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faethor

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I don't think you could live in the USA and not realize the mass of people on Facebook changing their profile pics to red images that support gay marriage, while the Supreme Court takes on one of the first cases about the issue.

Interesting enough someone at Facebook tracked the % of image change to a County level within the USA. It shows where people do, and do not, support equal marriage rights for gays.

I found it an interesting use and report on social media.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/face...rriage-equality-on-facebook/10151430548593859
 
wonder how that translates to reality tho... i mean it's good for predicting short term trends among a group of self admitted "followers", as long as you realize its gonna plateau like every other graph once it reaches it's maximum point of persuasion(virility factor) . actual interest thereafter will be at a lower place because some of those folks are "band-wagoners' " and really could care less about "gay issues". in the almighty quest for popularity, lotsa joiners out there...
 
It's all nonsense. I am on Facebook but I am NOT a trendy. Do you wear silly wristbands too?
 
I RARELY change my profile pic on fb - and when I do it's generally an astronaut or other accomplished person. I did this time because I want my friends to know I support them and respect their humanity.
 
I find it interesting that we can find the popularity or conformity (depending on your angle) reflected in collective social media.

Did some people do it because it was popular? I suppose there are always those sheeple. In my case I, like Cecilia, have numerous gay friends and support equal rights for all consenting adults in the USA. I rarely change my profile either. But, the time to change the biased system is now.
 
Who doesn't have numerous gay friends and family members these days? Heck, none of the gay people on my Facebook friends list bothered to change their profile pic. It mainly is a trendy thing, like silly wrist bands. For someone to try and make a correlation between people who change their profile pic and education level is worse than silly. No offense intended. Of course blue states will be more full of trendies.
 
I'm sure it's easy to marginalize civil rights by calling it "trendies".

And I'm hardly speaking for all of fb because that would be moronic. I'm not on ALL of fb so how would I know what is in people's heads?

However, when I read posts from people discussing this they don't seem shallow at all. They appear to have changed their picture for the reason I did. I did not conduct an official survey and I don't consider the fb data to be all that precise.

and, btw, I've noticed various people on G+ who have also changed their profile image. And G+ is way more serious than fb
 
Of course equal rights it's just a trend... A trend that started about 230 plus years ago when people had the gall to found a nation where all people being equal even though they weren't.
 
faethor said:
Of course equal rights it's just a trend... A trend that started about 230 plus years ago when people had the gall to found a nation where all people being equal even though they weren't.
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You couldn't possibly be that bullheaded.
 
faethor said:
Of course equal rights it's just a trend... A trend that started about 230 plus years ago when people had the gall to found a nation where all people being equal even though they weren't.
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and when you stand on the shoulders of giants it's easer to see into the future
 
Marietta Daily Journal is covering a story that Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party told the paper on Sat that gay marriage has no stops for a straight to claim they're gay to exploit the system. She's right there isn't any stops for a straight to lie they're gay and not in love but get married anyhow. However, there isn't any stops for a straight to not be in love and get married to a straight. The problem isn't gay marriage the problem is people lying about marrying.

Republican logic? I hoped this was a April Fools post, but apparently not.
 
faethor said:
Republican logic? I hoped this was a April Fools post, but apparently not.
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dad says "you'll hear the dumbest shit from a mans mouth when he tells you why he "has" to hate you"... :D... he just left (we were looking at the fodder system) and he told me to tell you that...
 
faethor said:
Republican logic? I hoped this was a April Fools post, but apparently not.
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Naah, faethor logic that all conservatives = evil gay bashing homophobics. I guess TV told you to think that so it is hard for you to think otherwise.
 
redrumloa said:
Naah, faethor logic that all conservatives = evil gay bashing homophobics. I guess TV told you to think that so it is hard for you to think otherwise.
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uhm the article he linked to is actually quite interesting and informative in an unbiased (sort of one sided, but nobody is hateful)way... u should read it first.... or quote a different part of the conversation...
 
redrumloa said:
Naah, faethor logic that all conservatives = evil gay bashing homophobics. I guess TV told you to think that so it is hard for you to think otherwise.
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I think it goes without too much need of proof that the Democratic Elected representative support equal marriage rights by a much larger margin than Republican Elected representatives. But as Robert said do read the article it is really interesting.

BTW, we don't have TV using the Internet for most 'TV'. We often don't watch news programs either.

UPDATE: Republicans Rob Portman of Ohio and Mark Kirk of Illinois have come out in support of equal marriage rights.
 
faethor said:
I think it goes without too much need of proof that the Democratic Elected representative support equal marriage rights by a much larger margin than Republican Elected representatives. But as Robert said do read the article it is really interesting.

BTW, we don't have TV using the Internet for most 'TV'. We often don't watch news programs either.

UPDATE: Republicans Rob Portman of Ohio and Mark Kirk of Illinois have come out in support of equal marriage rights.
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Emphasis is mine. What you are missing here is politicians in general, and most certainly democrats politicians, lick their finger and stick it in the air. What happened when Bill Clinton, liberal favorite, was in office? That's right, he voted in the Defense of Marriage Act. But now he and Hillary are heroes of gay rights to the media and to the left.
 
redrumloa said:
Emphasis is mine. What you are missing here is politicians in general, and most certainly democrats politicians, lick their finger and stick it in the air. What happened when Bill Clinton, liberal favorite, was in office? That's right, he voted in the Defense of Marriage Act. But now he and Hillary are heroes of gay rights to the media and to the left.
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Interesting enough the Republican architect of DOMA, Bob Barr, now is also against continuing DOMA and pro-equal marriage rights. DOMA was thought to be good, and has proven not to be. I'd think if the original signers are saying 'oops this ain't working' and are asking for something else, no matter the party, we should support the better direction.

On a personal level I don't care what the Clintons or Barr is saying. None are in the position to pass policies on that topic of equal marriage rights. Equal Rights have not been achieved in our society so we clearly have more work to do. At present it appears that mainly Democratic Elected leaders see this issue that's been blowing in the wind (as you so eloquently put it) for at least the last 50+ years. It didn't blow in the wind too much prior to that because it meant enrollment as mentally ill or killed was the likely outcome.
 
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