The Federalist: Federalism and the Constitution are bad. And Fascism is necessary.

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  1. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    @Bailey you said you'd never platform someone like Storm ever again, but you let TLS hang around.
    What gives?
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  2. matthunter

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    Well Storm had half a brain.

    TLS couldn't outwit my dog's leavings.
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  3. Ten Lubak

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    Just a dumpster fire of a human being, biggest joke I've ever encountered online
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  4. tafkats

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    If government decided to call everything a civil union and not recognize marriages at all, I'd be fine with that.

    But I'm pretty sure then the Christian Taliban would start hopping up and down like mad hens shrieking "YOU'RE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY MARRIAGE!!!!1111"
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  5. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    In the immortal words of Bradley Nowell,"Because marriage doesn't work in the world today. It's an institution that is in decay And if I have love I wish to portray, I will surely find another way. Because I was always taught that boy meets girl, Fall in love get married and forget the world. Nine months later the sweet baby's on the way, Kiss him on the cheek and life's okay."

    As someone who's been there, done that, I don't need a piece of paper, it just complicates things.
  6. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    1.I think we all make it clear that the fundamentalist nonsense TLS espouses isn't agreed with or amusing.

    2. While his views are abhorrent to me, they are unfortunately not "extreme" by many standards, with a large chunk of your country sharing them exactly.

    Part of the problem with Storm was him having a space to post here, but the even bigger problem is that every piece of shit he wrote wasn't pushed back on.
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  7. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    What a sad view, I hope you can find your way back to being less cynical about it all at some point.
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    As a Christian I agree with you. Civil unions for whoever wants them, including the gay folks. Leave marriage as a religious ceremony. Easy peasy.
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    Christianity not only doesn’t own marriage, it doesn’t even own the concept of being “tied” to one other person. Like everything else about modern American christianity, that too, was stolen from Pagans.

    Christians need to get out of the marriage business. It’s got nothing to do with the modern American Christian God.
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    Christians don't care what anyone calls a "marriage". They know what it is and what it is not.
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    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    a 50/50 "commitment"?

    For all that devoted Xianity, you guys have one of the highest divorce rates on the planet.
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  12. Jenee

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    What Christians call marriage I call financial transactions. For a “secure” life, a woman must be subservient to whatever man the parents of a 14 year old chooses for her.

    Hell for a woman.
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  14. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    After Evangelicals compared Donald Trump to King David, and one looks at David's outlook on marriage, Christians need to STFU.
    Like forever.
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  15. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    A woman has to marry her rapist as punishment for the rapist.
    The Bible isn't written by misogynist human men though.
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  16. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    Since marriage predates Christianity and basically every other religion and culture has come up with marriage seems better for us to keep Marriage as the civil institution and for you to just adopt "Legally Irrelevant Jesus Union".
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    Whatever floats your boat. What a certain segment of society is after, however, is to have homosexual unions or "marriages" recognized as morally acceptable as marriage between a man and a woman. For the vast majority of people on this planet that's just not likely to happen. Is what it is.
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  18. Jenee

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    And what does the vast majority of the people on this planet have to do with an individual’s marriage? Please point to the chapter and verse of the Bible that God says you should place the will of the majority upon individuals.
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    Not even correct in your own nation. Or the rest of the West. You might eke a win if you count the type of nations Trump called "shitholes".
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  20. Ten Lubak

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    Gay people know what their marriages are and don’t really care what morally compromised shithead Christians who kneel before Donald trump think

    You have no room to discuss morality you garbage human being. You’re pitiful and have more in common with Muslim terrorists than anything resembling a freedom loving westerner :lol:
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  21. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Why is it a sad view?
  22. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Marriage is not exclusively a religious ceremony.
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  23. TheLonelySquire

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    Bullshit.
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  24. TheLonelySquire

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    Totally freedom loving, kid. Live and let live.
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  25. Jenee

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    Freedom for you. As long as you’re free to make snide comments to complete strangers. Please point to the chapter and verse of the Bible in which God says that’s ok for you to do.
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  26. matthunter

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    Only to those used to buying into delusions.
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  27. TheLonelySquire

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    I think we know where the delusion lies.
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  28. matthunter

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    With your "wife"?
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  29. TheLonelySquire

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    No one's shaming you because you can't get a woman, Matt. Plenty of other options out there for you. ;)
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    I don't blame you for touting for business, but you'd have to pay ME more than Musk offered for Twitter.
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