StrangeSox

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 06:20 PM) These guys are targeting the military industrial complex, so they are cool. this but unironically

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 07:56 PM) Why? Well, I believe the Palestinians should be left stateless for a bunch of reasons that I strongly believe in, but I already know your predetermined response will be to simply call me a bigot and an Islamophobe (which, honestly, coming from a liberal isn't that insulting anymore). So I'm not going to waste my time. Arguing with someone who is so intolerant and hostile to different opinions and judgmental in general is pointless. I was more curious if you hold the "Jews deserve Israel because the Bible says so" position that I remember West advocating. but w/e

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 04:06 PM) Thursday is the last day of Q101. Really though, it kind of died a long time ago. Wow, hadn't heard that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 04:22 PM) I'd say they're succeeding markedly on the basic negotiation front here. Aside from a few angry bloggers, who is actually going to call him on this? If he pretends that Obama has given up those points, not as a negotiation matter but in general, the media won't call him on it, his side can run outside ads saying "Obama agreed to raise the Medicare age to 67 and gut your Social Security" without being called on it, and the Obama Administration will not pull an offer off of the table once its been made. I'm bouncing back and forth between my usual "Democrats are really just terrible politicians" and "Democrats really just support these terrible policies" lately.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 03:37 PM) the Blago defense huh. "Basic negotiation practices", a novel concept for the GOP.

Cantor: Dishonest POS or idiot? More

wtf is wrong with people?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 01:16 PM) Of course he's trolling. Read his 10 posts. Anyway, the troll has derailed the thread, so congrats. j4l created a sock to distract attention!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 01:14 PM) He responds to my post about my uncle, and what he meant to my family, with that. What he brought up was more than likely a "joke" as he likes to state with his whopping 7 posts about his joking ways, and it was also about a crude, illegal act performed on an animal. I'd expected any number of responses to my post about my uncle and how important acceptance was to him, not a joke about horse f***ing. But hey, if we're down with that post, I'll just leave the thread. Actually yeah I had just skimmed that and didn't pick up on the mocking, that's bulls***.

Yeah probably shouldn't post links like that.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 01:09 PM) I'd be a-ok with this jackass being banned, world. Rule 34, I do not reject this claim out of hand. It can lead to a broader discussion of societal norms and what, if any, boundaries we should have and why.

QUOTE (jenksfart @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 01:08 PM) I had an aunt who had sexual relations with her horse. Now I know people will think I'm joking and no I am not trying to make a connection here. I just want to know if you would accept her too? Because it was very hard for my parents, particularly my mom, because that was her older sister. I'm indifferent because I only have memories of my aunt from when I was 4 years old before she passed. You just don't care about issues when you are young. Horses aren't consenting humans so that's animal abuse at best.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 09:18 AM) I think I have figured out that watching Adam Dunn hit lefties is what it must feel like to be a Cub fan. You know what is going to happen, and yet you still watch and hold out this little bit of hope that this will be the time! Ugh.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:55 PM) I just answered his hypothetical. If you can spot a guy and after 10 seconds think to yourself he's gay or think he's gay, that's loud to me. There's a difference between that and more reserved gays. If I had to choose who to live with, which is very important in this case, I'd go with the more reserved. That doesn't mean you have to "hide" it. Would you be cool with him sitting on the couch watching a movie with another guy? Nothing sexual, just sitting close watching a comedy or something.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:52 PM) And having a brother that is gay also makes him oversensitive and hyperbolic. Steve, Russ, you guys have a gay relative? Or what's the reason for your over-sensitivity and hyperbole? You keep posting example after example of you being uncomfortable with homosexuality but still denying that you are. There's no hyperbole there.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:50 PM) That was the best example of 'loud' gay folk I could come up with off the top of my head. And I know a lot of gays personally that act just that way I wouldn't want to live with an obnoxious person period. But open homosexuality, not flamboyant obnoxiousness but simply being a person who happens to be gay, makes you uncomfortable.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:48 PM) When in doubt, let's pull the race card. Like I said, if your brother wasn't gay you wouldn't be nearly as anal about this. It's easy to analogize racism to homophobia, I'd say the same thing if you were white to make the same point. Bigots always have an excuse or rationalization for why their bigotry really isn't bigotry.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:44 PM) No, it's not wrong. It's not wrong because you would have no problem with it. That would be that person's preference. No right or wrong. I'd rather not live with blacks, they're just more prone to crime thanks to their thug culture. No right or wrong!

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:36 PM) Just a question out of curiosity, say you are going away to college and you have a random roomate, would you consider it wrong for said incoming freshman to prefer to not live with a gay roomate? Good question, imo. I'd have to say that yeah, it's wrong but that I understand where the discomfort would come from especially if you really haven't known any openly gay people.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:39 PM) Just don't be all the way gay! I have no problems with gay people as long as I can remain completely oblivious to the fact that they are, indeed, gay and they're not my child. Totally cool.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:38 PM) Maybe it was strange, then. I don't feel like going back. Whatever. But I don't have a problem with them, either. Well to move in with anybody you would have to know them fairly well. I guess it depends. You have people that are outwardly gay. Like they have np problem letting the world know. Like you don't even have to wonder. It's obvious. The clothes they wear, the way they walk and talk. Was anybody shocked when Ricky Martin or Lance Bass came out? I don't think I could be around that every day. If you're more reserved about it. And not throwing it in everybody's face 24/7, yeah, I could deal with that. Keep that s*** in the closet!

I'll be sincerely shocked if anything happens.

A Dance with Dragons, the fifth book in A Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones), is out today.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:13 AM) I thought this got locked? Anyway, yeah, I don't have a "problem" with gay people. Let's put it this way. If I had a roommate and maybe a year or so down the line I found out he was gay, I'd be cool with it. As long as, of course, he realized that I don't swing that way. I would say I'd have to leave whenever he had a guy over. That would just gross me out. To know that there are two dudes gettin' it on in the room next door to me. Sorry if that sounds insensitive. Just bein' honest. Let's go back to this, which was in response to steve saying you had a problem with gay people. Would you move in with a roommate that you knew was gay?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:21 PM) I do think it's gross. But I can accept if others choose that way. I could never accept my kin choosing that way. I'd feel responsible. Like I did something wrong. And like I said earlier, it would hurt me to know that I would never see a grandchild or that the family name dies (assuming I only had one kid) when he died. There are plenty of ways for gays to have children, at least in states where bigots haven't passed anti-gay laws.