SCOTUS stops the election interference....cold!

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  1. granite45

    granite45 Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Peace, love, tolerance?
     
  2. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    The etymology of the word gender goes back to the 1300s. Like all words it was made up, or coined. It was used to denote certain classes or categories.
    In the early sixties it began to be used to denote certain social classes of sexual identity.
    Gender identity means that in many cases due to hormonal or physical imbalances, some people acquire traits that are the opposite of their physical sexual organs.
    For example the release of testosterone during fetal development has been linked to sexual identity. If not enough is released in a male fetus a person with male genitalia may not express male behavior in later stages of life.
    A female fetus which receives too much testosterone during development may not express female behavior in later stages of life.
    But you know this is ongoing scientific research.
    You just don't believe in science, preferring your own unsupported homophobic views.
    Trump capitalizes on homophobia and ignorance as those who hold such views have no empathy and only care about themselves and their own reality. So Trump plays them like a fiddle.

    I have no idea what "self select out of the gene pool" means.
    Yeah, same as above, except now it's racism instead of homophobia.
    Trump loves that stuff.
    Weasel words? Getting technical are we? Sure, make us have to have a driver's license and pretty soon they'll take away our cars....yawn.

    Assault weapon is a legal term. There are many legal terms.

    Transfer of surplus military weapons currently does happen to the U.S. police through the Defense Logistics Agency's 1033 Program.
    Starting in 1968 the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration supplied "searchlights, emergency radios, bullhorns, nightsticks, body armor, face shields, and special weapons like M79 grenade launchers, " to form SWAT units. The LEAA supplied $7.5 billion dollars of equipment.
    In 1989, G. H. W. Bush signed the National Defense Authorization Act. It allowed "the transfer to federal and state agencies personal property, "including small arms and ammunition.""

    Currently the 1033 Program has transferred $7.4 billion dollars worth of property including boots, radios, shields, M16 assault rifles (select fire), MRAPs, and silencers.
    Each SWAT officer gets one M1911 pistol and one M16 rifle, or M14 rifle. For every three officers you get a Humvee, and as a bonus each unit can apply for one MRAP.

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    Additionally the 1122 Program allows states and units of local government access to federal sources of supply such as but not limited to, small arms, night vision equipment, demilitarized vehicles, and aircraft.
    Yeah, so you say.
    Gun nuts have stated many times that the goal of Democrats is total civilian disarmament.
    Doesn't mean it's true.
     
  3. princess peedge

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    The world needs more of these things
     
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  4. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    As union "bosses" are elected by the union members, the members seem to think they have elected the right persons.

    I don't know what the rest of the "left’s agenda" (aside from labor issues) has to do with your contention that the "left’s agenda" is not int he best interest of "Joe sixpack.
    Generalities tell us nothing.
     
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  6. scratcho

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    How does any person that identifies as part of LGBTQ have any effect on my life or those who take (misplaced IMO ) umbrage at their / others choices in life affect me? Or anyones lives, for that matter?
     
  7. Bocci

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    You have previously stated that assault weapon is a legal term. It may well be. This however does not confer accuracy or even validity in this day.

    Your wall of information about the disbursement of military hardware only proved what I said about where surplus weapons go.

    Your statements about the effects of prenatal influences on sexual characteristics of the person only support my contention that congenital defect may be one of the causes of the problem.

    As to me not trusting science; I trust real REPRODUCIBLE science. Not bought and paid for science with a social agenda. I trust the social sciences, after much study in economics, sociology, and psychology, even less. I’ve tutored plenty of folks, who were studying for their masters in those fields, to help them through their required statistics courses. Most of them were largely innumerate and only used whatever statistics and survey design they could to manipulate their data to get the result they were after. Statistical theory was just something they needed to answer to on a test and then forget.

    Despite its perhaps popular meaning, homophobia is a fear of homosexuals. I do not fear them. I would fear for my child’s safety and mental well-being around them but I do not fear homosexuals.

    As to licensing firearms like autos; autos are not in the bill of rights or constitution so their regulation is properly left to the states. Some states require firearms licenses. To the extent that such licenses do not preclude anyone from bearing arms, those are also fine. I would not live in such a state but, similar to our previous discussion, I think the variety of laws and regulations between the 50 states is a good idea if for no other reason than as an observational experiment.

    You don’t understand “self select out of the gene pool”? I’m temped to quote Mr Samuel L. Jackson in this case but will instead remain conversational and ask if you’ve ever heard of the Darwin awards.
     
  8. Bocci

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    “It doesn’t matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes.” Do union elections have a reputation of cleanliness and transparency that I’m not aware of? I wonder if Mr. Hoffa also got 81 million real/legitimate votes.
     
  9. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Validity about what?
    Here is your quote:
    Note that you said surplus military weapons are not available to the public. The police of any jurisdiction in the U.S. are members of the public.
    Further you stated that they are sold only to client states. The police are not client states.
    So, thorough no fault of their own, you would condemn people with abnormal hormonal development.
    So, now you are saying that there aren't any provable congenital defects.

    I'm glad I didn't have you as a tutor when I took statistics.
    homophobia
    noun

    ho·mo·pho·bia ˌhō-mə-ˈfō-bē-ə
    : irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or gay people

    Now why would you fear for your child's safety around a homosexual? You just said you don't fear them...and now you fear for your child’s safety and mental well-being around them. What's with that?
    I know two long time teachers that are homosexual.
    A former neighbor of my granddaughters is homosexual.
    Alan Turing, Anderson Cooper, Elton John, Andy Warhol,Freddie Mercury, and James Baldwin among many others were or are gay. What have they done to endanger you children’s safety and mental well-being?
    The right to own a firearm outside of a governmental militia was not in the Bill of Rights/ Constitution.
    It was not granted until District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008.

    Doesn't matter who issues the license. You argument is that if all guns need to be licensed, ownership of all guns will eventually be outlawed.
    The first driver's licenses were issued in 1903. The number of cars in the U.S. was about 33,000 in 1903.
    In 2020 there were 286.9 million.
    So what my son and daughter in law have elected to not have any children, they self selected out of the gene pool. Again so what?
     
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  10. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    So now not only are the union "bosses" out of touch with the "working man" the unions themselves are corrupt.
    Yet they have made so many advances!

    I suppose the rest of industry is so very clean, uncorrupted and has the "working man's" best interest as the top priority.
    U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns
     
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  11. Bocci

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    At first I thought you were being disingenuous in your “reinterpretation” of what I typed. Now I’ve come to suspect you may actually have a learning disability. You seem to either have poor comprehension or just scan for keywords and infer/interpret the full meaning however you wish to.
     
  12. nudistguyny

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    Homosexuality have been documented in every species on the planet. It is not a chosen choice. But a normal behavior among different species.
    Then there are those who are born intersex. that spectrum varies greatly I guess they also made the choice to have both male and female genitalia to differing extents .
    It was once described as there is no black or white when it comes to gender but as Black---------------Gray-------------- White. .And sexuality falls some where in that spectrum
     

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