Except that it is and you literally contradicted yourself.

This is the classic, "I have nothing against gay or trans people" argument, then proceeding to draw lines in the sand and demanding that they stay in the shadows.

There is clear animosity towards them if just discussing them and their stories is considered an affront.

Reading through this thread just shows me how depraved and hateful so many people are to a marginalized group that already has enough to deal with.

Also, holy shit, the amount of gaslighting in this thread. The argument that kids learning about same-sex relationships and transgenderism is the same as "grooming" is psychotic.

Some of y'all need a hobby, or maybe try and talk to a gay or trans person, and realize they're human beings too.

They should legalize all drugs while they're at it. The War on Drugs has been a catastrophic failure, and we should invest more in harm reduction clinics.

Raise it higher and tax their assets as well.

This thread is so derailed and a dumpster fire that I can't keep up with it anymore.

Why do you guys fall for this bait? Half the people here can't defend their arguments, and they just make shit up or change the subject all the time.

Also, trans rights shouldn't be an issue, it's only an issue because some of the people here hate trans people that much.

You just answered your own question. Americans don't give a shit about about poor Arabic people being killed and brutalized (just like with Palestinians). They also strangely don't seem to care that their tax dollars fund and support a medieval theocracy like Saudi Arabia which also happens to be one of the biggest exporters of terrorism.

Democrats are useless and worthless, they always self-sabotage at any given moment. No point of being in charge when they're basically controlled opposition.

Centrism is fucking cancer, and not a political position. It just means you support nothing and do everything you can to uphold the status quo. That is, America is a fake country, whose sole purpose is to protect the wealth and interests of the rich, and never doing anything for the common people.

What a time to be alive in a country against... medicine.

And a teenager with a gun who started shooting people made things better? Plus, considering no one had been killed at that point until he showed up goes right back to my original stance. That is, he inserted himself in a situation and made it infinitely worse. All of this could've been avoided if he had just stayed home. Why someone living in one state would give a damn if a 7/11 is looted and vandalized in another state is beyond me. This is why I hate militias, or any of these open-carry psychos. They think they're action heroes hoping one day they'll find an excuse to use their gun.

He's going to get away scot-free, and unfortunately he's actions are only going to incentivize others because they can always claim "self-defense," even when that's not the case. Any sort of confrontation can be an excuse to use deadly force, no matter what. These types of people go out looking for trouble, and never realize that having a gun on you only escalates a situation and makes things infinitely worse. But of course in America, the person wielding a semi-automatic rifle is not an aggressor, even though that person having such a weapon makes unarmed people feel unsafe because they don't know what that person is going to do with that gun. The last thing we need is more untrained dipshits and militias marauding around playing soldier and escalating things that could leave people dead.