GETTING CLOSER!



Due largely–but not exclusively–to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the increased risk of nuclear escalation stemming from the conflict. The last remaining nuclear weapons treaty between Russia and the United States, New START, is scheduled to expire in February 2026. Russia also brought its war to the Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor sites, violating international protocols and risking widespread release of radioactive materials. North Korea also resumed its nuclear rhetoric, launching an intermediate-range ballistic missile test over Japan in October 2022. Continuing threats posed by the climate crisis and the breakdown of global norms and institutions set up to mitigate risks associated with advancing technologies and biological threats such as COVID-19 also contributed to the time setting.
I'm tired of waiting!

We can't wait for Jesus to come back!

^lol, the groundhog predicted 6 more weeks of winter and chaos!

>almost a full year since shit kicked off on the ground/air/sea in eastern europe and still going
>usa only gets a chinese balloon



Seems like 2023 is finally off to a flying start!

>Turkey earthquake passing Japan tsunami kills
>I guess the world still continues to not know pain...

Toddmk7 wrote on 02/13/23 at 08:35:51:


I really am not. In the Joker, (haven’t seen it so can’t be 100% ture) the Joker lives like a free man. And Rock and Roll: Part 2 (which was big in America when it came out) is the main song. That’s all I was saying

It has just been announced that legendary actor Bruce Willis has gotten dementia.

RealMurdoc666 wrote on 02/15/23 at 06:32:56:



Not like you could run you dozy green fuck

It was announced in the late hours of yesterday that former president Jimmy Carter is receiving hospice care at his home.

My state has just passed legislation banning transgender children (under the age of 18) from receiving "gender-affirming" health care. Fine by me, I mean, after all when you're still a kid/teen, you really aren't yet sure what kind of person you want to be. Heck, even at age 18 you might not be completely sure yet about what kind of life you want to lead.

The new law means that here in Mississippi, boys will be boys will be boys will be boys. (And girls will be women.)

I know if I was the parent of, say, a boy who said he wanted to be a girl, I would just sternly remind him that he is a boy, and is going to remain a boy for as long as he is living in my house, and will dress and act like a boy-- if he wants to be anything else, he'll have to wait until he's grown and out of my house. I, after all, always wanted to grow up to be a man, I enjoy being a man, and by golly I'm going to die a man. I know many of the more progressive among you may disagree with this, but I definitely take a more traditional, conservative stance towards sex and gender, believing that people should live as the sex that God created them as.

...We didn't have "trans" kids when I was growing up. Or at least they weren't at all open about it. There were boys, and there were girls. Nothing else. I do often wonder, though, if someone I went to grade school with is now a different gender from what I knew them as back when we were classmates. Maybe there really is a "woman" somewhere in my town (or elsewhere) who was once a boy I went to school with.

(I also wonder what Kim Petras would look and sound like-- or if he'd even still be a pop star today-- if he had decided to stay a boy)

This is a much more sensitive topic to a lot of people than you realize Nick. Our own gender identity might be simple for you and I, but that does not give us the right to decide that it should therefore be a simple matter for everyone else. Dismissing their realities is not gonna make them go away and you are wasting an opportunity to be supportive. Sadly, instead you are choosing to kick these people further into the mud. I also agree with Eric that this is not the best place to discuss controversial politics and would urge you as well to stop posting hurtful opinions just for the sake of it. What do you stand to gain by doing so? Contrarily, there are potential friendships you could be breaking without even realizing it. And I ask you, for what really?

KVD wrote on 03/01/23 at 12:18:29:


I never said that sex reassignment should be banned entirely. I only said that I agreed with my state's decision to not allow it for people under the age of 18. Kids are never exactly sure who they want to be. Adults, on the other hand, have more of an idea. At least one member of the SMK community has completed a gender transition-- and this person did so as a fully grown adult, about 30 years old, old enough to make a completely informed decision and being completely sure that they wanted to go through with it.

It's the same reason why no decent tattoo parlor would tattoo a 14-year-old. They might regret it in a few years when they're older and more mature. As an adult you are more aware of the long-term, often irreversible consequences of your actions.

Not my state but it was announced on national news today that Tennessee, our northern neighbor, has a new law heavily restricting drag performances. Me personally, I think it should be perfectly okay for an adult to go to a drag show if that's really what they want to do. But I'm just not sure if it would be appropriate entertainment for families with children, and this is what the new law aims to protect. I've never gone to a drag show myself (and don't even know if they have them in my area), so I'm not really qualified to have a strong opinion on this issue one way or the other. I lean more or less the same way here that I do with gender reassignment-- grown adults should be able to do whatever they want, but I don't necessarily consider it appropriate for youth.

Are drag shows common entertainment in your area? Has anybody here been to one? If so, what was the audience like, was it all adults, or were there children as well. Also would you consider it okay for a child to go to a drag performance, I'm sure many of you would see nothing wrong with it. I'm not telling you not to take your child to a drag show, this is entirely between you, your child, and your local laws. I certainly don't think they should be banned entirely, if this is what Tennessee intends, then for once I don't agree with it, especially with Nashville being such an entertainment hub... but if the Volunteer State wants to at least place age restrictions on drag show attendance, I can understand.

Also, can you guess what the top headline was on my Thursday newspaper, lol.

...Also in today's news, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty and given two life sentences for the murders of his wife and son. I'm glad he was found guilty and sentenced, though I personally would have given him the death penalty instead.