Posted on 06/02/2023 9:05:46 AM PDT by Chainmail
I only belong to FR and sites even more “extreme” then FR so I would not know.
Almost all of my posts and comments are accepted on FB. What saddens me is that so many of my friends and family are cowed into silence when I post conservative articles and make conservative comments. I know and grew up with these people. They think like me, but are cowed into silence because social media is more important. I get loads of likes and comments when I post things about my kids and Alaska, but everyone gets scared when you take a stand.
Discu shadow bans. I have been perma banned now and don’t care. Say anything like “a woman will always be a woman and a man will always be a man” and you get banned. But I was shadow banned when I would point out anything related to HUnter Biden back when the story broke.
Ironic, huh?
I never even heard of pride month until this year. The LGBTs must be pushing it extra hard this year.
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Recognition
In June 1999, US President Bill Clinton declared “the anniversary of [the] Stonewall [riots] every June in America as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month”.[10] In 2011, President Barack Obama expanded the officially recognized Pride Month to include the whole of the LGBT community.[10][11] In 2017, however, Donald Trump declined to continue the federal recognition of Pride Month in the United States,[12] though he later recognized it in 2019 in a Tweet later used as a Presidential Proclamation.[13] After taking office in 2021, Joe Biden recognized Pride Month and vowed to push for LGBT rights in the United States,[14] despite previously voting against same-sex marriage and school education of LGBT topics in the Senate.[15]
That’s hilarious.
And it should not have been removed or drawn a demerit.
So many ‘lennials are very easily offended.
My ass stays off those sites.
One psychologist I heard said that a “new” idea to someone must be presented seven times before they even understand it.
My approach (which I use here a lot) is to give the links and let people look at it if they wish.
Over time I do it again and again in the relevant threads.
Once they understand what is in the link we can begin to have an intelligent conversation about it.
That is still no guarantee of agreement.
Sometimes people are just not ready to hear certain things—but a few years later they suddenly “get it”.
I heard the following poem on an old TV show rerun. It was spoken by a closeted gay, and Dickenson may have been lesbian. But- boy how the tables have turned now.
Much Madness is Divinest Sense
By Emily Dickinson
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
The ‘stimulus’ and ‘inflation reduction act’ were - in part - intended to fund dem activists (trannies, homos and marxists alike). blm was a distraction - a ‘crisis’ they took advantage of - to advance their agenda.
This thread is discussion of the effects of those paid activists and is, in part, why there is a labor shortage.
At a retirement site I was warned saying this was the 3rd time about mentioning liberals. No politics even though others were doing the same.
Yahoo regularly blocks comments. Always in favor of the liberals who are not liberal.
Disqus will block or shadow ban you depending on whose site.
Lucianne will block you for saying it is Friday.
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