In Milford, NH today and the commies have put up their sexual degeneracy flags on the gazebo in the oval. When will the cultural grip of this pagan religion be released?
One positive development: the occult store went out of business. So I guess that's progress.
@REGRVR To be fair, throughout American history (even in the early years of the Republic) there have always been two major parties. Smaller ones existed, but only became significant forces when they combined into larger parties. At least that's my understanding.
@DirtyWhiteBoyz_@KellyAyotte I don't think so. There was a recent case in federal court against the City of Nashua over flags, but it doesn't exactly apply here.
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@Polimom@manson1430690@jason_schrock@I_am_Yossarian@Polimom I appreciate you, even though we often disagree. Although I would say that civil discourse isn't really about toleration so much as it is about basic human decency (disagree without being disagreeable) and a desire to arrive at consensus based on (objective) truth.
@Famos21 While this is a bastardization of the corporal works of mercy to suit a political narrative, they don't actually apply in this situation. You know what does apply? The spiritual works of mercy, especially instruct the ignorant and admonish the sinner.
@REGRVR@NHGOP Both parties need to pay for and maange their danged primaries. They're private organizations, taxpayers shouldn't have to fund their internal processes.
@travis4nh Will some people be negatively affected? Yes. Especially those unwilling or unable to adapt.
Does that mean AI will be a net negative? Heck no! It's going to be a huge net positive βΒ most people are just too caught up in hysterics (caused by Tech Bros interviews) to see it.
The Enlightenment is the very foundation of a liberal philosophy, and yet, you would probably even consider John Locke, one of the founders of the Enlightenment to be "illiberal" for stating that men are bound to the natural law of God and do not even have the freedom to destroy themselves.
Chapter II ("Of the State of Nature"), Β§6:
"But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence: though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himselfβ¦"
Or Chapter IV ("Of Slavery"), Β§22:
"Freedom then is notβ¦ a liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws: but freedom of men under government is, to have a standing rule to live byβ¦"
The reality is that a libertine culture corrodes the moral capital your esteemed liberal order needs to survive. Political self-government rests on individual moral self-government. This is why John Adams and other American founders emphasized that the Constitution was made "only for a moral and religious people."
But you just argued that none of that is wrong because it is the "promise of America" that individuals can do basically whatever they want so long as it doesn't "harm" anyone. Your libertine philosophical underpinning treats all of these things βΒ flags, an occult business, sodomy, transgenderism β as moral equals. So how is this a leap?
If what you are saying is true, there would have been no laws in early American against sodomy, fornication, masturbation, adultery, gambling, and more across all the American colonies. But, in fact, they were in perhaps every American colony (Rhode Island maybe excepted). And those laws persisted for decades (in some cases centuries).
In New Hampshire specifically, sodomy and "buggery" (bestiality) both carried the death penalty in colonial days. Adultery was slightly less offensive β it was not a death sentence, but was usually punished by standing at the gallows with a noose around the neck plus a whipping. Fornication would get you a whipping. After the American Revolution, all of these remained outlawed, although their punishments were made less severe. Would you accuse the leaders of the American founding era to be "authoritarians" for outlawing vicious behavior?
@Polimom I'm for ORDERED liberty. I am not a libertine, and I think that's a destructive ideology. Liberty is not a synonym of license. We do not have the freedom to do anything we want (nor do you believe that either, unless you are an anarchist).
@Revolutionteach I'm sure you're right. I expect very few people are actually aware of the ideologically Marxist roots of the movement they identify with. But their ignorance doesn't make the movement or their involvement in it any less revolutionary.
@Polimom Not all businesses are equal or equally valuable to the community. Some are destructive to the community. Should we shed tears over the closure of whore houses, pot dispensaries, casinos, and other businesses that prey on disorder and vice? I reject your attempt to shame me.
@Revolutionteach It is by nature political because they are demanding not just acceptance but "celebration" of their abnormal sexual desires as well as special protected class status across many areas of law and society. It's a literal cultural revolution, and it is not benign.