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The stand out terrible thing about trump is how ridiculously grossly incompetent he is. that is what we despise about him more then any other president. you can say a lot of bad things about bush for example but you cant say he was totally incompetent at everything he did and ignorant of basically everything.

Steve Scalise's condition has changed from non-life threatening to critical after surgery.

Well we might get another special election i guess. a bit of a morbid one though.

I hate that quote with a burning passion.

Careful or we will lose another. lagslayer seems to have perhaps touched off a string of this.

Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on June 12, 2017, 11:57:11 am

Has anyone ever made a good argument against LGBT, particularly gays?

...You went on to list three of them?*    
Also yeah, it is (in real cases, I believe a lot of people simply jump on the bandwagon these days with how fashionable it is) a mental illness that should really have more research put into treatment, but no-one likes to acknowledge that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   

* Albeit with exaggerated, histrionic wording in a clumsy attempt to push your views on the matter.

Theirs actually a biological basis so that its not really a unintended mental illness or something but rather a mechanism to increase fitness through kin selection. think of it as similar to women having menopause. strictly speaking many common mental illnesses were advantages traits in the past. they wouldn't be so prevalent otherwise if they had not increases fitness. they are just highly inconvenient in our modern world.

Oh, man. Can of worms there, though I agree that it is a mental deviation from the natural pattern.

Actually, while the bomb is sitting on the table anyway, I have a question regarding homosexuality. Why are so many gays so obviously gay? The speech, the sentiments, the hand gestures. Sometimes even the clothing. It's surreal.

sense of belonging in a community after a life of oppression. you could even think of it as another gender in the sense that it is a constructed identity in a society to which people with certain attributes are expected to conform to to be seen as normal in the community and becomes deeply connected to identity, they don't fit the standard category so the make a new one for themselves. not a perfect analogy for many reasons but it kind of works. its not nearly as all inclusive, their are plenty of non obvious gay people you just don't notice them.

So the statehood vote came back 97% for but only 23% participation.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/11/532454216/anti-sharia-marchers-met-with-counter-protests-around-the-country

the anti sharia people might best be described as putting up a straw man and using it to justify the oppression of a group on supposedly moral grounds.