My water is supplied by the Milwaukee Water Works. I drink at least two glasses an hour of the stuff every day. It never crossed my mind that my worldview may be informed by the contaminants that the city government is putting into the water I drink. If your speculation is correct, I am...
I don't support intervening militarily in either conflict. Ukraine had a peace agreement on the table a few years ago and America/Britain intervened. Tens of thousands of Ukraine's best young men are now dead because of that. Most people now agree that Ukraine will get a negotiated treaty...
It does not matter. Israel is almost certain to get what it wanted, American soldiers in the Middle East. Biden has already promised a response. If America ends up in a shooting war with Iran, it will be disaster for everybody. Israel is like the nerdy kid in high school who can do anything...
Agree with you at least partially. The only President in my lifetime that I don't consider corrupt was Carter. The problem with Democracy is that sociopathic narcissists out for their own power and wealth seem to reliably rise to the top. Carter appears to be the exception that proves the...
Two of the most corrupt governments in the world are Russia and Ukraine. Few people dispute that. One does not have to be a fan of Putin to want a negotiated treaty. One does not have to be fan of Putin to recognize the existential threat to America his nuclear arsenal represents.
GW Bush...
It could also end in a negotiated treaty where Ukraine is left with a rump state. From my perspective, the worst possible outcome would be Western boots on the ground. That action could easily result in nuclear weapon exchanges and possibly a civilization ending nuclear holocaust.
Do you ever wonder why you post on an forums like this? Do you think you could quit doing it? I believe people like you and me are the broken ones. We discuss politics with strangers, pretend that it matters and wish we could break our addiction to this damn thing (at least I do). The people...
More than that happened. We replaced a Pro-Russian Ukrainian regime with a Pro-American regime that year. Here is a clip of Senator Chris Murphy talking about it on C-SPAN back in 2014:
Here Senator Murphy said we did it for American profit...
Fighting a 3rd world country is a little bit different than fighting a European country armed to the teeth with American weapons. The death count for the Ukranian conflict could be 7.88 billion if Putin decides he has nothing to lose. I am not sure painting the country with the largest nuclear...
Just to be clear, America spent two decades and more than a trillion dollars building a government and Afghan military that fell in two days to this:
https://i.redd.it/lxpyfxt446h71.jpg
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declares he doesn't understand why (he should have been fired for...
This one kind of shocked me. It looks like youtube will be cable news in a few years. There are still channels that I really love left on there but the number shrinks every year...
Because when billionaires lose billions (as is the case in this instance), the taxpayers will be asked to bail them out. I would not be surprised to see the next stimulus package include a few billion for the hedge funds that were affected by this. I also would not be surprised to see a few...
I would say it is when corporations own the means of communication and begin silencing the voices of opposition. The boiling of the frog on right wing voices has expanded quite dramatically to left wing voices. The overton window is shrinking down to only what conforms to the narrative of the...
I have two predictions.
1. I predict Biden will win.
2. If prediction 1 is correct, I predict America will invade Syria and kill Assad in the next four years.
I am going to try and remember this post so I give an I told you so if I am right. If I am wrong, I will pretend this post never...
I work from home now, perhaps permanently. The company found out I was more effective at home than at work. I guess I can thank Covid for that. Business has totally tanked. They laid off the three software engineers and I picked up their work. I basically do all the software for the company...
All I know is that the lockdown wiped out half of my company (with one of my fellow engineers committing suicide after he was laid off). I have been doing my job and the jobs of three other software engineers (all laid off) since the lockdown began and at 15% pay reduction. We are teetering on...
Didn't read the entire thread so I wasn't sure if this had been posted yet.
I think these were the two most ironic tweets I have ever seen. They explain alot about human psychology and speak to the keyboard warrior that resides within us all.
In Minneapolis, hundreds of businesses damaged or destroyed. Low income housing units burned to the ground.
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/a-list-of-the-buildings-damaged-looted-in-minneapolis-riots
It is not clear to me how destroying your own community and the...
The safest course of action is to believe EVIDENCE.
The statement "you should start from a place of believing people" is incoherent in the context of woman saying she was raped and a man saying she was not. These are two people, there is no way to start from a position of believing them both...
Not really, I haven't seen anybody defend this. Kneeling on an unconscious man's neck for a full four minutes while the crowd literally BEGS you to take his pulse, insane. I think that those four minutes could be mean the difference between a manslaughter charge and a murder charge.
In any...
It isn't that. The kids of my son's generation and the generation after them are far more interested in video games and social media. It is shocking how comfortable they are to spend every single waking hour in front of video console. There is very little interest in exploring or interacting...
If they sell us the oil, why do we care? Are these wars about a few American elites making billions more? What is the rationale for ordinary Americans? I certainly don't give a damn if a mullah controls the oil as long as they sell it and I am certainly not concerned about the profits of...
I remember the neocons saying shortly after 911 that we would take down Assad and Iran. I posted the video of that here a year or so ago. Trump shagged the dog on this one. If he could have gotten us out of the Middle East as he promised, he would have been a hero. Instead he is going down...
I am glad of that and will try to do better job of reading articles in future. That was pretty pathetic on my part.
Has anybody talked about the reaction of the onlookers? That to me was the most shocking part of the entire incident. There is video footage of it and can be seen in the link...
Yea the problem is that he is gone now. I don't even know if he stayed in the city. I think he may have went to LA with one of his drug buddies.
I am not advocating for regular jail. I am advocating for forced incarceration in a rehab type facility like they have in Massachusetts. A...
I would be willing to do anything (moral or amoral) to save my son's life. Unfortunately for me, that decision has been taken from me. He is out there somewhere shooting up. 19 years old and literally the only meaning in my life, and there is not a damn thing I can do to save him. Leaving...
I have actual skin in this game... probably more than anybody on this forum. I would rather have my loved one in jail than on the street. I know my loved one is a decent person that needs DRASTIC and EMERGENCY intervention. I don't think addicts should just be thrown in a regular jail...
If the person is a drug addict, it is an act of cruelty to NOT put them in jail. If you think shooting up on the street, passing out in your own feces and urine and having the rest of society simply walk by you is anything other than barbarous you are wrong. I have worked with engineers from...
I hate Foxcon and I hate Walker for bringing them in. I believe it is the worst thing to happen to Wisconsin in my lifetime and that it will eventually ruin Southeastern Wisconsin. It definitely solidifies my determination to move upon retirement.
You bring up a great point about the...
The readers of Time magazine agree with you and by a WIDE margin (10 to 1 vs Greta). The elites appear to have turned their back on Hong Kong. In fact, the article below takes a neutral to hostile stance against the Hong Kong protesters.
Hong Kong is one of the freest countries in the world...
By far the most problematic group in the video to me was the Black Israelites. It was not un-noticed how the media did everything in their power to minimize their words.
Now that members of the group have gone on an anti-Semitic murder rampage, the media unbelievably asks who this group is...
I think reality is a little bit more nuanced than the above stereotype.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/caveman-politics/201803/science-weighs-in-conservatives-look-better
What I have noticed is a dissatisfaction expressed by many posters on youtube with the popular culture. There is...
I read the evidence myself at the link below.
https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/17-9572-opinion-below.pdf
The fact that the jury may or may not be composed of racist shitbags does not change the fact that the evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Curtis Flowers...
One big reason is that most Republicans are not down with giving their tax dollars to pay for the health care of people who are here illegally. Every single Democratic candidate raised their hand. This is a worldview issue. Republicans see this as immoral and a slap in the face to legal...
The new normal is companies becoming moral arbiters. Billionaires deciding what is right and wrong and what Americans can see, think or say is true freedom. In the latest example, Paypal has banned Pornhub which will affect more than 100,000 performers. Paypal has over 90 percent of the...
Meh I am not all that impressed with woke corporations myself.
Sacrificing everything Nike? Not only did you pull all of your Houston Rockets merch from Chinese stores, you also pulled all merch designed by any designers that are pro Hong Kong. I guess you are not willing to sacrifice that...
Some students burning their own books should not be that concerning.
Amazon, the worlds bookseller has gotten into the book banning business in the past couple years. They have banned Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, Joe Dallas, Alan Medinger and Anne Paulk. These authors are Christian ex-gays (gay...
Turkey is caring for MILLIONS of Syria refugees. The EU has reneged on billions in payments to help care for those Syrian refugees. Turkey is seriously pissed off. Turkey is threatening to kick those refugees out and into Europe. Turkey wants to establish an area for those refugees in Syria...
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