Gay Pride Season.

[Dougie93]

3 minutes ago, impartialobserver said:

Because I am mostly apolitical and I now live in Northern Nevada.

it never apolitical to be a godless atheist in American Jesusland

[impartialobserver]

Just now, Dougie93 said:

it never apolitical to be a godless atheist in American Jesusland

Believe what you want but I am mostly apolitical. I am an atheist but do not care in the least what someone else does. If my neighbors are religious.. that's aweomse, good for them. Just leave me alone and all is well. 

[Dougie93]

2 minutes ago, impartialobserver said:

Just leave me alone and all is well. 

right on, Citizen

the very essence of American freedom

[impartialobserver]

2 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

right on, Citizen

the very essence of American freedom

as I see it.. they do not have to like my obsession with rock music. I leave them be and keep this to myself. It works the same way with their being religious

[Nefarious Banana]

19 minutes ago, impartialobserver said:

 I am mostly apolitical and I now live in Northern Nevada.  

Utah/Nevada state line runs through Wendover . . . Utah side:  gas station, sandwich shop, etc.  . . . empty streets!  Nevada side:  casinos, saloons, pawn shops, whore houses, etc.  Utah licence plates everywhere!

[impartialobserver]

Just now, Nefarious Banana said:

Utah/Nevada state line runs through Wendover . . . Utah side:  gas station, sandwich shop, etc.  . . . empty streets!  Nevada side:  casinos, saloons, pawn shops, whore houses, etc.  Utah licence plates everywhere!

I was in West Wendover in mid-april of this year. Its a pretty interesting place. We camped out north and east of town for two nights. 

[Dougie93]

Just now, impartialobserver said:

 I leave them be and keep this to myself. It works the same way with their being religious

well here behind the Iron Curtain against American freedom in Soviet Canada, Christianity is frowned upon

but I wear it on my sleeve none the less, keeping the torch lit, for some future generation I will never meet

[impartialobserver]

1 minute ago, Dougie93 said:

well here behind the Iron Curtain against American freedom in Soviet Canada, Christianity is frowned upon

but I wear it on my sleeve none the less, keeping the torch lit, for some future generation I will never meet

You should move to Nevada. The northern half gets all 4 seasons. Summer is hot but cools down dramatically at night. Elko is a great place... plenty of outdoor recreation, services, enough retail, but enough ruggedness to keep folks like you from leaving. 

[Dougie93]

40 minutes ago, impartialobserver said:

You should move to Nevada.

but the most Evangelical states in America are Mississippi & Alabama

Ocean Springs Mississippi looks pretty darn good

rather than driving to Florida next time, I think I'll check it out

[herbie]

2 hours ago, Dougie93 said:

but it is actually driving Christians & Muslims together into the ridiculous desired Corporate Fascist state

FTFY

[Dougie93]

3 minutes ago, herbie said:

FTFY

I don't understand how you lefties fall for this Woke shit

it's tailor made to suck you into a corporate fascist welfare warfare state,

simply by painting that monstrosity with a rainbow facade

[Dougie93]

it's like back in 1970's, lefties were deluded

but even so, if Lockheed Martin & Dole Foods had come out claiming to be with the hippies & queers ?

no way the lefties in the 1970s would have fallen for that

but now it's par for the course, corporate America trying to suck up to you, and you are falling for it

bizzaro world

[Venandi]

1 hour ago, Dougie93 said:

bizzaro world

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/primary-school-drops-women-for-people-with-a-uterus

At every turn it seems to me that women take the brunt of this, it also seems as if they're doing it to themselves.

It's mostly women who are making women invisible, and in the process they're losing sports scholarships and getting mowed down on the soccer field. It's them who face the change room dilemma, they have uncut males incarcerated with them in penitentiaries and they're the ones who suffer the safety concerns that go along with all of that. 

Guys seem to be missing out here, take the gym for instance.... where are the fit young women who now identify as gay trans men? 

This seems a little lopsided and unfair.... I took a poll at the gym and the general consensus is that they're more than welcome in our change / shower room and we have all the menstrual products they could ever need to prove it.  

So where are they?

Edited June 19, 2024 by Venandi

[blackbird]

3 hours ago, impartialobserver said:

I am an atheist

That is the most illogical thing anyone could announce.

Where did the laws of physics come from?  Who designed them?

Why does the earth and planets revolve around the sun and not just wander off into space?  Where did gravity come from?

Who defined it?

Well, what do you say as an atheist?  Where did all the complex laws of physics come from?  You should have some rational explanation for the laws.  The existence of the atoms, molecules, protons, electrons that operate on certain precise laws of physics.  What is the explanation of where it all came from and who designed it?

[Dougie93]

7 hours ago, Venandi said:

This seems a little lopsided and unfair.... I took a poll at the gym and the general consensus is that they're more than welcome in our change / shower room and we have all the menstrual products they could ever need to prove it. 

see, I wouldn't actually like that

call me old fashioned, but I prefer the separation of the sexes

even with my wife, she has her own bath & dressing room,

and I never go in there, that's the lady's room

now I am an old man, admittedly

but even when I was a young bachelor, I preferred the girl next door type

classy, modest, alluring

you don't want to be living in each others pockets

and I don't want to see a woman until she's done her hair & makeup

you see these girls walking around today,

in skintight outfits, or shorts with their asses hanging out

I can't understand how their fathers let them out of the house dressed like that

it's not attractive, they look like whores, I just feel sad for them

and I know some high school boys who serve in the Militia

and when ask them about it, they agree with me

the complete sexualization of every aspect of society is not only degenerate

it just removes the romance from life

throughout human history, the allure of women was that they were mysterious

they didn't show it off and they didn't give it away, and that was the source of their power

Edited June 19, 2024 by Dougie93

[Venandi]

That's fine and dandy, but IMO cancelling women (for lack of a better phrase) in support of a minuscule segment of the population is bad enough, but watching women do it to themselves (and each other) strikes me as (dare I say) "bizzaro"

My grandkids are in private schools now because of this stuff and I've made a hard right turn that I didn't expect to... ya, might just be me but I don't think I'm alone in that.

I can now say that (for me), the discussion is over and I've come to regret my previous level of tolerance and support (in principal) for the goodwill that it took to create a situation where I would come to view the public school system abhorrent. There's a price to be payed for that but I consider it worth going back to work for. 

Frankly, I feel duped, I know that might just be me... but what if it isn't?

What if other parents have had enough, what if they chose private options or form home schooling cooperatives and flee the public system for the same reason?

Not only doesn't the public system reflect my values, it's become the direct polar opposite of them, and there's no going back now.

I never thought that supporting  those seeking the tolerance, acceptance and goodwill that should have been theirs by right of birth would spawn creatures of tyranny. I'm reminded of the quote from the final chapter of "A Tale of Two Cities:"

"Long lines of the new oppressors."

There may be some unintended consequences en-route here....  what happens if our choice as a family becomes a popular/common choice across the board?

 

Edited June 19, 2024 by Venandi

[Dougie93]

13 minutes ago, Venandi said:

 but watching women do it to themselves (and each other) strikes me as (dare I say) "bizzaro"

well that's actually female aggression in action

there is a female dominance hierarchy

that's what a cancel mob is, toxic femininity

[Dougie93]

23 minutes ago, Venandi said:

My grandkids are in private schools now because of this stuff and I've made a hard right turn that I didn't expect to... ya, might just be me but I don't think I'm alone in that.

I can now say that (for me), the discussion is over and I've come to regret my previous level of tolerance and support (in principal) for the goodwill that it took to create a situation where I would come to view the public school system abhorrent. There's a price to be payed for that but I consider it worth going back to work for. 

Frankly, I feel duped, I know that might just be me... but what if it isn't?

What if other parents have had enough, what if they choose private options or form home schooling cooperatives and flee the public system for the same reason. Not only doesn't the public system reflect my values, it's become the very opposite of them and there's no going back now.

I never thought that supporting  those seeking the tolerance, acceptance and goodwill that should have been theirs by right of birth would spawn creatures of tyranny. I'm reminded of the quote from the final chapter of "A Tale of Two Cities:"

"long lines of the new oppressors."

There may be some unintended consequences en-route here....  what happens if our choice as a family becomes a popular/common choice across the board.

well I would suggest that it is in fact by design

there is a corrupt and ineffective ruling class, which in Canada is the government bureaucracy

and they are attempting to maintain control by a divide & conquer strategy

so they propagate completely absurd notions, such as 2SLGBTQIA++

then they attempt to enforce it as a purity test

then they attempt to destroy anyone who dissents

[Venandi]

15 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

well that's actually female aggression in action

there is a female dominance hierarchy

that's what a cancel mob is, toxic femininity

I'm not sure of the dynamics there, but when it reaches extreme levels, it always seems to create a visceral fight or flight reaction.

I chose flight and I don't see going back now.

It just seems so unnecessary and easy to avoid... take yes as an answer then mind your own business, live your life and leave others to do the same. Alienating former allies by stomping on the goodwill and tolerance freely offered just seems like a tactical blunder to me. 

I now fear that the Conservatives aren't conservative enough... it took a lot of work to get me there and there may just be others. Did anyone consider that?

It  takes us right back to those tactical blunders and unintended consequences that could have been so easily avoided... essentially by taking the win graciously and extending the same tolerance that served up that win to those who helped achieve it. 

 

Edited June 19, 2024 by Venandi

[Dougie93]

Just now, Venandi said:

I now fear that the Conservatives aren't conservative enough... it took a lot of work to get me there and if I feel like that, there may just be others.

the Conservatives haven't even promised to do much

they're not running on a platform of radical change

they're just saying that they will tweak some things around the margins

they don't want to fight the culture war, they prefer to go along to get along

 

[Venandi]

Just now, Dougie93 said:

the Conservatives haven't even promised to do much

I see them as liberal lite and I'm not surprised by the hard right turns we are seeing in Europe now. It's like "what did you think was going to happen?"

Got to run, those private schools cost money...

Cheers

 

[Dougie93]

3 minutes ago, Venandi said:

I see them as liberal lite and I'm not surprised by the hard right turns we are seeing in Europe now. It's like "what did you think was going to happen?"

Got to run, those private schools cost money...

Cheers

well things are going to have to get a lot worse before there is any sort of counterrevolutionary right in Canada

the population is just going to have to suffer the consequences of all this Progressive lunacy

which in the end will be chaos

people don't actually rise up against tyranny

it's only when they face the breakdown of civil order that they make their move

nice talking to you, cheers

[Michael Hardner]

12 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

 

it's only when they face the breakdown of civil order that they make their move

 

It's all subordinate to economic well-being.  

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Dougie93 said:

call me old fashioned, but I prefer the separation of the sexes

Well, I get the context you're stating this in, but I would extend this to professional sports.

But I now see people trying to draw controversy from one saying Serena Williams isn't as good as the top men, even though statistically her serve wouldn't even register as remotely close to the strongest for the men.

But yeah, I have always valued what my wife brings to the relationship. She is great at things I suck at, and vice versa.

I don't see how its a bad thing.

2 hours ago, Dougie93 said:

I can't understand how their fathers let them out of the house dressed like that

I saw a woman at the grocery store wearing a micro mini skirt so short, even her leaning forward would leave some parts exposed. This is how I found out she wasn't wearing any panties. 

I had never seen a multiple cart accident in a grocery store, but literally several men walked into each other. 

I couldn't believe a man would want to go out with a woman that looks like this, having any level of respect for her.

Then I saw her man. He looked like the stereotypical "guido" type d-bag:

Don't get it twisted. My wife loves short skirts and dressing sexy, but keep it classy o_O.

What makes me laugh are the women who don't take heed to that advice, getting upset at the men approaching them solely seeking sex.

My wife is from the Philippines, and its a night and day difference. Her daughter is business minded, humble and by the time she was 12, had tons of skills already, from cooking to entrepreneurship.

[Dougie93]

1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:

It's all subordinate to economic well-being.  

well it's the chaos which incites the economic collapse

for example losing control of borders and flooding the country with far more immigrants than the economy can absorb