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In reply to the discussion: What life was like for LGBT Cubans when Bernie Sanders was praising Castro [View all]Arazi
(6,829 posts)96. Still crickets on Palestinian & Saudi atrocities again LGBT folks w HRC?
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What life was like for LGBT Cubans when Bernie Sanders was praising Castro [View all]
bigtree
Mar 2016
OP
A general comment inclusive of the Nancy Reagan Revisions, the OP's work, your own attitude
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#60
Red baiting and gay baiting from the Daily News? How low will you go?
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#3
The op is exploiting lgbt rights by citing that rag and also by editing the title.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#57
Oh do tell, I'll have to check it out and see who and what he brought back here...
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#62
Your strawman is pathetic. You post nothing of substance, there is no truth to what you posted.
Jefferson23
Mar 2016
#9
If you would not have quoted an opinion piece from the NY News that lied about Arenas
dr60omg
Mar 2016
#59
Maybe but the truth has never come close to the Clinton campaign. The hubris of the Big Money
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#17
She said she 'misspoke' but she did not clarify by speaking accurately about the actual
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#26
Your candidate crusaded against marriage equality and praised Nancy Reagan for her "work" on AIDS:
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#13
So you honestly think Bernie Sanders loves Cuba's mistreatment of gay people, Bigtree?
Scootaloo
Mar 2016
#23
"Sanders LOVES Cuba's mistreatment." -which words/phrases can you contort to even try and mean that?
pkdu
Mar 2016
#80
When are you willing to come off your high horse and respond to things that you post?
Joe the Revelator
Mar 2016
#44
I think maybe some O'Malley supporters feel he would have had a shot if Bernie
TwilightGardener
Mar 2016
#43
You very regularly post advocacy for Palestine. Do you know how they treat LGBT in Palestine?
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#22
Never mentions LGBT in Palestine, although Bernie can't say Cuba without owning all they do...
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#34
Same standard should apply for Hillary. BS supporters make her own everything she ever came near
Jitter65
Mar 2016
#72
In 1972 Bernie called for the abolishment of all laws against homosexuality and the op wants us
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#45
No bigtree 1985 was deep into Ron and Nancy's Years of Silence on AIDS, so this notion that LGBT
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#40
I like O'Malley. I think he could have an important role in a Sanders cabinet
Luminous Animal
Mar 2016
#42
Apparently, the OP does not know how to take the beam out of his own eye.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2016
#61
What was life like for LGBT folks in the U.S. in 1985? And not so fucking
Luminous Animal
Mar 2016
#32
And we are still waiting for answer to your very astute question re Palestine.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2016
#49
Moving photo in the article of a woman remembering victims of the Holocaust:
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#35
What's life like for women in Saudi Arabia when Hillary was hugging on their leaders?
boomer55
Mar 2016
#52
Why won't you answer Bluenorthwest's question? You are an avid supporter of Palestine.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2016
#70
+1. Bluenorthwest's question was honestly posed and reveals a seeming contradiction.
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#75
Attacking me personally, smearing me for calling you on your moutain of bullshit.
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#81
Okay. But he still has good question, You are a great advocate for Palestine.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2016
#85
So it's different when you do it in 2016? Bernie should not say a 1985 word about Cuba however?
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#111
Where are you bigtree? You have Palestine and Saudi Arabia to account for. Step up and do so.
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#71
The OP is of course personally attacking me as cover for his inability to explain his own actions.
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#107
Your silence reminds me of Ron and Nancy Reagan's 7 Year Silence about AIDS which your candidate
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#78
In 08 bigtree was the most fair and decent poster towards the other candidate and their supporters.
Autumn
Mar 2016
#119
Jordan repealed laws against private sexual acts, public 'displays' are still arrestable and there
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#112
So Cuba is like countless other countries that do not have full rights for LGBT people.
PoliticalPothead
Mar 2016
#99
Are you going to claim that the Miami/Bastista LGBT people had it better?
Todays_Illusion
Mar 2016
#100
You're right there with them: Sanders, Redbaiting and the ‘Denouncing’ Double Standard
Jefferson23
Mar 2016
#109
as proud as you must be trying to suppress my opinion with 50's era deflections
bigtree
Mar 2016
#117
Bullshit, what you have failed to do is present evidence Sanders was an apologist of any kind
Jefferson23
Mar 2016
#118
Ronald Reagan was a defender of South African Apartheid, he vetoed a Congressional sanction against
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#116
The Failure to Act: The Reagan Administration's Deliberate Failure to Address the Aids Epidemic
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#115