I came across this is little story today, it's not breaking news. I suspect that a member of the housekeeping staff knows something about the bomb threat that required the sweep for weapons.
According to police in Secaucus, the bomb threat — which later was determined to be bogus — was called in to Hudson Regional Hospital on July 18. During a search, bomb detection dogs led investigators to an unlocked office closet containing dozens of firearms.
Among the weapons were 11 handguns and 27 rifles or shotguns, according to police. The closet also contained a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine that was determined to be an assault rifle, and a 14-round high-capacity handgun magazine.
The arrested the guy the next day.
What the heck do you think this guy was doing? It sounds very ominous that he was keeping those weapons there.
I don’t know about ads, but I did watch a recent balenciaga fashion show on YouTube and was pretty repulsed. They seem to have made a big PR mistake. They thought they were going with what sells when the only people obsessed with children’s sex lives are far-right-wingers.
Homophobia/transphobia be it blatant, subtext or internalized by the homosexual and transperson themselves has been alive and well for a long time. Many other than murder don't go reported. "Gay bashing" was and is a thing. Gay panic is a thing...just ask the mother of Matthew Shepherd.
I think the root is not MAGA, but conservative Christianity which lead to them influencing the law, also the mental health community for the longest time classified it as a mental health disease.
We can politicize it because, primarily republicans have politicized it. But Democrats have only recently taken a different position (there were some exceptions of course like Pelosi during the initial onset of AIDS but even Obama wasn't for gay marriage)
So it's easy to make the leap that conservative republicans with their agenda don't help. I grew up in NC during the Jesse Helms years and it was alive and well then.
Hate crimes, beatings and murders of the LBGT community, particularly transpersons has been alive and well for a long time. This also results in high rates of homelessness and suicide for gay teens.
Imagine growing up in an environment of love and acceptance where it didn't matter. Imagine a disturbed person not hearing that and not considering homosexuals a target for murder (or anyone different for that matter).
It has gotten better and I think health care professionals are at the forefront of change. After being fired from a job in the 80's for being gay, when I became a nurse I found a culture of acceptance. The unit I started on was one that volunteered to take AIDS patients. (We didn't have a designated unit as it wasn't a huge problem like it was in New York or San Francisco). I've also felt accepted and free to be who I am.
Even people who spew out the word "tranny" or "man in a dress" I would presume are good care providers and leave that prejudice at the door.
It does concern me that politicians want to criminalize health care professionals or limit how we treat transgendered persons but that's another rabbit hole.
It's too simplistic to blame MAGA. Although it is established that the Colorado Springs murderer's grandfather was MAGA.
I think the alphabet coalition needs to do self reflection and realize a lot of the problems like the high suicide rates may be people who need mental help not gender mutilation.
I think the alphabet coalition needs to do self reflection and realize a lot of the problems like the high suicide rates may be people who need mental help not gender mutilation.
The Balenciaga is a newly developing story, but I'm seeing it all over the internet on CNN, Cosmopolitan, CBS and Newsweek. There's no deafening silence.
I've read research over the years that 1 in 4 women report being sexually abused at some point in their life and childhood...most of them by male relatives. The deafening outrage over drag queen reading hour as being grooming is maddening considering the reality people face from cisgendered men.
Combined post.
There's been another mass shooting in a Walmart. I wonder if he was a Democrat or Republican?
You’re right about simplistic thinking, if you think of a mere political movement. I don’t - I see magaphilism as a subculture that has grown out of the convergence of a number of different world views, including conservative Christianity, white supremacy and toxic masculinity (to name a few). Growing up in as conservative a setting as Colorado Springs is said to be, it seems to me that the shooter would be even more likely to be exposed at a young age to be exposed to hateful imagery than someone like myself - an adult-lifelong lefty.
Hey! D’you think that’s what MaybeeRN meant by “sexualizing and grooming children”?!
Maybe some research instead of the magic 8 ball would help your arguments or should I say assumptions.
1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:
You must be surprised since you are trying to forward, without evidence, that I frequent such sites. I keep a watchful eye on current events and I search for credible sources of information about those events, which I sometimes share in these threads.
You mentioned a website but now it seems that the mention was just a wild guess or assumption or theory that you are just sharing here about me. What is the purpose of that? Should I guess or assume things and then publish those guesses or assumptions? Of course not. We should simply discuss the topics in good faith and maybe ask each other relevant questions.
Indeed. Like early 20th century fascist authoritarians, our 45th president coalesced a variety of angry groups under the banner of MAGA. He successfully united white nationalists, anarchists, white supremacists, paramilitary groups, political Christians and others by identifying common enemies and causes for them to fight against. Those groups did not translate into a unified voting block on the midterms but they remain angry.
I didn’t realize trump had that kind of support from Democrats.
What website are you referencing? Can you be specific?
He didn't need to get an illegal gun because the police didn't enforce the red flag laws after he demonstrated irrational, threatening and violent behavior.
Alaskan voters supported ballot measure 2 in 2020. It won with a narrow margin. I voted for the system.
The evidence seems to suggest that Alaska Republicans voiced concerns about the system, complained that it was confusing but spent little time helping their voters understand and use the system to achieve desired outcomes. Maybe they created the sense of confusion that didn't help them in their Elections.
Maybe the Alaskan Republicans aren't intelligent enough to change a diaper much less comment on the effects of ranked voting. They are so quick to shoot down ideas that have been working well in other parts of the country or the world. I think eventually they will insist on every voter being marked on the forehead with indelible ink in their resistance to common sense progress.
Homophobia/transphobia be it blatant, subtext or internalized by the homosexual and transperson themselves has been alive and well for a long time. Many other than murder don't go reported. "Gay bashing" was and is a thing. Gay panic is a thing...just ask the mother of Matthew Shepherd.
I think the root is not MAGA, but conservative Christianity which lead to them influencing the law, also the mental health community for the longest time classified it as a mental health disease.
We can politicize it because, primarily republicans have politicized it. But Democrats have only recently taken a different position (there were some exceptions of course like Pelosi during the initial onset of AIDS but even Obama wasn't for gay marriage)
So it's easy to make the leap that conservative republicans with their agenda don't help. I grew up in NC during the Jesse Helms years and it was alive and well then.
Hate crimes, beatings and murders of the LBGT community, particularly transpersons has been alive and well for a long time. This also results in high rates of homelessness and suicide for gay teens.
Imagine growing up in an environment of love and acceptance where it didn't matter. Imagine a disturbed person not hearing that and not considering homosexuals a target for murder (or anyone different for that matter).
It has gotten better and I think health care professionals are at the forefront of change. After being fired from a job in the 80's for being gay, when I became a nurse I found a culture of acceptance. The unit I started on was one that volunteered to take AIDS patients. (We didn't have a designated unit as it wasn't a huge problem like it was in New York or San Francisco). I've also felt accepted and free to be who I am.
Even people who spew out the word "tranny" or "man in a dress" I would presume are good care providers and leave that prejudice at the door.
It does concern me that politicians want to criminalize health care professionals or limit how we treat transgendered persons but that's another rabbit hole.
It's too simplistic to blame MAGA. Although it is established that the Colorado Springs murderer's grandfather was MAGA.
Tweety: If we didn't have MAGAism, we wouldn't have the right wing Christian movement who wants to be the theocrats in charge. They have donated enormous amounts of money to their Savior Trump and his unsuspecting followers. This morning, while driving home, I had a Fox radio station on (the only news stations we get are Fox and NPR. The rest are country or Christian). Dan Bogino was on. This was around 12:15 and I am quoting to the best of my memory: All Democrats are a-holes who live in their basements eating Ben and Jerry ice cream. He also postulated that his Christianity is superior ...how I do not know. But here is the penultimate example of someone who spews hatred while promoting his Christianity. This is what the MAGA's listen to. Who else could listen to a raving lunatic like this for more than a minute except an unskeptical MAGA?
Tweety: If we didn't have MAGAism, we wouldn't have the right wing Christian movement who wants to be the theocrats in charge. They have donated enormous amounts of money to their Savior Trump and his unsuspecting followers. This morning, while driving home, I had a Fox radio station on (the only news stations we get are Fox and NPR. The rest are country or Christian). Dan Bogino was on. This was around 12:15 and I am quoting to the best of my memory: All Democrats are a-holes who live in their basements eating Ben and Jerry ice cream. He also postulated that his Christianity is superior ...how I do not know. But here is the penultimate example of someone who spews hatred while promoting his Christianity. This is what the MAGA's listen to. Who else could listen to a raving lunatic like this for more than a minute except an unskeptical MAGA?
I disagree to the extent that the notion of a Christian theocracy goes back way further than trump. The European invasion of the americas was motivated, in part, by theocratic fantasies. Ditto for the preceding 500 years of war in Europe. The Enlightenment that informed our US founders was largely a reaction to it.
Christian extremists glommed onto the Republican Party and most recently, trump, because of their potential to promote theocrats’ agenda.
I disagree to the extent that the notion of a Christian theocracy goes back way further than trump. The European invasion of the americas was motivated, in part, by theocratic fantasies. Ditto for the preceding 500 years of war in Europe. The Enlightenment that informed our US founders was largely a reaction to it.
Christian extremists glommed onto the Republican Party and most recently, trump, because of their potential to promote theocrats’ agenda.
I don't think I implied that the first Christian theocracy came with Trump. Certainly, the Crusades were an example of murdering folks in the name of Christ. My intention was to address Tweety's separation of Christian theocracy from MAGAism. IMHO, they are intertwined and that was my point.
Tweety: If we didn't have MAGAism, we wouldn't have the right wing Christian movement who wants to be the theocrats in charge. They have donated enormous amounts of money to their Savior Trump and his unsuspecting followers. This morning, while driving home, I had a Fox radio station on (the only news stations we get are Fox and NPR. The rest are country or Christian). Dan Bogino was on. This was around 12:15 and I am quoting to the best of my memory: All Democrats are a-holes who live in their basements eating Ben and Jerry ice cream. He also postulated that his Christianity is superior ...how I do not know. But here is the penultimate example of someone who spews hatred while promoting his Christianity. This is what the MAGA's listen to. Who else could listen to a raving lunatic like this for more than a minute except an unskeptical MAGA?
I can't disagree.
Still in modern times there was Anita Bryant trying to get gay teachers fired in Florida and got a lot of support from conservative Christians.
In the 80's we had to deal with the so-called Moral Majority that scapegoated gay people.
In the late 90's it was the "Million Moms".
These events and attacks from the Christian right only served to unite gay people and their supporters. We've advanced quite far with wide support for Pride, with representation on television. Also politicians have come around, our Mayor was the first mayor to march in our pride and raised the flag on Pride Day here. For a while at least it looks like after the Supreme Court made gay marriage legal and the wide public support or at least tolerance for gay marriage, Republicans have surrendered that battle.
It seemed to me that we were okay until they found another scapegoat: drag queens and the transgendered community.
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And who do they donate too? It ain’t republicans getting all this money from big tech and Hollywood. It ain’t republicans swimming in FTX cash.