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bolverk

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  1. Given your posts in the NJ UFO thread, you seem like the type who's skeptical of government authority and doesn't take a shine to the government dictating your life. Am I correct on that assumption, based on that posting history? What if I were to tell you that in this bolded sentence, you're ceding to the government an immense amount of power to a central authority over an extremely personal thing that you take for granted with the comforting knowledge your gender expression conforms to the wishes of the ruling regime? If you're a religious person, consider that you are imposing a "man's natural order" mindset on God's glorious creation in all its various permutations where the combination of X & Y chromosomes and the infinite mix of hormones allows for (nay, insists on) an astonishing spectrum of possibilities. If you're a nonreligious person, simply replace "God" with "universe." Now, consider this question: Who the fuck are you or this government to impose this simplistic, black-and-white, or binomial stricture on a fluid, dynamic, and infinite reality, and under what authority? Authority. You're giving it away, freely, willingly, an immense amount of it, and that has wide fucking implications for those of us who are just plain old straight vanilla. And it's not because I fear the government suddenly misgendering me, but I do fear one that is emboldened to start making all kinds of other judgments and rulings over other parts of my personal life and right to privacy. Sure, right now, their focus is on this one small group of people, of which a vanishingly tiny subset play competitive sports. Like Brisket said, the number in NCAA sports is in the single digits. That's your stated concern, right? "Men" playing in "women's" sports. Why the fuck do you or anyone wish to turn this trivial sports shit that can be (and is) taken care of by the governing body of that sport into some epic, gargantuan fucking issue and place it into the hands of one old man? Do you understand what kind of power you're ceding to a singular individual who has demonstrated throughout his life that he thinks no one can contain his insatiable desire for more? Have you not picked up on the fact that he has a habit of slicing us up into all these little minority interest groups and individually picking them out for abuse? If you already understood all that and voted for the man anyway, you are undeniably fascist adjacent, at the very least, and have enabled a dictator. If you didn't grasp this shit, open your fucking eyes.
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  3. Current front page. Just stunningly bad shit.
  4. I was going back through her IMDB, and she was also in a small indie movie that was filmed in Austin a few years ago called "Mr. Roosevelt," which I've actually seen because someone I had a few dates with has a small role in it. Lower didn't play the lead, so I didn't remember her from it. Looks like it can be rented on Amazon for $3.99. It's an "okay" movie -- kind of your typical small indie that feels like it was made in the 90s.
  5. Never heard of the guy (I haven't followed the NFL since the 1990s), but he's got my attention and respect now.
  6. I do know how to read, and according to the article, NASA does (or did) indeed have a planetary defense program.
  7. So, does anyone know if NASA still has a planetary defense program right now?
  8. Yep. Just keep hammering away on that same consistent message over and over again across the spectrum of issues we'll be facing until it belatedly dawns on the dumbasses.
  9. Yeah, I quickly started to quietly reflect on that after posting. I suppose I could go back and edit it to something like, "America doesn't support European dictators," but the best choice should've been not to post any of my own commentary and just let the image speak for itself. Well, I've learned my lesson.
  10. Got these from some European-related subreddits. Warning: They are royally pissed at America right now.
  11. America does NOT support dictators!!! Well, it didn't used to.
  12. Accurate, but I think this better captures the lead-up in our timeline.
  13. My Church of Christ grandma told me (a child) point-blank that her daughter (my mom) and all of our family were going to hell because we were Southern Baptist. Attending her nearby country church as a kid was made especially painful by the awkward-as-fuck way that every hymn started without instruments or universally understood downbeat.
  14. At the risk of going off on too much of a tangent that would belong in a religion thread, I'll briefly piggyback on these comments from earlier this morning to state the obvious--while still being a profoundly interesting religious observation--that American "Christianity" has basically dispensed with the merciful, forgiving, and kind Christian god of the New Testament, only to have gone back to the angry, jealous, and vengeful god of the Old Testament, which I'd argue couldn't possibly be the same omniscient, omnipotent god (different thread topic). I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge nowadays (at least around these parts) that psychological studies have demonstrated Republicans/conservatives generally lean much more heavily toward an authoritarian mindset than liberals/progressives, which obviously goes hand-in-hand with all that fire and brimstone shit. So, I guess it makes sense why they mean to make us all regress back into being like the foolish Old Testament Israelites who could never learn a fucking lesson. I guess all we can do now is just await god's judgment, wrath, and punishment for falling for this anti-Christ. The End Times, here we come.
  15. For your typical nonfundie, the thinking goes: "I want my child to have a leg up, and getting my kid into an exclusive club ensures a better chance at that, which means we're going to have to start excluding certain people. Yes, I understand it'll hurt other kids, but that only goes to serve my little shit getting that leg up." Then, there are all the other reasons cited in previous posts for the reich-wing zealots and/or fundagelicals.
  16. Trump is playing the role of Stalin across the table from Hitler (Putin) if you consider the current negotiations regarding Ukraine as parallels to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
  17. I believe the final agreement for German reuinification wasn't signed until 1991, so would this include former East German territory or nah?
  18. Ah, yes, but recall that the head of the current regime tried to defund that very same newspaper a little over four years ago, the last time it held power. It, therefore, must be "fake news," so who's to say what the story really is? It's a good thing that one of the previously mentioned illegal immigrants, who's been placed in charge of an experienced team of crack budgetary policy experts to unconstitutionally hack away at Congressionally authorized and funded programs, controls a reliable media outlet that totally isn't known for intentionally misleading the public.
  19. Point to the post where this guy was being lionized. Also, take a moment to reflect on the felon, who's the grandson of an illegal immigrant by today's standards, who hires illegal immigrants, and who's married to an illegal immigrant, attempting to unconstitutionally strip the rights of American citizens born in this country. While the universe does, at times, have a sick sense of humor, I wouldn't call this funny or a laughing matter.
  20. Let me know if I left someone out
  21. I mean, if a situation wherein a felon who's responsible for the deaths of thousands convicted for falsifying business records been found liable for sexual assault defrauded students with a fake university barred from running a charity a tax cheat attempted a coup on the United States married to an illegal immigrant enabled a different illegal immigrant to now unconstitutionally dismantle the federal bureaucracy, and now allowed to be in charge of shit and hypocritically deporting other illegal immigrants doesn't prove our point, then I don't know what does. Hmmm...
  22. @52-80 Let me ask you about a third hypothetical: Imagine a scenario in which a woman comes to the US on a tourist visa but breaks immigration law by getting a job as a "professional model," should that person have her citizenship revoked for committing visa fraud?
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