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hamsterjill

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

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 05:47 PM

Aug 2025

There are some on this board who find offense with everything.

When we can't freely express ourselves because we have to be too cautious of who we will offend, we are walking a tightrope.

When I saw the image in the OP, I laughed. That does not make me homophobic.

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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