugs.
 

Vic

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That's because it is a mental health issue. They cannot accept themselves as they are, to the extent that they undergo serious medical intervention to try to change it. It's sad that people even encourage them to do it. This is like encouraging someone to commit suicide because they are depressed instead of convincing them to get help and that they are worthy of living. These people often end up even more unhappy with themselves and are often depressed and become suicidal. By encouraging someone to undergo the surgery it's basically a step towards encouraging them to commit suicide. Messing with hormones and changing major aspects of your body will take a serious toll on mental health.

Then there's the whackjobs like that teacher with the giant prosthetic boobs. In more normal days this teacher would be put on leave and told to seek counseling. Not to mention the H&S issue given that teacher is teaching shop class!

But that said I don't want to remove their freedom either and never even suggested killing them, that's insane. I won't try to stop them from doing it but I will point out how absurd it is and how absurd it is that society encourages it.

Though I do have a problem when they start to push this stuff to children and that needs to be illegal. Not just the sex change stuff but all the sexuality stuff period like drag queens, indecent exposure etc. Back in the day you'd get arrested for that, but now it's celebrated. This world is messed up.

Yeah, you say you don't want to take away their freedom... but then segue right into a "but the children" bit and a "back in the day you'd get arrested for that."

Like I said, you're only fooling yourself. People like you always, and I do mean always, have a convenient rationale to convince yourselves how you're for freedom, but just not THEIR freedom. And the problem there is that your definition of THEM and your rationale for why whatever THEY do is a threat is ever changing and subject to too many emotional whims.

As I said before, the reason you see others as a threat to your freedom is because you are actively a threat to others' freedoms. You fear who you are. Do yourself a favor and mind your own business, let others be free to live their lives as they choose, focus on your own mental health, and the world around you will be a better, freer place.
 

Zorba

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That's because it is a mental health issue. They cannot accept themselves as they are, to the extent that they undergo serious medical intervention to try to change it. It's sad that people even encourage them to do it.
So how do you feel about women getting boob jobs and tummy tucks? Are they mentally ill too?
 

Zorba

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Just a quick google search, found these from various sources:




Actual video: (NSFW obviously)

There's way more out there, just search "pride parade naked" or similar terms. This stuff was all over the place when it was pride month.

Now I'm afraid of what Amazon is going to suggest to me to buy after searching this. lol.
There is sexual content at a parade celebrating sexuality? Holy shit, say it aint so.
 
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Heartbreaker

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“Do you like me Y/N?” Well, this should improve investor confidence. Although Musk is under a lot of pressure from Tesla investors right now.

He’ll be ticked if the bots that are supposed to generate enough “No” votes go offline.

Q: How do you make crucial leadership decisions after spending $44 billion to buy a company?

A: If you’re Musk, you run a Twitter poll.

Even if he steps down, he would only appoint someone who's values align with his to run it, so a MAGA inner circle type, so the results will hardly be much better, and if something happens that he doesn't like, he will be calling up whoever he appointed to do his bidding.

The only way he will truly disentangle himself is to sell it (and it would be a big loss right now).
 

Red Squirrel

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A complete fucking tool!


When you have to link to tabloid publications and obscure and random sources to back your claims, you’ve already lost the argument.

The non psychologist giving their expert opinion on human psychology was also a really nice touch!/s

Feel free to google it yourself and pick whatever source you prefer. This "but the source is bad!" argument gets old fast when search engines are a thing and is a classic leftist deflection when presented with evidence. That's just the first things that came up, I didn't spend time trying to make this into a research paper I just pointed out that it was real. This stuff is not exactly hiding. It's, exposed, so to speak. Unless you can prove that all those videos and images are CG, which I suppose is a possibility. Either way, there are plenty of articles or posts of people talking about it (such as asking if it's legal etc) so it sounds to me like it did happen.
 
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brycejones

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Feel free to google it yourself and pick whatever source you prefer. This "but the source is bad!" argument gets old fast when search engines are a thing and is a classic leftist deflection when presented with evidence. That's just the first things that came up, I didn't spend time trying to make this into a research paper I just pointed out that it was real. This stuff is not exactly hiding. It's, exposed, so to speak. Unless you can prove that all those videos and images are CG, which I suppose is a possibility. Either way, there are plenty of articles or posts of people talking about it (such as asking if it's legal etc) so it sounds to me like it did happen.
Man are you going to be mad when you learn about Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans and what straight people do there.

Or nude beaches….

What you call”indecent” is just your own inability to understand what freedom really means.
 
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ivwshane

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Beautiful logic there! /s

“I didn’t spend time…” that’s the problem, you don’t spend time actually reading up on a subject and instead do basic searches and get info from bad sources and you expect others to accept your opinion knowing full well it’s all about your feels and not actual data.

I really do love how you had an excuse ready to go about how the left is always complaining about your sources though. It’s like you can’t put 2 and 2 together, it’s gotta be the left just doing the hate and not just people calling you out on your bull shit.


Here is a pro tip though: if your opinion can’t withstand basic criticism from the “left” because you can’t be bothered to back it up with actual facts, well it’s because your opinion is shit.
 

MrSquished

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Man are you going to be mad when you learn about Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans and what straight people do there.

Or nude beaches….

What you call”indecent” is just your own inability to understand what freedom really means.
I don't think squirrel has seen a naked women's breast since his mom's.

But of course it's fine when straight people do it. But God forbid the gays. Those mentally ill!

And wanting a reputable source? Also mentally ill!

Adults can't be adults in public ever! Unless they're straight!

These people are the worst