Somehow I missed this.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 11, 2022:

Looks like he did no real damage and scored no hits on the royals, but he will get a short jail sentence and a fine, no doubt, anyway...Too bad he was in the UK, instead of America, where this kind of free speech, if you're a right winger, is protected from any real punishment.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 12, 2022:

@Buck Wow, aren't we hostile, Buck? As far as I'm concerned, you conservative or Libertarian asshole, you can STFU or block me, I don't give a fuck...Buck...

Cats have 9 lives. You are not a cat...

p-nullifidian comments on Nov 12, 2022:

I seem to remember a recent incident involving an attorney insisting he was not a cat to the judge during a Zoom meeting. 😂

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 12, 2022:

Sounds like there may have been some ? of the attorney's competency?

Somehow I missed this.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 11, 2022:

Looks like he did no real damage and scored no hits on the royals, but he will get a short jail sentence and a fine, no doubt, anyway...Too bad he was in the UK, instead of America, where this kind of free speech, if you're a right winger, is protected from any real punishment.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 12, 2022:

@Buck They have in the past if they assaulted or even murdered a person on the left...

Somehow I missed this.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 11, 2022:

Looks like he did no real damage and scored no hits on the royals, but he will get a short jail sentence and a fine, no doubt, anyway...Too bad he was in the UK, instead of America, where this kind of free speech, if you're a right winger, is protected from any real punishment.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 12, 2022:

@Buck I agree he would have been charged here too, but only because he was a left winger. We both know that here, right wingers can get away with anything.

Remembering my good sister

twill comments on Nov 11, 2022:

She looks just like you, minus the massive jugs

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 12, 2022:

Sorry, but her face and head don't look real, more like a CGI.. For all I know, the rest could be that too...

Remembering my good sister

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 11, 2022:

Are you implying she is dead?

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 12, 2022:

@Avva Well, that's good..

Has anybody else noticed any changes in the trends as far as online dating?

racocn8 comments on Nov 9, 2022:

30 some years ago, I went to a Halloween party for singles at one of the member's house. When I got there, I saw about 15 men and NO women. After an hour, one lady showed up, but after seeing the extreme imbalance, she left about 20 minutes later (basically, as soon as she could manage an exit).

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 10, 2022:

@racocn8 That's a whole new, disgusting version of the term "rat race". Very good analogy for the dating and mating game with many humans. While there is plenty of bad behavior by women in the dating game, such as lying, manipulation, gold-digging, etc., there are also plenty of men who are just out there in the game for the ego trip and scoring as many conquests as they can, etc. But they tend to be a relatively small % of men, because most women will only sleep with them if they have a lot of money or are 8s or 9s in looks. And not that big a % of men fall into either group, compared to how many women of any level of looks, are capable of the bad behaviors I listed above. So there is little evidence to support men as being worse or more commonly, badly behaved in the dating and mating game.

Has anybody else noticed any changes in the trends as far as online dating?

MichelleGar1 comments on Nov 9, 2022:

I could only take 5 minutes or less from the dating option on Facebook, it was too scary for me and overwhelming!

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 10, 2022:

@MichelleGar1 Well, for me Zoosk is a shitshow because of the tech level and tech savvy they require, but I've heard Match and the others have just as much of the bullshit and bad behavior by both genders of members on the sites. As far as online dating being harder than organic, offline meeting of compatible singles, I would say yes and no about it. Organic offline dating may offer more protection against safety risks, esp. for women, than online dating, but even still, some people can fool even your friends and acquaintances from being able to effectively screen for you who is compatible or even safe and sane, if the person is a charming, smooth sociopath. As far as online dating, the difficulty in that, esp. for men, who have way more competition than most women on dating sites, at least in the US, is that in organic dating, meeting singles offline thru social networks or events, a person only has to meet the other single person's basic, minimum standards of compatibility, and vice versa. In online dating, each person must not only meet those for the other person, but they must also "win" or be chosen, against all the other competition on the dating site at that time, in order for them to actually get to begin dating and keep dating the other person steadily. In other words, with online dating, being compatible, but not the top prospect, is close, but not good enough, in that game...

Has anybody else noticed any changes in the trends as far as online dating?

racocn8 comments on Nov 9, 2022:

30 some years ago, I went to a Halloween party for singles at one of the member's house. When I got there, I saw about 15 men and NO women. After an hour, one lady showed up, but after seeing the extreme imbalance, she left about 20 minutes later (basically, as soon as she could manage an exit).

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 9, 2022:

@racocn8 It is ridiculous, and very humiliating, at least for the men, if not for some of the women, being so openly "fought over" by the men there. But then again, there were no doubt some women who got off on it and enjoyed an ego trip by being competed for and having so much male attention. I have long thought that this sort of thing also goes on with online dating, that there are some women with insecure egos and a huge appetite for male attention and ego strokes, that go on dating sites, with no real interest or desire to actually date or find a partner, but just to soak in all the male attention and interest from men messaging them and maybe even meeting them, but then not end up dating any of them, just wanting to feel wanted and desireable. So before I get the usual bashing about how there must be men doing the same thing, I will make the usual, obvious unneeded disclaimer: It goes both ways, we all know that. But I will also say that it's also pretty clear that this likely happens way more often by women on dating sites than by men, if for no other reason that on dating sites, men do almost all the sending of first messages and the pursuing, while women sit back and let the men message them first. So it makes no logical sense that a man would bother to put in all that work, time and effort to message tons of women, just to get some ego stroke and attention. And if they did, they would need lots of free time, that could probably be used way more efficiently by just going to the gym or some public place, to get some quick female attention from the women admiring their looks.

Has anybody else noticed any changes in the trends as far as online dating?

racocn8 comments on Nov 9, 2022:

30 some years ago, I went to a Halloween party for singles at one of the member's house. When I got there, I saw about 15 men and NO women. After an hour, one lady showed up, but after seeing the extreme imbalance, she left about 20 minutes later (basically, as soon as she could manage an exit).

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 9, 2022:

Another thing, Howard, about five years ago, right after my late wife died, when I was finally in a position to start dating again, the local Unitarian church's singles group, which would have been the logical best place for me to start finding compatible women to date, disbanded. Talk about lousy timing for me! But it wouldn't have helped me anyway, as I found out from the woman my age who was single and the leader of the group. She told me the reason it disbanded is because it was almost all men by that time and that, in my age group of women that were members of the group, 50 to 70 years old or so, none of the single women in the church had any interest in dating, they were all choosing to go it alone and stay single. I think that trend is very common or prevalent these days among women in that age group, compared to men in that age group, and it is not going to ever change for the better, at least not towards getting any better for men wanting to find a partner.

Has anybody else noticed any changes in the trends as far as online dating?

MichelleGar1 comments on Nov 9, 2022:

I could only take 5 minutes or less from the dating option on Facebook, it was too scary for me and overwhelming!

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 9, 2022:

@Sierra4 Heard about it, haven't tried it. I think this trend of lopsided gender ratios probably is present in about all the dating sites and apps, at least for my local area, if not across the country. I think most of us saw the study posted here on Agnostic, saying that 62% of the singles on dating sites in America are men, so that is a 2 to 1 ratio already, and then it will be much worse in certain geo areas. As a side note, I tried to use Zoosk today, and it was a disaster. My laptop and browser are probably too old for their site and when I kept trying to sign up or log in using FB or Google, it kept being rejected. Match is much simpler and user friendly for older, tech-retarded people like me. I called Zoosk's tech support and they said I would need to have a friend help me set up an account with them, because it would take too much time for them to help me on the phone, and then call them back again to purchase a membership. Too much fucking work and trouble for me to bother with, altho it does appear their membership fees are significantly less than Match, but who knows what their membership numbers are for my local area and what the gender ratios are? I have no way of knowing until I set up and account and browse. It's such shit that all dating sites require you to set up an account, and usually a profile, before you can even browse the profiles in you local area.

Has anybody else noticed any changes in the trends as far as online dating?

racocn8 comments on Nov 9, 2022:

30 some years ago, I went to a Halloween party for singles at one of the member's house. When I got there, I saw about 15 men and NO women. After an hour, one lady showed up, but after seeing the extreme imbalance, she left about 20 minutes later (basically, as soon as she could manage an exit).

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 9, 2022:

I think it has gotten to that point with online dating sites, that most of them have way more men on them than women, at least in my age group and in my area. And nothing will be done about it by Match or any other dating site, no matter how much I complain to their customer care staff, because they don't make money by actually helping people find partners and quit needing their services. All they care about is maintaining enough public credibility and antectdotal success stories for people to keep signing up and paying for memberships. They could easily do things to make the gender ratios more balanced, like advertising more for their sites on venues or platforms that appeal to women, like TV shows mainly watched by women, but they have no incentive to spend money on doing that, as long as enough people keep paying for memberships and signing up, be they male or female. Really sucks and makes me justifiably angry with their greed and indifference to the plight of their male members. As to your Halloween singles party experience, I went to a singles dance a few years ago, and, while there were seemingly more women there than men, it was still a disaster, as about all the women there were attending in groups, maybe for moral support or whatever, so they all knew each other from attending the same church's divorce support group, or otherwise a church singles group, etc.. Anyway, few of them seemed at all attractive looking to me (and my standards are not that high, a 5 or 6 on the ten scale would be fine for me), and it also appeared that most of them were not that excited about or interested in meeting men for dating. It seemed like most of them were along for the ride to spend time with the other women and just get a night out with female company and dance. BTW, I have also checked out the local dance club that is favored by single women my age, and it's the same way, mostly women who are just there to dance and hang with their friends, not really interested in meeting men there to date, contrary to all the conventional wisdom about Boomer age women and dance clubs.. The few women I talked to at the singles dance, also confirmed my suspicions about how mismatched I was with them as far as being compatible dating partners, as they all were members of Christian or Catholic churches, and much more mainstream and traditional than me on lifestyle and culture, same as what I encounter all the time on Match: Being very family and kid-oriented, into country music big time, politically conservative, big social drinkers, moderately or more religious and not willing to date a non-believer, etc.

Has anybody else noticed any changes in the trends as far as online dating?

MichelleGar1 comments on Nov 9, 2022:

I could only take 5 minutes or less from the dating option on Facebook, it was too scary for me and overwhelming!

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 9, 2022:

I've been told by a woman my age who is a single friend, to check out the FB dating site or app, but it wouldn't do me any good, since it appears to require a smartphone to be able to use it, and I am not interested in getting one. I would otherwise not need one. Your comment just makes me feel even more strong about not wanting to bother with the FB dating option.

Some sad news for Agnostics Members….

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 9, 2022:

What did he die from?

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 9, 2022:

@Marionville That pretty well explains it. Thanks for the info.

Some sad news for Agnostics Members….

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 8, 2022:

So sorry to hear that. She is a great cat lover and has shared many cute photos of her cats, which I really enjoyed.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 8, 2022:

@Marionville Thank you.

Anti-bullying is just bullying the bullies. And I wouldn't ever stand for that.

KKGator comments on Nov 8, 2022:

Sometimes, you have to fight fire with fire. Sometimes, it's not the best course of action.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 8, 2022:

Yup, it all depends on the likelihood of winning the fight.

Yesterday I found need to go to a laundrymat.

silverotter11 comments on Nov 6, 2022:

Fear changed the landscape. The further Americans go down the rabbit hole of fear mongering, lies and bullshit I hear and see from the far right the more like an authoritarian nation we will become. It was always racist around here but it really started to be more open when trump was put in the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 6, 2022:

Americans are becoming more and more socially isolated and atomized. This is not a good thing, not only politically, but it also plays into the hands of the corporate media and the corporate rule of our economics. People who fear each other and don't trust each other, are the last ones who will risk anything to start a union or organize to push back against the class war that has been waged against them, one-sided, for decades..

Kroger to pay $180K for firing Christians who wouldn't wear heart symbol

glennlab comments on Nov 5, 2022:

I think Kroger did a cost of litigation analysis and made an off, they did not reinstate the workers or admit fault. No judgment, no appeal.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 5, 2022:

Typical corporate bullshit, the usual playbook...

lol we had a Yorkie and my one cat would wait till she walked by and then dash and tackle her.

Zster comments on Nov 5, 2022:

A sweet cat that I acquired ended up being a dog hater. He LOVES when my mom brings her chihuahua to visit. Hide, ambush, and ride (hanging on to its back with all claws)!

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 5, 2022:

Some cats can be very sneaky and mean to dogs...

Truth is stranger than fiction.

rainmanjr comments on Nov 4, 2022:

Civil disobedience on a mass scale is what's called for. Especially if Dems lose this election.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir I wish you were right, but I don't think we're going to have time to do that, even if the Dems had the political will, which they clearly don't. If the Repubs take control of both houses in DC, which I think they will, the descent into fascism will be too rapid to stop, as in two years the Repubs will also take the WH, and the dictatorship will be complete and very quickly implemented. You are too optimistic about our system.. I also don't think civil war can be prevented, and it may as well happen sooner than a few years later, let's get it over with and hope we win, which is doubtful also...

Truth is stranger than fiction.

rainmanjr comments on Nov 4, 2022:

Civil disobedience on a mass scale is what's called for. Especially if Dems lose this election.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 5, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir Once they start to go Kosovo on us and begin hunting us in armed militias, will you then be ready to give up on your high road rules, arm yourself, and start shooting back at them in the streets when they come for you? Or will you still trust in cops and the military being honorable and protecting you? Asking for a friend, lol....

Is church decline something to celebrate? That depends [onlysky.media]

HankSherman comments on Nov 4, 2022:

Since you asked......I know of none that do more good than harm....teaching altruism, and looking forward to life after death, is evil

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 4, 2022:

Teaching altruism is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned, esp. in our toxic culture in America of hyper individualism, greed, and selfishness. What are you, some Libertarian or conservative? If so, that explains a lot about how you are against altruism. It's the lack of it that is leading us to civil war soon, as well as destroying our country for decades, among other reasons.

Christian hate-preacher: Abortion doctors must be mutilated and murdered

vocaloldfart comments on Nov 3, 2022:

What gives the psychotic rabble the right to rule a womans body? Will these creatures financially support the children born that would have been aborted? will they raise them?? Abortion is not a procedure taken without good emotional and pressing reasons. If anything should be burned it is these ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 3, 2022:

Nope their concern for preserving "life" ends at birth, after that, feeding the kids, surviving, paying their costs, is not their concern. The kid and their mother are on their own, as far as the Bible-thumpers are concerned.

Christian hate-preacher: Abortion doctors must be mutilated and murdered

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 2, 2022:

Why is his clearly serious, sincere hate speech left up on You Tube, when just yesterday FB sent me a nastygram threatening me for having posted a joking meme about shooting Ted Cruz if he came to my door dressed as werewolf, which he was in the meme? They removed my post immediately, even tho I got...

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 2, 2022:

@Betty It is, but none of that makes it right...

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

alliwant comments on Oct 29, 2022:

This would be funny if it was not an existential crisis, but it is. The GOP has retreated from reality because reality has become a litany of doom, and every move they have made to seize and control what is possible just leaves them with fewer options. From Trump, there is no place to go but ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 2, 2022:

@alliwant I wish you were right about that. Instead, I see the Repubs taking power for good and eliminating elections, and going full on dictatorship and fascism, game over, no more even the pretense of democracy we have now. You see the Repubs committing suicide, while I see them on the path to total and permanent victory and rule.

Christian hate-preacher: Abortion doctors must be mutilated and murdered

Beowulfsfriend comments on Nov 2, 2022:

"Pro lifer" proving again it isn't about life at all.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 2, 2022:

It's all about revenge and domination, very Old Testament...

I received a rather disheartening email today from HAAM (Humanists, Agnostics & Atheists of ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2022:

All such traditional style organizations have that problem. I earn a large part of my income as a public speaker, and everywhere that I go, clubs and none public institutions are closing down. Few of the young people who work, have the time for them, young people who do not work do not have the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 2, 2022:

I agree with you on all those factors coming into play.

I wish I could go back sometimes.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 1, 2022:

I can relate to feeling nostalgic for the innocence of that time, but that's about it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 2, 2022:

@phxbillcee Quite true, but then again, at the time, I was straight, white, male, and Catholic, so I was very privileged and yet had no awareness of how much....

It was a weird program to say the least, Seinfeld's comedy is an acquired taste that I never quite ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 1, 2022:

I never got into that show too much, as the characters were generally very unlikeable people. Very selfish, often abrasive, not very honest, etc. Not at all the sort of people I would choose or have as friends, so why watch them? Very little kindness was ever practiced on that show. Seemed like ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 2, 2022:

@glennlab I agree and kind of sensed that, because most of the actors went on to do better parts, where they could show more of their skill, after they left that show, particularly Jason Alexander and Julia Louise Dreyfuss..

Barack Obama's Midterm Speech Goes Viral, Plus Paul Pelosi Hammer Attack and Elon Musk Reaction - ...

silverotter11 comments on Nov 1, 2022:

Obama really is fun to watch and listen to. Sure miss him in the WH.

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 1, 2022:

I don't miss him, his wife, or the Clintons. In fact, those four have done more to ruin the Dem Party, for progressives like me and Bernie, than anyone else, along with Uncle Tom Jim Clyburn, besides the Obamas and Clintons...

If you’re looking for good games to play on your Android device, then you’ve come to the right ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Oct 25, 2022:

Hey! Site and customer service! Isn't this spam?

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 1, 2022:

We appear to be beginning to be overrun by it on the forum categories that are not being moderated anymore. Not a good sign, as far as site maintainence. The spammers appear to have caught on to this.

The real difference between Atheist and religious people

anglophone comments on Nov 1, 2022:

Esther Callejas would disagree. She claims to have shot her two young children because she wanted them to go to heaven: https://lawandcrime.com/crime/arizona-mother-shot-her-two-young-children-because-she-wanted-them-to-go-to-heaven-police/

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 1, 2022:

Well then, there are always the crazy folks. I was presuming this discussion was only including sane people...

If he shows up at my door, I'll shoot him with silver bullets

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 1, 2022:

Just wanted the community here to know that I tried sharing this on my FB page and within less than an hour, FB had notified me that it violated their policies on content inciting violence and harm, etc., so that no one could see it except me. So I deleted it. You have to wonder if they would have ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 1, 2022:

@glennlab I guess that just shows how chaotic and arbitrary their moderation policies are..

If he shows up at my door, I'll shoot him with silver bullets

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 1, 2022:

Just wanted the community here to know that I tried sharing this on my FB page and within less than an hour, FB had notified me that it violated their policies on content inciting violence and harm, etc., so that no one could see it except me. So I deleted it. You have to wonder if they would have ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Nov 1, 2022:

@glennlab Well, then that sounds like BS, why did they censor me posting it, but you were able to find it there? It makes no sense, unless they pulled it soon after you got it from there.

What are you for?

FvckY0u comments on Oct 31, 2022:

Another thing that gets me is lets say for the sake of argument that all public offices werre occupied by Democrats and you are for Democrats. What would happen? I don't agree with that group of Dems and I agree with this group, etc. In no time at all you've got 2 or more parties of Dems. You ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 31, 2022:

I honestly don't feel represented by either major party, as a whole, with either one, not after you get past the identity politics and culture war issues. Neither party represents me on the important issues I mentioned in my comment above. The masses will never be truly represented in our federal government until either legalized bribery is ended in our federal elections, or until a third party actually wins control of congress or the WH.

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

alliwant comments on Oct 29, 2022:

This would be funny if it was not an existential crisis, but it is. The GOP has retreated from reality because reality has become a litany of doom, and every move they have made to seize and control what is possible just leaves them with fewer options. From Trump, there is no place to go but ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 30, 2022:

The DSA and the Greens are the only parties in the US that actually represent me on policy, but as long as the DSA keeps hitching its wagon to the Dems and expecting they can reform or influence them from within the Dem Party, they will get nowhere, same as Bernie. I really wish the DSA would seriously try to unite with the Greens and give us an actual third party, call it a Justice Party or Workers Party, whatever, and kick the Dems to the curb, the way they have deserved to be for decades..

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 29, 2022:

The diff is that now, if the fascists want to start a civil war, we do not have tens or hundreds of thousands who are willing to fight and risk death to stop them. At best, the law enforcement and military will stand down and let them fight unabated against their political enemies.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir I think that is an accurate time frame. If it ever happens in my lifetime, it will happen within that time frame.

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 29, 2022:

The diff is that now, if the fascists want to start a civil war, we do not have tens or hundreds of thousands who are willing to fight and risk death to stop them. At best, the law enforcement and military will stand down and let them fight unabated against their political enemies.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir We'll find out soon enough, won't we? I'm not going to wait around to find out by watching a civil war start and then waiting for the authorities to protect me. I will buy my gun and arm myself as soon as the war is imminent.

It's the American way.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 30, 2022:

Ronald Reagan's "trickle down" economics (in a nutshell, tax cuts for the rich) is to the middle class what a colony of termites is to a fallen tree trunk. They both have a hollowing effect. Every Republican Administration since Reagan has followed Ronnie's fiscal lead to some degree, most notably ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 30, 2022:

We're number one, we're number one! Fucking fools..... People who are working poor and middle class continue to vote for Trickle Down Repubs because they are still stupid enough to think that someday either they or their kids will be rich under that kind of economics. Too bad they have never learned anything real about economics, just myths thrown at them by the Repubs and corporate media..

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 29, 2022:

The diff is that now, if the fascists want to start a civil war, we do not have tens or hundreds of thousands who are willing to fight and risk death to stop them. At best, the law enforcement and military will stand down and let them fight unabated against their political enemies.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir Only time and them being put to the test of a civil war will tell, but I think the degree of infiltration is very significant, probably more than half of the members, maybe more than that.

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 29, 2022:

The diff is that now, if the fascists want to start a civil war, we do not have tens or hundreds of thousands who are willing to fight and risk death to stop them. At best, the law enforcement and military will stand down and let them fight unabated against their political enemies.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir We will see, but if it comes to civil war, I am not going to trust the cops with my life, same with the military. Too many of both groups are already authoritarian types who side with the right wing and Trump.

It's my sixth day of work, down at the election Polls, and I got into a fight with a Party Of ...

silverotter11 comments on Oct 29, 2022:

Thanks for assisting at the polls. This mid term election can't be over fast enough for me. The nutters are flying their hate and delusional freak flags everywhere. 😬😡😢

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 29, 2022:

@silverotter11 The way it seems to work, is that it's not about who's sane and who's nutty, whichever side has the superior numbers, will determine how the authorities deal with conflict. Same thing with what I call bar injustice, where the bar staff does not punish people according to behavior, but according to which of the two opposing parties in the conflict has bigger numbers, spends the most money, and has the most regular repeat customers in it. Behavior has nothing to do with which side they will punish and which one they won't.

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

LucyLoohoo comments on Oct 28, 2022:

considering what happened today .... she needs more security.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 29, 2022:

@WilliamCharles I certainly wouldn't be holding my breath...

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

WilliamCharles comments on Oct 29, 2022:

This sounds plausible. There's just some things in the original story that don't add up. The "Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?" sounds like "Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs" to my ears (the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case). ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 29, 2022:

Thanks for the link, sounds very plausible that this was an incident that Nancy wanted to cover up, and maybe take advantage of it for some political mileage and sympathy.

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

LucyLoohoo comments on Oct 28, 2022:

considering what happened today .... she needs more security.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 29, 2022:

@WilliamCharles That choice was clearly made by Trump and his cronies in the government. The only ? is if it will ever be proven in court and will he ever see prison over it. In the meantime, I would love to see some lawsuits against him by capital police officers who suffered because of him, because I have no faith the Dems will have the balls to actually get him punished for it. But in civil court, those officers might have a very good case against him if anybody in his circle ends up willing to talk.

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

FvckY0u comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Cmon She's brilliant, she's an idiot. Which is it? There's some sort of conspiracy at play because she didn't have the foresight to hire private security? Really? Sometimes a thing is just what it is.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 29, 2022:

@FvckY0u I'm sure they have hired bodyguards for him and other immediate family members.

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

LucyLoohoo comments on Oct 28, 2022:

considering what happened today .... she needs more security.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

Whether her husband's vulnerability was planned or not, the amount of threats she has received clearly do justify lots of security for both her and her family. The Jan.6 incident by itself made that clear..

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

FvckY0u comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Cmon She's brilliant, she's an idiot. Which is it? There's some sort of conspiracy at play because she didn't have the foresight to hire private security? Really? Sometimes a thing is just what it is.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@FvckY0u I'm an extremely skilled and careful driver, hence my having had a CDL and never having any accidents outside of in parking lots during my whole driving career, personal and on the jobs. So, regarding your insurance ?, I still carry a normal amount of insurance for my home and car, because things can always happen, even if it's someone else's fault, no matter how careful you are. I do drop collision insurance on my cars after they are ten years old, simply because by that time their worth is usually low enough to not be worth the money of repairing them after an accident. However, with the cost of used cars now, it might be worth adjusting that. I consider it simply being smart and sensible, regardless of what the government requires for car owners, or not. I know as soon as I begin hearing of right wing groups beginning to hunt average lefties, who aren't even elected pols, I will be arming myself and preparing to fight them if they come after me, regardless of the cost for buying a gun, ammo, and learning to shoot. That would simply be sensible spending to defend myself against a very plausible threat and not saving money in the foolish, naive belief that the cops would protect me.

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

FvckY0u comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Cmon She's brilliant, she's an idiot. Which is it? There's some sort of conspiracy at play because she didn't have the foresight to hire private security? Really? Sometimes a thing is just what it is.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@FvckY0u Maybe, but besides those qualities, it also takes money, fame, and motivation, at least most of the time, to make those kind of fake attacks happen. Few of the 50% have all those ingredients, unlike Kavanaugh and Pelosi, for example...

Just saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Speaker Pelosi had debated spending her campaign money for...

FvckY0u comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Cmon She's brilliant, she's an idiot. Which is it? There's some sort of conspiracy at play because she didn't have the foresight to hire private security? Really? Sometimes a thing is just what it is.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

I think she is somewhere between brilliant and idiot, but have no doubt she is extremely corrupt and dishonest, like about every pol in DC. It's not that challenging to engineer or stage a personal attack to get public sympathy, so I don't focus so much on her intelligence, but her lack of ethics and honesty, which seem well-suited to colluding on this sort of shit...

Christian hate-preacher: We'd be 'lucky' if Hitler killed 6 million Jews

Barnie2years comments on Oct 28, 2022:

At some point turning violence against these hate mongers is going to be our only chance at surviving as a decent society.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

I agree with CuddyCruiser, it's probably too late for that, because so much of law enforcement personnel are members of that tribe, or at least sympathetic to them, so we won't get any help from them in dealing with them, as well as having to arm and protect ourselves...

The January 6 Riot Was a Spectacular Failure of US Law Enforcement

racocn8 comments on Oct 27, 2022:

It's called corruption. Corrupt President. Corrupt Army and Pentagon (in charge of Natl Guard). Corrupt Christopher Wray who only ' warned ' other seditionists in the Capitol Police. Corrupt or intimidated DC Mayor who didn't yank the assembly permit after the previous night's assembly went violent....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

Same as 9-11, there were people in the fed govt. that knew it was coming and did nothing to stop it, because all the way to Bush and Cheney, the attack served their purposes, both in providing a reason to invade Iraq and get their oil, as well as to boost W.'s image and power after the country rallied around him. As far as the article's points on support for right wing extremism in law enforcement's ranks, no surprise there, it's been that way for decades. Which is why if the expected civil war comes in in few years or less, started by right wing groups, I know that my side will be entirely on our own, with no protection or help from the cops. So we may as well buy our own guns, learn to shoot and prepare to defend ourselves once it becomes clear the war is about to begin.

How many people are going to be elected in the next couple of years because they are parroting lies ...

BitFlipper comments on Oct 25, 2022:

The big lie project may be what destroys America.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@AlbertSchepis Nowadays, K-12 schools do a terrible job of preparing citizens to become smart voters, and the corporate media doesn't help any either on that count. I do actually think both of those institutions are that way by design. The ruling class does not want intelligent voters who are well informed and can think critically, because they would be a threat to the status quo system. They want them just smart enough to run the machines and do the jobs the system ends up giving them, nothing beyond those things..

Politics increasingly a deal-breaker on US dating scene: [bbc.

lerlo comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Yes. Sad to have to put it in the profile that it's about intelligence not politics. It used to be one party won, the other lost and you might not agree with their policies but they were qualified. I'd vote for Liz Cheney tomorrow and wouldn't agree with anything she did, but at least she has a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@lerlo One thing I do know is that she would have no chance running for the Repub nomination in two years. The party is so tied to Trump that I think the nomination is his if he actually can and does run. The party hates her for standing up to Trump and that is not going to change in two years or even much later than that. Unless Trump can't run, due to his legal troubles, or decides not to run, he will be the nominee, if not, we will get Cruz or DeSantis for their nominee...

I'm going to discuss being dead for a moment.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 26, 2022:

I really see no point in pondering any of that, since we have no power to prevent our dying eventually. It will happen and then I will be gone. The end... No point obsessing over or analyzing it into dust..

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 27, 2022:

@FvckY0u I am so over caring about this topic...

Politics increasingly a deal-breaker on US dating scene: [bbc.

lerlo comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Yes. Sad to have to put it in the profile that it's about intelligence not politics. It used to be one party won, the other lost and you might not agree with their policies but they were qualified. I'd vote for Liz Cheney tomorrow and wouldn't agree with anything she did, but at least she has a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 27, 2022:

@lerlo Maybe you haven't heard the rumors, but she is likely planning a presidential run for 2024, as an independent candidate. I'm guessing that was her motivation for bucking Trump and the Repubs on the insurrection.

I'm going to discuss being dead for a moment.

xenoview comments on Oct 26, 2022:

We don't know what happens after we die.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

And, as I said below, why should we really care? If we are certain there is no afterlife, why should we really care?

I'm going to discuss being dead for a moment.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 26, 2022:

I really see no point in pondering any of that, since we have no power to prevent our dying eventually. It will happen and then I will be gone. The end... No point obsessing over or analyzing it into dust..

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@FvckY0u Because those things happen, if they do end up happening, happen while you're still alive, with a still-functioning brain, so you can appreciate them? Just a thought, as Beau says....

Politics increasingly a deal-breaker on US dating scene: [bbc.

lerlo comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Yes. Sad to have to put it in the profile that it's about intelligence not politics. It used to be one party won, the other lost and you might not agree with their policies but they were qualified. I'd vote for Liz Cheney tomorrow and wouldn't agree with anything she did, but at least she has a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

I still would never vote for Liz Cheney, because I don't agree with her at all on policies, but I do appreciate what she did regarding Jan.6, even if her motivations for that may be suspect or self-serving in the long run...

Politics increasingly a deal-breaker on US dating scene: [bbc.

Julie808 comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Used to be a persons weight or body type was the deal breaker. Then it was smoker vs non-smoker. Now yes it's politics. I can't imagine dating a Trump supporter, election denier, religious nationalist, racist, etc., and that should be learned before or during a first meeting, unless a Trumper ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

It goes both ways, like everything. I have shared on these boards recently about running across several women on Match who were closet Trumpers or conservatives, but listed themselves on their profiles as Independent or Moderate for their political affiliation. Why they bothered replying to my message, after seeing my profile and that I was a Bernie supporter, is beyond me. But I think the reason they hid their real political position was to be able to get a foot in the door for dating guys that might not care about their politics if the woman was attractive and compatible enough for the guy otherwise. Didn't fool me tho, once I either began trading messages with them or met them in person for coffee. They rejected me and I rejected them, for whatever reasons, but I'm sure politics was probably part of it, for both them and me. My other two dealbreakers, on my end, besides someone being a conservative or Trumper, is being a daily smoker, or a big fan of country music. But that last one is because music is so important to me, as well as the fact that most country music fans also tend to be very different from me culturally, so there's usually other incompatibilities that come with that musical difference in other cultural areas, like what movies they would like, them wanting to fish and camp, etc.. I can also be ok with dating someone who is moderately or mildly religious, as long as they can accept my Agnosticism, but that last part almost never happens on the part of women who are moderately religious, and with women who are strongly religious, it's almost always a dealbreaker on either their part or mine.

Bannon calls it "flooding the zone with shit.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 26, 2022:

None of them will testify under oath, unless it means taking the Fifth for every damn ?

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir But you and I both know the Dems are unlikely to do that, for whatever reasons..

It seems that climate change issues have been known about by scientists for quite some time even ...

Diaco comments on Oct 25, 2022:

Money-making factor! 😐... Dude, We're standing on the Edge!... How hard should we get fucked to believe the disaster and threat is REAL! Dont Look up!? huh...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@SnowyOwl I think you said it well. My only consolation is that I may be dead before it gets really bad, or I may not. I totally agree that our leadership in DC, with both parties, is too old to care anymore, except about their own short term power and wealth.

Believing Trump won in 2020 is the least popular candidate position in new NBC News Poll

rainmanjr comments on Oct 25, 2022:

So you'd think this a cake walk for Dems but, yet....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

Well, duh... It would be a cakewalk for Dems, if they willing to embrace policies that are proven winners by polling, like lowering health care costs, providing M4All, etc. and other lefty populist policies, but they never will, at least not sincerely, because it would anger their corporate donors. So they go on, election after election, trying to squeeze out, or not, a tiny marginal victory by basically saying, " We're not them!", and playing entirely to political theater, ID politics, and culture war issues. By now most Americans have seen this game long enough and either don't buy it or just give up on voting... Leaving all the populist positions to the Repubs, is not a winning strategy, but winning fed elections has not been a Dem priority ever since Clinton won in 1992.

It seems that climate change issues have been known about by scientists for quite some time even ...

Diaco comments on Oct 25, 2022:

Money-making factor! 😐... Dude, We're standing on the Edge!... How hard should we get fucked to believe the disaster and threat is REAL! Dont Look up!? huh...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

I have a relative that has a PhD. in thermonuclear engineering, who has worked as a researcher. I think he knows a thing or two more about climate change and science than any pol in the US. What he tells me is that we have already reached the tipping point where it's too late to stop the continued climate change, and that changes in practices from now on will only result in less damage, because once the tipping point has been reached, according to him, the rate of climate change can never be stopped, only the rate of acceleration can be reduced, but even then, the acceleration rate of change point has already been reached....

How many people are going to be elected in the next couple of years because they are parroting lies ...

BitFlipper comments on Oct 25, 2022:

The big lie project may be what destroys America.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@mischl I wish that some kind of critical thinking test or political literacy test could be used for voting eligibility, but that has been tried in the past, somewhat, in the American southern states after Reconstruction ended, following the Civil War, and all it led to was voter suppression of black folks. So there is no fair and honest way to make that required for voting, because it would always be abused by partisan groups whenever they gained political supremacy, for them to hold onto power at all costs.

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

Betty comments on Oct 24, 2022:

Sure, just as much as I believe in Santa. :)

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

Or the Easter Bunny.... or Linus's Great Pumpkin....

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

Rockitflash comments on Oct 24, 2022:

If it's a total stranger, like some idiot trying to evangelize on the street, I just keep walking and give no answer. In a social situation, like a party or a dinner, I'll be more polite but direct. Sometimes I have told them that I was raised in a cult that practiced a mock human sacrifice every ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

I admire your patience and smartassery, sir...I'm afraid I wouldn't care enough to bother with wasting all this wit on them...

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

Davekp comments on Oct 24, 2022:

I just say, “No, I don’t. My personal delusions I keep to myself.”

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

If only more of us would keep our delusions to just ourselves, our pets, and our therapists...

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

skado comments on Oct 24, 2022:

For me, it’s not a matter of belief. God’s existence is self-evident. No proof needed. My dictionary defines God as the supreme being. It defines supreme as the largest, ultimate, or most powerful. It defines being as something that exists. So already, God exists by definition....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

@skado Few would have the patience to listen to all that, so If I were you, I wouldn't even bother to begin an answer, but suit yourself....

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

skado comments on Oct 24, 2022:

For me, it’s not a matter of belief. God’s existence is self-evident. No proof needed. My dictionary defines God as the supreme being. It defines supreme as the largest, ultimate, or most powerful. It defines being as something that exists. So already, God exists by definition....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

I promise you most people would have zero interest in having that long and in depth a discussion with you, but suit yourself....

This is hilarious!!! PLEASE let this happen.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 24, 2022:

That would be too good to be true. After Palin, MTG would set the new low for the VP bar... As far as the short list of female VP picks, I would say Trump's best bet would be Nikki Haley, but nowadays most voters don't care about VP candidates, tho with Trump's age and unpredictability, his VP pick...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

@CuddyCruiser I hope you're wrong about that, but I wouldn't bet against you on it..

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

Julie808 comments on Oct 24, 2022:

Wow, that's one for the strange dates file! Sounds like she is on the dating site in order to get some generous men to feel sorry for her and toss her some money. I bet the neighbors have a few tales to tell! Glad you got out of there fast and decided to visit with your daughters with that extra ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 24, 2022:

She reminds me a bit of the men who are looking for a nurse with a purse. Objectively, it seems like no woman in their right mind would ever volunteer to be that for a sick old man, but that's the thing, there actually are people out there, both men and women, that aren't in their right mind, on the dating sites, that are so desperate that they will volunteer to be used by someone like this woman, all in order to avoid the loneliness of being without a partner. Glad I'm sane enough to take a hard pass on that.

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 23, 2022:

WTF man, you live in rural MO, which is a lot like rural Iowa, only worse. Lots of hicks, rednecks, and white trash. I feel your pain, even tho I live in a suburb that's part of the largest city in Iowa. While my area isn't rural, like yours, most of the available women on the dating sites still are...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

@DenoPenno I guess we are different in that respect. I really miss traveling since my late wife got ill, and would love to start doing that again with a partner. As for partying, I never did that much since I was in my 20s, and don't miss it at all either, same as you. But as a non-drinker, no matter how open-minded and tolerant I am about dating a moderate drinker, it seems like very few women who are social or moderate drinkers are ok with dating any non-drinker, no matter what my mindset, because social drinking is the center of their social life with friends and family, and I would not "fit in" well enough for that, even tho they would have a built in DD with me. So, nothing I can do, because so many women in my dating pool have lots more men to choose from besides me, that are more mainstream in culture and lifestyle, and check every box in their rigid, narrow, stupid long list of traits that have nothing to do with what is in someone's heart, their relationship track record, their relationship skills, and their communication skills, all of which are my strong suits in what I can offer a partner, but that matter very little to most women in my dating pool, who are divorced and have never gotten any therapy. So they keep repeating the same poor choices in who they date and instead blame all of it on the men they choose, rather than getting therapy or looking at their own poor choices and their even poorer criteria for choosing a dating partner.. I would be willing to even try LD dating with someone who lived in Minneapolis or Chicago, even, but it's not worth even bothering to look into, again, after exploring it a few years ago, because it would be a dead end. The women in those two cities, or anywhere else that far away that might have some things to do where they live, are not interested in dating LD, or ever moving to my area, so what's the point in even looking into that? Anybody living in a better place than Des Moines, like Minneapolis or Chicago, usually already has family and friends they don't want to leave behind, same as my friends I have here, and even if they are retired like me or soon to retire, why would they want to move away from a better place to live like there, to live in a place like Des Moines, which is not as good? The answer is, they won't, because single women my age are usually not as interested as men are in making sacrifices just to add a partner relationship to their lives, esp. if they already have good relationships where they live with family and friends. And I am not willing to risk moving away from all my local friends, who are my only real family or support system. So I am just as stuck as you are, with my local online dating pool as the only way to find another partner.

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

twill comments on Oct 23, 2022:

You live in Missouri, right?

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

Same as living in Iowa, only MO is worse. Fewer liveable places there, as far as culture, lifestyle, and politics, compared to Iowa. Mo has Columbia, St. Louis, and KC, nothing else. At least Iowa has several places that are liveable. Mississippi and Alabama are worse than either state.. as well as probably some of the largely rural western states where I would never be willing to live.

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

puff comments on Oct 23, 2022:

Love the line "I drove away thinking Kathleen's dates were not even this bad". Classic. Better luck next time.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

@twill Sounds like Deliverance, only without the mountains and the banjo music.

I would not call it love and it never made it to a relationship but here is my Saturday afternoon ...

BBJong comments on Oct 23, 2022:

sorry to hear~ stiff upper lip/ Keep opptumistic . There are good folk out there❗

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

I agree with you that there are good people out there in every online dating pool, even in a limited geo area of, say, 60 miles or less. But the thing is, online dating is also competitive, and in my case, for example, there are over 3 men for every woman that is in my age range and local distance limit of 60 miles, in my local Match dating pool. So, finding a partner means not only finding someone compatible on paper, in the local online dating pool, but also winning the competition between me and the other men in my age group that share that local geo dating pool on the dating site. Organic dating is way easier and less competitive, because in that sphere, all you have to do is meet someone while they are available and interested in dating, and if you meet their minimum compatibility requirements, and vice versa, you are on your way to dating them steadily. In online dating, you need to not only meet those things, but also end up being chosen by them over all the competition, and vice versa, so it's a wonder that anybody who is average looking is able to ever find a partner who is at least average looking, because all of the variables would seem to work against that happening. Since research studies have shown that both men and women seem to put all of their interest and effort into only trying to online date those who are better than average looking. So average looking men, who make up the majority of online dating singles, are pretty much out of luck against the guys who are 7s, 8s, and 9s in looks, because even the average looking women, who are the minority gender on dating sites, about one third, put about all their interest in the great looking guys.

Rat infestation this morning in Los Angeles, California (south-bound 405 freeway).

Barnie2years comments on Oct 23, 2022:

Trump isn’t the problem. Kanye isn’t the problem. It’s the thousands, maybe millions given the poll numbers, who have always believed this garbage, but never had millionaire, front page, celebrities out there codifying it for them so they could find each other.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

You're very right. There have always been bigots and ignorant haters, but Trump came along and made it acceptable and even popular to be open and vocal about it. And the corporate media played right along and aided it, instead of condemning it, they just treated it as "another valid viewpoint", in the interest of their bullshit policy of "balanced reporting"...

"Religious Freedom" is Neither - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on Oct 23, 2022:

I find it more and more odd that white people in America, or just any people in all the Americas, seem to think Jesus knew about them or gave a flying flip about them in any way. This religion started in the Middle East and got passed on everywhere. The modern American Christian thinks this was ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

They also think that everybody in the Bible, including Jesus, were white-skinned...

What separation?

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 22, 2022:

Thank you conservative atheists who are members of this site for supporting politicians and an agenda that has endeavored to nullify church state separation. 🤦‍♂️

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 23, 2022:

Yeah, you have a good argument that they have sold out quite a bit as far as being atheists, just so their conservative tribe can have more political power. Sort of defeats their purpose of being atheists, doesn't it? They are no different than the evangelical Christians who sell out their religion just so they can gain political power and force their theocratic agenda, even if it means supporting Repubs they know are amoral, non-believing pigs like Trump..

Christian nationalists are planning a violent takeover of America.

Castlepaloma comments on Oct 22, 2022:

That sounds more like the wealthy take over.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

The wealthy took over the fed govt. long ago, the current battle is between the theocrat fascists and the neoliberal Dems for control of the fed govt.. The wealthy are ok with either group taking control of the actual government, as they will continue to enjoy their profits and power, no matter which group rules DC.

What Is The Manosphere Getting Wrong? - Destiny | Modern Wisdom Podcast 540 - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 22, 2022:

I have always been able to have good, healthy long term friendships with women over my life while single, and that has been a good thing, since it meets some of my social and emotional needs that are not met when I don't have a partner or am not actively dating steadily. The bad thing is, that those...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

@rainmanjr I care about both aspects, while you only care about cultural and humanist aspects, not the dating game. There, does that satisfy you? Why be so argumentative? Jessh, how demanding....

What Is The Manosphere Getting Wrong? - Destiny | Modern Wisdom Podcast 540 - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 22, 2022:

I have always been able to have good, healthy long term friendships with women over my life while single, and that has been a good thing, since it meets some of my social and emotional needs that are not met when I don't have a partner or am not actively dating steadily. The bad thing is, that those...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

@rainmanjr I understand and respect that, but the dating game is central to my focus, as I miss having a partner and overall have had way more positive experiences with women, both in friendships and my one long term relationship, than most men have had with relationships, both with partners and female friends.

Let's grow!!!

johnnyrobish comments on Oct 21, 2022:

Of course, the powers that be, have no interest in seeing that happen.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

I can tell you for certain that neither major party's leadership wants that to happen, because the same corporate donors that fund both major parties don't want it to happen either. So, look forward to continued distraction from both parties over culture war issues and identity politics, because neither major party will actually wage class warfare against their donors, who are the rich and corporations. Unions and the 99% are on our own, until we collectively wake up and start voting third party in all federal elections. Reich is being dishonest and disingenuous, and he knows it, so he will never be honest about how sold out the Dem Party is at the federal level and how they are equally to blame as the Repubs for how rigged our economy is.

Guys. gals thoughts?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 21, 2022:

Sorry, she may have the looks and athletic ability, but I prefer some humility and modesty, instead of all her obvious strutting, preening for the camera, and the " Don't I look cool and cute?" mugging for the camera..

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 22, 2022:

@FvckY0u That's my purpose and mission in life, to change people's minds, lol... I still love your username, tells others straight up, that they can take you as you are, or fuck off! And, as far as her looks, I prefer more curves in the chest and hips....

Louisiana pastor admits stealing $900,000 from church and congregants | New Orleans | The Guardian

phoenixone1 comments on Oct 19, 2022:

That should be considered a WIN, WIN,WIN...he stuck it to them THRICE...first by exposing the sky god BS for the MONEY SCAM it is(but doubtful they will learn by it...oh well...it's only THEIR money and not ours). Second by robbing them blind. Third, he is going to JAIL. As an added bonus, a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 19, 2022:

Guess it shows that money is not only the root of all evil, as the popular saying goes, but also the root of all depravity...

Ricky Gervais at the 2020 Golden Globes.

MyTVC15 comments on Oct 19, 2022:

I don't follow Hollywood so I don't get a lot of the jokes. I prefer the White House Correspondents Dinner because I get political jokes.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 19, 2022:

I get the jokes about both politics and Hollywood...

Louisiana pastor admits stealing $900,000 from church and congregants | New Orleans | The Guardian

CuddyCruiser comments on Oct 19, 2022:

That won’t matter to his sucker followers. Their heads are stuck too far up their ass.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 19, 2022:

@phoenixone1 Yeah, blame it on the devil, rather than the asshole who actually stole the money...

♬ When you're a jet ♬

Spudgun comments on Oct 17, 2022:

We know where we're going.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 17, 2022:

To the home of some lonely single person that needs the crazy cat person starter kit...

♬ When you're a jet ♬

glennlab comments on Oct 16, 2022:

Looks like they are headed over to 40 year old single's house, room and food for them all.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 16, 2022:

They just seem to know where to show up.

Saturday I went dancing.

MerlinZap comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I started up my dance class 2 months ago. I am an Arthur Murray trained Ballroom Dance instructor. I teach 15 different dances. From Tango to Waltz. So far so good. Of course many of my students are old friends. And none of the newbies think or talk that way. I am a screaming bloody liberal so, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 16, 2022:

@MerlinZap You timed the move just right.

Just a few words of advice.

Secretguy comments on Oct 15, 2022:

I just leave. I don't need to hear crap music.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

I don't agree with you about that song being crap music, but I do share your attitude. I feel that about all country music is crap, so I do just walk away and leave, whenever I can, from staying and hearing that music. The only place I have to just about always stay and put up with it, is at karaoke shows. Tho sometimes, I just get so fed up after an hour or two, that I just leave, instead of staying there just to sing some more, because I have reached my limit on country music for that night. Lucky for you, you live in New Orleans, so you probably have to put up with way less country music there than I do here... assuming you feel the same as I do about country music.

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rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@rainmanjr Suit yourself, we'll have to disagree on this. This issue is one area where I actually believe in picking my battles, politically, and letting something slide, in the interest of getting action on other things that are more important to me.

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rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@rainmanjr It bothers me too, but it is what it is, that's the practical reality, as least for now. I am quite willing to put up with it in pols, as long as they work for the right policies that we need and benefit the masses, rather than the 1%.

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rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@rainmanjr The sad, practical fact, is that any elected office that is high enough to have actual, real campaigns, in which the candidate is asked about religion, requires, in America, that the candidate at least claim to be religious in some way, Christian, Catholic or whatever. Because in America almost nowhere can a candidate for a higher office get away with being openly Agnostic or Atheist, or even claim to be non-religious. For example, it seems very obvious to me, after following Bernie Sander for years in the news and even hearing him speak in person several times, that he is a cultural Jew, but most likely an Atheist or Agnostic, certainly not religious or a believer in any religion, but he has always coyly avoided identifying himself as non-religious or a non-believer, because he knows it would be political poison for him if he ever ran for president, even more than his label of being a democratic socialist.

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rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@rainmanjr I don't give a shit about their religion, as long as they pursue policies that serve the common good, not just my personal interests.

Prosecutors ask jury to recommend death sentence for Parkland shooter.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 14, 2022:

It would be interesting to hear the pro-life Bible thumpers make the argument that this pregnancy should not have been aborted, sort of brings up the contradiction of exactly what stages of life they care about in their pro-life policies and rhetoric. It obviously would have been the best thing for ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@laidback1 Fuck you! I can and do think way more critically, than anything I've ever seen you post on here. Of course I realize his environment led him to kill, so what? The fact remains that he never should have been born in the first place, to a woman like that. So what are you, some idiot pro-lifer who thinks that no baby should ever be aborted? Good luck with that viewpoint, asshole, as you will find almost nobody on here who agrees with you on that...

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rainmanjr comments on Oct 15, 2022:

The people chose him for their candidate because his god is more like them than Warnock's god. I think they're both bad candidates as Preachers should not be in political offices.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

I agree that I would prefer that ministers not be in high office, but if one of them is still a moral, ethical person with integrity, as well as similar policy positions as me, then I will gladly vote for them as a better choice than the typical lying, hypocritical, heartless folks that run as Repubs.

Saturday I went dancing.

MerlinZap comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I started up my dance class 2 months ago. I am an Arthur Murray trained Ballroom Dance instructor. I teach 15 different dances. From Tango to Waltz. So far so good. Of course many of my students are old friends. And none of the newbies think or talk that way. I am a screaming bloody liberal so, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 15, 2022:

@MerlinZap Not at all. It's a good thing and an advantage, as far as I'm concerned. You don't have to put up with all the yahoo MAGA assholes that I run into all the time where I live, because you aren't so outnumbered like me here. If I could afford it and already had supportive friends or family there, I would much rather live where you are than in red state Iowa here.

Prosecutors ask jury to recommend death sentence for Parkland shooter.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 14, 2022:

I understand how tempting a case like this is to want to have the death penalty, but with how unevenly it is applied to racial minorities and the poor, compared to killers that are white and/or rich, it doesn't seem worth having, to me, as an option. And there is also the issue of how governments ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 14, 2022:

@Betty As a socialist, I am well aware of how it has been used to kill and silence left wing critics of right wing authoritarian governments.

Lawyer fined $400,000 for warning school about predator priest on staff

CuddyCruiser comments on Oct 13, 2022:

I’ve said it before…..I’m sayin’ it again. I’m really beginning to lean towards supporting the death penalty…,..especially for these types of fuckers.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 14, 2022:

I am still opposed to the death penalty, but for monsters like him, I can understand how it's tempting to have it for them.