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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.

Mostly it was Russian pride and reputation that sank.

Interpretation and judgement are funny that way. Two people looking at situation often see different things. Such is the nature of interpretation and judging, and one’s outlook on the world cannot be subtracted from the process.

This isn't accurate either, though. There were SEVERAL candidates who met the criteria and from THAT subpopulation the choice was made. KBJ was NOT predetermined.

Don't be such a snowflake. It was a joke. /pokingsticks

I'm noticing a pattern, too, specifically one demonstrative of schizoid tendencies.

Map of what happened in Bucha compiled by the NYT as told by local officials, coroners, and witnesses who've helped uncover details of many civilian executions committed by Russian troops while there. "Man who went out for bread," and "family of four" tell the real story here, IMO. "Mother shot next to daughter." Maybe someone should start a thread regarding the bad "optics" of Russian stating it's military priorities and how they agree with the decision but think they should've kept it quiet.

Paraphrasing an old legal adage: When you have policy on your side, pound the policy. When you have history on your side, pound the history. When you have neither on your side, pound the process (aka pound the table)

People like to say Biden is a gaffe machine, and as we all know a gaffe in Washington is when a politician says out loud something everyone already knows to be true.

And yet he confirmed I was correct.

Are you being forced to keep logging in and posting?

$800 Million more in US aid approved today, including weapons systems specifically designed for fights like these (javelins, howitzers, etc) and should be there within a week

http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/

I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you

That doesn't make it any better... the fact that you're spamming this all around the internet