• BBS community improvements

    From John Williams@VERT/RICKSBBS to Ravne on Fri Nov 7 15:23:13 2025
    Re: BBS community improvements
    By: Ravne to Accession on Tue May 28 2024 09:43 pm

    Re: BBS community improvements
    By: Ravne to Accession on Tue May 28 2024 09:13 pm

    No mention of it whatsoever, though. Instead, you insist on pushing
    another agenda entirely, and putting people down if they don't have th
    same views as you do.

    I love /s how my desire to have the same rights as straight people is considered an "agenda" & how my desire to not be murdered is considered my "view". That's really all Pride is about, our demands (you're damn well righ we DEMAND) to be safe & have the same rights as everyone else, including the right to fair jobs access, fair housing, everything that straight people exp for themselves. Pride is about normalizing our existence in the world, not about trying to "shove our views in everyone's face".

    I don't see it now, but you said something about me going about trying to ge my point across the wrong way. Am I? I don't know that I agree with that opinion. First of all, I have no delusion that I'm going to convince anyone here of anything, I'm really not sure why I even keep responding. Except, ma there's an LGBTQ person out there that's been afraid to come out & maybe see my posts will help them be less afraid.

    Second, I could care less about being a "good gay", the ones that make sure cave to the desires of straight people, to make sure they don't cross that l of what's acceptable to y'all. Have you ever heard the analogy of not thinki the leopards would ever eat MY face? That's what happens to "good gays", eventually the people they're putting on a good show for turn on them too, o they've gotten what they need from them. And no, don't pull out some shit ab "you're saying all straight people are leopards that are going to eat the fa of gay people", the leopards eating faces are straight people that pretend t support gay people just long enough to try to get us to let our guards down.
    You already have all the same rights as everyone else.
    Johnny,
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to John Williams on Fri Nov 7 21:29:58 2025
    Re: BBS community improvements
    By: John Williams to Ravne on Fri Nov 07 2025 03:23 pm

    Re: BBS community improvements
    By: Ravne to Accession on Tue May 28 2024 09:43 pm


    You already have all the same rights as everyone else. Johnny,


    you are replying to stuff from 2024.
    please update your msg pointers.
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  • From Michael Rhodes@VERT/RICKSBBS to Gamgee on Sun Dec 21 09:09:53 2025
    Re: Re: BBS community improvements
    By: Gamgee to fusion on Wed May 29 2024 04:28 pm

    fusion wrote to Ravne <=-

    On 28 May 2024, Ravne said the following...

    I love /s how my desire to have the same rights as straight people is considered an "agenda" & how my desire to not be murdered is considered my "view". That's really all Pride is about, our demands (you're damn well right, we DEMAND) to be safe & have the same rights as everyone else, including the right to fair jobs access, fair housing, everything that straight people expect for themselves. Pride is about normalizing our existence in the world, not about trying to "shove our views in everyone's face".

    this has to be a joke. easily the largest source of violence
    against your community is from within. domestic violence is huge
    .. why do you hate each other? everything you read will say the violence is perpetrated by a "partner" .. what sort of parter do
    you expect a gay person might choose? everyone is so desperate to
    make it seem like random straight guys are going around beating
    up gay (or trans or whatever) people for fun.

    do you know how hard it is to find modern recent examples of "gay bashing" like you want to fearmonger? wikipedia, the source for
    all things bullshit, repeatedly will use wording like "in some countries" and other vague wording.. do you know how large the
    USA section of the Violence against LGBT people page is? And half
    of it is COPE about "ohh, it's because nobody reports it" .. and
    you know what happens when you lot have nothing to complain about
    in the US? "well, it's still happening somewhere on the planet!"
    ..

    it gets even more annoying when it's like "this homeless gay
    person was robbed! gay homeless people are more likely to be
    robbed! like 95%!" .. imagine i robbed 100 people and 5 of them
    were gay.. a perhaps generous estimate of the % of people in the
    US who are gay.. do you see how that skews that statistics?
    almost every homeless person gets robbed. holy cow all the
    homeless gay people got robbed, we have to do something about
    this violence against queer people!

    then you keep getting at how "words are violence" .. you
    repeatedly lump the word "fag" in with "pedophile" and "groomer"
    the first is an insult against a trait that can't be changed.. a
    part of who you are, as some people insist. but the second two
    it's obvious you would want to defend against. but if you remove
    the second two we have the two options here:

    "fag" <-> "straight white men"

    these are traits that can't be changed, and your usage is meant
    to degrade and demean. do you make fun of the handicapped?
    perhaps people with speech impediments? bash a few redheads now
    and again? these are now both traits protected under the Civil
    Rights Act btw.. but talking about progress is lame right?

    with that opinion. First of all, I have no delusion that I'm going to convince anyone here of anything, I'm really not sure why I even keep responding. Except, maybe there's an LGBTQ person out there that's been afraid to come out & maybe seeing my posts will help them be less afrai

    i know why you keep responding.. because that's exactly what you
    came here for. you're like those people who on their first day
    joining twitter are trying out their hand at some bullshit
    trolling only to be dunked on by a bunch of spergs with anime
    avitars. you didn't want to be a part of this community, which is
    why you set yourself apart from it in the beginning. "if it
    wasn't for a few BBS women back in the day who told me everything
    will be okay because you're a woman" .. fuck off. i was going to
    ask if you wanted a parade for that, but that's exactly what you
    want.

    leopards eating faces are straight people that pretend to support gay people just long enough to try to get us to let our guards down. ---

    this is mental illness. if you're afraid of people like this.
    fear of what's around every corner.

    BRAVO!! BRAVO!!!

    I purposely quoted this entire message because I like it that much.
    Spot on accurate! Jesus I'm so freakin tired of the drama-assholes like
    the recent one we have here. Also known as trolls; hopefully to be gone soon.

    Again, well written and thanks!



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    Some people just want to be an eternal victim. I am glad to see more backbone in this country. I have no problem with gay people, it is just the 'look at me' and constant victim status. I know some gay folk that are indenpendent strong productive members of the community. Not needing parades and protests. I never have seen a 'we are straight' parade yet. I wonder how that would go over? Michael,
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