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Yeah. Poor you. You’re obviously the victim here, referring to entire continents of people as a type of rug. Still unclear here, btw

Correct At least in this context and on this topic

And when you become president, you can act on this preference. Until then, many of us recognize this is something with a long standing precedent and find it hypocritical to single out Biden specifically despite so many other of his predecessors doing the EXACT SAME THING. * homesexual Asian

It doesn’t. All that matters is that people like you and me who otherwise agree and align on 97% or more of what matters in our day-to-day lives keep fussing and arguing with each other over silly petty nonsense instead of focusing our energies on coming together and solving actual problems that affect our actual lives and actual families and collective futures.

How much longer? Fairly sure I never started. Here again. Rather hard to stop doing something I never began doing. Your suggestion here seems to be that I’m a liar who doesn’t stand by what he says. Am I reading you correctly?

Damnit. Just over a day has passed and apparently now I don’t understand again, even though my understanding was explicitly confirmed previously. I could be needless vitriolic and offer a reply like this: But I won’t.

I asked a similar question more than once earlier in this thread and have yet to receive a satisfactory answer. Racialization has occurred for centuries. It was something earlier presidents did as recently as 4 years ago, but fairly consistently so did majority of presidents before them, too. This is an objective statement of fact, not an argument in favor. So… If THAT is what you detest, why did you wait until NOW with THIS president on THIS one historic nomination to express your passionate outrage and concern about it? What’s driving your timing and the timing of all these millions of others raging out about it, do you think? Is it purely an organic desire for us to reach our long missed ideals… just a coincidence that it was THIS time everyone collectively stood up to say “enough is enough?”

They’re not some monolithic homogeneous bloc. ”Republicans” are also not the target of this thread. Many republicans toward whom I regularly direct love readily acknowledge and admit this manufactured hysteria about Biden saying he’d pick a black female judge to become justice is a waste of our time… yet another distraction preventing us from focusing on bigger more meaningful challenges… yet another distraction preventing us from remembering the other 97% of stuff we all actually agree and align on. The bad actors want us fighting and dividing. Doesn’t much matter what it’s about. Let’s stop obliging them. Power hungry demagogues are feeding people a steady diet of hate. They’re doing so at the same time when many people are looking for someone to blame without much caring who it is or what they’ve done. We need to stop eating what they’re feeding.

It was subtle, but I particularly like how you’ve just blamed Democrats for causing the January 6 insurrection and suggest they’re the ones “gunning” for civil war. Come to think of it… It’s probably also their fault climate change is being ignored, and that vaccines and masks continue being avoided, and that teachers and LGBTQ kids and books are all being targeting for burning among the right, too. Damn. If only those Dems would stop saying what they’re going to do while campaigning then actually later do it once they win the popular vote since those ideas were most popular amongst the voters. Gosh.

The outcome of the midterms are already predetermined. Looks like a 30-35 seat loss coming. They’re not going to be the barometer on how popular Democratic policies and practices are that you seem to think they will be. But I’m sure you’ll keep repeating this talking point that the reason they lose so many seats is because they do silly things like appeal to their voters by sticking to campaign promises on stuff like SCOTUS picks.

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Precisely. If he’d been silent and not said this, their fangs would simply bite into other meats. Doesn’t matter much what he does or how he does it. That it would’ve mattered “had he only done it differently” is a badly false premise, especially since they equally attacked her as defending pedophiles and nazis. I.e. more bad faith…

Happy to explain why in another thread, unless of course you’d prefer to keep sniping at me instead of having a mature discussion together.

Interestingly, they win more votes, but lose due to redistricting. Your premise is flawed since they’re more popular, but it’s off-topic here. Why must you keep trying to make it personal? I’m not the caricature of me you seem to have in your head.

I’m sorry you’re hearing voices and think there are cabals of people out to get you, forcing you to post in online discussion forums like this one. I sincerely hope you receive the help you need and deserve.

Did I stutter? Your position fascinates me. Basically it’s this: You think Biden made a great choice. You think she’ll be an excellent justice. You are glad the bench now better represents the American people. You acknowledge nearly all of the last several presidents have pre-announced a desire for a specific demographic group to get nominated. You acknowledge Biden acted in accordance with historical precedent. But you also think it was bad form because America is in a weird place right now and some people are upset thinking he wasn’t acting fairly and that “the left” have their heads in the sand and feel white men should feel sorry for history… despite the long standing precedent, and despite it being a good choice, and despite evidence she’ll be a thoughtful and cautious justice on the bench.

Yes. You have PERFECTLY described my thoughts. Golly... it's as if you're inside my head it's so precise and accurate! /sarcasm

If the choice was "pre-selected" as you and so many others have suggested, then I'm left wondering why were any of us discussing these other nominees when Steven Breyer announced his upcoming retirement? Do you know? California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs 7th Circuit Judge Candace Rae Jackson-Akiwumi Delaware Supreme Court Justice Tamika Montgomery-Reeves NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill New York 2nd Circuit Judge Eunice Lee Federal district court Judge Wilhelmina “Mimi” Wright from Minnesota Kristen Clarke, who runs the Justice Department’s civil rights division L. Song Richardson, president of Colorado College and a former dean of University of California at Irvine Law School Federal district court Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner from Georgia I suspect all of the non-white male judges over the last 200+ years agree with you on this. Yeah, god forbid we risk insulting the oversensitive delicate egos of white males who have unjustly benefited from the legacy system since basically forever and who feel butthurt that their previous position of privilege is finally eroding. https://www.boredpanda.com/lesson-about-privilege-awareness/

The system, whether we call it a machine computational or otherwise, is based on a type of balance. Ionic differences and chemical floods lead to the propagation of electric signals. Those signals multiply and diverge in very specific ways and in conjunction with other inputs to the system from the microbiome and surrounding environment. In computational terms, there is a binary on/off signal. In neurobiological terms, there is a sort of Fourier analysis being conducted each moment and it is the outcome of those “computations” that makes us who and what we are. There either is or is not a signal coming from any part of the system at any given time. Ions concentrate outside the neurons. Once a threshold is crossed, the channel polarizes and ionic gates open. Once that happens, it’s like a rock dropping into a pond with ripples spreading outward and the cells beside it respond to that same unbalanced chemistry and help cascade the action potential elsewhere… each step following from the last. The English language is notoriously fuzzy, but as with all things scientific, whether or not we call the brain a machine or computational machine is determined by how exactly we decide to define those terms in context. Personally, I lean toward Yes. I feel very comfortable calling the brain a type of computational machine, but I do the same thing for the body as a whole and its individual component parts and I acknowledge that others will disagree with me for entirely valid reasons.

If you don’t know, then how could you post previously in the affirmative?

Okay. I’ll bite. How are you being forced to keep logging in and posting here, and by whom?

He’s no dummy

Unless his goal is destabilization across the planet, of course. Loss of Ukrainian wheat leading to starvation across Africa and the Middle East. Leading all of Europe to fear nuclear fallout from taking over Chernobyl, threatening tactical nuke usage, and more. Other nations using this “distraction” as a perfect time to ratchet up ballistic missile tests (N.Korea), to shift leaders (Iran), to consider taking Taiwan (China), and to split democracies more broadly in South America. If Putins goal is to weaken the seams stitching together a cohesive global society, perhaps he’s perfectly hitting his target and chewing exactly the amount he wants.

This just reinforces my long held contention that chocolate is actually a vegetable.

That's not what I was saying. Unsure why you think we're in agreement. Putin saying it sank due to an accident is like when people said it wasn't covid that killed the diabetic, but their diabetes. Well... they were doing fine until that covid hit, much like the ship was doing fine until that missile hit. It doesn't matter whether or not someone hates Putin, and this thread isn't about the finer intricacies of hate versus love. It's about stopping unwarranted slaughter of innocents and anyone who dares call themselves Ukrainian.