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He is not just some asshole punk. He is a dangerous fanatic, a threat to domestic tranquility. He needs to be more than disdained by right thinking Americans. He needs to be treated as the subvertrr of democracy and American principles that he is.

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Please never again put Rufo and "clever" within about 100 words of each other. What he does isn't clever. Nothing the right does is clever. It is basically just "fuck you we're going to just make up some bullshit" and have a bunch of assholes politician and liars promote it, a bunch of idiots eat it up, and have the media duly report it so that bullshit becomes "reality". Nothing remotely clever about it. We just live in a deeply stupid country where their bullshit "works".

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Because if you don't stamp this out RIGHT FREAKING NOW STOMP STOMP STOMP, then there's a chance little Chad or Karen might come down with a bad case of Teh Ghey since their impressionable little minds don't know any better. Don't you remember when you were a child, and having crushes on (whatever gender/s were appropriate for your orientation), how easily someone could have suggested to you to become something different and you would have just gone and done it, chopped off your bitty peener or boobies you didn't even have yet and then been STUCK FOR LIFE?!? And then your poor upstanding xtian parents would have been D-E-D of shame for not protecting you. Or birthing a gay/trans kid, whichever.

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https://uploads.disquscdn.c... This is a baby picture of New Kitten. He has the vets and techs so terrorized that they sedate him for blood work. He just growls the whole time and is so strong and agile that they can’t hold him down. All because he remembers what they did to his private parts!

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Oh, but that school that baptised a hundred kids without their parent's permission OR KNOWLEDGE a week or so back wasn't grooming or indoctrinating, nosirree "Bob".

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Okay, so I live around the corner from Early to Bed in Chicago, and it is this straight white middle aged married mom's FAVORITE sex shop. It is femme-centered, and the staff, including the wonderful pink-haired lesbian that owns it, are without exception lovely people who are both extremely helpful and also discreet, so if it's clear you're looking for something specific they can help, but if you're just browsing they leave you alone. I've never been in another porn shop where I felt safe to look around, rather than grab what I'm there for and get the hell out. The porn they do have is mostly directed and produced by women, and their selection of really anything you could possibly want is unparalleled. 10/10, can't recommend highly enough.

So fuck this guy sideways for putting my city's preeminent children's hospital and sex shop in his mouth.

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The "conservative" rightwingnuts love to frighten children, and endanger them, so why not attack a hospital full of sick children?

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Nah. He's just discovered a *really* lucrative grift and knows exactly what buttons to push to keep the ameros coming. He's a con man and nothing more. Waste no tears on supposed trauma - he ain't worth it.

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I thought I recognized the name.

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What exactly do republicans think is the appropriate response when a kid comes out in school? Tell them they’re going to Hell? Mock and ridicule them? Tell the class bully’s to go have it and start beating them?

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What I love about the film is that NO ONE is upset that she has a vibrator. And the black guy she brings home? "Oh, so you're going to be a doctor! (HINT HINT)"

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I have never threatened Rufo, but I’m tempted.

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Unfortunately, yes, that's exactly what they think would be appropriate.

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Discovery Institute is more responsible than anyone else for the current epidemic of biological illiteracy in schools with their promotion of 'Intelligent Design' in all its various permutations. A decade ago I asked my nephew, who was in 9th grade in the Michigan public schools, if he had any questions about evolution since I was sure they weren't covering it well. It was worse than I thought, he said, "Evolution? What's that?" To avoid dealing with the issues they didn't even mention it in the curriculum.

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I cannot comment on this without getting banned. It was a specific point in time and a specific nose that was targeted. The results were maybe okay at the time, but I never understood why it happened.

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God help these nut jobs when they realise Disney's Mulan (animated) shows the titular character binding her breasts in order to pass as a male soldier.

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