Cory1848

50 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

I support privately funded abortions for any reason up to twelve weeks, and publicly funding at any point in the pregnancy for women at serious risk to their physical life. 

 

At one point in a pregnancy do you consider it a baby?

 

 

Your views on abortion are certainly not as extreme as the views of men (and some women) passing new laws (or reviving old ones) in many states. I don’t consider a fetus to be a “baby” until it’s born, but this is to some degree a matter of semantics. Also, because I’m a man and am incapable of getting pregnant, and thus am clueless about what it feels like to have something growing inside me and what effect that has on a person, physically and emotionally, I am unqualified to say. I would leave the question of whether it’s a “fetus” or a “baby” entirely up to the woman and trust her instincts, and grant her the right to make her own decisions accordingly.

I think you may be mistaken about the primary source of Planned Parenthood’s income; here are a few links if you’re interested.

https://www.supertalk.fm/where-does-planned-parenthood-get-its-money/

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/planned-parenthood-fact-v-fiction

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

Does Planned Parenthood not provide free prenatal care? 

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

 

Several states have defunded Planned Parenthood, meaning blocking the organization from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. So, no, if the organization is financially insolvent, then it can’t provide prenatal care. The bigger issue is doctors not treating women whose pregnancies are complicated, for fear that they’ll be prosecuted should the pregnancy not result in childbirth; these women’s lives are thus put at risk.

Elsewhere you referred to abortion as “killing babies”; I don’t know whether your view in that regard is based on your perception of medical science or some religious conviction, but I concede that it’s your right to hold such belief. But I do hope that you would allow primacy to doctors to do what’s needed to protect the life of an expectant woman whose pregnancy may be complicated, even if that required aborting her fetus, especially if the fetus is unlikely to survive once born (as is often the case in such circumstances).

8 hours ago, placeholder said:

Interesting ideas? Really? How many people would be able to post a bond of $150,000? And this comment "If abortions are illegal but an abortion occurs, the man who impregnated the woman should be equally liable to prosecution." is an interesting idea? I love the part about the man being equally liable to prosecution". Given that the woman has died, that would mean no prosecution at all. Or maybe they dig up her body and put her on trial again? Of course, that's just a minor stupidity. Holding one person responsible for the independent choices of another is obviously nonsensical. And Cory1848's comment about punishing someone for impregnating a woman in a state with lack of access to medical care, while obviously nuts in itself, does go far to showing the real motivations behind the anti-abortion movement.Namely, it's the states that restrict and punish abortion most harshly are those that offer the lowest support for women needing neonatal care. Which just goes to show that the real motivation behind the antiabortion legislation is not about concern for the fetus, but about punishing women

I’m not entirely sure what your point was in parts of your post; my initial proposals may sound insane, especially to men who are used to having their way, but my basic point is that men are equally at fault for an unwanted pregnancy (in cases of rape and some other circumstances, they are 100 percent at fault), and if they were held equally responsible by the law, then men in power might not be so quick to push antiabortion legislation. And in states that have eliminated abortion rights, the lack of prenatal care extends to doctors who are now reluctant to treat pregnant women, fearing prosecution should the pregnancy fail for whatever reason. The expectant father, meanwhile, has already moved on, maybe with a new girlfriend. It’s sickening, and, as you say, it’s all about punishing women (or keeping them in their place).

26 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Interesting ideas.

 

How about BOTH parents post an equal bond? The money to be used for the child's welfare either if raised by the parents or raised by the state. 

Yes, both parents could post an equal bond, that would be fair in most cases. I’d be in favor of that. My basic point is, in all of this new illegalization of abortion, legislators talk about punishing the women, the doctors, the clinics dispensing care and advice, the Uber drivers -- everyone but the men (expectant fathers) who are at least equally responsible for the pregnancy to begin with. If proposals for punishing the men were ever to gain traction in the courts, I’m sure that legislators, judges, priests, etc., mostly men themselves, would be far more reluctant to advocate antiabortion measures.

6 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Do you oppose the politics of Sudan ?

Do you oppose any other Countries politics, or is it just Israel whom you oppose ?

Exactly. If students are protesting their university’s investments in the defense industry, specifically companies involved in arms deliveries to Israel, they have every right to do that; it’s their money (or their family’s money). And I don’t believe there are any universities in the US who have a financial stake in arming either of the generals who are currently destroying Sudan (though I could be wrong ...). But beyond that, so many people are laser-focused on the bad behavior of the Israeli state who don’t care a hoot about Ukraine or Sudan (or who can’t find Tigray or Xinjiang or Burma or Kivu on a map), that one begins to wonder why ...

5 hours ago, Dcheech said:

Still it took WWII to give the jews the population to actually make Israel a state. That because Euro's went full genocide kill crazy. The jews who survived the blood slaughter did not want to return to that cursed continent. The rest is history. Old history.

 

Exactly. After the Holocaust, and given the preceding two millennia of antisemitism and pogroms, the Jewish people deservedly had earned their own state, where they could have control over their own security. And where else could it have been other than where it is now? Silesia? Madagascar (where the Nazi leadership proposed sending European Jews)? Long Island, New York?

Israel has made peace with two immediate neighbors as well as Turkey and a few Gulf states, and has working relationships with other Gulf states and Muslim states elsewhere. What’s preventing further progress is extremism on both sides.

11 hours ago, Hawaiian said:

More than just sad.  The Brits had better do something pretty quick before the religious fanatics take over.  I"ll leave to your imagination as what should be done.

Well, from what I see online, people who identify as “Muslim” make up 6.5 percent of the UK population, and the number of those who hold fanatical beliefs would be much less, so to hyperventilate about “[Muslim] religious fanatics taking over” seems excessive. That said, the large numbers of UK Muslims who sympathize with Hamas and deny their attack on Israel is indeed alarming. This, however, speaks more to the growing influence of disinformation more generally, not only in the UK but around the world. There would be ways to counter that disinformation and educate people, which might require some patience but would be far preferable to the mass deportations that you advocate (I assume, in your veiled threat: why not just say what’s on your mind?), and all the human misery and violence such deportations would entail.

18 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

In other words marriage is a flexible term meaning that 2 people have committed to take care of / support each other.

 

As said 2 people. 

Marriage as an institution is not flexible: it comes with well-defined legal rights and obligations, as well as societal expectations regarding the nature of the commitment between two married people. But it should be available to any two people who want to make that commitment to each other. As more and more countries around the world are starting to accept.

16 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

please re read the badly worded article: She describes her child alternatively as a daughter and a son and then is she living with and ex male or an ex female!?

it is not at all clear!

I am making no comment about intersex marriage but about the article's lack of clarity.

I have also commented/asked about how Thailand will identify sex change persons on their ID Cards!

OK, granted, it may be the wording of the article and not your analysis that’s at fault -- I didn’t focus on that part of the article, and the details are a bit convoluted. But the important thing is, at least as reported in the article, they seem happy together.

11 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

Dunno, but while I perceive a two females in a relationships as enticing and delicately scented, the sodomy, pillar of male Gay love, makes me feel sick. 

Thank you for sharing.

On 3/23/2024 at 3:16 PM, beautifulthailand99 said:

I concede that point it was idle musing of work in progress, and your points are correct and well-made. If we wanted to make a chain of connection, the CIA funded and supported the Mujahedin and Bin Laden in the war against the Russians in Afghanistan and ISIS was born in the chaos of the US war in Iraq -second iteration. The blowback from that mistake continues to this day.

Quite right -- the US has a long history of making foreign policy errors based on perceived political needs, miscalculation, or just plain hubris. I don’t think that applies to eastern Europe after the fall of communism, however -- the eastern Europeans (including Ukraine) all clamored to join Western institutions on their own accord. While the US and other Western allies welcomed these nations if they qualified, the initiative was entirely on the part of the eastern Europeans themselves; they chose their own future.

If this was upsetting to the Russians, too bad; the realignment was never intended to pose a threat, and in fact Russia under progressive leadership should be more than welcome to cooperate with and even join the same Western institutions. This would certainly go far toward preventing tragedies like the recent terrorist shooting, with the sharing of intelligence etc. Such cooperation might be a ways off still, but we have to aim for it ...

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

What I would really like to know is why are such a significant number of ladyboys so troubled in terms of mental health? It's just unbelievable how many stories you read about ladyboy theft, ladyboy violence, ladyboy this, ladyboy that. What is the story? 

 

I am very grateful when I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and am completely content with my sexuality, and I would imagine it has to be very difficult to deal with those kinds of issues on a daily basis. So, to some extent I can understand some of the challenges, but it seems like Pattaya is the world center of mentally challenged ladyboys, who are really poorly adjusted, and not making much of a contribution to society. 

 

Am I wrong, am I seeing this from a warped perspective? 

Couple of things perhaps. For one, every time a ladyboy flies off the handle, you read about it; every time a ladyboy *doesn’t* fly off the handle, you don’t read about it, because it’s not newsworthy. What’s the expression -- if it bleeds, it leads.

And for another, it may be that sex work itself -- whether the sex worker is a woman, a man, or a trans person -- produces its own kind of pressure and leads to a volatile personality. I don’t live in a part of Thailand known for sex tourism, and I see trans women (or ladyboys as many here would prefer) every day, working in normal jobs, like anyone else. I’m sure that most are just as comfortable with their sexuality as you or I.

8 hours ago, Walker88 said:

A thrice married, serial philandering, hush-money paying, pathologically lying, convicted sex offender, convicted fraudster, alleged thief and wildly boastful Narcissist…yep, that’s our guy.

 

Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth…donny’s got the Seven Deadlies covered, and arguably he’s 9 for 10 violating the Commandments.

Which of the Commandments has he not yet broken? -- I guess he hasn’t killed anyone with his own bare hands, though indirectly he might be responsible for more than a few deaths ...

1 hour ago, Bundooman said:

Maybe, the best thing that can happen for Biden is that Trumpy gets immunity from the SCOTUS.

Because if Presidents are immune to prosecution - Biden can personally and legally kill Trump in whatever manner he wishes - and be immune as well!

Biden could then relinquish the Presidency - and the USA would be saved!

Yes? 

An interesting idea. Like a meme that made the rounds when Trump was still president and Elizabeth still the queen -- the meme claimed that, thanks to some medieval English law still on the books, the English monarch had the right to dispatch any visitor with a broadsword should the visitor be deemed “damaging to the monarchy.” (Trump did visit the UK and met with Elizabeth.)

1 hour ago, ALLSEEINGEYE said:

was a good segment on John Oliver about Boeing recently as well. Give it a watch

I saw that -- really informative, and really funny, too. Lays bare the excesses of unrestrained, unregulated capitalism.

On 3/11/2024 at 3:01 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

To be fair, look at the media from many other countries.

Stories about all those bad immigrants and tourists and common.

Look at all those bad foreigners! 😉 

 

You’re not kidding. The demonization of foreigners in the US and many European countries for purely political purposes (i.e., finding someone to blame) is widespread. All things considered, Thailand remains one of the world’s more tolerant and welcoming societies.

16 minutes ago, G_Money said:

 Still no nominations because no one could go through what he has and is going through

Well, OK, there’s JFK, shot in the head and bled to death next to his wife, in the prime of his life. That’s literal pressure, in the form of a bullet to the brain, due to no fault of his own. Basta with your inane little parlor game and crocodile tears for a crook.