yeah, as rare as it is this is one of the few times I agree with Bacle, whether it's the case or not there does seem to be quite a few people on the board who are essentially waiting for a figurehead or an authority figure to give them permission to cause trouble like anifa or BLM will they actually do it if the opportunity arises who knows but it seems like it's wanted and in the case that occurs why SHOULDIN'T people like Bacle and Abhorsen and those close to them against the right winged trouble makers to defend themselves? If this is the left I think we'd all be singing a different tune.
to put bluntly I'm concerned. I've tried encouraging people I've tried giving them motivational speeches, I've tried giving words of prayer and comfort and trust in the Lord. yet I've seen a steady trend of people starting to spiral out of control. I know I've made my share of comments of "I don't want to be on this planet anymore" or "Why are we still here? Just to suffer." but I am legit concerned about the mental health of some of the people here.
Edit: in my four years here I've watched people stare deeper and deeper into the abyss in real-time until they succumbed went overboard and then got banned.
No, this is what they've wanted as 'revenge' for gay marriage getting legalized, and all other bits are just excuses to shove non-hetero's back in the closet or worse. No amount of fighting against groomers or pedo's on the part of non-hetero's will be enough to be spared from the revenge fantasies of people like Darth
They just want to wait till they can get 'legal/combat' immunity before they are able to do their desired purge.
Just look at the wannabe-manifesto-ranting jackass who keeps pushing this shit and his white-knight twisting other conversations to try to change and derail the topic away from Darth's excess in his effort to bring in the 'Russian kids' shit he keeps trying to change the subject with.
... this is not the answer I was hoping for when the accusation against you was, "You are the one who argues that any russian child who is not ACTIVELY anti putin should be shot."
Could you give a straight answer to that accusation for me? I agree it's a red herring for the purpose of the discussion you were having. But it's a HELL of a red herring.
I want to hear him either own up to it or back down from it. I don't know that "treat them as enemies" necessarily means "shoot them all" but it's certainly not out of the question.
And, for a counterexample, having internment camps like FDR did to Japanese-Americans in WWII (for Russian children) is not exactly what I would call a reasonable reaction.
If you did not see the exchange and argument that he is referring to when it happened, then you are getting a twisted lie about it from someone butthurt that they are getting shit on for being a Putin-simp and that he's on the wrong side with the Ukraine situation.
I said to treat any Russian outside Russia, that does not oppose Putin, as a enemy-in-place and deal with them accordingly.
He conflates this to wanting specifically to shoot Russian kids wholesale. He and other made the same bad faith arguments twisting that exchange before, no surprised he's doing it here to try to deflect away from Darth's lunacy.
He also exaggerates about my feelings regarding people who spread known lies by the Russians, just to 'get one over' on the Dems/degenerates, and that I do think some of the willing Russian propaganda agents belong on trial for war crimes as much as the soldiers who gunned down civies in Bucha when this is all said and done.
Most people don't have issues with regular people who happen to be gay, Bi, or a lesbian than straight/hetero. I don't.
Unfortunately, it seems that most people who are gay, Bi, or a lesbian, through either their own choices or because they buy into the Rainbow Tumour culture that's being perpetuated in society and media, aren't these people anymore: They make their sexual identity their entire personality, become intolerant when people rightfully call such stupidity out (for example, I'm straight, but do I make being straight my entire personality? Do you?), inject sexuality and fetishes into work (see Russell T. Davies, Chuti Gatwa as examples), and they go batshit insane and use buzzwords such as "homophobia" and "intolerance" even when other people are indifferent that they're not straight.
I would point out that there are non-hetero's who dealt with people getting lobotomized and imprisoned for simply being gay and daring to report abuse to police.
I would also point out the 'Gays caused Hurricane Katrina/Gays caused god's wrath' types who want to blame non-hetero's being allowed to exist in public for every problem via 'divine wrath' arguments.
The non-hetero crowd also does feel like they expect the Right to try to shove them back in the closet the second the GOP gets enough power to do so. I know this isn't true, I know plenty of Right-Wing non-hetero's who have the 2nd Amendment as a bigger issue for them than their sexuality, but because of people like Darth they have a hard time convincing other non-hetero's that the GOP doesn't hate them despite all outreach.
The trans-trender crowd is even worse for reasons I don't need to go into.
There are many reason why people say that the slippery slope exists, and we've seen gays, Bis, and lesbians take a swan dive down that slope in the last ten, twenty years. We're seeing the damage done to society in real-time.
Again, most people these days don't care if someone's a regular person but gay, Bi, or lesbian, but it seems like they're now becoming or have always been outliers.
Only because of media lies and twisting of narratives on both sides.
The Left is 'LGBT's can do no wrong' most of the time, and try to ignore whether the source of 'gender theory' came from (academic pedo's excusing their shit via 'studies') or the fact some doc's love T's because they are a cashcow.
The Right is getting better, in the public spaces, about only targetting actual pedo's and groomers, and not painting all non-hetero's as freaks or a threat. This is unfortunately undermined in the wider social net by people like Darth who try to make excuses and cover up that they want non-hetero's back in the closet or worse, and non-hetero's who might want to vote GOP for other reasons (2A protection, economic issues, the border, etc.) will just get reminders that if the GOP fringe ever gets it's way, then non-hetero's will get an effective knife in the back and the fringe Right will do it with pride and zeal.
If the choices are basically "keep that shit at home or between friends, no one cares, keep them equal in law" (meaning no parades, no Pride Months, no celebrations or grandstanding events such as painting sidewalks, politics where politics shouldn't be e.g. media will get you fired, et cetera) and "ban everything gay, Bi, or lesbian because they'll inevitably progress to openly want to fuck children, persecute other people for not celebrating they want dicks and tacos instead of tacos and dicks, fuck each other openly and cry persecution when they're arrested for public indecency", then the former is the best option because the latter will always happen in time.
Or there are options between those two ends.
I do not think pride month is necessary for the same reason I don't think most of the 'x-months' stuff is necessary.
And I don't want people around kids who make their sexuality the main point of their life, but I do not want laws that ban any non-hetero from any teaching positions or blanket bans of any nature; that is leaning way to far the other direction.
If someone, hetero or non-hetero, tries to make their sexuality a big point in their 'teaching method', they shouldn't be around kids.
And, no, I don't say this from a religious standpoint like other people on here have stated in the past. I say this from a common-sense/look at history angle.
I mean I do understand your angle here, and it is much more reasonable and not just reskinned religious dogma some people want to be made into law.
And there are groups like Gays Against Groomers who are trying to do their best to address these issues in a public manner and counter the transtrenders and such who have parasited onto the movement.