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1. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Are you kidding. Many women are sick and tired of the excessively manly man and would appreciate a man who is just person with male “equipment” and no macho attitude. Granted, some women still like the domineering male for some reason but there are plenty of those who like the less obnoxious non-ahole types

2. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Having been in a gay bar once for a theatre party, I can tell you right now there were guys in there I would never call a sissy unless I wanted the cr@p beat out of me.

   I used to live in a city with an NFL team and a gay coworker told me of sometimes seeing a few NFL players in the downtown gay bar. The stereotype that all gay men are effeminate is BS. My late uncle was hardly effeminate, at least not around the family and I doubt other times as well.

3. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   For those who don’t know, as Dflak points out, woke comes out of the black community. It was taught as a warning to their community members when outside the black community. Be “woke” and aware of your surroundings. It was a defense mechanism needed to keep them safe when in potentially unfriendly surroundings. It probably goes back to the days when a black man could be lynched for simply looking at a white woman. It may be less needed today but is probably still good advice.

   And as Dflak also points out, it has been twisted by the right to be something bad. I mean, isn’t it awful that woke people care about all their fellow citizens? Isn’t it terrible that woke people think everyone should have an equal chance to achieve the American dream? Heaven knows those are terrible goals. /s The reason some on the Right resent it is because they see life as a zero-sum game. The only way someone can get ahead is for someone else to lag behind. It does not have to be that way. We can all advance equally if we all have the same chances.

4. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   You forget a third group. There are those who ignore the mainstream media and instead go to the propaganda sites such as Fox, Newsmax, OAN, and others.

5. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   DEI is not dying a quiet death. It is being murdered by politicians who do not like the people that these programs help and promote. Research has shown that companies with strong DEI programs outperform their competition without such programs. Here is an article that describes nine benefits to a strong DEI program: insightglobal.Com/blog/why-dei-is-important/ No, DEI is not dying. It is having the life squeezed out of it by government threats to those companies that have DEI programs.

6. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   I think it would be more accurate to say that modern society does not like males acting like arrogant, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals today. Some men seem to think they need to be able to club a woman over the head and drag her back to his cave in order to prove he is a manly sort of man. Rubbish!

   Me? I don’t work out and have never been “buff.” I cry at things that make me sad and I don’t feel the least bit unmanly for doing so. I feel human, a quality that I share with every other person on the planet regardless of gender, skin color, or anything else that tries to make us different when we are not different.

7. about 13 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Would you be so kind as to present evidence or a source of evidence to back up your claim of A) Biden administration corruption, and B) how the Biden adminstration thwarted a fair election. Your guy won (even if after three elections he still has not won 50% of the popular vote).

   Based on history, I don’t think the economy being thrown into recession is a betterment. That is what the economists are predicting (again) based on the stated economic plans of the incoming administration. But if you are extremely wealthy (which I am not), then maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe all you are looking for to improve your lot in life is a huge tax cut, but then only if you are already obscenely rich. The rest of us get a smaller, shorter=lived tax cut than the billionaire club.

8. about 13 hours ago on Doonesbury

   I fear we will be seeing more and more of that. Trump has been threatening the media, especially those that criticize him. Not unlike Disney settling the very winnable $15 millon defamation lawsuit. They paid up rather than annoy the incoming Trump administration.

9. about 13 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Almost all lawyers agree that it was a slam-dunk for ABC to win that case Trump filed. And the folks at ABC News are furious with Disney for folding like a cheap card table on the matter. The thinking is that with all the bullying threats Trump has made against the media that Disney did not want to chance having “problems” with the incoming Trump administration. So they paid rather than litigate an easily winnable case.

   Regarding the jury in the E. Jean Carrol trial, where did you find the political affiliation of all the jurors in that trial? Or are you just blowing smoke to justify what you see as an unfair decision? I would like to know your source for saying the jury was all Democrats and the usual right-wing “news” outlets don’t count. We know that Fox News will lie since they coughed up three-quarters of a billion dollars to Dominion Voting Systems for knowingly lying about them. And I do not trust Newsmax, OAN, or any of the other highly biased sources like them as well.

10. about 14 hours ago on Doonesbury

    Why would you not get an answer. Saying people have empty lives is insulting and it was directed to a very large number of people on this forum.

    You insult people further by assuming you know that I and others come here specifically to insult people. I do not. My comments are usually in the furtherance of how I see the truth and to correct what I see as falsehoods or missatements of fact. And I almost always try to do it civilly. I pretty much never resort to the childish name-calling, sadly, found on both sides of the debate.

    And yes, I did insult you with my initial comment but it was simply giving you back a dose of your own medicine.