canpakes wrote:...So, the Kurds were screwed during withdrawal, and Trump - in his usual sort of way, couldn’t pull out in a way that worked for both parties.
Your clumsy "pull-out" analogy neglects to recognize that the sex was consensual and the risks for a mess, clumsy pull-out, or even pregnancy etc are mutually applicable to both parties. But I am curious about this modern and progressive relationship where you consider a US and Kurd to be akin to 2 Catholics using the "pull-out" instead of the tried and true, and prevalent among Catholics, Fertility Awareness-Based Method (not to be confused with good ole rhythm method). I feel like a better analogy, for your crude attempt at a logical criticism, should have been framed around a back-alley sexual assault where Bif the star quarterback date rapes the wannabe cheerleader muslim girl who just wants her father to pay the price for being so oppressive of her new found love of American high school life. And instead of a failed pull-out, Bif either got her pregnant and Bif's mother paid for the abortion, Bif's father encouraged denial, of the girl is shamed by her family and her brother kills her because of the shame it brings to him as chess club captain....or Bif gets it in her hair and then ignores her in class the next day. Either way, the important part is that Bif drives a camaro.
Apparently, sexual relations with your wife requires an interpreter and pictorial instruction cards.
ajax18 wrote:I don't think Subgenius feels that way. If he does he shouldn't. The only people who would need to fear a state governed by people like me are those not willing to work.
Perhaps Subgenius would enjoy living in the New Confederacy. Everyone works, from those sitting on the veranda sipping mint juleps before getting ready for the cotillion, to those serving the mint juleps and toiling in the cotton fields.
Perfume on my Mind wrote:For the first time, I was a little put off by Buttigieg.
That guy is running for office as a gay religious pastor, he thinks god is going to help him as president. Assigieg wants to increase military spending, but the truth is our country doesn't need the most power military in the world, what the US really needs is the best NMD system in the world. At the moment our NMD system really sucks and we are not safe. Idiots like Assigieg would keep wasting billions of dollars in the military.
Are you upset with him because he's gay? Or are you using his homosexuality to highlight what you view are faults with his policy choices?
Sounds kind of like when you notice a guy who cut you off in traffic looks overweight, you call him a fat “F”, even though you aren't really angry about his weight.
Perfume on my Mind wrote:. If you listen to her answers, she's implicitly saying she would raise taxes, but you'll be better off.
But no promise on fighting cancer or other diseases. I think medical research funding should be a priority. Biden is the only democrat that promised to fight cancer and disease. There is no point on having a good healthcare if treatment only helps you live just a couple of more years. We really need to go after the cure.
What good is having great medical technology if not everyone has access to it? Or worse, having access to it causes more stress than the diseases themselves?
The US is already leading in medical technology. You think medical research is more important than saving billions of dollars on healthcare by cutting insurance companies largely out of the picture? I don't. Both are important, but one is clearly more so.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Perfume on my Mind wrote:Are you upset with him because he's gay? Or are you using his homosexuality to highlight what you view are faults with his policy choices?
I don't care about his sexual preferences. I just don't like that he is using religion to get supporters. His homosexuality is incompatible with Christianity, but that does't stop him from talking too much about religion.
Perfume on my Mind wrote:The US is already leading in medical technology. You think medical research is more important than saving billions of dollars on healthcare by cutting insurance companies largely out of the picture? I don't. Both are important, but one is clearly more so.
I agree both are important, but most candidates have not promise to fight cancer and other diseases. I do want medicare for all, but the government must keep investing a lot of money in medical research. Medical improvements will save billions of lives, time, and billions of dollar.
I might vote for Sanders because Yang has no chance of winning, but I am worried that medicare for all could be very expensive.
Perfume on my Mind wrote:Are you upset with him because he's gay? Or are you using his homosexuality to highlight what you view are faults with his policy choices?
I just don't like that he is using religion to get supporters.
Yeah, I hate that kind of pandering as well. However, if it peels away some GOP voters (in the general, were he to be the nominee), I'm for it.
DoubtingThomas wrote:His homosexuality is incompatible with Christianity, but that does't stop him from talking too much about religion.
Homosexuality is only incompatible with Christianity if you interpret it that way. It doesn't have to be. Religion is damned malleable. If people use it to justify bigotry toward homosexuals, they were already bigots toward homosexuals.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Perfume on my Mind wrote:Yeah, I hate that kind of pandering as well. However, if it peels away some GOP voters (in the general, were he to be the nominee), I'm for it.
Creationism could be taught in science classrooms in the near future. It is not a good idea to promote religion in government. Religion in the US is doing more harm than Donald Trump. It was religion that got Trump elected in the first place and there is no way that religious GOP voters would vote for buttieg. Religious GOP voters really want to end abortion.
DoubtingThomas wrote:... there is no way that religious GOP voters would vote for buttieg.
A large segment, of these religious GOP voters, is sold on the divinity of Trump. Forget them, they will be raptured to somewhere beyond the River Styx. For the rest, the religious ethics which Buttigieg espouses might be persuasive enough to return them to the light.
DoubtingThomas wrote:Creationism could be taught in science classrooms in the near future. It is not a good idea to promote religion in government.
Buttigieg has never endorsed mixing religion with govt. Stay focused on realistic concerns.
Religion in the US is doing more harm than Donald Trump.
Supporting Trump is a religion. There's no damned difference. Both involve believing obvious BS that makes you feel tingly inside.
It was religion that got Trump elected in the first place and there is no way that religious GOP voters would vote for buttieg. Religious GOP voters really want to end abortion.
Religious voters are damned lemmings. They'll vote for whomever their religious leaders recommend.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.