This story just now also came up on my news feed. The guy says they did NOT attack him for being gay, that they were using homophobic slurs in general in their political argument with others. He also admitted he got very drunk and personally egged them on.

Your impotent rage is cute.

See? Support your insults with sources!

"Your face is wrong." -Confucius, probably

The difference is he jumped into an argument with the intent to make a point, whether he did it rudely or not. You can call people any names you want, but you don't back it up with "well your sources are stupid." You back it up with "listen up dipshits, here are sources that disprove what you're saying." This is the biggest problem contributing to Trump's election in the first place. Instead of liberals and progressives--of which I admit to be one--saying "Look, what you're reading has some issues, here's the other side, let's read then reconvene to call each other more informed insults" a lot of us threw up our hands and said "you're all hopeless and too stupid for me to deal with. Your shit is wrong and you just don't get it, you misogynist racists." So if you want to jump in, jump in with rebuttal sources before the insults, then add the insults after. "Because something I read somewhere says you're wrong" is a cop out.

As an edit: let me apologize for getting snippy toward the end there. Daylight Savings Time fucks my schedule and I'm crankier than usual, but I shouldn't take that out on you.

It's exactly what you broadcasted. There's two sides to a communication, what you say and how it sounds. Try going back over your "pathetic sources," "Idiocracy is past" and "whiny bitches from them1950s" comments until you figure out why what you said equates to "I'll refute your sources with none of my own and insult a bunch of people for not seeing my way." That is the exact attitude that made voters decide to burn down the house just to kill the mouse. If you don't understand written communication, don't do it. I suspect you're one of those 'educated' people.

Let me translate for funsubstance user: "I have no actual argument or backup for my opinion, so I'm going to play the You're Too Stupid To Understand card. Taking a look at the complex societal problems and understanding the Democratic party lost because it refused to heed warnings that the people were looking for a populist candidate and no longer willing to crown somebody just because "it was her turn" is too complicated for me. I choose to continue to denigrate half the population as whiny bitches insyead of heeding this warning, and when the next election comes and the people literally vote to institute the Purge because folks like me still have our fingers in our ears, I will be shocked again."

What does voting for the same person war hawks, bank deregulators, DOMA supporters, cop killers, and human rights criminals voted for say about Clinton supporters? Absolutely nothing, which is what voting for the person the KKK is voting for says about Trump supporters. Nothing. It's a false equivalency.

I'm not involved in this argument either way, but to be fair, I've been all over the internet for almost 20 years and I've never heard of "/s" for internet sarcasm, it just looked like a typo to me. If you use shorthand, even common, it's on you to be understood.

Alas, I decided a long time ago not to get married. I can get you a great crockpot recipe for hot caramel apple cider, though.

I feel like the people who say "Hillary is obviously the better choice, you don't have to like her" have been paying more attention to the bullshit she says and not much to what she's actually been doing for decades.

Everything is a remake or reboot these days, and Ghostbusters was old enough to be tossed in the reboot pile. It was an all female cast this time because the studio realized women also have entertainment dollars to spend and also like seeing themselves represented on screen. That's all. Everyone's cashing in on nostalgia, and women are asking for more non-romance movies involving women. The two demands just happened to collide on ghostbusters at just the right time for people who haven't watched a Ghostbusters movie in 20 years to feel like complaining.

@sincere_milkshake I've only had it happen twice, both at times I was walking alone and both by strange guys twice my size, so to be honest in some cases it can be more frightening than anything.

To make fun of people with stick figure families on their car. It's the same as the ones that have the stick people running from the guy with the chainsaw with the words "nobody cares about your stick figure family."