Be Taken Them Websites Away

[Ativan Prescribed]

www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/25/1373224/--Gay-nerd-notices-conservative-politician-forgot-to-renew-his-website-hilariously-takes-it-over?detail=email 

Just kinda makes my day a little bit better than it was going.
Is going.
Not sure.
For sure a maybe.

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Mar 27, 2015 3:31:23 GMT 8 Ativan Prescribed said:

www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/25/1373224/--Gay-nerd-notices-conservative-politician-forgot-to-renew-his-website-hilariously-takes-it-over?detail=email 

Just kinda makes my day a little bit better than it was going.
Is going.
Not sure.
For sure a maybe.

Not all conservatives are bad, I know for a fact because I am one. Most politicians are bad though because they love to tell us how to live our lives and I hate that. Can I say hate here, I think it's applicable don't you? My conservative views are centered around less government and less interference in people's lives, live and let live! Pretty hard to argue with that huh?

[Ativan Prescribed]

It's not so much about conservatives as it is about a politician who isn't exactly LGBT friendly and a gay nerd (self described) seeing the opening and claiming that particular domain name.
That they put in and noted that he is a conservative is more of a reminder that more often than not, if you're going to find a politician who is not LGBT friendly, it's likely to be a conservative.

I don't think the article stated that all conservatives are bad. As far as less gov't interference and having a smaller gov't, who doesn't?
Liberals don't sit around planning out how every last citizen should be a gov't worker, while making those crucial decisions about just what is the best way to interfere with everyone's lives. 
Where the country is right now, is that really, there are very few politicians that anyone truly wants around anymore, they're pretty clueless in their ideas of what the people want.
More to the point is that the system that craps out politicians, forgot to let them know what the people want and that's what their job is, to see that it happens without starting a civil war.

People just want things to be right, and politicians can't seem to get the job done. Picking on them becomes fair game more often than not.

But having a self described gay nerd take over a less than LGBT friendly politician's domain because he could, is priceless. Poetic justice.

Which reminds me...
Have you been to tedcruz.com yet?   

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Clueless is right, and yes I do get you're point about the LGBT takeover, it is hilarious! Ted is another Obama, a divider only just a conservative version. He won't be going anywhere.

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Mar 27, 2015 9:12:07 GMT 8 Shan said:

Clueless is right, and yes I do get you're point about the LGBT takeover, it is hilarious! Ted is another Obama, a divider only just a conservative version. He won't be going anywhere.

Yep. We need a totally different breed of politician. Not left or right, not conservative or liberal but just a plain person with normal common sense. Yeah, :rolleyes:like that's ever gonna' happen.

[ThePhoenix]

I'm a liberal. Ironically, for the many of the very same reasons that Shan is a conservative.

Last year, one of the things I did was helping to defend the Fairness for All Marylanders Act against an attempt to repeal it by referendum. FAMA, for those who are outside Maryland, is our statewide ban on gender identity discrimination. My role was to go out in the field and lead a decline to sign campaign in Montgomery and Prince George's counties, two of Maryland's most populous jurisdictions. The chief opponent was the Republican Party, which officially endorsed the position and supplied most of the volunteers to go out and get signatures, especially in Montgomery, at one event in particular, I ended up having to intervene when one of my volunteers arrived and one of the GOP volunteers went after her very aggressively, screaming at the top of his lungs. By intervening, I very nearly got physically assaulted. I had to do some real conflict de-escalation really fast. I did end up getting the police called on me by the official Republican Party group for what turned out to be the first of six times in that two day event. It finally stopped when I went and met with the police detail commander, outed myself as an attorney, and had a nice discussion of the nuances of First Amendment law that not many people could have had. I deliberately outed myself to them as being trans* so that they would pick on me as an example of men who will use the ladies room and commit rape and make themselves look crazy in the process. And sure enough, throughout the two days, I heard them screaming at the top of their lungs about how if people didn't sign their repeal petition, they would have to contend with "men like him" in the ladies room. And by "him" they turned and pointed at me. And that as just one event.

I do not understand conservative identified LGBT people. Especially trans* people. After all, conservatives do tend to be explicitly anti-LGBT in their actions (this repeal petition and the fact that all but one Republican legislator voted against FAMA, for example) and in their official policies (the national GOP platform in 2012 repeatedly calls for opposition to gay marriage, for example). But I do respect their right to identify as conservatives. My being able to understand it is not a prerequisite for respect.

But I do wish much of the hate on the right toward people on the left would go away. We may disagree. That doesn't mean we're bad people. And it boggles my mind that I have actually had conservative folks get on my case about how the GOP is actually very pro LGBT and it is the political left that hates LGBT people. I have even found myself apologizing (albeit sarcastically) to trans* people who are conservatives for the fact that I and fellow liberals donated time and skills, subjected ourselves to misgendering, and put our safety at risk to protect them. When that has happened, I have to admit that it really pisses me off. People are usually only brave enough to do it on Facebook and that ends up with them getting unfriended.

I thank everyone her for not descending to that type of level. It is very greatly appreciated. We should be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

P.S.  I did think it was hilarious the first time I showed up at a Republican Party candidates forum, which was my first event countering them.  They asked me to sign the petition and tried to scare me with talk about how men would be in the ladies room with me.  I thought it nicely showed what was wrong with their position.

[Sisyphus]

My favorite line was that the website was being "hugged to death" by reddit. So endearing and yet, so potentially fatal.

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Apr 16, 2015 21:29:58 GMT 8 ThePhoenix said:

I do not understand conservative identified LGBT people. Especially trans* people. After all, conservatives do tend to be explicitly anti-LGBT in their actions (this repeal petition and the fact that all but one Republican legislator voted against FAMA, for example) and in their official policies (the national GOP platform in 2012 repeatedly calls for opposition to gay marriage, for example). But I do respect their right to identify as conservatives. My being able to understand it is not a prerequisite for respect. Nice job though and very brave of you! I don't go along with much of their tripe they have made conservative a bad word. I'm an independent and vote my conscience and find myself wishing for limited government and fiscal responsibility, other than that I have liberal views pertaining to many social issues within reason including LGBTI freedom and recognition just like many gays feel who are conservative on the same issues as I am. As for the two party system, both have moved so far to the opposite poles that they both just may bring the nation down with their BS. 

But I do wish much of the hate on the right toward people on the left would go away. I think that is a two way street, both sides are equally hateful and have thrown civility out the window much to the detriment of you, me and the rest of the little people.