Thanks for the replies all. I appreciate and largely concur with the sentiments expressed. Unfortunately it appears that since not a single person pushed back on the COVID assumption, that there is a de facto consensus that Trump will provide no help there.
On the point of Trump being a weapon against the establishment, I very much want this to be true but I have to confess that I am not very optimistic about it. :-/ Anyway this assumes that he even gets to take the seat again...
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I agree but I believe that is a separate issue and is likely going to have to be handled by congress (reminder to all constituents that it is YOUR DUTY to apply pressure on congress members...). And just so we're clear, I see that as a criminal issue on the part of the federal government actors. They are in a very clear willful violation of the founding principles and law of the country.
My position is that big tech platforms are a de facto public space. That is how they offered themselves at the start, that is how the public came to them and that it how they are being used. For these platforms to then act as a willfully biased curator is simply not acceptable.
They can't have their cake and eat it to. They either must be forced to serve the public in the manner which they offered their service or they can be made to be accountable for their curation.
This judge is a useful idiot.
I honestly don't know as there are definitely people in the world who need to be kept away from other people. If we don't have police to tackle the front end of that problem then by necessity we must end up with a posse, yes?
On a side note to this topic I figure I'd share a detail about my life. Despite being American born and raised I did grow up with what was claimed to be a European sentiment regarding drinking. Probably beginning around the age of ten or so I would be offered some wine with dinner. I did not have a problem with this and didn't think wine was all that tasty at the time anyway. It did however demystify wine and taught me that different kinds of wine go with different kinds of meals.
As for the actual topic, you really have to be pretty damn stupid to think it is in any way a good idea to offer a child or even just a young person the possibility to permanently and destructively alter their body for no good end at all.
If a kid is confused about their own sexuality, you just have to let them sort it out like it has been done for the history of humanity. At best you talk with them and explain that it isn't all that unusual and that in time their confusion will ebb and they will sort out their fate.
The funny part is that there are studies (real ones) going back seventy years that all bore out no benefit from mask wearing. Outside of a hospital operating room that is and if you notice, in a hospital operating room they often use a plastic face shield to guard against the splatter which is the actual issue.
Not that I'm saying to comply but just a FYI for people who don't have a choice. You can get these and remove the insert. Nobody will know and you become unlikely to get hassled. They are a loose mesh once the insert is out. If you want to be extra cautious you can use compressed air to shake off any loose fibers from the mesh.
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I had a pretty good idea of the people he was referring to but it really took a particular comment on the video to fill in the whole (mostly?) picture. And it rang true in my estimation. Here is that comment.
By obbkiker6861
I am a direct descendant of the people he is referencing in the video but with a significant German ancestry. Growing up in southern Appalachia, one could see the distinct cultural differences. The German people planned and worked toward future.
The British and Scots would slow or stop work when they had enough. It is my opinion that it was not sloth or laziness but rather a fatalist mentality common among poor. Why should I work and strive to lay aside for the future when it can or will be taken from me? This may well have been a cultural holdover from experiences in England and Scotland. We see this attitude in modern cultures in both the poor south and intercity inhabitants.
It is a cycle difficult to break.
I'm very pro-capitalist, as in merit based, not crony based. I'm also a non believer, as in I do not accept that there is any god. However I fully appreciate the sentiment when it is held by truly humble people. For example, if a truly humble person says god bless you, I can fully appreciate where that comes from on a human level.
So in this context I view the Church as a completely lost institution, it represents at this point, nothing. They have nothing to offer humanity other than a memory.
The church can only ever be a touch stone in the human story, it can not what ever the sentiment of the day is, strive to be more popular. People either figure it out for themselves or they do not. The story is immortal. It doesn't morph or change to curry favor.
Look at the Amish, the Amish are rooted. This is why they are respected. The church lost it's moorings.
Women need a committed relationship. In fact it is the best possible thing they can do for their lives. Unless the man is a weak idiot (which does happen occasionally) he will ground her, make her sane and give her purpose.
Good points, this is exactly the problem I have. I want the wholesale destruction of the federal government. It is not salvageable and it is doing staggering damage to the American people. Anyone who thinks it is salvageable, is delusional in my view. So we either need a total dollar collapse or we need a massive wrecking ball on the inside.
I don't know if Ramaswamy is real or not and I definitely appreciate those who don't trust him, I'm still on the fence about that. But lets assume that he is for real and he means what he says. In that case I think he is the better bet than Trump. Not that it is going to make a difference because unless Trump is knocked out of running, he is going to take the primary.
I'd still like to see room made for both RFK Jr and Ramaswamy because if both mean what they say, the trifecta combination between the three men over twelve years should spell a real sea change in this government.
And if I can't have that, well it sure looks like we are still on course for a dollar collapse because no one in government is capable of doing math and geopolitics at the same time.