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[Danizen]

4 hours ago, Md9 said:

So now they are crying because china called them peasants ……… after Vance called them peasants 😂 they are on another level from normal Americans 

ASAP.

 

Like Hao doing his Data Analytics degree in Dallas constitutes a national emergency...

[Md9]

51 minutes ago, Danizen said:

ASAP.

 

Like Hao doing his Data Analytics degree in Dallas constitutes a national emergency...

They are all just crazy at this point and not even trying to hide it 

[leicsmac]

3 hours ago, Md9 said:

They are all just crazy at this point and not even trying to hide it 

And ICE "operatives" not even bothering with the due process part, smashing into people's homes and cars and dragging people away while masked and wearing nothing to identify themselves as legal officers.

[Sly]

This entire defined sex, pronouns, different genders etc, is very confusing to me. 
 

I feel like I’m getting older and a tad out of touch. 
 

People can identify as a load of bread for all I care, they aren’t impacting me. 
 

I truly understand the reasoning for performance related events, as genetics is crucial etc, so you wouldn’t want someone who is evidently a male, competing in female Sports. 

 

However, why can’t we all just get along? 
 

It’s the pronouns, this blows my mind! 

[Zear0]

7 minutes ago, Sly said:

This entire defined sex, pronouns, different genders etc, is very confusing to me. 
 

I feel like I’m getting older and a tad out of touch. 
 

People can identify as a load of bread for all I care, they aren’t impacting me. 
 

I truly understand the reasoning for performance related events, as genetics is crucial etc, so you wouldn’t want someone who is evidently a male, competing in female Sports. 

 

However, why can’t we all just get along? 
 

It’s the pronouns, this blows my mind! 

It's been discussed and deleted already today! 

[Sly]

7 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

It's been discussed and deleted already today! 

I guess I missed it then! 

[Sampson]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c045qg9xr30o
 

US judge says he could hold Trump administration in contempt of court
 

Let’s hope the check and balance holds. I fear this just gives Trump fire and something more he’ll use as a motivation to invoke the Insurrection Act though. 

Edited 16 April 2025 by Sampson

[Zear0]

7 minutes ago, Sampson said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c045qg9xr30o
 

US judge says he could hold Trump administration in contempt of court
 

Let’s hope the check and balance holds. I fear this just gives Trump fire and something more he’ll use as a motivation to invoke the Insurrection Act though. 

Can't help think they'll challenge it to just see how far they can push it. If they get backlash, they won't, can always grovel out like the tariffs. 

 

Keep pushing against the line... 

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

This entire defined sex, pronouns, different genders etc, is very confusing to me. 
 

I feel like I’m getting older and a tad out of touch. 
 

People can identify as a load of bread for all I care, they aren’t impacting me. 
 

I truly understand the reasoning for performance related events, as genetics is crucial etc, so you wouldn’t want someone who is evidently a male, competing in female Sports. 

 

However, why can’t we all just get along? 
 

It’s the pronouns, this blows my mind! 

 

I'm on the list to compete at next years Crufts. 

 

My trainer has about 9 months to get me ready for leaping over barriers and running through tunnels and looking well groomed and handsome. (The latter is an easy task IMO).

 

BTW, I hate this cone thing around my neck.

Edited 16 April 2025 by Parafox

[ClaphamFox]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

This entire defined sex, pronouns, different genders etc, is very confusing to me. 
 

I feel like I’m getting older and a tad out of touch. 
 

People can identify as a load of bread for all I care, they aren’t impacting me. 
 

I truly understand the reasoning for performance related events, as genetics is crucial etc, so you wouldn’t want someone who is evidently a male, competing in female Sports. 

 

However, why can’t we all just get along? 
 

It’s the pronouns, this blows my mind! 

If a man is convicted of raping a woman but began identifying as a woman during his trial, do you think the media should refer to him as ‘she’ and claim the rape was committed by a woman? How do you think the victim will feel about seeing the media describe her penis-endowed attacker as a woman, and having her horrific experience twisted and lied about to spare the feelings of the man who destroyed her life? Because this actually happens. 

[Sly]

7 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

If a man is convicted of raping a woman but began identifying as a woman during his trial, do you think the media should refer to him as ‘she’ and claim the rape was committed by a woman? How do you think the victim will feel about seeing the media describe her penis-endowed attacker as a woman, and having her horrific experience twisted and lied about to spare the feelings of the man who destroyed her life? Because this actually happens. 

No, this is where it gets utterly stupid though. 

[Zear0]

48 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

I'm on the list to compete at next years Crufts. 

 

My trainer has about 9 months to get me ready for leaping over barriers and running through tunnels and looking well groomed and handsome. (The latter is an easy task IMO).

 

BTW, I hate this cone thing around my neck.

Stop licking yourself then. 

[worthosoriginals]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

 

I'm on the list to compete at next years Crufts. 

 

My trainer has about 9 months to get me ready for leaping over barriers and running through tunnels and looking well groomed and handsome. (The latter is an easy task IMO).

 

BTW, I hate this cone thing around my neck.

Ruff

[WigstonWanderer]

3 hours ago, leicsmac said:

And ICE "operatives" not even bothering with the due process part, smashing into people's homes and cars and dragging people away while masked and wearing nothing to identify themselves as legal officers.

Never ceases to amaze me that these gestapo types seem to spring out of the woodwork fully formed as soon as an authoritarian regime arises.

[leicsmac]

4 minutes ago, WigstonWanderer said:

Never ceases to amaze me that these gestapo types seem to spring out of the woodwork fully formed as soon as an authoritarian regime arises.

...it's almost like the neofascists have been organising for the best part of a decade or more and waiting for their chance.

 

Funny, that.

 

(Similarly, it's almost as if some folks have been warning about it for about the same amount of time but the comfortable commentators could never envisage the idea of such neofascism rising once again and so it was all "that'll never happen" or "don't overreact".)

[WigstonWanderer]

12 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

...it's almost like the neofascists have been organising for the best part of a decade or more and waiting for their chance.

 

Funny, that.

 

(Similarly, it's almost as if some folks have been warning about it for about the same amount of time but the comfortable commentators could never envisage the idea of such neofascism rising once again and so it was all "that'll never happen" or "don't overreact".)

I seem to remember that there was no short of comments in these pages prior to the US election poking fun at those of us who feared that America was flirting with fascism and making accusations of overreaction.

[Sampson]

6 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

...it's almost like the neofascists have been organising for the best part of a decade or more and waiting for their chance.

 

Funny, that.

 

(Similarly, it's almost as if some folks have been warning about it for about the same amount of time but the comfortable commentators could never envisage the idea of such neofascism rising once again and so it was all "that'll never happen" or "don't overreact".)

Plenty of moderates still say  “don’t call Trump/Farage/Musk the f word” even when it’s slapping them in the face.

[leicsmac]

5 minutes ago, WigstonWanderer said:

I seem to remember that there was no short of comments in these pages prior to the US election poking fun at those of us who feared that America was flirting with fascism and making accusations of overreaction.

 

3 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Plenty of moderates still say  “don’t call Trump/Farage/Musk the f word” even when it’s slapping them in the face.

Pretty much, yes.

 

Sometimes it's shit to see pretty clearly how the future plays out.

[Sampson]

Re: sending randomers to that El Salvador prison without trial where people are allegedly locked up without chance of release and never even allowed to see daylight. And where Trump openly said he wants to send US citizens. 
 

There’s a reason all the German concentration camps were outside of Germany. 

Edited 16 April 2025 by Sampson

[FoxyPV]

Everything in the news is so depressing.

 

Terfs on the rise.

Fascism on the rise.

Arsenal doing well.

A live streamed genocide.

 

Fvck this

Edited 16 April 2025 by FoxyPV
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[ealingfox]

28 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Re: sending randomers to that El Salvador prison without trial where people are allegedly locked up without chance of release and never even allowed to see daylight. And where Trump openly said he wants to send US citizens. 
 

There’s a reason all the German concentration camps were outside of Germany. 

 

Eh? Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück? There's definitely more as well.

[Foxdiamond]

13 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

Eh? Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück? There's definitely more as well.

Yes Dachau is another

[foxy boxing]

If you commit your crimes as a man, then you should serve your sentence as a man. Any man with sexual crimes against women should not be recognised as a woman.

It's a bout commen sense.

[Sampson]

18 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

Eh? Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück? There's definitely more as well.

Fair enough. I should’ve said that there was a reason many were outside of Germany outside of public view.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Don't normally question mod decisions to cool debate here, but it's interesting how transphobic strawmen disguised as "common sense" are allowed to remain here, but my reminder of the human cost of such is apparently beyond the pale.