HeloDude

I thought you were talking about how bad it was for a man to abandon his child…well, it’s the same thing a woman does when she leaves an infant on the door step of a fire station.

Women can abandon their newborns without persecution…they’re called Safe Haven Laws. All I ask is that men have the same rights as women. We can discuss the morality piece separately if you’d like. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/parenting/2019/09/13/safe-haven-laws-things-you-didnt-know-surrendering-newborn/2031516001/

Morally it’s sickening, I agree with you. But the reality is that this (partially) is what’s happening. So if nothing else, call people out for their hypocrisy…and there’s plenty of it to go around.

Gotcha…so once again, progressives prove that abortion has nothing to do with choice. Dave Chappelle said it best when he said if women can kill the baby then the man should be able to abandon them.

Does every state that legalizes abortion also have this “paper abortion” process for males? And if so, is it as easy as going into a clinic pregnant and leaving a few hours later not pregnant?

This is a good thing. After all, we lost Afghanistan because we masked advanced degrees during two different eras while engaged in OIF.

How to make something go from bad to worse.

Well, the TVA (or somebody?) decided that it was ok to turn off the power to people’s homes but not for an NFL football game. Now I’m not so naive to think that there aren’t large differences between killing someone’s power at their home during rolling blackouts vs having to reschedule an entire NFL game, but the optics aren’t good. https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/12/25/wow-thats-ridiculous-outraged-tennesseans-endure-blackouts-freezing-temps-while-titans-nissan-stadium-remains-fully-powered/

And yet hardly anything today about it on the “mainstream” news.

The left won’t even use the term illegal immigrant/alien, even though 15-25 years ago they did…so, I think that’s your answer.

He’s gone

If you’re for seatbelt mandates and not for banning motorcycles then your hypocrisy is showing. And last I checked, you can still wear a seatbelt even if the government didn’t make it punishable by law if you don’t wear one.

So Biden literally colluded with Russia for political gain…

The dude literally was speaking in generalities about felons being able to reintegrate into our society by getting a job they would have been able to get before their felony…so I asked him if he would be ok with hiring a certain kind of a felon for a certain kind of job. Not sure if you know what a strawman is, but asking a question within the bounds of the general argument is not a strawman. Had he had only said “I’m ok with pilots who are convicted felons going back to flying commercial airplanes” and I reply “So you must be ok with hiring a convicted child molester to watch your kids”…then that would have been a strawman.

You/your spouse has never paid someone to watch your children…like a baby sitter? Do you homeschool as well? If so, good on you…but most people have allowed their children at one point or another to be in the care of someone else who is not a close friend/family member. And I don’t know anyone who would be ok with allowing a convicted murderer, rapists, or child molester to be in care of their children. Likewise I think we can find adequate applicants, who have not been convicted of violent crimes, to professionally fly planes with passengers.

Not at all. Dude literally said he didn’t care if someone is a former felon wrt hiring for a job. I then asked him if he will hire a specific type of felon for a specific type of job.

Would you pay to have a convicted child molester watch your young children?

Well, let’s see…I would prefer someone who: 1. Doesn’t want to ban AR-15s and similar type sporting rifles 2. Doesn’t want to require backgound checks for private sales…and essentially then creating a registry 3. Didn’t support Bernie Sanders 4. Didn’t endorse Joe Biden 5. Doesn’t support ending cash bail 6. Doesn’t support raising the federal min wage to $15/hr (pre-covid btw) 7. Doesn’t support forcing businesses to provide for family paid sick leave, etc 8. Doesn’t support “free” college…ie forcing taxpayers to pay someone else’s tuition 9. Doesn’t want forced closure of existing nuclear power plants 10. Doesn’t support “Medicare for all” …I can go on, if you’d like? As for who I would support…ummm, a lot of people over her. Rand Paul? Ron DeSantis? Chris Sununu? Nikki Haley?

Unless she’s drastically changed her position on the issues, that’s a hard pass for me. https://www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-the-issues/tulsi-gabbard/

1) He’s a convicted felon? 2) Don’t care, doesn’t change my original statement…it’s an issue of risk. How many violent criminals are repeat offenders? We can have a discussion about prison/sentencing reform, judicial reform, rehabilitation, etc (probably better on a different thread), but as a business owner, you should do what’s best for the business, and that includes risk management.

If two applicants are more/less exactly the same wrt experience/qualifications for a job, and one is a convicted felon and one is not, why would an employer hire the felon? I sure as hell wouldn’t.

Classic—thanks man.

Famous line from the leftists: “No one wants to take your guns away.”

If 20 years is “predatory”, then what isn’t? 18 years, 16 years?…10 years? And young people sign contracts/documents that can change their lives all the time…a regular enlistment, purchasing a house, a school loan, changing your genitals, you name it. You’re either an adult (who can vote for a president with the ability to destroy nations), or you’re not. It’s not that young people don’t often know what they’re signing…it’s just that at the time they’re ok with it. How many people are happy when they get married vs those who get divorced. It’s a future-them problem.