No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others.
You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all.
Enough!
If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists.
If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized.
For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent.
It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.
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Hi Gary, sorry to keep ratioing you, and I suspect I will do it again.
I only had to listen to 29 seconds to put this together because you revealed yourself by calling Reform the "far-right party". Perhaps after 29 seconds there is some sense in there, maybe I'll come back to it, anyway....
Let me first say, I am not a huge fan of Reform, but I am also not a fan of branding everything you dislike as far-right.
Far-right politics, historically, means authoritarianism, racial supremacy, political violence, suppression of opposition and/or rejection of democracy itself. Agreed?
So Reform then, well they support elections, free speech, lower taxes, border control and reducing the size of the state. You can dislike those ideas all you want, but they are mainstream positions held by millions of voters across democratic countries.
Ironically Gary, or perhaps not, but parts of the modern far-left openly flirt with some of what you have branded:
- Censorship and deplatforming
- Punishing dissent
- Political intimidation
- Opponents as morally illegitimate (what you are doing here lad)
- Expanding state control
You can see this in support for speech laws, attempts to silence academics and journalists, aggressive cancellation campaigns and the belief that certain views should be excluded from public debate entirely.
Please stop this stunted intellectual crusade, it is embarrassing. We know the agenda, you just want to expand the state, give more control to incompetency and loot the voters.
Init.
I will never understand how an entire generation got brainwashed into thinking kids are a burden instead of a blessing.
Being a mom is the most important & beautiful job a woman can have.
> spend 20 years studying a philosophy about not letting your emotions control you
> build a career teaching it to other people
> get emotional at a 30 second video of the daughter of the guy you don’t like
best argument against stoicism is its biggest evangelist
Summing up the British approach to Iran here:
1) US asks to use British bases, we say no.
2) Tell everyone we weren't involved and hope they leave us alone.
3) oh dear, they didn't leave us alone. They're shooting missiles at us.
4) claim that the only way to stop this and protect British citizens is to destroy the missiles at source.
5) allow the Americans to use our bases to destroy the missiles at source.
6) refuse to help destroy the missiles at source, even though we just said destroying them at source is the only way to end the threat to British citizens.
7) tell everyone we're not involved and hope they'll leave us alone.