Comments by "Triple 9" (@Betta66) on "Supposedly Homophobic Trump Launches Initiative to Encourage World Acceptance of Gays" video.

And replace him with an actual homophobe? Great idea.
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@ericlinz4626 Call me whatever you like, but I would hope we can refrain from using religious texts to justify laws. There was that line in Leviticus, I'll admit. However, you specifically mentioned the "Christian Bible," and Jesus never made any direct reference to homosexuality in his teachings.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_policy_of_Donald_Trump#Transgender_issues_2
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Matt Cogar When did he denounce anti-Semitism? And more importantly, when will Styx's comments section do the same?
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Cylenium I'm not pretending he doesn't love Israel, but I'm of the opinion that being anti-Israel isn't necessarily the same as being anti-Semitic. By that logic, being pro-Israel is not the same as being against anti-Semitism. David Duke seems to think Trump is an anti-Semite. Must've been that image Trump tweeted during the campaign of Hillary Clinton alongside a pile of money and a Star of David, emblazoned with the words, “Most corrupt candidate ever.” https://forward.com/fast-forward/363750/is-trump-an-anti-semite-ask-david-duke-he-should-know/ https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/qaF5oEpFUV5mfuaozAvLqaocT8dTZURnjKJdHCFeLBJhewEZZYDtzFzoDUBDRwKYqlkTd0KOvhDpsj1S4jPX13NWGBdUwxFN9exNF5Ejd8vAIHggf1ke9vNcltqEAA2-AHBZOLU8
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Cylenium Either that or his son-in-law's family has business ties with Israel. https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-jared-kushner-s-business-interests-in-israel-revealed-in-full-1.5865165
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Cylenium https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Donald-Trump/Pride-and-affirmative-prejudice-The-complex-history-of-Donald-Trump-and-the-Jews-468120 “The way I would describe [Trump's] perception of Jews is that he thinks of them in very simple and very stereotypical terms,” [Art of the Deal ghostwriter Tony] Schwartz said in an interview. “My feeling was, ‘I figured out how to use Jews to my advantage.’” Asked whether he ever thought Trump defined him by his affiliation with a group, Schwartz said he felt at the time that Trump thought of him as a “smart hustler Jew” who would probably write a solid book. “It’s preposterous to think that Donald Trump has a deep personal understanding of or affinity with the Jewish community in the fullest sense of what that means,” Schwartz said. “And the reason I say that is that ‘affinity’ or ‘connection’ or ‘empathy’ or ‘deep understanding’ are not part of his vocabulary.”
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Intellectual Ammunition It would be unfair to expect that of him, yes, but at the same time, you probably don't go to a guy whose channel description contains only the words "I am God" to meet levelheaded people.
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Intellectual Ammunition I'm not here because I think anyone who agrees with Styx isn't normal or whatever. I'm here because he blocked me on Twitter after a conversation I had with him about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter. I don't want to repeat what he said because that is a conversation I am not willing to have again, but imagine the kind of person who tells someone from Alderaan "Trust me, I know what the Empire was really like." That's Styx.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_policy_of_Donald_Trump#Transgender_issues_2
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@SilentGhost91548 The suicide rate is high because they get bullied and harassed But sure, victim blaming is cool, I guess. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf
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ThatGirl Monica I'm not asking to force anything onto anyone. You're the one who said being transgender should be a mental disorder, and that the left were bringing socialism and communism into America despite none of that having to do with the topic at hand. And even if it did, you're blaming the wrong people. Read Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice. But I digress. The World Health Organization's 11th International Classification of Diseases published last year moved "gender incongruence" out of the mental disorders chapter and into the sexual health chapter. This was because they had a better understanding "that this wasn't actually a mental health condition and leaving it there was causing stigma." So in order to "reduce the stigma while also ensuring access to necessary health interventions," it was moved to a different chapter. Not to make this an appeal to authority or to lecture you on mental illness, but if mental health is such an important issue to you, I would think this was something you would already have taken into account.
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@_Hal9000 Interesting word choice.
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@_Hal9000 That's politics.
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@ericlinz4626 Geez, you sound like my brother. Whether or not any of that is true, we have separation of church and state for a reason. But if it is true, then the "more derived = less pure" argument implies Judaism is more pure than Christianity. And yet no one is arguing for making America a Jewish nation, are they?
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@ericlinz4626 It seems you forgot to offer me your "ceremonials herbs" because I would need to have a lot of what you're smoking to understand what the hell you're saying.
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@ericlinz4626 Please stop. If I wanted a lecture on this nonsense, I would've gone to a different video.
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@ericlinz4626 No, but the rest of what you were saying kind of is
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@ericlinz4626 There is a big difference between being profound and whatever the hell it is you're doing. What you're doing is saying things that sound cool in an attempt to heighten the same alt-right talking points as everyone else in this comments section. It's too vapid to be insightful and too pretentious to be inspiring.
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@ericlinz4626 It's not that I have trouble following along. Believe me, cause and effect is not a difficult thing to grasp. It's that you're trying to make what you're saying seem deeper and more profound than it actually is. "The more derived, the less pure" in the context of your previous comment about the Abrahamic religions reads a little like "Islam is less pure than Christianity." Similarly, terms like "NPC" and "Red Pill" aren't hard to grasp, but I fail to see what free will has to do with the topic covered in the video. I'm sure you'll be quick to inform me that you have done your best to explain how the topic of free will does relate, but I am 100% certain that what you'll say will boil down to "liberals are unthinking drones and conservatives are hyperintellectual free thinkers."
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@J Thorsson What makes you think I would say otherwise?
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Remember that time Trump said not to ask Mike Pence's views on gay people because "he wants to hang them"? Sure, that doesn't necessarily mean Trump himself is homophobic, but you'd think someone who said he'd fight for gay rights during the campaign would want everyone else in his administration to be on the same page. And yet... In March 2017, Trump's administration rolled back key components of workplace protections for LGBT people and made it so federal contractors weren't required to prove they were complying with those protections. So it would be more difficult to tell if any discriminatory practices took place. Oh, and don't forget Trump's transgender policies. Some of Trump's appointees - such as Mark Green, Jeff Mateer, Allison Rushing, and Matthew Kacsmaryk - have been vehemently against transgender women. In February 2017, within two days of Jeff Sessions becoming Attorney General, the Department of Justice withdrew a motion "seeking to allow transgender students in public schools to use the restroom with which they identify." On July 26, 2017, the same day that the Department of Justice argued in court that federal civil rights law did not ban employers from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation, Trump announced on Twitter that transgender people would not be allowed to serve in the military "in any capacity." His reasoning was that American forces could not afford the "tremendous medical costs and disruption" of transgender service members, despite a RAND study of 18 countries that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military finding "little or no impact on unit cohesion, operational effectiveness, or readiness." Also, according to the Scientific American, studies have shown that the medical costs for transgender service members would be "minimal". On August 25, 2017, Trump signed a memo prohibiting transgender individuals from joining the armed services unless the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security recommend otherwise. In March 2018, Trump announced a new policy on transgender service members, namely a ban on those with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, which would effectively be a ban on most transgender service members. But sure, Trump is the one who should get to lecture other countries on accepting the LGBT community.
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Marco Polo1 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/the-danger-of-president-pence "During a meeting with a legal scholar, Trump belittled Pence’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade. The legal scholar had said that, if the Supreme Court did so, many states would likely legalize abortion on their own. 'You see?' Trump asked Pence. 'You’ve wasted all this time and energy on it, and it’s not going to end abortion anyway.' When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, 'Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!'"
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