[Are we ramping up to war with North Korea?]

19 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Breaking: DPRK cancels meeting with South Korea and threatens to cancel summit with US over joint military exercises going on now... 

 

(will be watching, not alarmed, just reporting)

 

 

Trump's response will be very interesting

[Watch parents screw up their children...]

1 hour ago, snafu said:

 

Don't get me wrong. I agree with you.  I'm just pointing out that it has been said and accepted as new dogma.  It isn't going away, so (as I said in my earlier post) work the system.

 

 

 

Indeed it has.

[CNN losing credibility as each day passes... Its pure propaganda at this point]

Brutal look from Cillizza. His response is valid, though, and should be noted before he's seen as a deep state operative hellbent on assassinating the president.. I downloaded GifGrabber and what he said is indeed true.

 

 

[Watch parents screw up their children...]

51 minutes ago, TakeYouToTasker said:

 

I'm painfully aware of the arguments, and I disagree with them strongly.

 

The conflation of gender roles with gender itself is problematic, as it's derivative from a flawed intersectional model of a ruthless power hierarchy (hierarchies exist, but are not defined exclusively, or even primarily, by power).

 

Self-identity is even more problematic, as it rejects biological imperatives and empirical data in favor of anecdote and individual experience, which is, by nature, limited in it's ability to properly define the world. 

 

By argument for this, I meant an argument for your take, which you briefly go over with your last two sentences. Thanks for your input.

 

Do you think people have the right to self identify as they wish outside of their sex?

[Watch parents screw up their children...]

25 minutes ago, TakeYouToTasker said:

 

Gender is not a societal construct.

 

There's certainly a fair argument for this if you're willing to make it. Do you see a difference between gender and sex?

[Watch parents screw up their children...]

At this age children should not be subjected to such a complicated discussion. A child is not going to understand that sex is a biological law and gender is a societal construct.

[Islamic Terrorism]

9 minutes ago, Boyst62 said:

Ignore me. I'd hate to set off a trigger warning.  I add no value.

 

I add football insight once every while, though. Hard to do when we are a ****ty program.

 

This forum has a football section?

[Islamic Terrorism]

2 minutes ago, Boyst62 said:

26copypaste has a little brother. 

 

Still, bman does it better.

 

Does this guy ever add any value to this forum, or should I ignore him now?

 

After looking through his post history it seems he only posts insults, calls posters snowflakes, and brags about his sex life.

[Islamic Terrorism]

Does the White House disagree with Kushner?

 

 

[Cohen Recieved Big Money From Russian Oligarch]

7 minutes ago, njbuff said:

 

I'm not a Republican. I'm not a conservative. Hell, I have absolutely no political party whatsoever.

 

Republicans suck. FACT. But, Democrats are the most disgusting people in this country. FACT.

 

I believe one's political party has very little to do with their character and arguing which side is "more disgusting" is a waste of time that only does more harm than good.

[Islamic Terrorism]

9 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Seems a reasonable conclusion to me: IDF is engaging multiple Palestinian factions.  That these factions are actually assaulting the fence line (I've found stories on three different assaults using explosives or incendiary devices) is just a sixth fact he didn't have room to mention.

 

 

This is correct. There are now 52 confirmed deaths, and Israel has confirmed 3 of the 52 dead are terrorists. Those three were involved in a bomb laying attack near Rafah.

[Islamic Terrorism]

3 minutes ago, TakeYouToTasker said:

 

These were violent protesters who engaged with Israeli military charged with protecting the US Embassy.

 

 

5 facts

 

1. A 14 year old was shot and killed.

 

2. A 15 year old was shot and killed.

 

3. Two 16 year olds were shot and killed.

 

4. 39 others were killed as of this afternoon. There are almost 2000 wounded Palestinians.

 

5. Israel has not reported any deaths or injuries to their military.

 

These facts lead one to believe it's more the Israeli military engaging with different factions of protesting Palestinians.

[EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Dines With Pedophile Cardinal in Secret]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/climate/pruitt-cardinal-pell-dinner.html

Pruitt’s Dinner With Cardinal Accused of Abuse Was Kept Off Public Schedule

WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dined last year in Rome with Cardinal George Pell, a prominent climate-science denialist and Vatican leader who was also facing sexual abuse allegations. The E.P.A. later released official descriptions of the dinner that intentionally did not mention the cardinal’s presence, according to three current and former E.P.A. officials.

 

Kevin Chmielewski, Mr. Pruitt’s former deputy chief of staff for operations, said in an interview that top political appointees at the agency feared that the meeting would reflect poorly on Mr. Pruitt if it were made public. Twenty days after the dinner, authorities in Australia charged Cardinal Pell with sexual assault; he has denied the charges.