__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
Well, no. Again, you're confusing disagreeing with you for hating the country.
You actively want to bar Americans from serving in the military because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. While that's ****ed up, I don't think you hate the country. I think you're misguided though.
Despite our differences I do try and engage with you, but you make it difficult to have a sensible conversation sometimes. If you're right wing and love Trump, fine. But you take this act (I hope it's an act) to an outrageous degree well beyond any other poster here.
Do you genuinely believe America has no problems?
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__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
Lets not pretend The Washington Post or Guardian are fair and balanced, they absolutely are not. They twist "narratives" all the time, if not by lies, then by omissions.
As far as I can tell from digging into the topic, it's specifically "gender dysphoria" that's the target. A legitimate medical condition.
Ok. Why? Did something happen to spark this?
Did Trump pull this out of his ass?
Did Trump come up with this at all? Or is he going with advisors.
Is it possible at all, that this could he justified?
It's impossible to say, because no details exist on the background of this policy. It's just something that seemed to spring up out of thin air.
That generally isn't how these things work. Policies are usually in response to something that happened.
An example: In a CT town, a Beach Association errected a fence in the middle of a beach, and initiated a "clean beach" fee. The media acted like they were completely unstable psychopaths. A judge ruled they had no right to charge a fee, no erect a fence.
Legally, they were in the wrong. The beach belonged to all.
But as for the reasons they did this.. Essentially, a bunch of kids from surrounding towns used it as a playground for sex, drugs, and booze. And they never cleaned up after themselves. The residents were stuck with the cleanup bill. They got sick of it, and put up the fence and started collecting fees so they didn't need to pay it with tax money.
While I don't agree with what they did, I can still sympathize with why they did it. The papers could have included this information, but with held it to make the beach organization look like unsympathetic assholes.
So I ask again, why did Trump do this terrible thing?
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I think one reason is that it plays well politically, one of the lines for the partisan divide has been that the Democrats treat Trans issues similar to Gay issues before it, and want acceptance in institutions for Trans people, choice of bathrooms, officials to respect pronoun choices, and access to healthcare including transition. On the other hand on the Republican side there is a constituency that views Trans people as immoral and would prefer if there are no accommodations for them and generally there is a desire to make Democrats lose in whatever way that is important to them (this often goes by the catchphrase "trigger the libs"). So at least to me this seems more of a political decision than one that is important as a policy to Trump. i.e. it is something that political points can be scored with both on his side, and by upsetting his opposition. Trans people and their needs, I believe, have mostly become a play ball between the two parties.
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
LOL@ the notion that modern day democrats sre center-right lmao. They're clearly on the left, just not as far left as crazies like AOC and Bernie Sanders. People like Rand Paul are center-right. Democrats ain't on the right lol.
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
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They support the same wars as you Republicans, they dont support Medicare for all same as Republicans, both give tax breaks to the rich, both support the stock market over the working class. Both Obama and Trump have crazy deportation records.
The difference is mainly in rhetoric and aside from that its mainly in your head.
And your point is made even better by the fact that you're not an American - it's exactly what it looks like to outsiders who are not part of the two-party tribal politics.
Keep in mind here, I'm talking about Star specifically. Legislation or no, he'd thinks the LGBT crowd doesn't belong in the armed forces.
It's the same guy that was surprised a gay Navy SEAL existed. Like I said, difficult sometimes to discuss things when there are soooo many layers of this to work through. It's exhausting if we're rehashing issues from like...the 90's before we can even get to today.
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Flystar, doesn't believe a thing he posts. All his characters are just for the lulz ST. I used to think they were socks by maybe Riv as the main account, now I think it's someone else, maybe Nuke or DDM. Probably someone else and distinct, regardless, the posts are just fun and tinfoil hatty ridiculous, no way Star is a real person. I would be truly proud if Star was a creation of mine, whoever it is created an awesome character. All the idiotsyncrasises, you think I mean idiotsyncrasises, honestly, idiot is what I mean. Genius stuff!
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