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Seems I have an interesting, if not alarming, debate to watch when I get to the recording.

Piece2YourPuzzle comments on Sep 30, 2020:

I'd rather just watch the highlights and analysis. I'm almost 100% certain that nothing important was said including nothing much about policy.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2020:

@Desertcactus The SNL parody of it will be more coherent and substantitive.

A truly sad reality. How can we change this? Can we change it?

WilliamCharles comments on Sep 30, 2020:

Wallace's puppetmasters know that a Jerry Springer clone is ratings gold. The orchestrated chaos is a feature, not a bug. Pure Kabuki theater. [voice-over] "Be sure to stick around and see what happens next!"

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2020:

It was no different than a reality show where the objective is max conflict. Jerry Springer without the physical violence or sexual content.

Just watched the whole of the debate.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 29, 2020:

I thought that Chris Wallace, being from Fox News, was surprisingly fair as moderator, but at the same time, he was overwhelmed by Trump and had no control over the debate and Trump. If they both go ahead with the other two debates, the upcoming moderators need to regain some control over the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 29, 2020:

@prometheus Yup, there need to be real penalties to breaking the rules or there is no point in even attempting more debates. I figured the mic cutoff would be simpler, more fair, and allow the opponent to maintain their concentration and train of thought, since the whole point should be having a coherent discussion that informs the audience in making their decision. Trump obviously wants none of that.

When I gain 2 pounds more than I'm used to, I can't stand it.

Cyklone comments on Sep 26, 2020:

Sure. Men should try to keep looking like they're 24 and so should women. It's just not fair on us men that after bearing a few kids and breastfeeding them that women let their bodies get all unappealing and non sexy.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 28, 2020:

I'll take that as the sarcasm that is clearly intended.

NY Times Report Claims Trump Paid No Taxes 10 of last 15 Years According to a Sunday The New ...

Theresa_N comments on Sep 28, 2020:

"October" surprise for tRump?

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 28, 2020:

Sounds like this is the DNC surprise that they hope will swing the election for Biden, but I think his debate performances will have the opposite effect when they see how demented Biden is. People will be scared to vote for him if he comes off as confused and feeble as I expect him to. The other thing is that, if anything, this tax scandal will swing some voters in Trump's favor as many Americans admire tax dodging. Reminds me of how one boss I worked for who seemed like a Repub on everything else said during Clinton's impeachment that he supported Clinton then because he admired a man his age being able to cheat on his wife and get oral sex from a young woman. You can never underestimate the perverse nature of some people's political compass. Not surprisingly, I hated that boss and he bullied me at every opportunity. Felt a lot of glee years later when I heard he died of a heart attack, seeing that he was also a fat slob for many years. I also learned years before his death that his parents had turned their back on him after his mistreating them as well over the years. In this case, the wicked got what they deserved.

Hundreds Turn Out in Portland for Proud Boys Rally Hundreds of extremist, right-wing, white ...

CommonHuman comments on Sep 27, 2020:

Is there some way to cross reference the faces of these guys with dating sites? Or perhaps just some kind of identification app? I'd hate to accidentally date one and then find out this little nugget of yikes.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 27, 2020:

No doubt, babe magnets all of them.... That is if they like trashy, gun-loving women with lots of tats....

Amy Coney Barrett: GOP sells 'Notorious ACB' T-shirts after nomination

oldFloyd comments on Sep 27, 2020:

Just a slight reality check here, did anybody expect something different? 🤔 In my opinion the bar went in the negative numbers about three and a half years ago. 😣 If not longer. 🤮

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 27, 2020:

Exactly, where is the surprise coming from? Outrage, sure, surprise, seems sort of naive..

"Liberals hate leftists for the same reason a wife who is informed that her husband is cheating on ...

WilliamCharles comments on Sep 27, 2020:

"Liberals and leftists identify many of the same problems. Only leftists understand that real solutions require serious pressure on the ruling elites. The credible threat of force -- for example, a peaceful protest that could turn violent -- may be enough to force reforms. But reforms always get ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 27, 2020:

All of that is so true. When it really comes down to walking the walk instead of talking the talk, and actually putting themselves on the line, liberals are too selfish and gutless to effect change to the system.

Biden 🤮 Trump worse by a factor of ten or more.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2020:

Keep up the good work, and I mean that sincerely. It's not people like you and me that are responsible for the disease that gave us Trump as the symptom, it's the selfish, comfortable, sheeple that started and kept voting for corporate Dems beginning in the 90s when the DLC began taking over the Dem...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2020:

@Freedompath Preparing to block you, but I might not. Your outrage is pathetically amusing..

Biden 🤮 Trump worse by a factor of ten or more.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2020:

Keep up the good work, and I mean that sincerely. It's not people like you and me that are responsible for the disease that gave us Trump as the symptom, it's the selfish, comfortable, sheeple that started and kept voting for corporate Dems beginning in the 90s when the DLC began taking over the Dem...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2020:

@believeinlove I can respect that, what I won't respect is the denial of Biden's dementia by his supporters. I'm also fed up with centrists and corporate Dems saying we don't deserve better than Biden or Trump.

Biden 🤮 Trump worse by a factor of ten or more.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2020:

Keep up the good work, and I mean that sincerely. It's not people like you and me that are responsible for the disease that gave us Trump as the symptom, it's the selfish, comfortable, sheeple that started and kept voting for corporate Dems beginning in the 90s when the DLC began taking over the Dem...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2020:

@Freedompath Suit yourself, I stand by my statements without apology. Regardless which of us knows more about dementia, I damn well know enough to know when I see it and Biden has it, at least late early stage or early middle stage and I don't care how much other people choose to deny or minimize that. We may not get all we want, but we deserve better than a prez who already has dementia. We could have had better, like Bernie, for one example. But we won't get better until a majority of us DEMAND better. Good luck with your attitude of passively settling every time...

Biden 🤮 Trump worse by a factor of ten or more.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2020:

Keep up the good work, and I mean that sincerely. It's not people like you and me that are responsible for the disease that gave us Trump as the symptom, it's the selfish, comfortable, sheeple that started and kept voting for corporate Dems beginning in the 90s when the DLC began taking over the Dem...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2020:

@Freedompath I probably know as much about dementia as you do, if not more. My late wife had dementia for several years before her death. There are about 72 forms of dementia, including a few different forms of Alzheimer's. My wife's was a very rare form. I met at least a dozen or more patients with dementia from support groups I attended. I know dementia when I see it. We need a prez that has healthy cognitive ability AND integrity combined with policies that address the disease that brought us Trump. And believe me or not, Ruth, it is not Biden or Harris. Should Biden win, expect very little, because that's what you're going to get, even if Harris replaces him soon after the election. Maybe better management of the pandemic, but beyond that, I don't see it...

Anybody else ready to cringe when they watch next week's debate with Joe's dementia finally being ...

altschmerz comments on Sep 26, 2020:

I'm not sure I want to subject myself to the spectacle of the debates. I hate the Dems SO MUCH. They're letting the GOP shit all over us.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2020:

I will, I love being proven right, even when it's bad news..

We don't have this situation right now.... No visitors permitted. But when we do:

OldGoat43 comments on Sep 24, 2020:

No visitors without a mask please.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2020:

@bigpawbullets Sounds like you know your place in the household.

We don't have this situation right now.... No visitors permitted. But when we do:

OldGoat43 comments on Sep 24, 2020:

No visitors without a mask please.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2020:

@bigpawbullets Do the cats need to wear masks when people visit?

Biden 🤮 Trump worse by a factor of ten or more.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2020:

Keep up the good work, and I mean that sincerely. It's not people like you and me that are responsible for the disease that gave us Trump as the symptom, it's the selfish, comfortable, sheeple that started and kept voting for corporate Dems beginning in the 90s when the DLC began taking over the Dem...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2020:

@Healthydoc70 Then you should be comfortable with Biden, if he wins. Like Reagan, Biden has dementia, but in Joe's case, it has clearly begun even before him becoming prez. Can't wait to see next week's debate prove this for all to see....And don't give me any of that bullshit about it all being just his stuttering problem... Yes, I did block Healthydoc...

Talking Kitty Cat 19 - Sylvester Goes To Jail - YouTube

Ladydiana comments on Sep 26, 2020:

I love Sylvester

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2020:

I like the talking GrumpyCat even more, when he sings Happy Birthday, for example.

For those who believe that voting blue will save you. [youtube.]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2020:

Time to vote for a third party, at least after this election, if not sooner. After this election, what do we really have to lose by giving a third party a chance, collectively, as voters? At the very least it could actually push the Dems to the left. At the best, it could eventually replace the Dem ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 25, 2020:

@RoboGraham I watched the video of their convention. If they have a candidate for prez in four years, they will get my vote. If they have a congressional candidate for my area or a senate candidate for my state in two years, they might also get my vote for those offices. I would like to see them have a candidate for governor in my state two years from now as well. My state's governor is going to be very vulnerable two years from now for how she's blown the handling of Covid.

Sweet and simple makeup tutorial.

dalefvictor comments on Sep 21, 2020:

I do not see why the picture of the cat is on this post, it is obvious something else has put that lipstick on that cat. Get the real culprit.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 25, 2020:

@dalefvictor She is serious and stop calling her Shirley, with apologies to Airplane and Leslie Nielson...

I don’t ever copy and paste other people’s statuses.

Metahuman comments on Sep 24, 2020:

Serious question from the uninformed and ignorant. Why, then, were we unconcerned and not mask wearing, when it was just the flu? Just the flu? Do you know how many grandpas and grandmas the flu kills? How many things can kill us? Why did it take so long to realize that we have to separate ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 24, 2020:

The difference is this. I'm 62 and have a heart condition. I had the flu twice last winter, even after getting a flu shot. It only lasted a few to several days each time. I did not have to go to a hospital. If I get Covid, not only would I get seriously ill, I might die. I have never had to worry about that with seasonal flu, which I've had several times since I reached middle age. I deserve the chance to live another 15-20 years so I can enjoy a retirement. That may not happen if I get Covid. I should not have to order my groceries online or pick them up in the parking lot because young people won't wear masks in grocery stores because they think only of themselves. For anybody over 50, this is way worse and more dangerous than the flu, so that's why it deserves more precautions for the good of older adults. Don't be surprised if there is some payback for this against young adults by older adults who are in state legislatures. I know there will be in Iowa, as a former legislator once told me that her colleagues would often say things like how they would not hold down college tuition rates because " the students always seem to have money for beer". How forgiving do you think they will be towards the college kids and young adults having Covid parties, packing the bars and restaurants and not wearing masks in stores unless the store requires it?

Democrats are so lame if they allow the GOP’s nominee for the Supreme Court to be confirmed.

Charlene comments on Sep 22, 2020:

They've already lost the W.H.. we need to concentrate on flipping the Senate..

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 23, 2020:

@Rudy1962 You nailed it. The Dems don't care about winning, just about keeping all that corporate and Wall Street money as well as defeating progressives. They're always willing to fight hard for those things, but not for anything else.

Would it be consistent for an atheist, BLM football player to "take a knee" at the football game?

Bobbyzen comments on Sep 22, 2020:

Taking a knee in this context has nothing to do with prayer or with god. You can google “why did Colin Kaepernick take a knee” and you’ll find his reason, and also an NPR interview with the veteran and NFL player who advised Kaepernick.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 23, 2020:

The OP obviously is not familiar with the Colin K. story about why he took a knee.

“There is really only one question you ever need to direct at someone to work out whether or not ...

ToakReon comments on Sep 22, 2020:

It's one of those ideas that sounds 'intellectually pretty' and 'nice' - but, in reality, like so many such ideas, it's not really worth the breath it's spoken with. Let me just make this point by way of a counter argument. The video's 'conclusion' is that a 'good person' is someone who does ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 22, 2020:

Wells said. It's one of those arguments that sound good on the surface, but not grounded in reality.

You have to unite behind another party to finally end this obedience of complicity.

Castlepaloma comments on Sep 21, 2020:

So true, and many people think I am the crazy one, for saying so.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 22, 2020:

You speak for me as well.

How Abortion May Change in the Supreme Court - The Atlantic

barjoe comments on Sep 22, 2020:

It's gotten so bad that Roe v Wade is the least of my worries. I'm pro choice but I fear all our liberties are endangered.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 22, 2020:

That is exactly the point. If open fascism like Trump is not rejected this time around, nobody will have any rights in the US besides right wingers and fundy Christians.

Why Conservatives Hate Democracy: [jacobinmag.com]

Killtheskyfairy comments on Sep 20, 2020:

Because the only thing conservatives conserve is power.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 21, 2020:

That and winning elections at all cost, including lying, cheating, and preventing people from voting. They sure don't care about the rule of law, precedent, the environment, or even the appearance of legitimacy for the system. And to them even the idea of fairness is a joke and something only weak ineffectual lefties care about. It's a concept they ignore or ridicule except for when the Dems exercise power and do something they don't like and then they cry that it's unfair.

Patriotism and the american left: [theguardian.com]

Charlene comments on Sep 20, 2020:

I have no desire to wrap myself in the flag nor yell empty "patriotic" bullshit..guess I don't fit this article's description.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 21, 2020:

The vast majority of Americans are too ignorant or dense to understand the difference between nationalism and patriotism, so they are easily suckered and manipulated by slogans and symbols of nationalism posing as patriotism. Real patriotism is being willing to sacrifice for the common good, which means paying your fair share of taxes, sacrificing when there are real hardships for the country to overcome, such as a Depression or actual war where the US is attacked and in real danger of invasion, etc. It's not just about worshiping the flag and being willing to kill for your country or serve in the military. If the latter were the case, the Repubs and most Dems would be conspicuously absent for showing any true patriotism since neither party's pols these days have usually ever served. It also means things like wearing a damn mask during a pandemic because it has science backing it as effective in saving lives instead of being a selfish asshole that cares more about your individual rights and freedom. Real patriotism is also standing up to fascism and calling it by its real name. Neither major party is willing to do that and the corporate media won't do it either. In other words, true patriotism would have more in common with socialist values than just empty platitudes about freedom and liberty, with both masquarading as covers for selfishness and individualism run amok.

Pastor Rick Joyner Claims God Wants Christian Veterans to Lead Good Militias Right-wing ...

Theresa_N comments on Sep 20, 2020:

Frightening, I see some hard times coming in this country.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 20, 2020:

I agree. If Trump gets re-elected, I can easily see him encouraging a civil war in which right wing militias openly attack lefty protesters in the streets and the police and military either stand idly by and let it happen or even join in with the militias in attacking the protesters without any provocation. Wait, isn't that mostly what's already happening?? If Covid becomes enough of a manageable risk for me to get out there with the protests, I sure as hell plan to bring some kind of defensive protection in the way of a gas mask and a shield. This is not like the 60s when non-violent protesters could usually expect to not get gassed or beaten or shot at with rubber bullets or pepperballs even if they stayed peaceful and esp. if they were white. Nowadays those customs are not observed anymore by cops and national guard. We now have open fascism and authoritarian leadership. Something like Chile is not unthinkable happening here.

Never met him, would love to.

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Sep 20, 2020:

But I'm in MO! :(

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 20, 2020:

@Gwendolyn2018 Would you end up moving to a blue state if the split happened, or would you stay in MO and stand your ground? I would probably move, because I can only stand to live with so much disgust year after year..

Never met him, would love to.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2020:

I wish they would secede again and this time the North let them. It would improve the politics for the remaining states immensely.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 20, 2020:

@JeffMurray Right now that would be the South and most of the Midwest, where the Repubs have been winning the vast majority of fed elections in the last couple decades.

Never met him, would love to.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2020:

I wish they would secede again and this time the North let them. It would improve the politics for the remaining states immensely.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 20, 2020:

@Gwendolyn2018 True, but my point stands. If it came to pass, I assume you would see lots of people actually immigrate from their state to somewhere in the other country after the split. You know, like all the lefty Americans that say they will move to Canada or somewhere in Europe if a Repub becomes prez? I assume if the US did split, that both sides would allow flexible immigration between the two, maybe even flexible borders.

Kiss your uterus goodbye, ladies. "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : NPR" [npr.org]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Not to worry. The SC won't overturn Roe v. Wade. They care too much about the Repubs being able to win elections and know that if they did, the Repubs would lose so many female voters that they would be doomed in future elections. Otherwise, they would have done it decades ago as they have had the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

@JeffMurray Possibly. Still, abortions, like they were before Roe, will always be available to women who are middle class or above. They could always afford to travel and pay for covert abortions. The Repubs have always only been able to restrict abortions for poor women.

Have faith my friends.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 18, 2020:

It warms my heart every time I hear of one of these pastors or anti mask politician getting seriously sick from the diseased they mocked. I guess that doesn’t make me a humanist. But I think dumb should be rewarded.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

I have no regret or shame when dumbasses like that get the karma they deserve. Sometimes arrogance and stupidity should result in the herd being thinned, esp. when their behavior endangers others who are trying to do the right thing and protect themselves.

Spot the difference.

EyesThatSmile comments on Sep 19, 2020:

“What’s For Dinner “ is different.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

Yup, one has to hunt and the other is served food..

I am posting this video in response to something a friend of mine said to me a few days ...

EyesThatSmile comments on Sep 12, 2020:

Good video. I was very lucky growing up. My parents adopted me. I always felt special and wanted. I have always compared them to Ozzie and Harriet. Doting and loving and any arguments they had (very few) were always behind closed doors. I complained to them later that they never taught me to ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

Totally opposite for me. Lots of open fighting between my parents, including physical and emotional abuse. If anything, I was very prepared for standing up for myself and arguing with someone if they crossed me. No doubt it made me very reluctant to get emotionally close to women when I was young so I wouldn't get hurt or taken advantage of. Sure was not eager to get married young or ever have kids. Lucky I didn't meet my late wife until I'd had some therapy, got older and stronger, and realized I was not as vulnerable or emotionally weak as I thought. The positive experience of some good adult friendships with both genders helped me learn and experience some positive things about relationships and validate that I was loveable.

Is video dating here to stay?

Lorajay comments on Sep 16, 2020:

It makes the person more real and with telephone calls you can't see the person's expression so it is a way to get to know a person better.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

It would definitely make it easier to avoid misunderstandings or context distortions that happen with trading text messages, e-mails, or faceless phone calls.

Anti-Abortion Christians Celebrate Death Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cite ‘Unborn Babies’ | Michael ...

DavePeet comments on Sep 19, 2020:

I try to avoid people who are the 3 RS Religious Right-wing Racist. Most people usually have all three.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

@SeaRay215ex Thank you. That's how I've felt after becoming an educated young adult. Like me or hate me, you will always know who I really am. I've also been told I would rather be hassled than ignored, but I'm not as sure I agree with that judgement.

Kiss your uterus goodbye, ladies. "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : NPR" [npr.org]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Not to worry. The SC won't overturn Roe v. Wade. They care too much about the Repubs being able to win elections and know that if they did, the Repubs would lose so many female voters that they would be doomed in future elections. Otherwise, they would have done it decades ago as they have had the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

@JeffMurray It's one thing to throw out red meat to your base and pander to them, and it's another to do something so outrageous that it motivates the vast majority of women to vote against your party for generations as a reaction to your party's hostility to their gender. Overturning Roe would be that tipping point, as 1960s civil rights legislation was to Southern whites.

Country Radio (Not me, just something horrible I saw on FB🙄)

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 16, 2020:

OMFG! I hate it when radio stations do that, and this one would push me right over the edge!! I am so sorry for your ears.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

Nowadays when I see this kind of thing happening so much with commercial air-based radio I feel like most or all of the people making these decisions are people who at least don't really like or care about music at all, that's it's just a product to them, same as soap. At worst, I think they are people who actually hate music and want to torture us...

Anti-Abortion Christians Celebrate Death Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cite ‘Unborn Babies’ | Michael ...

DavePeet comments on Sep 19, 2020:

I try to avoid people who are the 3 RS Religious Right-wing Racist. Most people usually have all three.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

Unfortunately you are describing most Americans, esp. those living in the South or Midwest. I also see that, like me, you are living in the midst of them. And to think that people ask me why I feel so alienated most of the time....

Anti-Abortion Christians Celebrate Death Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cite ‘Unborn Babies’ | Michael ...

barjoe comments on Sep 19, 2020:

They care about children up until the day they're born. After that they couldn't care less.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

Yup, they have a perverse worship of the womb as something superior to life after the womb.

Kiss your uterus goodbye, ladies. "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : NPR" [npr.org]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Not to worry. The SC won't overturn Roe v. Wade. They care too much about the Repubs being able to win elections and know that if they did, the Repubs would lose so many female voters that they would be doomed in future elections. Otherwise, they would have done it decades ago as they have had the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

@JeffMurray You got it. As long as abortion is still officially legal across the country, many women will still vote for Repubs based on other issues, but if abortion becomes completely illegal across the US, they will put that issue above all others and the Repubs will not be able to win federal elections. Dems would win big majorities in congress as well as prez elections and would then make Roe a matter of law with a constitutional amendment.

Kiss your uterus goodbye, ladies. "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : NPR" [npr.org]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Not to worry. The SC won't overturn Roe v. Wade. They care too much about the Repubs being able to win elections and know that if they did, the Repubs would lose so many female voters that they would be doomed in future elections. Otherwise, they would have done it decades ago as they have had the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

@JeffMurray That is what I am saying. The Repubs and their allies on the SC know that abortion is a powerful enough issue that making abortion illegal again, as it was before Roe., would kill the Repub party across the nation, esp. in fed elections. They know going that far would be too much in the eyes of female voters, and it would cause most women to become single issue voters on this. The Repub party would suffer the same way the Dems have in the South ever since the passage of the civil rights bills in the 60s, which permanently swung the South to the Repubs.

Thanks for trying to hang on, Justice RBG.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2020:

If that comes to pass, then there's nothing left to do but get in the streets and revolt, whether violently or not, because if it's just allowed to stand, then fascism will be out in the open and tolerated. After that, further elections will be pointless once that precedent is set.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 19, 2020:

@SeaRay215ex Sounds like a good plan. The sad thing is that most Americans would probably act like docile sheep and let themselves be enslaved or slaughtered..

I hate that looks are as important as they are when trying to date. So tired of being rejected

itsmedammit comments on Sep 17, 2020:

It has been my experience that photos can only give so very little information and I have always found that people seem more attractive in person, I think simply because in person gives a fuller, more complete picture. I try to remember that, as it is easy to dismiss someone on the photo, not ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2020:

@itsmedammit Notice how nobody is standing up to defend you or agree with you, not even the other women, despite your putdowns of me? Seems rather telling...

So.

mischl comments on Sep 18, 2020:

Frankly, I'm very wary of having intimacies with a woman when she's drunk. Well, maybe if we already have a good history together, it might be okay. But any kind of new relationship? Forget about it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2020:

Same here.

So.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2020:

The last time I was with a woman with your level of looks and her clothes came off, I was still in my twenties...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2020:

@DangerDave That was decades ago when I had an athletic body and a head of hair. Either one makes a world of difference in the dating world and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, because, in most cases, they are just pretending and saying what they want others to hear. The two reasons I haven't been out much in the dating world since then is I met my late wife in '95 and was with her until 2017. I was back in the dating game for three years until Covid. Not going back until Covid is no longer a big risk anymore.

This photo and the article explain why so few men find girlfriends on this site: ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Sep 18, 2020:

I think it's funny that people keep trying to figure out how to make this a dating site.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2020:

I agree. This will never be a viable dating site for most members until it's membership grows at least several times over, and in the few years I've been on here there's never been any evidence of that.

I hate that looks are as important as they are when trying to date. So tired of being rejected

itsmedammit comments on Sep 17, 2020:

It has been my experience that photos can only give so very little information and I have always found that people seem more attractive in person, I think simply because in person gives a fuller, more complete picture. I try to remember that, as it is easy to dismiss someone on the photo, not ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2020:

@itsmedammit There's no explaining to it. You don't agree and I really don't care about whether you do. I know most, if not all, of other people probably do agree with me about what is an obvious fact. I am not dense, you are either in denial or a very rare outlier on this issue. I resent you continuing to say things to the effect that I am dense or unintelligent because I don't agree with you. I am quite intelligent and I get your point. I think that you are either lying, in denial, or a very rare bird in your viewpoint on looks. It's really that simple. Almost no one on a paid dating site uses a profile that does not contain at least one photo of themselves. There's a reason for that and it proves my point, whether you agree or admit to it or not.....

I hate that looks are as important as they are when trying to date. So tired of being rejected

itsmedammit comments on Sep 17, 2020:

It has been my experience that photos can only give so very little information and I have always found that people seem more attractive in person, I think simply because in person gives a fuller, more complete picture. I try to remember that, as it is easy to dismiss someone on the photo, not ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2020:

@itsmedammit I don't know you, but I do know that looks matter a lot to most people. Some will admit it and some won't...I am not making assumptions about most other people, I am stating a fact. That you don't seem to be able to hear it or accept it is your problem, not mine. BTW, your Agnostic.com profile says you are open to meeting men for dating, yet you don't have a single photo of you in the profile. Good luck with that, and yes, I'm being sarcastic with that. I really doubt that many men on here will message you with a sincere interest in getting to know you towards maybe dating with no photos of what you look like.

I hate that looks are as important as they are when trying to date. So tired of being rejected

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2020:

I like you, Marcie, based on your posts and comments for what they seem to say about your character. So I hope my being brutally honest here doesn't offend you. I have seen your profile pics and based on my own online dating experience in the last couple years as well as the things I have heard from...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 18, 2020:

@Green_Soldier71 Based on my past experience on these boards..I also refer you to the replies from it'smedammit....

I hate that looks are as important as they are when trying to date. So tired of being rejected

itsmedammit comments on Sep 17, 2020:

It has been my experience that photos can only give so very little information and I have always found that people seem more attractive in person, I think simply because in person gives a fuller, more complete picture. I try to remember that, as it is easy to dismiss someone on the photo, not ...