That post kind of reminds me of something a dispatcher over at the cab company told me last year.Meadmaker wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:00 pmOk. I'm still not absolutely certain, but I think I get it. I'll try.President Bush wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 1:11 pm Guess I didn't say it well. You seem to be placing the world of legitimate policy options way in extreme Trump territory.
You know, as if the idea of deporting twelve million people from the country or looking at teenagers and wondering what genitals they have were examples of independent thinking.
I think you are saying that deporting twelve million people is an extreme Trump position, but I am saying it's a mainstream, independent position. I am saying, according to you, that such a policy would appeal to independents. Have I got your position right?
It's a little bit hard to parse, because I'm saying that I think that you think that I think the majority of Americans think that it would be a good idea to deport illegal aliens. That sentence, by the way, is grammatically correct and says what I wanted it to say, but it's really hard to understand, so I'll try to say the idea in a more comprehensible manner.
Most Americans think illegal aliens have no right to be in this country. Most people think that it is ridiculous that so many people have been allowed into our country illegally. We want it stopped. Some of us recognize that there are so many people who are here illegally that mass deportation, while morally justified, isn't practical, and so we have to come up with plan B that is going to involve some form of amnesty. Others of us haven't really thought about it that much. I am saying that tightening border security and deporting illegal aliens as much as it is practical to do so is not an extreme Trump position. It's mainstream thought. If you don't realize that is how most people think, you're living in a media bubble.
Moving on to "looking at teenagers and wondering what sort of genitals they have."
I'm always amused at the ways people try to frame the issue, but, at least in a literal sense, yes, people do that. When someone crosses the finish line three seconds ahead of the rest of the pack in a 200 meter race, or spikes a volleyball at 50 miles per hour, people wonder if that person is really a girl. "Is she really a girl?" is a polite way of saying, "Does she have a penis?" So, yes. We do that. Mainstream people do that. It's not an extreme Trump position to say that biological males should not be allowed in girls' sports.
So, yes, I am saying that independent thinking people are opposed to males in girls' sports, and if you want to say that means we are thinking about what genitals teenagers have, you are correct. I will let you expound, if you so choose, on why you prefer to talk about what genitals they have instead of saying what sex they are, but the meanings are identical, and I'm not a prude, so either one is ok by me. As one fourteen year old girl appearing at a school board meeting in Virginia put it, "Everyone knows what a girl is. Even you." When she said that, she wasn't expressing an extreme Trump opinion.
If you don't believe that's a mainstream position that makes a difference to independent voters, you are living in a media bubble.
But there was a simple explanation for it. Turns out a bunch of the promoted posts in his news feed were ads for unscented cat litter instead of gay porn like back when he drove nights.