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Has your insurance perhaps been dropped and you’re no longer able to take your meds?

Yeah, I didn’t follow it either and would be curious to have any of my blind spots illuminated (especially given his proximity to the situation). I thought it was a good piece (and I share your respect for frontline and propublica). Local. On the ground. From the mouths of those experiencing it. Showing the actual spots where people were being executed. The forests where Russian camps and resupply areas were setup. How people were being tortured. If I’m missing something, then I’d love to know so can stop being wrong

PBS Frontline. Documenting the case for war crimes. Visceral feeling of what it’s like to be in the towns that were occupied and how the executions occurred. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/putins-attack-on-ukraine-documenting-war-crimes/

He’s gotten a rise out of you, so from the perspective of a troll he’s done that right

Yes, and then some.

Where do you find a cow with no legs? Right where you left it! Why are doctors always so calm? Because they have a lot of patients! Why was the math book so stressed out? Because it was full of problems!

Now that’d have been funny!

Thought I’d already welcomed him /shrug Did you hear about the latest Polish invention? It’s a submarine with screen doors Yes, and you’d have done the same had he commented on black people or women or Jews or gays. That is, of course, you should have if he’d had.

Correct. GOP more likely to vote IRL on Election Day. Dems more likely to compose the majority of the mail-in ballots which will continue getting counted for a few more days.

Humor at the expense of already marginalized groups already being targeted for violence and abuse really isn’t funny. It’s shitty.

Test post Success. This 7 month old post now doesn’t appear in my unread topics list any longer.

You were correct also the first time you mentioned this From 3 days ago, yet 6 entire pages of “discussion:” Sealion plus bad faith equals boring

It could also be just this way, but with orcs. It could also be just this way, but with unicorns. It could also be just this way, but with Puff the Magic Dragon. There’s no functional difference here since none of them have any evidence of existence, none whatsoever in their favor. All you’ve done is add a useless, made up, fictional variable with zero explanatory power. Simplified: Us: “2+2=4” You: “Yeah, but what if 2+2+God=4?” Us: “That’s fucking stupid. Go away, Dumbass.”

Yes, indeed I have.

Mucus formation, nasal cavity and back of throat. Your turn!

I stopped reading when the openers were so obviously false

This is incorrect

Trump was here in Iowa last night all but confirming he’s absolutely running: ” "Get ready," he told a crowd in Sioux City, teasing a prospective 2024 presidential run, adding that he will "very, very, very probably do it again." The former president came to Iowa to boost Republicans like Gov. Kim Reynolds and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, and to keep the country in suspense as he repeatedly teases his entry into the presidential race. He was joined onstage by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who urged Republicans to be "the new Republican Party" led by Trump. “

All excellent points with which I tend to agree, but the answer here IMO is quite simple and straight forward. When we lack the ability to clearly form an image, we substitute features and insert concepts based on our own personal experiences and thoughts. The parts of our brain that form narratives and attempt to make sense of the stimuli we receive will fill in the gaps with fictions that eliminate feelings of uncertainty, dissonance, and all the rest.

In many ways, DeSantis can be far worse. He's got all the negative attributes of Donald Trump PLUS clear competence and abilities to execute on them (whereas Trump and crew were often a modern day version of the Keystone Cops shooting their own toes with their own proverbial guns)

Slightly, but not enough to matter IMO. And if Trump runs, DeSantis likely won’t. The Venn diagrams of their supporters is nearly 100% overlapping

Yeah, but why would a person who necromanced a thread by quoting a post I made over 2 years ago only to then spend the next 4 pages arguing with everyone and their grandmothers that ONLY his dictionary and his dictionary alone is correct… why would they ever allow that? The dispute is the point, regardless how specious. The faith being expressed here isn’t good.

I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you. The No true Scotsman fallacy isn’t a valid rebuttal to my entirely valid points, nor is saying “nuh uh!!! Not according to this one dictionary!” And again with the suggestion I’m parroting memes? You’re like a gnat with this shit

Yeah but that’s just sociology!! Facepalm

Please elaborate on why you think this. FFS, dude. Srsly?