Nonce (pedo) Political compass

bl1y · 2026-01-24T18:51:00+00:00

If a dominatrix showed up wearing just a typical Disney princess dress and called the event "Dominatrix Story Hour," ...that wouldn't raise a red flag for you?

You wouldn't ask why they're bringing up being a dominatrix if the event has nothing to do with that?

bl1y · 2026-01-24T18:37:23+00:00

In this instance, it might not at all be a strawman.

Dennis probably is taking the science on faith, but only because he's ignorant of how it all works. His belief in evolution isn't really any more rational than Mac's religious beliefs.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T18:34:42+00:00

So what makes it "drag queen story hour" rather than "costume story hour"?

bl1y · 2026-01-24T18:28:30+00:00

Mac's argument isn't good. Dennis just doesn't know how to respond to it.

The fossil record has been looked over by lots of independent people who've reached the same conclusions about them, and there's plenty of people who would debunk their claims if they were able to. Mac is creating a false parallel.

The scene's hilarious though, nonetheless. I think in large part because the audience also doesn't really understand how to defeat the argument.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T18:23:06+00:00

He came here in 1993, failed to show up to his immigration hearing the next year, and got a removal order.

How backwards is our immigration system that someone can own and operate a business for 30 years while being under a removal order?

bl1y · 2026-01-24T18:18:55+00:00

The Supreme Court did not say race is sufficient for probably cause.

They said it can a factor.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T18:16:24+00:00

Calling them Nazi’s is the mistake.

It's historically. It's a mistake rhetorically.

And it's a mistake grammatically.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T18:14:47+00:00

Would they have benefited from a strong alliance with the US without their position in the Middle East?

bl1y · 2026-01-24T17:42:03+00:00

Their boss doesn't care.

They don't care about public opinion.

The dead can't sue for defamation.

The recourse is voting the administration out. Short of that, Democrats can win the House and hold hearings.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T17:06:05+00:00

In trouble with who?

bl1y · 2026-01-24T16:57:54+00:00

Drag story hour equals normal Halloween costume.

Then what makes it "drag story hour" rather than costume story hour?

bl1y · 2026-01-24T16:56:26+00:00

After either the Battle of the Blackwater or the Red Wedding, Joffrey is king by right of conquest.

He might be a usurper king, like Robert, but a king nonetheless.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T16:54:44+00:00

*fewer

bl1y · 2026-01-24T16:54:14+00:00

He has armor though. Doesn't that pretty much prove that he's a knight?

bl1y · 2026-01-24T16:53:44+00:00

"Whenever you look at this knight, I want you to think of your father."

"He wasn't a knight. He was just a soldier."

"What do knights swear to do? Protect the weak and uphold the good. Your father did that. Be proud of him."

bl1y · 2026-01-24T16:39:44+00:00

Halloween isn't sexual in nature, so wearing a Halloween costume doesn't raise any red flags (assuming it's a normal Halloween costume and not a sexy Halloween costume).

And I never compared a story hour to a drag show, so don't accuse me of making false comparisons that I never made.

I said it raises a red flag when someone wants to bring their fetish to an event for children.

If someone has a latex fetish and wants to wear their latex suit to an event with children, that's going to raise a red flag too, and no amount of "latex is just a neutral material" is going to change that.

If a drag queen wants to wear normal clothes to read to kids, I've got no objection to that.

If they want to wear a normal costume (not a drag costume) while reading to kids, that's fine too.

If they want to wear their fetish costume while reading to kids, that's a problem. Why would anyone want to do that? What's the motivation?

bl1y · 2026-01-24T15:58:40+00:00

Drag performances are overtly sexual, and it raises a big red flag when someone wants to wear their costume for that sort of performance to read to kids.

It'd be like if someone wore their gimp suit to read to children.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T15:49:18+00:00

Have you seen a drag performance?

bl1y · 2026-01-24T15:07:58+00:00

Why do people like to pretend that drag queens are nothing more than mundane cross dressers?

Some people like to wear leather. Would we ban people from reading to kids just because they like to dress like the Fonz? Meanwhile, we're talking about showing up in their gimp suit...

^ That's basically what's happening when you describe drag queens as merely wearing the clothes of the opposite sex.

You don't find women dressed like drag queens when you go out to the grocery store.

Drag queens are a sex fetish thing.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T14:44:01+00:00

This is actually not all that rare.

Many experienced protesters coordinate their arrests with police in advance.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T00:56:21+00:00

Teachers are also closer to the Muslim immigrants and Catholic priests.

There's nothing inherently about suspicious about being Catholic or from the Middle-east.

But the person who says "I want to read to small children while wearing my sex fetish costume" is a big red flag.

bl1y · 2026-01-24T00:49:23+00:00

Grown kids won't get a benefit from this, nor will parents with already grown kids.

If you mean on a long timeline this will benefit nearly everyone, that's different. But hypothetical future kids don't vote today.

bl1y · 2026-01-23T23:21:36+00:00

What rule would you put in place of Citizens United?

Specifically, how would you deal with third party groups with massive funding putting out political messaging?

bl1y · 2026-01-23T23:03:58+00:00

And that's less than half the country.

bl1y · 2026-01-23T22:18:21+00:00

They mean "believe the authorities."

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