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What else does your crystal ball tell you? Do you also know next weeks lotto numbers? Imminent? No. Existential? Depends on your time frame… a time frame which we’re very clearly accelerating on current trajectory. False choice. Both are concerning. So you seem to be suggesting my claim that the survival and existence of many millions of future people is being put at increased risk due directly to climate change is “misrepresenting the problem.” Am I reading you correctly here, because honestly I’m beginning to feel like the misrepresented one in this exchange. Phew. That was a close call. Thank god you returned us back to the actually important focus in all this… attacking “liberals.”

Correction. You place YOUR theology on a pedestal while dismissing the theology of those whose beliefs differ from yours. Basically, you have an imaginary friend and you’re trying to convince us it’s as good as (or better) than our real friends. Yay you. Yep. And who created THAT sentient being? You have answered no questions. You’ve merely displaced them and stopped searching for valid answers. Your game is boring.

If you wish to better understand your “creator,” then science is the single best path to doing so. It’s a shame that you’ve fallen into the same trap as so many other creationists before you who seem to think that science is about “accumulating knowledge,” when in fact it’s about removing our biases and blinders when learning how nature operates and behaves. Thou dost project too much when accusing others being victims to a “cunning distraction.” One might argue that religion and claims of gods have perfected that exact process for millennia.

A few folks have asked for this in the past. Just raising it up once again. Would be great if a Dark Mode / theme could be enabled in Admin Panel or via software plugin for SFN. Every time I’m surfing around doing stuff then come back over to SFN to see what’s up, it feels like I’m suddenly staring into the sun and need to go grab my eclipse viewing glasses. I tend to use Dark Mode / theme everywhere I can. Would be great having the same option on our profile settings here, as well. Cheers. 🥃

You seem to be suggesting my claims were bizarre and inaccurate. Am I reading you correctly?

Just because it’s not imminent doesn’t mean it won’t be existential. My kids are super grateful to you that you don’t care what their lives will be like, how hard it will be to grow crops to feed 9 Billion people, or find fresh drinking water during droughts, or survive the tornadoes and hurricanes and hard freeze blizzards each season, or the nasty illnesses evolving and transmitted during mass human migrations when you and I are both long dead and gone. Super grateful, we all are, that you acknowledge something should be done about this but you recognize how “putting libs in their place” is the more important topic to discuss here.

Are there extremes on both sides of the political aisle? Yes, of course. Are they equivalent? No, absolutely not, and anyone suggesting otherwise is arguing a false equivalence. The extremes in the right try kidnapping state governors, think there’s a secret child sex ring running the government and that teachers who let kids read books about slavery should be jailed, and ignore election results by rising up fully armed in a coup or insurrection, whereas extremes on the left try getting us to please address climate change, offer healthcare to poor people, and get the police to stop murder our black citizens in the streets without any consequences.

I knew someone would bite at that apple. 😂 Never said mine was the only correct POV. Thanks for playing, though.

It is

As we did in the gay marriage threads, and the universal healthcare threads, and the transgendered athlete threads, and the climate change threads, and the evolution threads, and the 9/11 truther threads, etc. IMO it’s not a waste of cognitive skills to stand up tenaciously and with persistence for what’s right and defend shared principles in the face of those who want us to question whether or not facts even exist or if our neighbors and school teachers are grooming young children for sexual exploit and need to be exterminated.

Mostly because, even though he lost the last election (and the one before that too by several million votes in the popular), he very much has not yet been defeated… and most of the world doesn’t seem to have realized it yet. That’s OT here, though.

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.