Florida's anti grooming bill HB1557

Particularly the ones they impregnated.

I think you've got some reading to do.

Fantastic.

What is even "funnier" is how red states have booming economies and blue states don't. I know because I was raised in a blue state and I now live in a red state. When businesses do well they hire more people then poverty goes down. It is just a fact.

Just give up. You're attempt at spreading misinformation it just not working.

Who runs mainstream media? Of course your going to find all sorts of articles explaining in detail that how 2+2 does not equal 4.

These articles focused on something we've all known for decades, many of the states with the lowest wages are Republican states. BUT! Those states also have a lower cost of living.

The wages in blue states may be higher but the cost of living cannot compensate for those high wages. The bluer the area the higher the cost of living. My wife and I grew up in So. California. In 1997 I got a higher paying job in the SF Bay area. Yes, my wages went up but our jaw hit the floor when we saw how much rent was in the Bay area. We couldn't find an apartment that rented for less than $1500/mo. so we rented a mobile home. When we finally had enough we moved to Missouri and bought a brand new 4 bedroom house and our mortgage was less than the mobile home in the Bay area. We own a similar house in Utah now. Its not brand new but our mortgage is still less than that stupid mobile home in the bluest area of California.

Instead of trusting in fake news try looking around at the states with the lowest unemployment rates. And even then you have to be careful. You have to look at the labor participation rate because the unemployment rate is just the number of people collecting unemployment. It doesn't count those who gave up and blue states have a whole lot of people who just gave up.

Democrats have always had the worst policies when it comes to the economy. Democrats are the ones who forced personal income tax on us in 1913. They forced the Federal Reserve who gave us the Great Depression. The same Federal Reserve that has caused massive inflation ever since Biden told them to crank up the money printing presses to 11.

I've been around. I've seen blue states. I lived in blue states. I know what horrible places they are to live. I am far happier and freer in a red state. I don't need some hack radical leftist op/ed writer to tell me that 2+2 is not 4. I can clearly see that 2+2=4.

"What is even "funnier" is how red states have booming economies and blue states don't"

That IS funny-ish.

Red States have and always shall be dependent on the teat of Blue States. Something about the Northern War of Aggression that crippled their already barely profitable (except for a very few plantation owners) mono-economy of not-quite-cash-crop farming by losing them their slaves to work for them.

Five minutes of research into the richest and poorest counties in the US quickly disproves what he is saying

As with the rest of his fave falsehoods, he's been told this many a time, yet still persists, of couse not replying to clarifications.

I've been saying for years to these self-proclaimed non-racists who say that crap that too bad they weren't around back then to tell that to the slave traders and owners.
Maybe Southies can get over the end of slavery and go and work their own jobs. Might help their moribund economies crawl out the hole it's been in since 1865.

I never understood Conservatives, do they really think we're going to bring slavery back to sooth the snowflakes? Most Southerners were poor back then anyways.

Yesterday I drove through rural Alabama, as red/Republican/conservative as you can get. Town after town after town had abandoned and derelict houses and buildings. Clearly a high poverty rate. And the facts back that up.

Alabama has always been like that. It's simply that kind of state.

And left wingers don't??? The left not only thinks their experience is the same as everyone else but they demand we all have the same experiences. That's why the left looks at equality as s virtue.

I never at any time thought that my experiences were the same as everyone else. Some of my experiences have been the same a some other people but the response to those experiences differ at the individual level.

Yeah that’s definitely not what I advocate for or what equality is.

"Equal people are never free and free people are never equal"

The reason why this is true is because no two people are identical. We are all different, we all have different dreams, motivation, work ethics, personalities, etc. As long as we are free we will never be equal. However we all start off with equal opportunities, but it is up to the individual as to what they do with those opportunities.

And this is why free people are never equal.

What the left is promoting is equal outcome. The Marxist idea of "to each according to their need, from each according to their ability". Or as Obama said, "we all need to spread the wealth around". The only way that can be accomplished is by force. Forcefully stealing the products of the labor of one person to give to another person who did nothing to earn it.

And that is why equal people are never free.

"to each according to their need" It's almost like people each have different needs.

The communists I have read talk about a person's potential being restricted by laws and the capitalist system. Too many people live their lives a mere cog in a machine. They are overworked and don't enjoy enough time for leisure, recreation or learning. People are limited in achieving their hopes and dreams by private property, borders, money, laws, police, censorship and so forth. What communists desire is for work to be a necessary but not dominating aspect of life, so that we have more room to be social and work together to accomplish the things we want out of life.

Here is George Orwell's account of the accomplishments of the anarchist collectives during the Spanish Civil War:
"Up here in Aragon one was among tens of thousands of people, mainly though not entirely of working-class origin, all living at the same level and mingling on terms of equality. In theory it was perfect equality, and even in practice it was not far from it. There is a sense in which it would be true to say that one was experiencing a foretaste of Socialism, by which I mean that the prevailing mental atmosphere was that of Socialism. Many of the normal motives of civilized life — snobbishness, money-grubbing, fear of the boss, etc. — had simply ceased to exist. The ordinary class-division of society had disappeared to an extent that is almost unthinkable in the money — tainted air of England; there was no one there except the peasants and ourselves, and no one owned anyone else as his master."
Sounds like freedom and equality coincide just fine.

My Danish friend first moved to the US but then left and the last I heard he was living in Thailand. He wasn't a friend I met in person. I met him through Facebook many years ago. We talked on the phone a few times. He was an interesting guy but then he dropped off of Facebook and I never heard from him again.

I really do not understand why people can read and read and read Marxism and all of the advocates of Marx and just not open their eyes and look at the horrors that have been caused by it. You just can continue to deny it by claiming they got it wrong. There just is no getting it right. It promises utopia and has only delivered dystopia.

People left alone can never live in equality because we are all different people. That is just human nature. For equality to exist it can only happen by force and even then it cannot be 100% equal because equality is contrary to human nature. The more equality is enforced the more society looks like Orwell's 1984.

"The communists I have read talk about a person's potential being restricted by laws and the capitalist system."

The problem with communists (Marxists) in America is they think freedom is just the normal way of life. They reject all previous attempts at communism because the people were not free. All the while the never recognize the part where there is no private ownership. Without private ownership there cannot be freedom. If someone else owns everything then they make the rules that you have to live by.

"Too many people live their lives a mere cog in a machine."

A) In a free country how you live your life is your decision, even if it is being a cog in a machine.
B) Marxism forces everyone to be just cogs in a machine that feeds the ruling elite.

Many on the right point to Orwell as an example of what socialism is. Fewer people on the right don't know that Orwell was a socialist and his book 1984 was a expose on communism.

Back in Orwell's day the only example of socialism was the French Revolution. He still had faith in it. The world had just found out the horrors of communism, Nazism and fascism.

But today we have tons of examples of all four. All four are based on the exact same foundation. The promise equity and deliver equal poverty. You don't want to believe it because you're still convinced of the utopia that is promised. What you are missing is that when it comes to governments, all governments, all types of governments, they either start off corrupt or become corrupt. When you correct a socialist, communist, Nazi, fascist government you get the same results. Mass death, mass starvation and mass misery. It happens every time.

The left is quick to point out the Scandinavian countries as their examples but they are not socialist. Sweden's former president said they tried socialism but had to pull back because the country was about to collapse. They had to return to a market based economy.

I had a friend from Denmark who left because he thinks everyone in the country is crazy. Denmark is still not a socialist nation but they are playing with the fire of socialism more than just about any other country. Denmark has one of the highest suicide rates in Europe. It costs 3 times more to buy a car in Denmark than in the U.S. and the additional cost is all taxes. The people have the mentality that those who live in an oppressed nation have, that mentality is to report your neighbor to the government of anything.

Citation needed.

9 of the top 10 poorest areas in the US are run by Dems, and they also run virtually all of the ghettos/projects/inner cities.

And Dems (the politicians) like it that way. Being able to point to those areas every four years and say "vote for us so we can help you, save you from the nasty white conservatives" is, somehow, how they KEEP getting voted in.

Explain please.