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MineralMan

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16. Exactly. This kind of juvenile nonsense gets us exactly nowhere.

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #8)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 12:23 PM

Aug 2025

It wasn't funny in middle school, and it's not funny now. Nor is it in any way useful.

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trump Lands In Alaska, Dressed To Negotiate With Putin [View all] groundloop Aug 2025 OP

Will He Wear a Dental Dam This Time? MrWowWow Aug 2025 #1

Nice shot, sir or madame! CTyankee Aug 2025 #2

isn't funny - - (and wasn't terribly funny back in 7th grade .. ) - - -(nt)- stopdiggin Aug 2025 #3

Yes. We have to move away from middle school insults and MineralMan Aug 2025 #12

Waiting for some responses for the "this is why we lose" file. BannonsLiver Aug 2025 #4

You were correct. nt Celerity Aug 2025 #10

My response had zero to do with winning or losing. Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #14

You misread what the poster I replied to was saying. Celerity Aug 2025 #20

He named those pads Neil and Bob Martin Eden Aug 2025 #5

he brought out the big ones rurallib Aug 2025 #6

He will need to wipe off his chin before the presser RainCaster Aug 2025 #7

The art of the deal Hornedfrog2000 Aug 2025 #9

Please delete. Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #8

Where was 'gay' mentioned? I see a commentary on power/domination, in a similar vein to Celerity Aug 2025 #11

Don't play games. Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #13

I'm not playing any games. I made my stance clear. As a queer female I refuse to buy into the over-expansive use of Celerity Aug 2025 #17

But you don't get to decide that for all gays, or for DU. Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #19

Nor do you. And as stated, I do not see this OP (not made by me) as falling under the EarlG directive. Celerity Aug 2025 #23

I didn't say I got to decide - I said EarlG already has, as to what is permitted on this site. n/t Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #24

This message was self-deleted by its author Celerity Aug 2025 #28

Look at the first post of mine you responded to. I quoted EarlG, Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #31

My first reply was adressing the framing attempt and stood on it's own, as general observation. I did not use EarlG Celerity Aug 2025 #34

it is without question a slur against (male) gay sex stopdiggin Aug 2025 #42

I disagree. As stated before, it is a commentary on power and the domination of Putin over Trump. Celerity Aug 2025 #47

sure it is! and that's why all the 7th graders find it so hysterical stopdiggin Aug 2025 #50

It's about............ Celerity Aug 2025 #51

it's about 7th grade locker room humor - degradation - and cruelty stopdiggin Aug 2025 #52

I can see all sides of this argument but no one mentions that it was used against women for centuries. 58Sunliner Aug 2025 #62

I speak for no one but myself, but... Orrex Aug 2025 #35

I'm with you Celerity. Someone sucking up to a person for a power play doesn't have anything to do with being gay or BComplex Aug 2025 #37

Don't play games!111 BannonsLiver Aug 2025 #41

Exactly. This kind of juvenile nonsense gets us exactly nowhere. MineralMan Aug 2025 #16

And beyond that - Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #18

Yes, of course. MineralMan Aug 2025 #21

So are you saying, aside from the juvenile aspect Solomon Aug 2025 #25

Trump isn't a female. Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #30

or - perhaps just packing away the crude (and quite obviously homophobic) humor as a starting point? -(nt)- stopdiggin Aug 2025 #43

We are going to "offend" ourselves out of being able to talk to one another. hamsterjill Aug 2025 #48

I can laugh at crude humor (most of us can, and do) stopdiggin Aug 2025 #53

Then ignore it and move on, or alert if you feel you must. hamsterjill Aug 2025 #54

or call it out. for the public reprobation and clap back that it deserves. stopdiggin Aug 2025 #55

Where did I say you could not respond? And I have a right to criticize what I want to criticize just like you do. hamsterjill Aug 2025 #57

I believe it was fairly direct .. stopdiggin Aug 2025 #58

I think you're reaching. hamsterjill Aug 2025 #59

under no illusions about my ability to 'control' stopdiggin Aug 2025 #60

100 percent BannonsLiver Aug 2025 #56

If you think this post breaks the rules, alert on it and let a jury decide. ShazzieB Aug 2025 #38

It is in EarlG's hands now. n/t Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #39

Yeah....nt Figarosmom Aug 2025 #15

She has always been right!! aeromanKC Aug 2025 #22

Good 1 gab13by13 Aug 2025 #26

Chump's magats understand kneepads. BidenRocks Aug 2025 #27

This is offensive Orrex Aug 2025 #29

Ha! skamaria Aug 2025 #40

Doesn't want his old knees to give out during the extended ass kissing session? LudwigPastorius Aug 2025 #32

I do not see any comment on why he's wearing knee pads? vapor2 Aug 2025 #33

and you saw that as necessary .. ? stopdiggin Aug 2025 #44

Will "Seward's Folly" beome known as ultralite001 Aug 2025 #36

not a gay thing a subservience thing. nt msongs Aug 2025 #45

Gracious, wherever did those kneepads come from? Paladin Aug 2025 #46

Yup republianmushroom Aug 2025 #49

It is interesting to me as a woman who has had to live with this type of imaging/insult/degradation, 58Sunliner Aug 2025 #61

It never crossed my mind that it might be a gay sex reference. I took it as that Trump would kneel down to Putin and progree Aug 2025 #63