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This has nothing to do with Hobby Lobby not buying their employees birth control, oh the horror!
originally posted by: vonclod
a reply to: the owlbear
Funny you keep posting about how irrelevant he is..not to you apparently
originally posted by: theantediluvian
originally posted by: LSU0408
a reply to: theantediluvian
Do you honestly think other countries like the ones you mentioned are going to look at the US and follow by example? I can remember back in the 90's when the French would be mentioned, people would associate them with weakness and girly boys and we'd always hope we' never ended up appearing like that when Americans came up in a discussion. Now we do. Russia, the UAE, those places don't see the USA as a powerhouse anymore. They sure as hell aren't going to follow our "progression." They laugh at us, America is the butt of their jokes now.
We should do the right thing because it's the right the thing to do. Whether or not they follow our example today, tomorrow or never is beside the point.
Not that it has any bearing whatsoever on the topic at hand but if you honestly believe that these countries "laugh at us," then you have no real grasp of our position in the world. Not using the threat of military intervention to dictate world affairs doesn't instantly make us weak. That's right-wing delusion that seems to arise from some feeling that the world is compromised of two sorts of people: bullies and the bullied.
Why is it that right-wingers are so obsessed with Putin? Could it be the deep-seated need for patriarchal authority? Are you jealous that we don't have the ultimate crony capitalist billionaire despot making himself rich while our nation's women sell themselves on websites for citizenship in other countries?
originally posted by: NthOther
So let me get this straight:
Something is good or bad depending on who's doing it?
Rednecks discriminating against gays is bad, but Muslims doing it is ok?
Moral relativism run amok. Nothing makes any sense anymore, by design.
You're confusing the North Carolina "bathroom law" with the Mississippi law (HB 1523).
originally posted by: LSU0408
a reply to: Grimpachi
The rights to buy a ticket with your hard earned money and attend the concert you bought your tickets for which happen to be a has-been pop star that decides "eh, # it. I've decided not to play."
Now whoever called in to their job or changed plans to attend this show are put out.
originally posted by: LSU0408
Imagine a powerhouse like Russia drawing a red line for Ukraine and telling them they better not cross that line and then Ukraine crosses it and Russia steps back and tells them not to do it again, to which Ukraine doesn't listen and nothing happens. America has a bark, but no longer a bite.
originally posted by: ReprobateRaccoon
a reply to: jjkenobi
I don't consider "we're better than them" to be a valid argument.
He has his beliefs, and I respect him for sticking to them.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
We're all hypocrites in one way or another. Perhaps he thinks he actually has a chance of affecting the legal system here and knows that other country's laws are not our business...
In any case, I'd boycott a state because of their laws in my own country and would be less likely to try to affect change in other countries.