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Gun rights groups and gun control advocates debate efforts to lower Michigan’s concealed carry age • Michigan Advance Members of the Michigan House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday took comment on a series of bills centered on the application process for concealed pistol licenses, including a proposal to lower the ag...

Michigan Republicans want to grant concealed carry permits to 18 year olds. michiganadvance.com/2025/11/13/g...

Same folks tell their kids they're overreacting when the kids tell them the pastor is raping them, because the parents are afraid of the social repercussions of speaking out.

The parents know that for the congregation, the child rape is acceptable, outside scrutiny is not.

Hard to say. Bergman usually does the worst possible thing. Like when he cast the deciding vote to pass the Big Beautiful Bill that's going to close our hospitals.

We expect women to be better, because they usually are. We expect women to oppose sexual exploitation, because women have to defend against it all their lives.

I'm just as disgusted by the men though.

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Hi Upper Michigan and Northern Lower Michigan!

This is a good day to remember that our congressman, Jack Bergman of House DeVos, refused to sign the discharge petition to force the vote on the Epstein Files.
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Men have the same responsibility as women to protect boys and girls from pedophiles, no matter how well connected those pedophiles may be.

The victims being girls doesn't make this responsibility fall more heavily on the women in Congress. Republican men who won't sign are equally shitty.

True, and they will get there if we are unable to stop them. Enslaving other people and convincing/exonerating themselves that they are following God's plan is the historical place where that thinking leads.

If you can support deporting someone's Mom you can support selling someone's children.

Also strikingly similar to other Rightwing beliefs today: women's natural submission to husband, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trump chosen by God, billionaires as "job creators rather than exploiters, etc.

Not comparing the scope of their depravity with that of slaveholders, just their excuses.

Another working class hero who's never washed a dish or held a shovel.

Nope.

MAGA hates the woke universities. Junior goes off to college a regular guy from Podunk. Then he gets lab partnered with someone who gets him started thinking.

Comes back a better person, but Mom and Dad feel rejected and they're mad enough to blame the whole university system.

White supremacists wouldn't seek validation if they didn't already know they were wrong. So why not begin the work of self correction?

Some are afraid of the social cost of rejecting the values of their social/family circles. People rightly perceive it as rejecting their morality. A bridge crossed.

Senate Minority Office Holder Chuck Schumer.

If he's a "Leader" he hides it well.

Rejecting supremacism requires acknowledging not just that you are wrong, but that your parents, uncles, teachers, friends who told the racist jokes, everyone who instilled it in you as a child, is wrong.

Much easier to just seek validation.

The sad truth is that after 40 years of trying to change, not just actions words attitude, but thoughts not expressed, I'm still not completely free of something I never asked for as a child.

But I'm much better than I was, and happier with who I am.

When children, now young adults, go into the larger world and encounter diversity, they find that supremacism isn't a proper attitude or moral value.

They then have to choose: Fix themselves, do the work to purge what is obviously wrong, or seek validation of supremacy.

Supremacism isn't something people seek. It's inflicted on children, often unintentionally, by adults. Children cannot defend against it, because they are looking to the adults in their lives to let them know what proper values and attitudes are.

Okay.

The penis size/intelligence question is absurd on its face. There's no reason one should affect the other, or reason they should correlate.

Supremacism desires validation, so it seizes on any straw it can grasp.

Would you be interested in a response from a recovering white supremacist?

In case anyone forgot…

The POTUS is a sexual predator & Republicans in Congress are covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring.

It ain’t gonna go away!

Trump is close to understanding Medicare for All.

Trump is close to understanding Medicare for all with this post.

Heavy "Jews will not replace us" energy coming from Tuberville.

If the GOP gets its theocracy, the refrain will eventually be "Catholics will not" and later "Episcopalians will not"

European Wars of Religion is a wiki page that serves dire warning of where this is headed.

Yeah. Republicans have been relying on gerrymandering for so long that they think it's an entitlement, and only for them. Now they've pushed too far, killed the golden goose, and are about to see the script flipped.

Also, when they carve their "safe" seats in TX, they might lose them too.

Grateful for this work.

Gotta think that Spkr Pelosi and Gov Newsome have a plan to make two dem districts out of the one she's vacating.

Ha ha, can see it now. Conservatives are lifelong high school sophomores, hazing the frosh.

"we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.”

Zohran Mamdani

Possible that wealthy and powerful pedophiles stopped raping children when Epstein got caught. Not likely though.

Wealthy and powerful people do not give up pleasures and privileges to which they are accustomed.

There is almost certainly a new Epstein Island. Perhaps they've been filmed there.

Church leaders rape our kids every chance they get. Church ruins weekends. Church is mostly aligned with Trumpism. Church disapproves of normal life and ordinary people. Supporting churches is expensive.

Leaving churches is one of the best things people can do.

Yes.

Was merely highlighting one of the reasons it's so easy to paint cities as hostile places to rural people. Paying the going rate feels like a ripoff.

Uncertainty and congestion add to the feeling. We're usually happy to get home. So of course that negative perception is exploitable.