Ban gay football players?

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

This guy can't be serious.

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

You know really grinds my gears...

These self-aggrandizing a-holes who get press for making these completely asinine statements that are not part of a rational discourse.

It also pisses me off they are calling him a "republican" lobbyist. By it's very nature a lobbyist needs to get votes to win their issue and if you're at all successful this means being able to find consensus or at least 50+1. Doesn't make much sense to hire a lobbyist who can only get a majority of the votes in one chamber because he's so polarizing no member of the opposite party would vote for him.

Partyb · Posted: Feb 26, 2014 9:16 am Post subject:

Okie,
If you are so politically conscious, as your volume of politically based threads suggests, why would you fuel the fire of this BS? Do you really think that his proposal has a chance of becoming law? No? Then you are just as bad as the attention seeking media. You are simply giving ammo to a moron.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Partyb, if something like this was completely ignored and became law, would you be upset that it was never brought up in media or other forms of communication like this forum?

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Nor*Cal, good point.

Swass · Soul Rider Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 427

Silly rabbits. He knows very well that it has no chance. He's just pandering to his ultra right wing conservative whack job constituents.

Now he can say, "well, I tried."

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Can a lobbyist benefit from this approach like someone in Congress would?

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Okie Boarder, sure. He just made national media, and the far-right-wing-religious nutters will eat this sh*t up.

So, I'm sure he thanks you for reprinting his clickbait/troll story, as it now has a wider audience and more SEO/Google linking.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

I can see that as being beneficial, from a PR standpoint, to some extent. You would think this could hurt a lobbyist by being too one-sided...kind of along the lines of what Nor*Cal was saying regarding legislation.

Swass · Soul Rider Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 427

I get the impression that Okie wouldn't mind so much if this actually passed.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

No, I would mind if it passed.

Partyb · Posted: Feb 27, 2014 10:12 am Post subject:

Okie,
Every conscious voter must take some responsibility for separating the BS from the real issues. There is quite a bit of grey area, but this is not one of those cases. The only reason to repost this BS is either if you support it, or if you want to create a stir or attention. As this is absolutely the last place for someone to try and get attention on political issues, I can only assume you support this ahole. I guess there is a third option, that you are one of the folks that are so dim that you can not actually understand that this guy is an ahole and only trying to garner attention. Which is it okie? Because not only do I support equal rights, I also support not spreading the word of idiots for no reason and wasting good bandwidth better suited for pictures of my gf's ass.

Let me repeat, you are not some do-gooder founding father exposing discrimination and bad political deeds and preventing political injustice in this instance, you are not preventing this morons ideas from becoming law; you are simply adding to the problem. Thanks and thanks from my gay attorney sister who slept overnight on the lobby floor and waited for hours and hours watching in the balcony of the NYS Capitol building while the legislature debated legalizing gay marriage and celebrated in the halls the minute it was passed. THAT is political activism, not this BS you repost like every other internet keyboard jockey.

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

pet575 · Posted: Feb 27, 2014 11:48 am Post subject:

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Partyb, ummmm D, none of the above.

Partyb · Posted: Feb 27, 2014 12:31 pm Post subject:

Actually Okie, you are clearly B. Posting crap just to get attention, at least in this case. If you were actually interested in political activism or debate, you would actually do something or post something original.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Last I checked this is a discussion forum and many of us post items for discussion, to make a point or to share information. We're all allowed to do so as long as we aren't in violation of the guidelines of the forum. We're also free to read, not read, post or not post on threads, right? Seems to me that if you don't like a topic I post (or anyone else for that matter) you don't have to read it. I don't think anyone is forcing you to do so.

As far as the post itself, I don't like what the guy is doing and decided to share it. Maybe it will open someone's eyes about the issue and they will make some decisions on how they want to handle the issue. Maybe us discussing it can help us all understand ways we can handle a situation similar to it locally, within our state, or nationally.

Partyb · Posted: Feb 28, 2014 7:55 am Post subject:

Exactly Okie, that is why I'm exercising my free speech and putting you on blast for posting this BS.

I ask again, if you are so politically insightful why don't you post someplace other than an obscure non-wakeboard forum? If you were actually interested in debate than there are plenty of places and forums for lively discussion and political debate. (again not saying wb.com-ers aren't capable of discussion, but I'm not gonna post 50 "which wakeboard should I buy" posts in a non-ford forum section of ford.com).

Instead you hide your head in here. If you actually wanted to do or change something you would post and discuss in a forum full people interested in politics, or if you support gays, why don't you go to this morons website and debate him personally over there? Try this: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/

You're full of crap, and your posts are lame re-posts. You know darn well that the regular contributors on this non-wakeboard forum are successful, smart, generous and supportive of equal rights for gays and everyone in general. You are not changing or enlightening anyone here.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

I'm not sure why this bothers you so much and why you care so much about what I do. But, since you asked, I do post other places as well. I also make sure guys like this hear from me about what they are doing.

Partyb · Posted: Mar 03, 2014 6:36 am Post subject:

Okie,
If you are allowed to post, I'm allowed to comment. So I'm commenting that in general your posts are lame reposts that waste bandwidth. Nothing new or insightful, and the one that is the focus of this particular thread is particularly horrible and only serves to fuel the fire and by giving an ahole a larger audience.