I’m a gay New Yorker — and I’m coming out as a conservative

[Umka36 781]

3 minutes ago, Boiler said:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38960035

 

Asylum seekers are illegally crossing from the US into Canada in growing numbers hoping to receive refugee status. One small prairie town in southern Manitoba has become the nexus point for migrants who have lost hope in the US.

It was a cold Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal could barely comprehend.

On Christmas Eve, they found themselves struggling through a waist-deep field of snow in a rash night-time bid to sneak across the Canada-US border.

The two men had met just few hours before at a Minneapolis bus station and both faced deportation back to Ghana after being denied refugee status in the US.

They had heard through a network of other refugees and African expats that if they could get into Canada, they had a second shot at asylum in the north.

Canada should build a wall and make the US pay.

[smilesammich 10,727]

moral of the story is people willing to lose their digits aren't going to be thwarted by a wall. they will find a way. 

[Boiler 47,083]

The moral surely is that with Canada they have a safe space to go to where they will be welcomed.

[Dashinka 25,592]

5 hours ago, smilesammich said:

personally, i don't buy this sort of selling out in the slightest. absolutely nothing in this essay leads me to believe the author is now conservative. talking to and getting along with trump supporters does not at all make you a conservative. liberal friends shunning you because you're bending over and giving media attention to a total scumbag like milo is sort of what you get. and from the intro - exactly what the author expected. 

 

the problem here is that some conservatives appear to be unaware of what milo is and what he's hoping to accomplish. i bet he's pretty brand new to most of you. but you're not championing free speech in supporting milo. he'd love for more of you to believe that though so, i guess his 'im gay and i hate gays' and other nonsensical ideals sit pretty well with conservatives searching for a useful prop.

 

 

So to change your political views is considered "selling out"?  I guess what he said about the intolerant reactions he received from all those progressives is true.

[Umka36 781]

29 minutes ago, Boiler said:

The moral surely is that with Canada they have a safe space to go to where they will be welcomed.

Then you hear stories like this (just add a few million, and I imagine Canada mindset would change):

 

‘Overwhelmed’: Manitoba community seeing influx of unauthorized border crossers

 

http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/national-news/2017/02/07/overwhelmed-manitoba-community-seeing-influx-of-unauthorized-border-crossers/

[Merle 458]

1 hour ago, smilesammich said:

like you determine who 'matters'  

Right back at ya smarty pants

 

 

 

 

[smilesammich 10,727]

8 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

So to change your political views is considered "selling out"?  I guess what he said about the intolerant reactions he received from all those progressives is true.

nope, not what i said. please tell me what specific political views of the op changed? i don't see any.

[smilesammich 10,727]

2 minutes ago, Merle said:

Right back at ya smarty pants

 

 

 

 

hey, you asked for an example - i gave you one and you switched it up to needing an example of a senator or congressman not as you said..someone who doesn't matter. clearly a judgement all your own.

[smilesammich 10,727]

44 minutes ago, Boiler said:

The moral surely is that with Canada they have a safe space to go to where they will be welcomed.

if they'd been welcomed, they wouldn't have had to loose their fingers getting in.

[Boiler 47,083]

Just now, smilesammich said:

if they'd been welcomed, they wouldn't have had to loose their fingers getting in.

Perhaps they had not heard Trudeau say how much they were welcomed.

[smilesammich 10,727]

Just now, Boiler said:

Perhaps they had not heard Trudeau say how much they were welcomed.

perhaps they understood there was a process they'd not completed for that welcoming. unprepared asylum seekers, the gall.

[Boiler 47,083]

Seem to have known what to do, just not how cold it was.

 

Sensible ones will wait for warmer weather.

[CaliCat 3,957]

A gay man in New York. What has the world come to!

[Dashinka 25,592]

3 hours ago, smilesammich said:

nope, not what i said. please tell me what specific political views of the op changed? i don't see any.

He may not have completely changed his political views, but his eyes were certainly opened to the blatant intolerance of the progressive left.

[smilesammich 10,727]

38 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

He may not have completely changed his political views, but his eyes were certainly opened to the blatant intolerance of the progressive left.

if his political views changed at all, he didn't provide any evidence of that in the op.