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originally posted by: rollanotherone
Isn't it THEIR business to run how they want? If your solution is for business's to rebuild their existing facilities, here's my solution. Adult diapers.
originally posted by: muzzleflash
a reply to: ReprobateRaccoon
The bathroom issue is not dire in any way shape or form. It's a fabrication by some interest in the media for reasons I cannot ascertain.
Prioritizing this over basic rights protections that affect 100% of the population is insane.
Imagine what could be done if we focused this mass public energy on rejuvenating the Bill of Rights protections which have eroded drastically.
I suppose I'm a Dreamer...
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: muzzleflash
Did you actually call the ACLU or are you assuming they're too busy to help you?
The point of my post was that nearly any average joe has tons of their rights n liberties violated in significant ways on a daily basis - and that no one cares.
Of course people care, you are making a huge assumption.
The media is the media. We let them slip through our fingers and now they're out of control.
It is such a long sordid story...
It sounds like you want to tell it, so go ahead unless that will damage your case.
originally posted by: muzzleflash
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: muzzleflash
Did you actually call the ACLU or are you assuming they're too busy to help you?
The point of my post was that nearly any average joe has tons of their rights n liberties violated in significant ways on a daily basis - and that no one cares.
Of course people care, you are making a huge assumption.
The media is the media. We let them slip through our fingers and now they're out of control.
It is such a long sordid story...
It sounds like you want to tell it, so go ahead unless that will damage your case.
I've spoken to then quite a bit. They are overloaded, and according to their email alerts, it appears they are fighting a lot of mostly politics driven battles.
Im not sure if writing some threads exposing everything will damage my cases in a court context. I haven't decided that. I do feel it'll damage me personally at this time and people around me that are involved.
I'm sorry I said I don't think anyone cares. I'm going through a lot of crap right now.
U2U me if you have other offtopic questions, I apologize for starting a drift.
originally posted by: luthier
originally posted by: muzzleflash
a reply to: ReprobateRaccoon
The bathroom issue is not dire in any way shape or form. It's a fabrication by some interest in the media for reasons I cannot ascertain.
Prioritizing this over basic rights protections that affect 100% of the population is insane.
Imagine what could be done if we focused this mass public energy on rejuvenating the Bill of Rights protections which have eroded drastically.
I suppose I'm a Dreamer...
It's an issue made by the religious right not the media. Nobody cared and it is a non issue until govenors started wasting time writing legislation to stop this from happening.
Where is your outrage over Govenors calling special sessions wasting taxpayer money on this? If it's a non issue that's where your anger should be placed.
originally posted by: muzzleflash
originally posted by: luthier
originally posted by: muzzleflash
a reply to: ReprobateRaccoon
The bathroom issue is not dire in any way shape or form. It's a fabrication by some interest in the media for reasons I cannot ascertain.
Prioritizing this over basic rights protections that affect 100% of the population is insane.
Imagine what could be done if we focused this mass public energy on rejuvenating the Bill of Rights protections which have eroded drastically.
I suppose I'm a Dreamer...
It's an issue made by the religious right not the media. Nobody cared and it is a non issue until govenors started wasting time writing legislation to stop this from happening.
Where is your outrage over Govenors calling special sessions wasting taxpayer money on this? If it's a non issue that's where your anger should be placed.
My outrage is devoted to three bills of attainder my government passed against Me personally this session. Im trying to begin my massive years long war against that but Im fighting a dozen other wars on every front in my life right now.
The governor stabbed me in the back after I totally thought he'd be honest and decent and reasonable. I made him aware of what's going on and expected his veto of the attainders but I gotta use the courts to overturn them now.
I feel like this restroom debate is an example of people being sheltered from the harsh realities of what's going on in govt, so they get worried about an incredibly minor issue as the real issues go ignored.
The ACLU is actually really really busy right now focused on politics oriented things, like lgbt.
the ACLU has long taken the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right.
originally posted by: neo96
Since the ACLU was brought up people.
THIS is their stances when it comes to INDIVIDUAL rights.
the ACLU has long taken the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right.
www.aclu.org...
Now since the majority of people are straight, and natural our collective RIGHTS supersede a transgenders individual rights.
Not my words the ACLU 'rationale'.
Given the reference to "a well regulated Militia" and "the security of a free State," the ACLU has long taken the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right
originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
Why does the Right always have this unseeming interest in other people's naughty bits?
Personally, I find it creepy.
originally posted by: neo96
originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
Why does the Right always have this unseeming interest in other people's naughty bits?
Personally, I find it creepy.
The right isn't the ones going around throwing private parts, and bedrooms, and bathroom rooms in everyones faces, and telling them they have no say in the matter,
By nature of 'democracy' they do.
The ACLU views rights as COLLECTIVE not as individual rights.
The second says the STATES have the RIGHT to form militias if they want.
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
What it means to be gender-fluid
www.cnn.com...
"There's this constant exchange going on. ... Identity is this weird thing that exists between us people. It's like this perception, thought space, between us and other people," they said.
Thomas Webb, 33, identifies as gender-fluid and feels masculine "two-thirds" of the time. Webb's gender-fluid expression alternates from masculine to feminine with how they dress, from suits to skirts.
I did not know this, that you can change genders on and off from day to day.
So how does that pertain to the bathroom issue?
hmmm
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
What it means to be gender-fluid
www.cnn.com...
"There's this constant exchange going on. ... Identity is this weird thing that exists between us people. It's like this perception, thought space, between us and other people," they said.
Thomas Webb, 33, identifies as gender-fluid and feels masculine "two-thirds" of the time. Webb's gender-fluid expression alternates from masculine to feminine with how they dress, from suits to skirts.
I did not know this, that you can change genders on and off from day to day.
So how does that pertain to the bathroom issue?
hmmm
Gender fluids are liek Bi sexuals..they cant make up their minds. why not just go ahead and pick a sex and be done with it. It irritates me when i see people lumped in with those of us who actually have a issue with our sex matching our gender.
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: TinfoilTP
So trying to ensure that trans people can use the bathroom comfortably is Marxist?
What's PC jail like anyway?
Making bathrooms safer for voyeurs, rapists and pedophiles, that is all your movement is doing.
You are making trans people less comfortable by adding more suspicion to the general public. You are doing them a disservice.
If that was the case then where were all the rapes, back in the 80's 90's 2000s by Transgenders? Oh thats right there werent any of note. ANYTHING public is not safe in reality.
No you are doing a dis service by automatically saying what will happen when clearly past statiscics dont reflect it.
I'll use the favorite phrase around here,
You still don't get it.
The transgenders are not the ones doing the raping, it's the rapists, pedophiles and voyeurs who will pretend to be transgender to get past the bathroom doors.
They will drive around in the dead of night with rape kits, stalk victims, use the internet to trick victims, what makes you think they won't take advantage of this opportunity created for them by the PC Nazis unlocking the bathroom doors for them?