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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 5:47pm |
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oldviolin wrote: Hello. Wears blinders and feeds on itself. Them and they, curds and whey. Plus its excruciatingly boring...
idioms are running the asylum...
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Steely_D
Location: Biscayne Bay Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 5:32pm |
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rgio wrote:
People have apparently lost the ability to reason. I don't get it.
Irony alert
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rgio
Location: West Jersey Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 1:29pm |
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westslope wrote:
I do appreciate black321's point. One US neighbourhood is very different from another. At one level, numbers do not matter so much as competence, energy, purpose and neighbourhood cohesion. That comes from special interest/grass roots politics 101.
Funny though to think of an Aussie making hay while deliberately and successfully misleading Americans. Well maybe not so funny. Like it ain't funny when large numbers of Canadians fall for the Trump movement rhetoric.
I used to feel that way, but competence has no chance against tribalism. People have apparently lost the ability to reason. I don't get it.
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rgio
Location: West Jersey Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 1:21pm |
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NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
you mean Murdoch?
I do.
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R_P
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Aug 17, 2021 - 12:14pm |
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westslope wrote:
Median voters and normal, quiet, stable folks do not make headlines and sell copies/eyeballs.
The mythical (reasonable, moderate) middle!
Pick a salient issue and the self-identified reasonable ones can go from zero to wingnut in under five seconds...
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westslope
Location: BC sage brush steppe
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Aug 17, 2021 - 9:40am |
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black321 wrote:
Lunatic fringe, on the left and right getting too much attention. I still think the majority are rational, realistic thinkers. Those are the ones who need more attention.
Median voters and normal, quiet, stable folks do not make headlines and sell copies/eyeballs.
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black321
Location: An earth without maps Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 9:23am |
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rgio wrote: You mean like the folks attacking school board members for attempting to protect teachers and their own children by having them wear masks?
The idiots are getting into office based on the votes of those good people in your neighborhood. To get your neighbors to act irrationally, all you have to do is tell them their Constitutional right to freedom is being violated. No facts are required. It took an outsider (Australian) to figure out how to get rich saying that... and down we go!!!
Lunatic fringe, on the left and right getting too much attention. I still think the majority are rational, realistic thinkers. Those are the ones who need more attention.
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NoEnzLefttoSplit
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Aug 17, 2021 - 8:27am |
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rgio wrote:
You mean like the folks attacking school board members for attempting to protect teachers and their own children by having them wear masks?
The idiots are getting into office based on the votes of those good people in your neighborhood. To get your neighbors to act irrationally, all you have to do is tell them their Constitutional right to freedom is being violated. No facts are required. It took an outsider (Australian) to figure out how to get rich saying that... and down we go!!!
you mean Murdoch?
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steeler
Location: Perched on the precipice of the cauldron of truth
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Aug 17, 2021 - 8:27am |
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rgio wrote:
You mean like the folks attacking school board members for attempting to protect teachers and their own children by having them wear masks?
The idiots are getting into office based on the votes of those good people in your neighborhood. To get your neighbors to act irrationally, all you have to do is tell them their Constitutional right to freedom is being violated. No facts are required. It took an outsider (Australian) to figure out how to get rich saying that... and down we go!!!
We have met the enemy. It is us.
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westslope
Location: BC sage brush steppe
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Aug 17, 2021 - 8:23am |
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rgio wrote: You mean like the folks attacking school board members for attempting to protect teachers and their own children by having them wear masks?
The idiots are getting into office based on the votes of those good people in your neighborhood. To get your neighbors to act irrationally, all you have to do is tell them their Constitutional right to freedom is being violated. No facts are required. It took an outsider (Australian) to figure out how to get rich saying that... and down we go!!!
I do appreciate black321's point. One US neighbourhood is very different from another. At one level, numbers do not matter so much as competence, energy, purpose and neighbourhood cohesion. That comes from special interest/grass roots politics 101. Funny though to think of an Aussie making hay while deliberately and successfully misleading Americans. Well maybe not so funny. Like it ain't funny when large numbers of Canadians fall for the Trump movement rhetoric.
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rgio
Location: West Jersey Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 7:59am |
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black321 wrote:
Idiots are/have been in control, but as long as we have good people in the neighborhoods and streets, we are not lost, just sidetracked.
You mean like the folks attacking school board members for attempting to protect teachers and their own children by having them wear masks?
The idiots are getting into office based on the votes of those good people in your neighborhood. To get your neighbors to act irrationally, all you have to do is tell them their Constitutional right to freedom is being violated. No facts are required. It took an outsider (Australian) to figure out how to get rich saying that... and down we go!!!
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 7:58am |
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miamizsun wrote: rgio wrote:Trump signed a peace agreement with the Taliban in Feb of last year and ran for re-election on his ability to end the war. Biden ran for election saying he was getting out. Only when there are pictures of people in turbans carrying guns does anyone in the US (or the rest of the world) worry about human rights. It's amazing to watch the "America First" crowd suggest they would never have done this. They applauded when he did these things... yet want to crucify Biden for doing exactly what they've been wanting for years. We're lost. The idiots are now running the asylum. i would agree in general that partisan nuttery is the normand for the most part it is toxicprincipled thought/behavior should play a larger role in leadership politicians come and go, but policy hangs around and our foreign policy leaves a lot to be desired Hello. Wears blinders and feeds on itself. Them and they, curds and whey. Plus its excruciatingly boring...
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 7:23am |
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rgio wrote:Trump signed a peace agreement with the Taliban in Feb of last year and ran for re-election on his ability to end the war. Biden ran for election saying he was getting out. Only when there are pictures of people in turbans carrying guns does anyone in the US (or the rest of the world) worry about human rights. It's amazing to watch the "America First" crowd suggest they would never have done this. They applauded when he did these things... yet want to crucify Biden for doing exactly what they've been wanting for years. We're lost. The idiots are now running the asylum. i would agree in general that partisan nuttery is the norm and for the most part it is toxic principled thought/behavior should play a larger role in leadership politicians come and go, but policy hangs around and our foreign policy leaves a lot to be desired
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black321
Location: An earth without maps Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 7:15am |
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rgio wrote: We're lost. The idiots are now running the asylum.
Idiots are/have been in control, but as long as we have good people in the neighborhoods and streets, we are not lost, just sidetracked.
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rgio
Location: West Jersey Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 6:54am |
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miamizsun wrote:
that and i'm freaking gobsmacked that we left (or are leaving) a bunch of people behind to face the hoard/barbarians
women/girls especially will suffer the giant leap backwards in human rights
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Trump signed a peace agreement with the Taliban in Feb of last year and ran for re-election on his ability to end the war.
Biden ran for election saying he was getting out.
Only when there are pictures of people in turbans carrying guns does anyone in the US (or the rest of the world) worry about human rights.
It's amazing to watch the "America First" crowd suggest they would never have done this. They applauded when he did these things... yet want to crucify Biden for doing exactly what they've been wanting for years.
We're lost. The idiots are now running the asylum.
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Aug 17, 2021 - 4:51am |
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NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: Agreed, though I still can't believe the allies put their faith in the local police force to hold off the Taliban while they made an orderly evacuation. That there is the very definition of western hubris.
that and i'm freaking gobsmacked that we left (or are leaving) a bunch of people behind to face the hoard/barbarians women/girls especially will suffer the giant leap backwards in human rights trying to change someone's philosophy with force, violence and coercion is a giant flashing sign of stupidity one hundred eighty degrees of changing the human operating OS and yet this isn't obvious to the US or the taliban expect human flourishing to evaporate just so disappointed
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NoEnzLefttoSplit
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Aug 17, 2021 - 12:14am |
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Steely_D wrote:I appreciate 1) no one has bothered to do this in 20 years although we all knew it was necessary 2) he didn’t leave it to the next President, sparing us from sending more soldiers over on a fool’s errand 3) if, after twenty years, the nation still wasn’t ready, then they weren’t going to be ready and we were wasting our resources (and citizens) Agreed, though I still can't believe the allies put their faith in the local police force to hold off the Taliban while they made an orderly evacuation. That there is the very definition of western hubris.
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Steely_D
Location: Biscayne Bay Gender:
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Aug 16, 2021 - 9:23pm |
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I appreciate
1) no one has bothered to do this in 20 years although we all knew it was necessary
2) he didnât leave it to the next President, sparing us from sending more soldiers over on a foolâs errand
3) if, after twenty years, the nation still wasnât ready, then they werenât going to be ready and we were wasting our resources (and citizens)
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 16, 2021 - 7:19pm |
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westslope wrote: In the last 20 years over 200,000 more settlers have established homes and communities in now an over half a century long Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Is that not what the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was all about?
doh!
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westslope
Location: BC sage brush steppe
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Aug 16, 2021 - 6:45pm |
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kurtster wrote:So who wants to defend Biden's handling of Afghanistan ? In the last 20 years over 200,000 more settlers have established homes and communities in now an over half a century long Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Is that not what the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was all about?
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