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Saturday, January 14. 2023

7th dead whale washed up on Jersey Shore ‘bad news on top of bad news’'

Knowledge and Verve - Remembering Paul Johnson

"Is it relative that “morality is relative”?

Rural school choice is more common than you think

Democrats Overwhelmingly Support Killing Newborns

Kamala Harris Explains Caribbean Geography to World, World Stares Slack-Jawed

It Looks Like There's More Fallout for Adam Schiff Following Last Week's Twitter Files Reveal

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The question is; is Schiff a psychopath. His actions fit the description but most Democrats in congress fit that description. There is something seriously wrong wit a person who can lie to your face and continue to lie to your face when both you and he know he is lying. And then use all your acting skills to basically try to lie more convincingly. I would have more respect for him if he simply stated; yeah I lied but it worked and we stopped the Republican president from doing his duties and used those lies to steal an election so it was worth it.

Should Schiff remain in congress or should he be investigated/impeached?

#1 OneGuy on 2023-01-14 10:04 (Reply)

And what is the consequence of Schiff lying to your face? And what is the consequence of the perpetuated deliberate lies of 'RussiaGate', of the lies comprising the Trump memo, of the lies comprising the Twitter Files? If there's no consequence, then there's no foul. That's how many would see it, as they trot out the fresh lies.

All those dead whales, and the best the PTB can do is tell us that 40% died either of ship strike or entanglement. After stoking up the terror and calls to action, and promises of investigations, that's the insight offered. Demand more.

#2 Aggie on 2023-01-14 10:10 (Reply)

Aggie: And what is the consequence of Schiff lying to your face?

What lies specifically?

#2.1 Zachriel on 2023-01-14 10:19 (Reply)

Deflect much, Quibble-DickZ?

Schiff was a chief proponent of the theory that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election, a theory disproven by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s own investigation into the alleged collusion. Despite this, Schiff continued to peddle the theory even after the release of Mueller’s report. “Bob Mueller did not find there was no collusion,” Schiff said in January 2020.

Pathetic little trolls

#2.1.1 Zachinoff on 2023-01-14 11:12 (Reply)

Shut up, you infantile moron.

#2.1.2 Toby on 2023-01-14 20:37 (Reply)

Adam Schiff (like the Quibble-DickZ) can't help himself

#2.2 Zachinoff on 2023-01-14 10:51 (Reply)

The problem with the activism on LGQT today is that it is an argument between those who know that the LGQT are mentally ill but we can't fix them so they just need to live their life and leave the normal people alone AND those who know that the LGQT are mentally ill but we can't fix them. But we must bow down to them and treat them as our superiors in everything.

#3 JustMe on 2023-01-14 10:39 (Reply)

JustMe: those who know that the LGQT are mentally ill

LGBTQ people are a normal part of sexual diversity.

Elmer and Lima

#3.1 Zachriel on 2023-01-14 10:46 (Reply)

To believe that implies you are mentally ill, but that was already obvious from your obsessive attempts to single-handedly proselytise those who are of a world-view diametrically opposed to your own. You need our prayers.

#3.1.1 DeGaulle on 2023-01-14 12:01 (Reply)

Zachariel is the resident troll. Feed him not.

#3.1.1.1 Maniac on 2023-01-14 12:39 (Reply)

Do you actually believe that god in his wisdom (or mother nature if you prefer) decided lets make male and female as it is essential for procreation and just to add a little spice we will create the confused who want to have sex in a way that cannot procreate the species?

Or do you believe the far more logical idea that all forms of sexuality other than male or female is an aberration, a mistake a genetic flaw?

I believe that latter. AND to the extent that a human who is biologically male (or female) who thinks they are the opposite OR that they are intent to have sex with their same gender suffer from a mental disorder. Not unusual, it is 1% or 2% of the population BUT that 1% or 2% have actively been trying to normalize this disorder AND to punish all dissenting views. How can that be the correct way to handle this issue???

Now we could argue if homosexuality is a mental disorder or it is a disorder somewhere else (where in your genitals?) But it would seem to me that that would only be a semantic argument that intentionally avoids the actual issue. Lets agree that some year s back the gay lobby removed the accepted belief that homosexuality was a mental illness. They didn't do this with science or a convincing argument they did it by bullying and threatening. If you apply logic and common sense to this issue it should be obvious that allowing the very people suffering from a mental illness to redefine it as normal is pretty stupid and all those who eagerly accept that are fools. My apologies to psychiatrists who live in fear of having their license taken away by the bullies and have no choice but to repeat this BS nonsense.

#3.1.2 JustMe on 2023-01-14 12:26 (Reply)

JustMe: Do you actually believe that god in his wisdom (or mother nature if you prefer) decided lets make male and female as it is essential for procreation and just to add a little spice we will create the confused who want to have sex in a way that cannot procreate the species?

That shows a very limited view of procreation. A young person who sacrifices themselves to save their siblings is also passing on their genes. A tribe working together to raise their children is passing on their genes. You must think that an old man retelling stories of the ancestors is a waste of time, but it can provide the social cohesion that makes a culture successful.

JustMe: Or do you believe the far more logical idea that all forms of sexuality other than male or female is an aberration, a mistake a genetic flaw?

Well, in terms of genetics, it could simply be a spandrel, but because homosexuality is found across many taxa, it is probably adaptive. Part of the problem is seeing male and female as dichotomous, when it's clear that there are gradations of behavior.

JustMe: How can that be the correct way to handle this issue???

Well, after generations of being beat up for being "sissies" or ostracized for being "butch", people who don't conform to your notions of how they should be have decided that it is time to insist on change.

#3.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-01-14 12:48 (Reply)

So you think that if some random person beats up a sissy that is a good reason to try to groom children and transition them into the opposite gender? Seriously!

Here is an idea. If someone commits an assault let criminal and civil laws work to correct that situation. Don't use that as an excuse to bully people, take away rights and groom children to be sex slaves to an obscene mentally ill minority.

#3.1.2.1.1 JustMe on 2023-01-14 12:55 (Reply)

JustMe: So you think that if some random person beats up a sissy . . .

It isn't a "random person," but a consistent pattern of socially-approved ostracism and oppression over generations.

JustMe: that is a good reason to try to groom children and transition them into the opposite gender?

Strawman. Your claim concerned your views on procreation and that LGBTQ people have a mental illness.

#3.1.2.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-14 13:57 (Reply)

"socially-approved ostracism and oppression over generations."

So you believe if this is true and to the small extent it is true that justifies allowing them to groom children for sex???

Have you ever seen a gay pride parade in San Francisco? IF you have HOW does that NOT deserve "socially-approved ostracism and oppression over generations"??? I would love to hear your justification for it.

"Strawman. Your claim concerned your views on procreation and that LGBTQ people have a mental illness."

I don't think you know what strawman means.

Are you saying LGBTQ is NOT a mental illness? If so what is it an illness of? Your gonads/vagina? Your middle finger? What, exactly? Most people will agree that the gay person is born that way and they even say so themselves and write songs declaring it. So what is "that way"? Is it in your mind and therefore a "mental" illness? Or do you think it is hidden in their big toe or maybe their liver? Where do you think "that way" resides in those who are born "that way"? Seriously, the ONLY place it can be is in your mind which by definition makes it "mental" and if you don't like the word "illness" maybe we could just call it sickness or pedophile or abnormality, or dysfunction.

#3.1.2.1.2.1 JustMe on 2023-01-14 14:28 (Reply)

JustMe: So you believe if this is true and to the small extent it is true . . .

Small extent? It was a felony in many states until the Lawrence decision in 2003.

JustMe: . . . that justifies allowing them to groom children for sex???

Gross overgeneralization.

JustMe: Are you saying LGBTQ is NOT a mental illness?

It's not an illness, but part of typical diversity of gender expression.

#3.1.2.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-14 14:37 (Reply)

"Small extent? It was a felony in many states until the Lawrence decision in 2003."

I don't see how that changes anything in the discussion at hand. If it is legal does that give them the right to demand that anyone who disagrees with them should be punished??? Does it give them the right to groom children??? If anything, the actions by the LBQT activists seem to support the decision to make gay sexuality illegal.

"Gross overgeneralization."

And yet there they are grooming children and asking the schools to keep it secret from the parents.

"It's not an illness, but part of typical diversity of gender expression."

It is a mental disorder. Prove it isn't.

#3.1.2.1.2.2.1 JustMe on 2023-01-14 17:35 (Reply)

JustMe: I don't see how that changes anything in the discussion at hand.

You made a false claim to support your position.

JustMe: Does it give them the right to groom children???

The vast majority of LGBTQ persons are law-abiding, just like most straight people are law-abiding.

JustMe: If it is legal does that give them the right to demand that anyone who disagrees with them should be punished???

You have the right to use the n-word. And people have the right to criticize you if you do. The world has changed. It is no longer acceptable to most people to treat LGBTQ persons as criminals or second-class citizens.

#3.1.2.1.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 08:11 (Reply)

"It is no longer acceptable to most people to treat LGBTQ persons as criminals or second-class citizens."

No it is now legal to treat white people as criminals and second class citizens.

"Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee just introduced a bill that would make it a federal crime for white people, and white people only, to criticize mass immigration or to say anything that she claims would vilify a non-white person or group."

#3.1.2.1.2.2.2.1 JustMe on 2023-01-15 10:28 (Reply)

JustMe: No it is now legal to treat white people as criminals and second class citizens.

Gee. When will middle-aged white people ever get break?

JustMe: "Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee just introduced a bill that would make it a federal crime for white people, and white people only, to criticize mass immigration or to say anything that she claims would vilify a non-white person or group."

"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." — Abraham Lincoln

#3.1.2.1.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 10:47 (Reply)

Bravo! Preach it!

#3.1.2.2 snopercod on 2023-01-14 18:18 (Reply)

A homosexual goes to a doctor complaining about feeling sick all the time. So the doctor orders up some tests and calls the patient with the results.
Doc: Well, son, I'm sorry but it looks like you have AIDS and it's terminal..
Patient: Well, doc, is there anything you can do?
Doc: "Well, son, first I'm going to prescribe a new diet. Every day you need to eat some chili with jalapeños, a couple of JackInTheBox tacos along with some White Castle hamburgers and at night drink a quart of prune juice.
Patient: Well, doc, will that make me feel any better?
Doc: I don't know think so, son, but it will remind you what your asshole is really for.

#3.1.2.3 Zachinoff on 2023-01-15 12:32 (Reply)

I would say it's past time for the LGB's to separate themselves from the rest of the alphabet people. LGB's aren't necessarily mentally ill, any more than any other "abnormal" people are (the handicapped, the chronically ill, the left-handed, the really tall or really short, etc.) but the "lifestyle" people who center their identities around their differentness definitely are. And just for the record, I think the current trans fad is simply cover for pedophilia and whatever comes next. Necrophilia, incest, bestiality? Who knows?

#3.2 Jerryskids on 2023-01-14 11:40 (Reply)

"I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench... my sentiments for you are those of a woman. The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery." — Hans Christian Andersen to Edvard Collin.

When Edvard married, Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid, a mermaid who wants to physically transition to another life.

#3.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-01-14 12:00 (Reply)

The WEF meets tomorrow. We need to brand them as a international terrorist organization. We need to know who attends, publish a list of attendees. We need to ask every politician and high level leader if they have ever attended the WEF OR if they have people working for them that have attended these meetings. Attending the WEF should automatically disqualify you from elected office or a government job. The WEF is actively working to destroy America and Western democracies. Their goal is to "reduce" population in much the same way that the NAZI's reduced population. The WEF should not be tolerated they should be investigated.

#4 Anon on 2023-01-14 11:22 (Reply)

I don't think it is fair that Australia has allowed Novak Djokovic to enter the country to play in the Australian Open. It is unfair to the other players who are now playing at a disadvantage having taken the covid vaccine and may collapse and die on the tennis court. It doesn't seem fair.

#5 SillyMe on 2023-01-14 11:27 (Reply)

What makes a "good" hammer, a "good" pen, a "good" pair of shoes? One that performs its function well. What makes a "good" person? That depends on what the function of a person is. To moral relativists, there is no particular reason for humans to exist therefore humans have no function. So what makes robbery, rape, murder, or slavery morally wrong? Sure, you're liable to be punished severely for engaging in such behavior which should discourage you from doing them, but there's nothing inherently wrong with them. For moral absolutists, even if we don't fully understand it there's a reason we exist, there's a purpose for life, we do have a function to fulfill. And it involves being kind to one another, treating others as we might wish to be treated.

#6 Jerryskids on 2023-01-14 12:02 (Reply)

QUOTE:

"Is it relative that “morality is relative”?

Jerryskids: So what makes robbery, rape, murder, or slavery morally wrong?

Slavery was brought up in the essay, but the author never explained how, if morality is not relative, why slavery was once considered not only acceptable, but a positive good. The essay also brings up dogs, saying, "dogs seek affection, so showing them love and attentiveness is good insofar as it fulfills their nature;" but domestic dogs are the product of very recent selective evolution by humans. Petting a dog and petting a wolf will have very different effects—by design.

Humans have a shared nature. An ethical and moral system can be derived from this foundation. But in-group out-group dynamics remain a hindrance.

#6.1 Zachriel on 2023-01-14 12:22 (Reply)

The issue is not that you can't create a moral system without an appeal to divinity; it's that you can develop a nearly infinite number of them. Even worse, there's no way to favor any over any others. The greatest good for the greatest number , in this scenario has no standing over the strong shall rule. Even the precept that the majority should rule or rights should be upheld have no standing over "that which I will shall be the whole of the law."

#6.1.1 another guy named Dan on 2023-01-14 16:00 (Reply)

'The greatest good for the greatest number' has the potential within itself for the majority to exterminate the minority until there are only two individuals left looking at one another.

Abortion would be an example of this mode of thinking. Euthanasia is another. It is a very slippery slope, indeed.

#6.1.1.1 DeGaulle on 2023-01-15 03:54 (Reply)

another guy named Dan: The issue is not that you can't create a moral system without an appeal to divinity; it's that you can develop a nearly infinite number of them.

In theory, but, in practice, moral systems are based on shared values.

another guy named Dan: The greatest good for the greatest number , in this scenario has no standing over the strong shall rule.

Good example. The strong shall rule has been the primary political and moral system for most of human history. Your duty to the king has been a paramount virtue.

DeGaulle: The greatest good for the greatest number' has the potential within itself for the majority to exterminate the minority until there are only two individuals left looking at one another.

Any rule-based systems will have inherent flaws, contradictions, or ambiguities.

#6.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 08:18 (Reply)

Therefore we shouldn't adopt such man-made systems, particularly ones with utopian ends that justify, in logic, the most extreme of means.

The only thing is to do what men have done, and usually mutually agreed upon though enemies of one another, for almost all their history-leave it to a Transcendent Omniscient. As John Waters, a fellow Irishman of mine, says: the first thing one needs to learn about God is that one is not Him.

#6.1.1.2.1 DeGaulle on 2023-01-15 14:29 (Reply)

DeGaulle: Therefore we shouldn't adopt such man-made systems, particularly ones with utopian ends that justify, in logic, the most extreme of means.

Certainly, extremism in pursuit of utopian ends has led to untold human misery.

DeGaulle: The only thing is to do what men have done, and usually mutually agreed upon though enemies of one another, for almost all their history-leave it to a Transcendent Omniscient.

Religious utopian extremism, including Christian theocracy, has also resulted in authoritarianism and barbarism.

#6.1.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 14:57 (Reply)

I'm not going to communicate with you anymore. Your insistence on continually deploying glib cliches tells me that you are either monumentally unintelligent or simply an ai.

#6.1.1.2.2.1 DeGaulle on 2023-01-16 11:57 (Reply)

We are in a multicultural world where some will live well while others struggle, and it is based on their accepted culture. Some will practice slavery while others reject it. Some will practice human sacrifice while others reject it.

Here is a culture but does it fit in with our culture?

https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/what-i-learned-in-the-peace-corps-in-africa-trump-is-right/

It gave SNOPES heartburn.

#6.2 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-14 13:36 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Here is a culture but does it fit in with our culture? {points to Senegal}

Or you could point to poor sanitation in Appalachia or parts of urban America. In other words, try to avoid smearing an entire culture by pointing to its worst aspects.

#6.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 08:22 (Reply)

If you read the piece you would find it is far more than simply sanitation.

Old Rhodesia and South Africa are going back to pre-white standards. They cannot maintain the white south african standards.

#6.2.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 10:24 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: If you read the piece you would find it is far more than simply sanitation.

Same point holds.

#6.2.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 10:26 (Reply)

It's African culture. They sell each other and continue to do so.

#6.2.1.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 10:42 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: They sell each other and continue to do so.

What is wrong with those people?

#6.2.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 10:51 (Reply)

And who was holding them? Now, relocate to Africa ... they kill, loot, and burn the farmers. Then wonder why they have no food.
In the US they do the same looting and wonder why the stores leave. They aren't learning.

#6.2.1.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 11:03 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: And who was holding them?

Americans working for an American firm.

#6.2.1.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 11:14 (Reply)

Be more specific. Irish Americans, Mexican Americans, African Americans?

#6.2.1.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 11:19 (Reply)

Same nationality as this person.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 11:32 (Reply)

Now the fun part ... Do you think that person(s) will face any repercussions in a court of law and in the case of the killed, looted, burned farmer, do you think the perps will face a day in court.
That is the difference in cultures.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 11:38 (Reply)

they kill, loot, and burn the farmers.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.3 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 11:35 (Reply)

And you're back to Hollywood. Seen Roots?

#6.2.1.2.2.2.3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 11:40 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: And you're back to Hollywood.

Are you saying such massacres didn't occur?

indyjonesouthere: Do you think that person(s) will face any repercussions in a court of law . . .

Jefferson was never held accountable under the law. Instead, they erected statues to him.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 11:44 (Reply)

And what was the law when Jefferson was alive?

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 11:56 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: And what was the law when Jefferson was alive?

Oh, slavery was legal in Jefferson's Virginia. Imagine that. What is wrong with those people?

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 12:04 (Reply)

What is the law in south Africa on burning, looting, and killing farmers. Now imagine that.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 12:08 (Reply)

And what was the law in Africa when the chiefs were capturing and selling slaves to the slave traders?

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 12:14 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: What is the law in south Africa on burning, looting, and killing farmers.

Much the same as the law was when Black Wall Street was burned to the ground.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 12:18 (Reply)

And who burned it?

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 12:19 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: And who burned it?

The good white citizens of the town. They even bombed the black community from the air. Culture, you know.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 12:25 (Reply)

Notice how you have to go back in history to find your favorite themes? And how little you wish to recount the Smolletts, Dozels, and such.
Yet in all these discussions in the white culture there remains no changes in the black culture of Africa. The same old, same old, generation after generation. They can maintain only a most basic civilization. And that is why they head for our southern border.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 12:57 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Notice how you have to go back in history to find your favorite themes?

Are you saying Jefferson's slaves, the razing of Black Wall Street, lynching, are not part of American culture? Or will you make the much more reasonable point that they only represent part of American culture?

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 13:06 (Reply)

Those are OLD history. Now look at current african history. Some cultures learn and modify ... other cultures double down on failure. You don't have to like it but there is a difference between the peace corps africa culture and US white culture. And they are still doing slavery in africa.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 13:30 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: And they are still doing slavery in africa.

And they are still doing slavery in America.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 13:41 (Reply)

The only slavery is that allowed by the open borders crowd that permits the cartels to move people over the border for sex trafficking or any purpose the cartel wishes. All supported by NGOs and Bidens border gurus.
Marcuse and Gramsci would be so proud of the narrative they have provided to the academic and authoritarian politicos.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 13:50 (Reply)

(By the way, we have made every attempt to answer your questions, but you have repeatedly sidestepped questions directed towards your position.)

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.3 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 13:43 (Reply)

My original reply was to Jerryskids. I never expect that you will understand anything tied to culture as you are well indoctrinated in the Marcuse/Gramsci race and sex narrative that has infested academia and politics for decades. You are a proponent of the permanent victimhood of chosen groups and all to create power, money, and control for yourselves. It is no longer working.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/victims_wanted_no_experience_necessary_apply_within.html

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 14:10 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: My original reply was to Jerryskids.

But you directed questions to us. You might show the same courtesy by answering questions meant to help understand your position.

indyjonesouthere: The only slavery is that allowed by the open borders crowd that permits the cartels to move people over the border for sex trafficking or any purpose the cartel wishes.

So, culture. What is wrong with those people?

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 14:26 (Reply)

I just did. Marcuse and Gramsci are your academic heroes and the American Thinker piece should satisfy your desire for continual victimhood in this country. However, you still can't deal with the failure of african cultures or their ability to change.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 14:32 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: However, you still can't deal with the failure of african cultures

However, you still can't deal with the failure of American culture. We'll ask again: Are you saying Jefferson's slaves, the razing of Black Wall Street, the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and lynching are not part of American culture? Or will you make the much more reasonable point that they only represent part of American culture?

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 14:46 (Reply)

You are confusing history with culture. American history has changed as law has changed. Abu Gharib met with the law.

Now show how african law has changed the history and culture of africa. The only law that has changed parts of africa is islamic law. Is that for the better? What law has changed to protect the african farmer.

You are stuck with Marcuse and Gramsci because they only exist for the communist/authoritarian war against the west. They don't apply to the current slavery in africa or asia. Only the west. That is your academic inheritance ... not mine.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 15:05 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: You are confusing history with culture. American history has changed as law has changed. Abu Gharib met with the law.

So, you are saying Jefferson's slaves are not part of American culture? That's very odd.

indyjonesouthere: American history has changed as law has changed.

History has changed? That doesn't make sense. Do you mean American culture has changed? It has! And so has African culture. Senegal, which is the example you provided, is today a stable electoral democracy.

By the way, the people who oversaw the abuse at Abu Ghraib were never punished. But, unlike you, we don't define a country only by its worst traits.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 15:31 (Reply)

The traits mentioned in the peace corps article haven't changed and the slavery in africa still has not changed. Tribal law in africa still has not changed except for the introduction of islamic law. Now will the culture change under Chinese influences ... or will the chiefs come out richer, but nothing changes for the rest?

And again, Abu Gharib was a crime just as these were crimes. But again, we are multicultural.

https://tv.gab.com/channel/vdare/view/37-black-on-white-homicides-in-decenmber-2022-63c19d86f5c1d5a185d243d1

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 16:00 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: The traits mentioned in the peace corps article haven't changed and the slavery in africa still has not changed.

Your claim was that there has been no change, but today Senegal is an electoral democracy. Slavery is illegal. Your claim was false.

Feel free to continue to pretend otherwise.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 16:18 (Reply)

Feel free to apply that to the Sudan. You do remember the peace corps article, right? Or perhaps to south Africa or Zimbabwe? Feel free with wishing and hoping cultures.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-15 16:39 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Feel free to apply that to the Sudan.

That’s funny. When your argument fails for one country, you divert to another country, on the other side of the continent, 6,000 kilometers away, with a different history, with a different culture, and with not even the same ethnicity.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-01-15 20:55 (Reply)

Gee Whiz!
A cultural difference.

#6.2.1.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.4.2.2.2.2.1 Zachinoff on 2023-01-15 22:34 (Reply)

"LGBTQ people are a normal part of sexual diversity."

Only because humans are evil and sinful.

#7 eeyore on 2023-01-14 12:09 (Reply)

Rural school choice ... education vouchers delivered to the parent/student is the best all around solution rather than mandating that the parent/student be required to attend a government monopoly school. Support the education of individuals rather than the propaganda of the institution by the government and for the governments purposes.

#8 indyjonesouthere on 2023-01-14 12:58 (Reply)

The Biden administration pulled out all the stops to make a terrible deal to get Brittney Griner back while leaving other Americans, innocent Americans in Soviet gulags. Why? Because the LGBQT community are bullies and the left are willing accomplices in this Kabuki theater. If Brittney Griner had actually been a woman and not a POC she would still be in jail in Russia. The only reason Brandon groveled for her was this appeasement mentality of the left to struggle to keep their coalition of special interests voting for them. This is no way to run a country or a political party.

#9 JustMe on 2023-01-14 13:01 (Reply)

Siberia sees coldest air in two decades as temperature dips to minus-80

Not to worry though, the WaPo says:

QUOTE:

Such cold has become uncommon in recent decades because of human-caused climate change. Global warming decreases the frequency and intensity of cold air outbreaks, but it does not eliminate them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/01/11/siberia-russia-extreme-cold/

#10 feeblemind on 2023-01-14 21:45 (Reply)

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