i look at this map every night before bed

nah, just trying to educate an ignorant person on something with which they know nothing about. what are your qualifications in talking about the deaf community? because please, I’d love to know your background. we know you’re not deaf, so is a family member deaf? a friend? how involved are you in the community? are you an asl interpreter? how involved are you in fighting active legislation that has chilling effects on the deaf populous? what do you do?

my previous point still stands, you were fighting about something which you knew nothing. yeah, I’m still mad as hell at the deaf community. but I don’t need vengeance. you clearly have limited emotional understanding if you can’t comprehend that anger is a valid emotion and separate from vengeance, an action. jeez, you’re just so ignorant.

I realized I was little inebriated when I last responded to you and didn’t fully comprehend your comment. I wasn’t calling you deaf. I was using the royal you referring to deaf people in general. You’re still just a self-righteous prick. My apology meant nothing and you are ignorant of what goes on in the deaf community, so stop.

You changed the argument. That’s why it’s a bad argument. It’s not your fault though, most people argue that way. I should not comment, I think. Clearly, it’s not an enjoyable experience for me anymore. This was very enlightening. Thank you for this opportunity. Peace and blessings unto you and your family.

Most people need to be paid to do work. Bad argument. I won’t be responding further, if this is how you argue.

Uncle worked down at city dump. He loved it. He was kind of a garbologist in a way. He was fascinated by all the things folks threw away. Retired there too. Got a job right out of high school and worked until he was 62 and retired. Dude has so many “trash” sculptures. That is to say, sculptures made out of trash. I think you’d be surprised the jobs folks enjoy doing.

Scholars have found the same verses with sometimes wildly different meanings in Aramaic before the time of Christ. Not even the Aramaic would be wholly accurate. Which totally makes sense when you realize how how it is written. It’s incredibly easy to misread.

Well, I’m not sorry I was rash. When a large group of people represent a community, and actively hurt people, you can’t be surprised when those hurt people are contemptuous toward that community. Same reason, people hate insert religion.

You’re just a whiny brat, trying to find your place in the world, focusing on identity for yourself, or others, so that you can feel like you belong and pious that you defended a minority group. Just focus on making human connections and be nice and stop this tribalism bullshit.

Feel free to respond with all the work you do for the deaf. I’ll be on the phone lobbying for them.

edit: changed apology, person is annoying.

edit2: why did you harp on the ears broke thing btw? deaf people’s ears are broken lmao. just like blind people can’t see. the deaf community does the most harmful thing which is, make deaf people think that’s all they can be. ugh, you are such an ignorant, awful person.

You’re right, it was hilarious as for four years a deaf family harassed us, because my mom wouldn’t give up her child to them because they were deaf and we were hearing. Fucking hell, you know nothing of my lived experience and chose to mock me. I have done so much on behalf on the deaf community, even though they spat in the face of my sister. I have fought the deaf community when they excluded her because she wasn’t deaf enough. She’s profoundly deaf, mind you. can’t hear a lick without her hearing aids, and even then. But she spoke. Because my mother sacrificed her whole life to make sure that she had every advantage while being deaf. She not only spoke, she spoke well. She only has a slight accent. She spoke so well, it had a chilling effect on all her deaf relationships. She could live in a hearing world, much easier than they could. So, in a way, you are right. It is ridiculous the things they did to her. It was awful when every year, she asked to go to deaf camp and came home early every time. I’m so sick of people like you acting like you know more about lived experiences than those who have lived them.

I don’t even know why this infuriated me. Maybe it’s because I’m very close with my sister and I’ve seen her struggles. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen the public school system take away the only interpreter they had to another kid because he couldn’t speak, so he was more deaf. Maybe it’s because I watched as the deaf community rallied around that kid in testimony against my sister in the lawsuit against the district. Maybe it’s because then I had to watch my Mother sacrifice her life as an educator to take us home and educate us. And holy fuck, praise be to her because I wouldn’t do it.

You know nothing about me, and yet you chose to make gross assumptions about me. As if that gives you some superior moral high ground. You are a shameful person to do so.

Yeah, I might would defend you on this, if it wasn’t for the fact that this “deaf philosophy” almost destroyed my family. They can get over it. Your ears are broke and if one day they find a cure, you should be so blessed. The deaf community is exclusionary and dangerous in my experience. It’s tribalism at it’s best.

Agreed. The AAV delivery isn’t even new. It’s just treating the signal from inner hair cells IHC to the brain, improving it. Most deafness comes from either damage/mutations to the IHC or Cochlea. In the case of a very close family member, they were born without IHC. Most or all, were gone. This is due to genetics, or viruses, commonly. In the case of my family member, it was the latter.

Those IHC are also what cause age related hearing loss and acoustic hearing loss. They get damaged over time, and with loud noises. Effectively, curing that is the cure for deafness. The problem with that is, the ability for regeneration diminishes with age. We can’t figure out a way to grow them, consistently, safely, and lasting. Because stem cell therapy is wild.

This is a needless argument as we’re arguing hypotheticals. It can be boiled down to, you would rather Trump live and risk whatever the consequences of that. I would rather not see that. Ça va. Cheers! Blessing unto you and your family.

“No John, you’re wrong. Dying is worse. Because, well, it is. Isn’t it?”

This reminded me of my favourite scene in Luther. I think dying is worse too. Once he’s dead, it’s over. We get so caught up in wanting to see justice, but is there no greater justice than death? The desire to see him suffer is coming from a place of anger, hate, and malice. Not justice. It’s gaudy. It also gives him the opportunity to live. Why would you give him that gift? Death is final.

I used to hear about Charlie Kirk all the time, from local conservatives, but not so much anymore. I don’t think there’s any way to look at it, other than death being the ultimate punishment. He didn’t get to be a big martyr icon, he was in the news and left behind. Dying presents a golden opportunity that should not be taken for granted, no more speaking.

Finally, I just want to say this, one who wishes to see suffering and pain, is one who wishes to create martyrdom. And I don’t want that.

I get what he’s saying, probably because of my upbringing. But he’s saying that she made conservatives look a little right wing (normal Trump) and little like nut jobs (crazy). So, hes just going an extremely round about, redundant way to say she made them look crazy. Folks in the south view conservatives as old money republicans. Even some of the newer southern dynasties have caught flak for not being hard right enough. That’s why Trump was so big in those areas. They viewed him as someone who was challenging the people they felt had left them behind; take notes dems. They truly believe he’s doing something different. They’re just ignorant enough and stubborn enough to not see he’s destroying the country.

What is interesting to me is, he’s losing support with old money republicans. I’m still a part of a lot of inner circles, and these folks are done. A lot of them want to go back to talking about just money and leaving all social issues in the dust and use it as negotiating tools for more money. But younger republicans, aforementioned in the article, tend to care more about those social issues, while also believing trump has their back with the economy; ignorant.

A lot of fractures are happening in state houses across the South. You have younger, very hard-line republicans at war with the older, more manageable republicans. I saw one meeting where a speaker said, “I swear if you bring up abortion one more time, I’m shooting you on the floor. You won your little battle, we’re gonna only discuss the budget now.” I think the primaries are gonna go hard this year lol