A cake produced for a same sex wedding will not be appreciably different from one produced for a hetero wedding. The act of simply creating the cake doesn’t violate their “religious beliefs”, only the possible future context of the cake is the actual sticking point.

Do you ever get the feeling that we must have all died at some point over the past three years and this is, well, hell?

We’re in the dumb money/ “irrational exuberance” phase of the bubble. The cynical bubble surfers are probably calculating their exit, and I imagine that the 10,000 mark could be the “symbolic” threshold which triggers the run.

I think you mean than Felming Begaye is the oldest living Navajo Code Talker, not the oldest living US WW2 vet and certainly not the oldest living WW2 vet.

“desire for an indentured caretaker in one’s old age”

The fog descends whenever this topic is broached.

Ok, but there are degrees of severity and not every “unwanted touch” is sexual assault.

I’ll admit that my little rant, after a number of beers, was not completely directed at the article or the author. I’ve lost a lot of respect for this site in the past couple of months. I find the “woke” olympics to be a bit much, and frankly a bit self-absorbed at times. This site is dedicated to manufacturing nice…

The author is appropriating “fat narratives” and assumes that anyone who may be overweight (according to our normative language games) must by default be unconcerned by “calories”, reinforcing the notion that anyone overweight must necessarily be “out of control”, “unhealthy”, and cannot assume their own physical…

What if a trans person has ulterior motives?

Insulting? Maybe, but in a more or less meaningless way. It’s an “insult” that lacks the societal structure to truly be considered an “insult” in the same way as a racial slur.

Hmm...

She reminds me of “that” person who constantly goes around basically calling everyone “toxic” or a “hater” , without ever coming to the realization that they might be the problem. No, your “experience” is not reality or another equally valid “point of view.”

The “Blacks for Trump” guy (the one behind Trump) is probably mentally ill. Visit his site, the one he had on his shirt, www.gods2.com.

Pedophilia was more acceptable in the past than now, and for some reason people have concocted this selective memory illusion that it is some “modern” evil.

I don’t think so.

I mean, just own it at this point.

The only issue I have with the whole discourse around gender is the ease with which the the pro gender fluidity camp supports the idea that gender is purely a social construct while simultaneously making these quasi-genetic/“essential” arguments that a child’s gender identity is somehow fixed before hand (i.e: that…

That can’t really be done... The EU is not willing to ratchet up sanctions, and the member states are not even close to being on the same page. In the EU, certain large member states are less than favorable towards increased sanctions. Countries like France, Italy, and yes, even little old Greece, are not as receptive…

Yep, sounds pretty much spot on.