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26 May 2019, 4:24 pm

Twilightprincess wrote:
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Get a woman pregnant and she and the government will own and control your body. Work or prison either way it’s theirs.

Yet feminism opposes giving men the same choice they want women to have.
That’s not equality.


That's a nice twisted way of looking at abortion and feminism. How exactly do you expect women to sympathize with your situation of having ASD if you won't support her autonomy over her own body? This is why bigmouth started this thread as I said back on page 1 because being conservative and being on the spectrum is oxymoronic and really like shooting yourself in the foot unless you're rich or a white nationalist or something because it does go against your material interests in many ways. I can go into why in a later post.

And in terms of your labeling most people here as "liberal" in fact you said everyone else. Well I'm not. I'm a Marxist and there are some others to the left of liberalism as Americans define it on WP too. As to the relative proportion of posters, I don't think you're right about that either. I see alot of conservative posts on this thread actually starting with the many you've posted and you're far from being alone or even few in number. You also have to make a distinction between liberal and progressive because they're quite different. Let alone leftist like me. I'll go more into that later.


Equality
the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.

Giving women the right to say I don’t want this baby and responsible it saying ,en don’t have that same right isn’t equality.
Feminism doesn’t equal women, most women aren’t feminism, a lot hate feminism. A lot don’t support abortions. So I’d rather be with a woman who’s nit a feminist and isn’t pro abortion. Semester there’s quite a lot of them to choose from.

No it isn’t I think being asd and liberal is shooting yourselves in the foot.
You saying conservatives are all rich or white nationalist is like so,done saying liberals are all Antifa.

You sew few non liberals who post a lot.but not a lot of different posters. Gun rights isn’t a conservative issue it’s a freedom issue. I’m a constitutionalist if anything. Leave the constitution and bill of rights alone and we won’t have any issues. What’s scary is that supporting the constitution, bill of rights and laws is seen as conservative and horrible thing by so many people.


I don’t think you fully understand what “feminism” is. It’s the desire for equality. There are extremists, but that doesn’t reflect the majority of feminists.

When someone says that they don’t like “feminism,” it’s puzzling to me, unless you’re in some fundamentalist group. I have lots of experience with those and have heard “feminism” repeatedly bashed based on religious grounds.

One can say that one wants equal rights for both sexes, but due to inequality based on gender that still persists in a variety of realms, a word that reflects women’s struggle in this area makes a lot of sense.

Feminism is the empowerment of women solely, it’s not about equality, there’s other movements that fight for equality for all nit just women. The organization leadership is all extremists. It’d be like me being part of a group ran by kkk Menes and claiming they for equality.

Feminism =/= women
Feminism =/=equality
Feminism doesn’t support male issues only female issues
Feminism opposes any men’s issue organizations
Feminism opposes egalitarianism
Feminism attacks anyone who doesn’t subscribe to them
It sure sounds like a extremist group to me. A true equality for all group wouldn’t attack people who don’t follow it, sure sounds like convert or die to me.


If you experienced life as a woman, you might think differently. In a different thread, you complained about the inequality as fair as your dress code is concerned at work. That is not in any way close to the real issues I’ve had to face based on my gender alone. This outlook is just so puzzling to me.

Feminists are not a homogeneous group. There’s lots of diverse viewpoints and perspectives. I’ve known several men who have openly professed to being feminists. It is about women’s rights because in various ways we still don’t have the same rights as men.

There’s also a fair amount of focus on women’s issues (like female health, unhealthy beliefs and messages we’ve been socialized to adhere to, and how we’re depicted and limited by various social institutions). These are really important topics. How could feminism (not radicalism) be a bad thing? It’s usually empowering.


Slot of women feel same as I do, what’s your excuse now?


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26 May 2019, 4:28 pm

sly279 wrote:
Twilightprincess wrote:
sly279 wrote:
Twilightprincess wrote:
sly279 wrote:
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Get a woman pregnant and she and the government will own and control your body. Work or prison either way it’s theirs.

Yet feminism opposes giving men the same choice they want women to have.
That’s not equality.


That's a nice twisted way of looking at abortion and feminism. How exactly do you expect women to sympathize with your situation of having ASD if you won't support her autonomy over her own body? This is why bigmouth started this thread as I said back on page 1 because being conservative and being on the spectrum is oxymoronic and really like shooting yourself in the foot unless you're rich or a white nationalist or something because it does go against your material interests in many ways. I can go into why in a later post.

And in terms of your labeling most people here as "liberal" in fact you said everyone else. Well I'm not. I'm a Marxist and there are some others to the left of liberalism as Americans define it on WP too. As to the relative proportion of posters, I don't think you're right about that either. I see alot of conservative posts on this thread actually starting with the many you've posted and you're far from being alone or even few in number. You also have to make a distinction between liberal and progressive because they're quite different. Let alone leftist like me. I'll go more into that later.


Equality
the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.

Giving women the right to say I don’t want this baby and responsible it saying ,en don’t have that same right isn’t equality.
Feminism doesn’t equal women, most women aren’t feminism, a lot hate feminism. A lot don’t support abortions. So I’d rather be with a woman who’s nit a feminist and isn’t pro abortion. Semester there’s quite a lot of them to choose from.

No it isn’t I think being asd and liberal is shooting yourselves in the foot.
You saying conservatives are all rich or white nationalist is like so,done saying liberals are all Antifa.

You sew few non liberals who post a lot.but not a lot of different posters. Gun rights isn’t a conservative issue it’s a freedom issue. I’m a constitutionalist if anything. Leave the constitution and bill of rights alone and we won’t have any issues. What’s scary is that supporting the constitution, bill of rights and laws is seen as conservative and horrible thing by so many people.


I don’t think you fully understand what “feminism” is. It’s the desire for equality. There are extremists, but that doesn’t reflect the majority of feminists.

When someone says that they don’t like “feminism,” it’s puzzling to me, unless you’re in some fundamentalist group. I have lots of experience with those and have heard “feminism” repeatedly bashed based on religious grounds.

One can say that one wants equal rights for both sexes, but due to inequality based on gender that still persists in a variety of realms, a word that reflects women’s struggle in this area makes a lot of sense.

Feminism is the empowerment of women solely, it’s not about equality, there’s other movements that fight for equality for all nit just women. The organization leadership is all extremists. It’d be like me being part of a group ran by kkk Menes and claiming they for equality.

Feminism =/= women
Feminism =/=equality
Feminism doesn’t support male issues only female issues
Feminism opposes any men’s issue organizations
Feminism opposes egalitarianism
Feminism attacks anyone who doesn’t subscribe to them
It sure sounds like a extremist group to me. A true equality for all group wouldn’t attack people who don’t follow it, sure sounds like convert or die to me.


If you experienced life as a woman, you might think differently. In a different thread, you complained about the inequality as fair as your dress code is concerned at work. That is not in any way close to the real issues I’ve had to face based on my gender alone. This outlook is just so puzzling to me.

Feminists are not a homogeneous group. There’s lots of diverse viewpoints and perspectives. I’ve known several men who have openly professed to being feminists. It is about women’s rights because in various ways we still don’t have the same rights as men.

There’s also a fair amount of focus on women’s issues (like female health, unhealthy beliefs and messages we’ve been socialized to adhere to, and how we’re depicted and limited by various social institutions). These are really important topics. How could feminism (not radicalism) be a bad thing? It’s usually empowering.


Slot of women feel same as I do, what’s your excuse now?


Since the definition of feminism is the belief that women deserve equal rights, when you say that you aren’t a feminist, you are actually saying that you don’t believe women deserve equal rights.



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26 May 2019, 4:30 pm

Mona Pereth wrote:
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Get a woman pregnant and she and the government will own and control your body. Work or prison either way it’s theirs.

This sounds like you think you should be allowed to get a woman pregnant without any consequences to you, but only to the woman. Is that what you meant? If not, please clarify.

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Yet feminism opposes giving men the same choice they want women to have.
That’s not equality.

Pregnancy is one of the few gender-related situations that is inherently VERY unequal. Obviously it affects the woman's body a whole lot more than it affects the man's body, unless the law compensates for this in some way.


My body my choice. I don’t want a kid I should be able to get a abortion aka not be responsible for it. Takes too to make a baby, why are you in favor of only giving the woman an out? She shouldn’t have to have a baby that she doesn’t want. Why the f**k should the man then! Or do you think women are incapable of being responsible?
This policy treats women as weak, naive victims.

If I got a woman pregnant she can just be like nope didn’t want this it was a mistake got an abortion don’t have to deal with it
But if I say same she say nope you have to deal with and the government going lock you up, women get choices men don’t deal with it.
Maybe I should support banning abortions, tell women they don’t get w choice deal with it.

The man goes to prison or works slave labors in my cause I don’t work I’d go to prison, be bears raped, stabbed. Yep pregnancy s so horrible compared

Look if you want equal then you’d give both genders an equal out of the responsibility of their mistake not just one.

Why does the woman get to avoid the consequences of her mistake?
Or are you a feminist who says all sex is rape cause that’s what it sounds like you’re saying.
Both people choose to have sex she got pregnant. Either both have an out option or neither do, she Carrie the baby no choice and he has to pay for it no choice.


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26 May 2019, 4:40 pm

Twilightprincess wrote:
sly279 wrote:
Twilightprincess wrote:
sly279 wrote:
Twilightprincess wrote:
sly279 wrote:
breaks0 wrote:
sly279 wrote:
Get a woman pregnant and she and the government will own and control your body. Work or prison either way it’s theirs.

Yet feminism opposes giving men the same choice they want women to have.
That’s not equality.


That's a nice twisted way of looking at abortion and feminism. How exactly do you expect women to sympathize with your situation of having ASD if you won't support her autonomy over her own body? This is why bigmouth started this thread as I said back on page 1 because being conservative and being on the spectrum is oxymoronic and really like shooting yourself in the foot unless you're rich or a white nationalist or something because it does go against your material interests in many ways. I can go into why in a later post.

And in terms of your labeling most people here as "liberal" in fact you said everyone else. Well I'm not. I'm a Marxist and there are some others to the left of liberalism as Americans define it on WP too. As to the relative proportion of posters, I don't think you're right about that either. I see alot of conservative posts on this thread actually starting with the many you've posted and you're far from being alone or even few in number. You also have to make a distinction between liberal and progressive because they're quite different. Let alone leftist like me. I'll go more into that later.


Equality
the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.

Giving women the right to say I don’t want this baby and responsible it saying ,en don’t have that same right isn’t equality.
Feminism doesn’t equal women, most women aren’t feminism, a lot hate feminism. A lot don’t support abortions. So I’d rather be with a woman who’s nit a feminist and isn’t pro abortion. Semester there’s quite a lot of them to choose from.

No it isn’t I think being asd and liberal is shooting yourselves in the foot.
You saying conservatives are all rich or white nationalist is like so,done saying liberals are all Antifa.

You sew few non liberals who post a lot.but not a lot of different posters. Gun rights isn’t a conservative issue it’s a freedom issue. I’m a constitutionalist if anything. Leave the constitution and bill of rights alone and we won’t have any issues. What’s scary is that supporting the constitution, bill of rights and laws is seen as conservative and horrible thing by so many people.


I don’t think you fully understand what “feminism” is. It’s the desire for equality. There are extremists, but that doesn’t reflect the majority of feminists.

When someone says that they don’t like “feminism,” it’s puzzling to me, unless you’re in some fundamentalist group. I have lots of experience with those and have heard “feminism” repeatedly bashed based on religious grounds.

One can say that one wants equal rights for both sexes, but due to inequality based on gender that still persists in a variety of realms, a word that reflects women’s struggle in this area makes a lot of sense.

Feminism is the empowerment of women solely, it’s not about equality, there’s other movements that fight for equality for all nit just women. The organization leadership is all extremists. It’d be like me being part of a group ran by kkk Menes and claiming they for equality.

Feminism =/= women
Feminism =/=equality
Feminism doesn’t support male issues only female issues
Feminism opposes any men’s issue organizations
Feminism opposes egalitarianism
Feminism attacks anyone who doesn’t subscribe to them
It sure sounds like a extremist group to me. A true equality for all group wouldn’t attack people who don’t follow it, sure sounds like convert or die to me.


If you experienced life as a woman, you might think differently. In a different thread, you complained about the inequality as fair as your dress code is concerned at work. That is not in any way close to the real issues I’ve had to face based on my gender alone. This outlook is just so puzzling to me.

Feminists are not a homogeneous group. There’s lots of diverse viewpoints and perspectives. I’ve known several men who have openly professed to being feminists. It is about women’s rights because in various ways we still don’t have the same rights as men.

There’s also a fair amount of focus on women’s issues (like female health, unhealthy beliefs and messages we’ve been socialized to adhere to, and how we’re depicted and limited by various social institutions). These are really important topics. How could feminism (not radicalism) be a bad thing? It’s usually empowering.


Slot of women feel same as I do, what’s your excuse now?


Since the definition of feminism is the belief that women deserve equal rights, when you say that you aren’t a feminist, you are actually saying that you don’t believe women deserve equal rights.


Nazis didn’t define them as evil genocidal dictators either,
Assault weapon is a made up definition with no base in reality.
So I don’t care thwt feminist got enough money and connections to get definition to be whatever they want, they are nit for equality they are just for empowering women, they don’t care about a single male issue. They see men as the enemy who has everything going for the, the The patriarcchy thwt ever last single man is apart of I’m a secrete millionaire who’s controlling the world. I just pretend to be a worthless sub human to keep my cover,

This is last I’m going to reply to you if you keep pushing this convert or die, feminist =women nonsenses, you do not have to be a feminist to support equality, if you’re a woman you don’t have to be a feminist. Maybe that’s why feminist love Muslims even though they are the worse for mistreating women, cause both groups have a convert or die stance. I will never be a man hating feminist, wage gape is lie, pink tax is a lie, a man spreading his legs or having the ac on isn’t a misogynistic woman hater. Men not wanting to have kids aren’t women abusers.

If you can’t accwpt not everyone is going be a f*****g feminist and want to hate them for it then we have nothing else to say to each other. Only around 30% of women consider themselves a feminist ,you’re a minority deal with it. Hating others for not being a feminist will never bring equality though


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26 May 2019, 4:46 pm

sly279 wrote:
Twilightprincess wrote:
sly279 wrote:
Twilightprincess wrote:
sly279 wrote:
Twilightprincess wrote:
sly279 wrote:
breaks0 wrote:
sly279 wrote:
Get a woman pregnant and she and the government will own and control your body. Work or prison either way it’s theirs.

Yet feminism opposes giving men the same choice they want women to have.
That’s not equality.


That's a nice twisted way of looking at abortion and feminism. How exactly do you expect women to sympathize with your situation of having ASD if you won't support her autonomy over her own body? This is why bigmouth started this thread as I said back on page 1 because being conservative and being on the spectrum is oxymoronic and really like shooting yourself in the foot unless you're rich or a white nationalist or something because it does go against your material interests in many ways. I can go into why in a later post.

And in terms of your labeling most people here as "liberal" in fact you said everyone else. Well I'm not. I'm a Marxist and there are some others to the left of liberalism as Americans define it on WP too. As to the relative proportion of posters, I don't think you're right about that either. I see alot of conservative posts on this thread actually starting with the many you've posted and you're far from being alone or even few in number. You also have to make a distinction between liberal and progressive because they're quite different. Let alone leftist like me. I'll go more into that later.


Equality
the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.

Giving women the right to say I don’t want this baby and responsible it saying ,en don’t have that same right isn’t equality.
Feminism doesn’t equal women, most women aren’t feminism, a lot hate feminism. A lot don’t support abortions. So I’d rather be with a woman who’s nit a feminist and isn’t pro abortion. Semester there’s quite a lot of them to choose from.

No it isn’t I think being asd and liberal is shooting yourselves in the foot.
You saying conservatives are all rich or white nationalist is like so,done saying liberals are all Antifa.

You sew few non liberals who post a lot.but not a lot of different posters. Gun rights isn’t a conservative issue it’s a freedom issue. I’m a constitutionalist if anything. Leave the constitution and bill of rights alone and we won’t have any issues. What’s scary is that supporting the constitution, bill of rights and laws is seen as conservative and horrible thing by so many people.


I don’t think you fully understand what “feminism” is. It’s the desire for equality. There are extremists, but that doesn’t reflect the majority of feminists.

When someone says that they don’t like “feminism,” it’s puzzling to me, unless you’re in some fundamentalist group. I have lots of experience with those and have heard “feminism” repeatedly bashed based on religious grounds.

One can say that one wants equal rights for both sexes, but due to inequality based on gender that still persists in a variety of realms, a word that reflects women’s struggle in this area makes a lot of sense.

Feminism is the empowerment of women solely, it’s not about equality, there’s other movements that fight for equality for all nit just women. The organization leadership is all extremists. It’d be like me being part of a group ran by kkk Menes and claiming they for equality.

Feminism =/= women
Feminism =/=equality
Feminism doesn’t support male issues only female issues
Feminism opposes any men’s issue organizations
Feminism opposes egalitarianism
Feminism attacks anyone who doesn’t subscribe to them
It sure sounds like a extremist group to me. A true equality for all group wouldn’t attack people who don’t follow it, sure sounds like convert or die to me.


If you experienced life as a woman, you might think differently. In a different thread, you complained about the inequality as fair as your dress code is concerned at work. That is not in any way close to the real issues I’ve had to face based on my gender alone. This outlook is just so puzzling to me.

Feminists are not a homogeneous group. There’s lots of diverse viewpoints and perspectives. I’ve known several men who have openly professed to being feminists. It is about women’s rights because in various ways we still don’t have the same rights as men.

There’s also a fair amount of focus on women’s issues (like female health, unhealthy beliefs and messages we’ve been socialized to adhere to, and how we’re depicted and limited by various social institutions). These are really important topics. How could feminism (not radicalism) be a bad thing? It’s usually empowering.


Slot of women feel same as I do, what’s your excuse now?


Since the definition of feminism is the belief that women deserve equal rights, when you say that you aren’t a feminist, you are actually saying that you don’t believe women deserve equal rights.


Nazis didn’t define them as evil genocidal dictators either,
Assault weapon is a made up definition with no base in reality.
So I don’t care thwt feminist got enough money and connections to get definition to be whatever they want, they are nit for equality they are just for empowering women, they don’t care about a single male issue. They see men as the enemy who has everything going for the, the The patriarcchy thwt ever last single man is apart of I’m a secrete millionaire who’s controlling the world. I just pretend to be a worthless sub human to keep my cover,

This is last I’m going to reply to you if you keep pushing this convert or die, feminist =women nonsenses, you do not have to be a feminist to support equality, if you’re a woman you don’t have to be a feminist. Maybe that’s why feminist love Muslims even though they are the worse for mistreating women, cause both groups have a convert or die stance. I will never be a man hating feminist, wage gape is lie, pink tax is a lie, a man spreading his legs or having the ac on isn’t a misogynistic woman hater. Men not wanting to have kids aren’t women abusers.

If you can’t accwpt not everyone is going be a f*****g feminist and want to hate them for it then we have nothing else to say to each other. Only around 30% of women consider themselves a feminist ,you’re a minority deal with it. Hating others for not being a feminist will never bring equality though


You are taking what I’ve said way of proportion. I don’t hate anyone.

Comparing feminists to Nazis is absurd. Few feminists are radical. Most of us are peacefully pushing for positive changes.

More women would be feminists if they understood what the word means. Knowledge is a good thing.



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Comparing feminists to Nazis is absurd. Few feminists are radical. Most of us are peacefully pushing for positive changes.


Almost as absurd as saying if you are not a feminist you don't believe women deserve equal rights.


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Comparing feminists to Nazis is absurd. Few feminists are radical. Most of us are peacefully pushing for positive changes.


Almost as absurd as saying if you are not a feminist you don't believe women deserve equal rights.


According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, feminism is “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.”

People who aren’t feminists either have a misconception about what the word means (as is the case here) or they are bigots.



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Without feminism, women wouldn’t have the right to vote as well as various laws to protect them from abuse.

Comparing such a positive movement to Nazism is extremely distasteful.



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Magna wrote:
I know you're asking for specifics, but I'll preface by saying that generally, "conservatives" have favored less government and an emphasis on individual freedom whereas generally "liberals" have favored more government and more regulation of individual freedom "for the good of the people" as a whole.

That's an overgeneralization. For example, the ACLU generally considered to be a "liberal" organization.

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Specifics:

At my local rural level. I grew up in this area and moved back here after living in an urban area for approximately 15 years. Traditionally this rural area was "conservative" in that neighbors got along without volumes of regulations, ordinances, etc. It has turned in the last 20 years, coincidentally the time that urban people started moving out here. The leadership's main goal is to increase regulations to the point that recently it was suggested by leadership that land owners should have to get advance permission to cut even a single tree down on their own property and the leadership would decide on approval or denial in advance. The reason given by leadership at the meeting that I attended personally was that trees were a community asset ("I like that tree on my neighbor's property and therefore she should not be allowed to cut it down"). Thankfully, this proposal was preposterous to most of the residents and was resoundingly rejected.

Property regulations are not necessarily "liberal" or "leftist" in motive or in terms of who supports them. Zoning laws, for example, often have an essentially conservative motive, e.g. to preserve the "character" of a neighborhood for the purpose of maintaining property values. Often the goal is to maintain a low population density, e.g. by restricting the number of families that a house can be build for. That's definitely not a "liberal" impulse.

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I posted quite some time ago about how "Environmentalism" and "Climate Change fka Global Warming" is the perfect means for controlling the behavior of humanity and in nearly every aspect of their lives. It's perfect because the "umbrella" of such a concept is so broad it defies definition and therefore control and regulation is cloaked under that broad umbrella.

So you think there shouldn't be any environmental regulation???

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Incandescent light bulbs are bad and are banned. Fluorescent bulbs are better because they use less energy. However, when incandescent bulbs would break, it wasn't a health emergency as it is with a fluorescent bulb breaking due to the mercury gasses that emanate. I hate fluorescent bulbs for that reason. Prior to LED lights coming onto the scene people were being forced to use mercury containing fluorescent bulbs. No.

Well it's good we now have LED lights.

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Taxes. Governmental bureaucracy, bloat and waste at the federal, state and even local levels is a huge problem for me, Mona. I will not accept at face value the mantra of: "Higher taxes are good because they go to help those that need help. You do want those less fortunate or who can't help themselves to be able to be taken care of, don't you?" The idea of that tenet is good. However, taking it at face value and without question is unacceptable to me and always will be if there is no continuous accountability. And there is no accountability, Mona. Not at the federal, state or even local level. Case in point: The local public school system. It's a running dark and sad joke because the argument for as long as I can remember is: "We need more money to fix the schools. Just give us $XX,XXX,XXX and everything will be fixed...................Ok, um, now we REALLY know how to fix the schools so give us $XXX,XXX,XXX and will REALLY fix it this time..............Ok, um.. All the while the school administration grows to an astonishing level of excess.

Agreed that there should be more government accountability. How do you propose making government more accountable?

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Incidentally, I don't like the labels of "liberal" or "conservative" because as others have stated, things aren't so cut and dried. However, it's a belief among some "liberals" that home schooling should be outlawed. Again, favoring government over individual freedom. I don't agree with that at all.

I don't favor outlawing home schooling. I do think there need to be (as I believe there already are) some standards to ensure that home-schooled children are not being shortchanged in terms of their education.

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And a push for such a thing makes me think the agenda must be indoctrination. What other reason would there be?

Two other reasons I can think of offhand:

1) Teachers fearing economic displacement.

2) SOME of the leading home-school proponents happen also to be Christian Reconstructionists whose ultimate longterm aim is to impose theocracy a.k.a. "Theonomy."

Magna wrote:
While generations ago, the idea that "conservatives" = capitalism =greed=pollute the earth for profit may have had some truth to it, the lines aren't cut and dried any longer. Are Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and so many others "conservative" companies? No. Do they eschew profit at the expense of the environment, people, fair labor? No.

They are socially "liberal" but, indeed, otherwise old-fashioned mega-capitalists with all the nasty implications thereof.

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I also think we have to be extremely cautious as a society when we talk about regulating speech and ideas. Again, under the auspice of "hate speech" being bad, allowing unquestioned rule making in that regard has potential for being a tool of control and oppression with real consequences.

Indeed the government should not regulate speech. This doesn't mean "hate speech" should be SOCIALLY acceptable, however.

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I don't know how you feel, Mona, but ever since I was a child, many people from teachers, learning institutions, etc have tried to tell me (with little to no success, thankfully) that my way of thinking was wrong, shameful, etc and that I should instead think like other people do.

What are some examples of ideas you have expressed that you have often been told were wrong and shameful?

Anyhow, freedom of speech means that you have the right to express your ideas, but other people have the right to express their ideas too, possibly by disagreeing or disapproving of yours.

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Never. Never. Never. Ultimately the last and most important freedom any person has is their freedom to think and express ideas. I think that freedom should be held most dear.

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26 May 2019, 5:26 pm

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Comparing feminists to Nazis is absurd. Few feminists are radical. Most of us are peacefully pushing for positive changes.


Almost as absurd as saying if you are not a feminist you don't believe women deserve equal rights.


According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, feminism is “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.”

People who aren’t feminists either have a misconception about what the word means (as is the case here) or they are bigots.


Also according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary feminism is "organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests"

I'm more of an egalitarian but that makes me a bigot in your eyes , it's cool though , I've been called much worse.


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Comparing feminists to Nazis is absurd. Few feminists are radical. Most of us are peacefully pushing for positive changes.


Almost as absurd as saying if you are not a feminist you don't believe women deserve equal rights.


According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, feminism is “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.”

People who aren’t feminists either have a misconception about what the word means (as is the case here) or they are bigots.


Also according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary feminism is "organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests"

I'm more of an egalitarian but that makes me a bigot in your eyes , it's cool though , I've been called much worse.


That’s the second definition. I was stating the first.

If you believe that both genders deserve equal rights, you’re technically a feminist whether you want to be one or not.



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Yeah, we all know how bad “organized activity” on behalf of women can be. Bringing awareness to issues like sexual assault, domestic violence, or sexual harassment certainly can’t be a good thing.



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Note it’s conservatives who do land conservation and spend millions caring for the land and animals. I haven’t met w single conservative who wants to pollute the water or land, they all against it,

Well, they SHOULD be, if the word "conservative" is to be taken at its literal meaning, they should favor conservation. In reality, however, too many conservatives have simply opposed all environmental regulation rather than, say, proposing less intrusive forms of regulation.

Here is an article by a conservative environmentalist -- note that the author admits that "Much of the conservative movement has erred on the side of emphasizing economic growth while ignoring the extent of our environmental problems. To protect the economy, we conservatives have fought the environmental movement step by step, and we have lost step by step. I can tell you why. It is because environmentalists have had the moral high ground, even though they have not provided the most beneficial solutions."

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they hate corporations like Walmart thwt do it, and surprise surprise Walmart is liberal donates highly to liberal causes

Where do you get your info that Walmart donates highly to liberal causes? See Walmart PAC, Walton Family Political Contributions Favor Conservatives: Report.


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Yeah, we all know how bad “organized activity” on behalf of women can be. Bringing awareness to issues like sexual assault, domestic violence, or sexual harassment certainly can’t be a good thing.


I don't see how your sarcastic Strawman fallacies are helping you prove your point

I am not a feminist - I don't need a dictionary to tell me this ( definitions differ )

The OEM states that feminism is

The advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.


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Note it’s conservatives who do land conservation and spend millions caring for the land and animals. I haven’t met w single conservative who wants to pollute the water or land, they all against it,

Well, they SHOULD be, if the word "conservative" is to be taken at its literal meaning, they should favor conservation. In reality, however, too many conservatives have simply opposed all environmental regulation rather than, say, proposing less intrusive forms of regulation.

Here is an article by a conservative environmentalist -- note that the author admits that "Much of the conservative movement has erred on the side of emphasizing economic growth while ignoring the extent of our environmental problems. To protect the economy, we conservatives have fought the environmental movement step by step, and we have lost step by step. I can tell you why. It is because environmentalists have had the moral high ground, even though they have not provided the most beneficial solutions."

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they hate corporations like Walmart thwt do it, and surprise surprise Walmart is liberal donates highly to liberal causes

Where do you get your info that Walmart donates highly to liberal causes? See Walmart PAC, Walton Family Political Contributions Favor Conservatives: Report.


Opposing regulation doesn’t mean they want to pollute the environment it just means they actually read the laws.
Do you spend the time to read all way through lawsa? I do and they mostly horrible, you can’t trust titles or summaries . Don’t judge a book by its cover.

They don’t to completely kill off all businesses like left does. That’s why they oppose certain regulations as it’ll kill businesses and kill the economy. And when people are homies and starving to death being told it’s for the best of the earth won’t help them.

Walmart donates heavy to mothers demand action, new town for gun safter, Bloomberg, etc republicans hate Walmart and a lot of them won’t step foot in one.


What it’s less-known for, however, its unabashed support for the liberal agenda. 2ndVote’s research shows that Walmart supports left-wing causes on life, the Second Amendment, marriage, religious liberty, education, immigration, and the environment.

For just a few examples: Walmart supports the Environmental Defense Fund, which backs cap-and-trade. Walmart refuses to sell firearms or ammunition to customers under the age of 21, contributes to and partners with a host of groups which oppose your values on marriage and religious liberty, and funds the pro-abortion YWCA. Its donations to the liberal Center for American Progress and the National Urban League back both Common Core and removing your Second Amendment rights. Finally, Walmart is on the Corporate Board of Advisers for UnidosUS, the sanctuary city advocates formerly known as La Raza.

Walmart also recently partnered with several other liberal corporations for a Get-Out-The-Vote effort in the 2018 midterm elections. We covered this sleight-of-hand effort to push left-wing values on an unsuspecting nation.

I don’t like either side, they both are horrible but pretrwying one as good and our savior and other as the devil and evil is just wrong. Republicans and conservatives aren’t evil villains


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I would be fine with it if men could get a "financial abortion," providing that such an action would permanently terminate any and all parental rights of the father.

Under what kinds of circumstances do you think a man should be allowed to do this? I'm having trouble thinking of how to implement this idea in a way that would be even remotely fair to the woman.

For example, do you think there should at least be a requirement of timely notification during early pregnancy while the woman can still get an abortion with minimum hassle (assuming she can indeed get one)? If not, then there will be lots of situations where a woman allows herself to continue a pregnancy while under the impression that the man will help support the child, only to have the man back out when it's too late.

In any case there also needs to be SOME strong deterrent against men having unprotected sex with women of child-bearing age when they are not interested in being fathers. Don't forget that pregnancy, per se, obviously has a much bigger effect on the woman's body than on the man's body.

Consensual sex takes two willing participants. The idea that if a man and a woman have sex and the woman gets pregnant, it's somehow solely the man's fault and responsibility is frankly ridicurious, and denies the woman her share of personal responsibility for the situation, as if it just happened to her rather than her being an active participant in the act. Not sure if that's what you're getting at, but anyway.

Men already have less choice than the woman in that if the woman decides she wants an abortion and the man wants to be a father, tough luck. And if the woman wants to have the child and the man doesn't, he's put on the hook financially for 18 years and if he doesn't pay then he gets in trouble with the law. The man shouldn't be subject to all the negatives of a decision to have sex that was mutually made. I wouldn't suggest that men have the right to force a woman to abort or carry to term, but it's not fair to expect men to always have it rough if they should disagree with the decision of the mother. It's not fair for women to hold all the cards.

So a "financial abortion" would work similarly to a real abortion in that the man relinquishes parental rights permanently with no prospect of getting them back, he has no financial obligations to the mother or child and his name wouldn't appear on the birth certificate. He'd have to make it clear that he would be relinquishing parental rights to the prospective mother with enough time for her to get an abortion should she choose to do so knowing that he isn't going to provide.