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Well I can understand your POV as a non-American. You made your bed, suckers, now lie in it.

Pretty clearly a shameless cut and paste from some kind of vile Q source.

That would be Covid, Schmovid.

I think Biden's love of Amtrak is charming. A lost cause but charming because Americans are so insanely married to car culture. Politicians say a lot of things before they say something entirely opposite. Look at what Moscow's darling JD Vance used to say about Trump.

In a rare case, you could be on to something. I assume the Covid is real but so is Adam Schiff favored to become a California senator and close ally of Nancy Pelosi's public call for Biden to withdrawal from the nomination. Schiff doing that is a big deal. Biden can't drop out too soon after the assassination attempt because the optics of dropping out being related to that would be very bad. He also won't do it before the end of the republican convention. But it does seem at this moment anyway, that what seemed like Biden holding stubbornly firm could well be slipping away. Yes if he does, for better or worse, we'll probably be stuck with Harris. But Harris with a decent VP instead of Trump's VP pick which was celebrated in the enemy capitol Moscow with glee, puts the democrats on at least an even chance to stop the maga fascist takeover.

Supreme court reform and an amendment to counter what SCOTUS did to make presidents all powerful monarchs are both great issues going forward for democracy, Biden or not.

Insane Qanon garbage!

You're wrong and the shooter was a flippin republican. The side inciting violence is the maga fascist side.

A fair point but I'm honest enough to say I don't have a great solution. It sickens me how so many people harbor irrational hatred and ignorance towards trans people. I don't have a solution for the Israel Palestinian conflict either.

Interesting. If you travel a lot it would be hard to avoid. Have you been to Malaysia or Singapore? I think Singapore changed their law though. Malaysia got worse.

Yeah scapegoating trans people is popular.

Would you say that about racial or religious minorities?

So you want a dictatorship then.

FAKE NEWS

Traveling to places where homosexuality is illegal: a guide (advocate.com) I'm sure many of you have travelled to places with anti gay laws including being criminalized. I certainly have. You may have (or probably have) broken the laws there as well. It wouldn't be prudent for me to comment further on that. But, there are other very good reasons to travel to countries other than the gay aspect. However, if you're travelling with a boyfriend or same sex spouse, it's a real sticky wicket and better not book a one bed room. I wouldn't travel to any country with the death penalty for gay stuff but on the other hand I had a very unpleasant experience with homophobia in a country with OK laws. Namely in Mexico, namely in Puerto Vallarta a very gay popular resort but at a very wrong hotel. So what are your experiences and feelings on this issue?

Sometimes you just want to indulge in a short entertainment. Instead of movie or binging a mini series, a short film, or two or three. Youtube is a great source for LGBTQ content short films. The quality varies of course. If it's crap you can just switch it off. But for short films, it doesn't stop at youtube. Not everything is on youtube. Some of the best ones aren't on youtube. So where to go? Shhh: gay-torrents Also compilations of festival stuff. An example of a fairly decent one:

I absolutely agree that the rights of all need to be considered. As stated before I don't see a general solution to this issue that doesn't make one side winners and one side losers.

I'm aware of Thai food customs.

Who is that in the picture?

No it isn't in this case. Read the flippin' article. It's a legit legal conflict specific to the state of New York. As far as you falsely projecting about what I think in general about trans people competing in sports, you didn't read the thread. I took no position.

I'm not complaining. I like it.

You getting hungry? Just did a Chinese take out meal three dishes plus rice for 12 dollars have leftovers of course would cost 70 dollars easy delivered in the U.S. Do not complain about Thailand. Not enough? Order more flippin' food.

It's all rice. Weigh the amount of meat in a pad krapow rice. It's almost nothing. Easily three or four, in some cases five of six if you're looking at the protein.

Reportedly the restaurant price inflation in the U.S. especially for deliver has reached obscene levels. Thailand is now a huge bargain compared to there. So happy to live in Thailand.

Asian food is meant to be shared with multiple dishes.