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The only links I ever see on here are the ones that confirm the poster’s biases. I prefer to read different points of view and then form my own. It’s called independent thought.

Scary how the Repubs are following it, almost like a blueprint. Say/do one thing today. Tomorrow blame it on the Democrats and their electorate eats it up. I have no idea how folks don’t see it. Don’t want to?

Before you get too jaded, check out Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, one of, if not the most honorable people in the Senate. Net worth in 2018 reported at $268,000. Hardly a significant amount of wealth.

Proof?

Sounds like he’s angling for indoctrination camps, not educational institutions.

That was meant to say “boo hoo”. Apologies to Hannah-Barbera.

I understand your point, but historical perspective is still important. The same was said of radio. The same was said of television. The same is said of any revolutionary technological advance. Society assimilates it and pushes forward overcoming the obstacles. Optimism is a feeling that spurs me to action.

They didn’t come in to buy cupcakes. The principle is refusal of service. You are too immersed in the right wing fueled culture wars. Your conservative brethren was “canceled”. Boo boo.

Though my actions would have been opposite under those circumstances, we agree in principle.

Yes, it can. They refused service to a willing customer because they did not like their beliefs. Would you have a problem with a Cowboy’s ejection of an Eagles fan from their establishment?

Same was said about technology when the printing press was invented. Time was children were not much more than instruments of production. Look no further than the coal mines of England in the 19th century. Kids are much better off today. Guess what I’m trying to say is history is most always judged according to the norms of the present. Barring a mutually assured destructive event, things will always get better incrementally despite the setbacks we encounter along the way. I am always the optimist.

Are you not choking on the “demeaning” accusation?

It was hyperbole. I keep forgetting nuance doesn’t play well in here.

You read the disclaimers on his financial statements? Look at this according to Forbes:[Hidden Content]

We’re not talking about just you. It’s the 350,000,000 others who don’t possess your perceived expertise at financial wizardry and what I would guess upper middle class income. It’s not jut about you.

Don’t lump me in.

What the hell are you talking about?

And to what might you be referring? It’s never as simple as “the hedonism of the Romans” or the “hubris of Napoleon”, the “overreach of the Persians” or other sound bite history. Try reading about the collapse not just of empire, but the whole of civilization in 1177 BC. It’s always more complicated and nuanced.

You’re succumbing to paranoid militia propaganda and it’s NRA mouthpiece. Democrats don’t want to confiscate guns. We want to ban assault weapons. Canada’s gun ownership is comparable to ours without the mass killing weapons a certain segment of our population fetshiizes. It would suit you to adopt some objective reasoning skills.

I believe the best course of action would be publicly financed campaigns of a limited fixed duration. Let the primary process play out and the winners all get the same amount of money and air time with 60-90 days to make their case.

What does that even mean? “We the people” are given the chance to fix it every two years and we abdicate our authority to corporate money-financed propaganda on both sides. If you’re talking some sort of armed populist uprising, you’ve gotten a hold of some bad acid or something.

Social security.

Well, you were wrong. I have a damn thing to say, and I said it.

Really? Cry me a river. A business owner can refuse service to anyone for any reason excepting racial discrimination. Bakery refusing to bake cake for same sex couple ring any bells? You all are a bunch of crybabies. Moral outrage when your peeps are dissed, high fiving when peeps you don’t like are dissed for the same freakin’ reason. The principle is the same, but I keep forgetting that in here principles are as fluid as mercury.

This from the defender of a misogynistic lying tax cheat?