• Rush Limbaugh

    From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to All on Wed Feb 17 23:02:20 2021
    Rush Lost his battle with lung cancer today, I began listening to his show in about 1988 or 89,
    My favorite shws were.
    1.Women farding in cars.
    2.Rush becomes liberal for a day.
    R.I.P Rush

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Denn on Fri Feb 19 11:56:35 2021
    Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to All on Wed Feb 17 2021 23:02:20

    Rush Lost his battle with lung cancer today, I began listening to his show i about 1988 or 89,

    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of me, but it seems to be what experience has proven. GIGO, you know. Pump hate rhetoric in all day and you don't normally become the most compassionate and decent individual...
    I have the feeling I'm going to get some interesting replies to this.
    Let me end my message here with a quote that I shared heavily around the Diaspora* network in response to others mourning the loss of such a hate 'n fear monger: I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary
    notices with great satisfaction. -- Clarence Darrow

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Sprite on Sat Feb 20 11:15:00 2021
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    Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to All on Wed Feb
    17 2021 23:02:20

    Rush Lost his battle with lung cancer today, I began listening to his show i about 1988 or 89,

    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of me, but it seems
    to be what experience has proven. GIGO, you know. Pump hate rhetoric
    in all day and you don't normally become the most compassionate and
    decent individual...
    I have the feeling I'm going to get some interesting replies to
    this.
    Let me end my message here with a quote that I shared heavily
    around the Diaspora* network in response to others mourning the loss of such a hate 'n fear monger: I have never killed anyone, but I
    have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. --
    Clarence Darrow

    The irony of opening up a reply by accusing someone you dont know of being a bigot,
    simply because you found they listen to some particular radio show
    host.


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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Sprite on Sat Feb 20 00:34:51 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Sprite to Denn on Fri Feb 19 2021 11:56 am

    Rush Lost his battle with lung cancer today, I began listening to his
    show i about 1988 or 89,

    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of me, but it seems to be what experience has proven. GIGO, you know. Pump hate rhetoric in all day and you don't normally become the most compassionate and decent individual...
    I have the feeling I'm going to get some interesting replies to this.
    Let me end my message here with a quote that I shared heavily around the Diaspora* network in response to others mourning the loss of such a hate 'n fear monger: I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. -- Clarence Darrow

    Rush wasn't a hate monger, Everything he said he backed up.
    Most of what you said is unintelligible, makes no sense.
    It's always people like you that call others bigot's that are the real bigot's.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Sprite on Fri Feb 19 23:35:33 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Sprite to Denn on Fri Feb 19 2021 11:56 am

    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of me, but it seems to be what experience has proven. GIGO, you know. Pump hate rhetoric in all day and you don't normally become the most compassionate and decent individual...

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of Rush Limbaugh. His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the Republican Party created the Trump Train.

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  • From Deepend to Dream Master on Sat Feb 20 03:14:19 2021

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Sprite to Denn on Fri Feb 19 2021 11:56 am

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of Rush Limbaugh. His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the Republican Party created the Trump Train.

    Well at least 2021 has had some good news. ;) ^^
  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Denn on Sat Feb 20 05:52:30 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Sprite on Sat Feb 20 2021 12:34 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Sprite to Denn on Fri Feb 19 2021 11:56 am

    Rush Lost his battle with lung cancer today, I began listening to his
    show i about 1988 or 89,

    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of
    but it seems to be what experience has proven. GIGO, you know. Pump hate rhetoric in all day and you don't normally bec
    the most compassionate and decent individual...
    I have the feeling I'm going to get some interesting replies to this. Let me end my message here with a quote that I shared heavily around the Diaspora* network in response to others mourni
    the loss of such a hate 'n fear monger: I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great
    satisfaction. -- Clarence Darrow

    Rush wasn't a hate monger, Everything he said he backed up.
    Most of what you said is unintelligible, makes no sense.
    It's always people like you that call others bigot's that are the real bigot's.

    He is a troll. He obviously posted what he posted as a provocation, and he knows it. He pretty much has admitted he expected
    "interesting" replites.

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Denn on Sat Feb 20 10:14:00 2021
    Denn wrote to Sprite <=-

    Rush wasn't a hate monger, Everything he said he backed up.
    Most of what you said is unintelligible, makes no sense.
    It's always people like you that call others bigot's that are the real bigot's.

    Leftie's ALWAYS project.

    If a Leftie accuses someone of being <something bad>, it's because he actually is <something bad>.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Denn on Sat Feb 20 09:39:57 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Sprite on Sat Feb 20 2021 12:34 am

    Rush wasn't a hate monger, Everything he said he backed up.

    I remember one time when Rush was called out on something he said, and Rush's response was something to the effect that his radio show is mainly for entertainment and isn't always to be taken seriously.

    Nightfox

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Arelor on Sat Feb 20 12:13:42 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Denn on Sat Feb 20 2021 05:52 am

    He is a troll. He obviously posted what he posted as a provocation, and he knows it. He pretty much has admitted he expected "interesting" replites.


    that is exactly what a troll is. someone who posts things just to get people worked up so he can sit back and read those replies.
    he just wants attention.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Sat Feb 20 12:15:16 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Denn on Sat Feb 20 2021 09:39 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Sprite on Sat Feb 20 2021 12:34 am

    Rush wasn't a hate monger, Everything he said he backed up.

    I remember one time when Rush was called out on something he said, and Rush's response was something to the effect that his radio show is mainly for entertainment and isn't always to be taken seriously.

    Nightfox


    well basically it was just that. it was entertainment with a political theme. i cant get him in my region anymore so i havent listened to him for 10+ years.\ ---
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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dream Master on Sat Feb 20 10:34:13 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Sprite on Fri Feb 19 2021 11:35 pm

    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the
    twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of me, but it seems
    to be what experience has proven. GIGO, you know. Pump hate rhetoric
    in all day and you don't normally become the most compassionate and
    decent individual...

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of Rush Limbaugh. His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the Republican Party created the Trump Train.

    Wow, you people are absolutly clueless.
    What a horrible thing to say about someone, Rush devoted his life to exposing the leftist rhetoric and double standards.
    You people on the left led to Trump.
    You want socialism where everyone is dependant on government handouts, That was'nt the vision of our founding fathers, Hard work and planning ones life without the intervention and intrusion of government.
    Who pays for all the Government handouts? that's right the tax payers, the dwindling middle class (the hard workers of America) and businesses pay the lions share of these taxes.
    Trump was a great presiden't.
    Rush Limbaugh exposed the leftist and he was hated for it.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Arelor on Sat Feb 20 10:36:58 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Denn on Sat Feb 20 2021 05:52 am

    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the
    twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of but it seems
    Rush wasn't a hate monger, Everything he said he backed up.
    Most of what you said is unintelligible, makes no sense.
    It's always people like you that call others bigot's that are the real
    bigot's.

    He is a troll. He obviously posted what he posted as a provocation, and he knows it. He pretty much has admitted he expected "interesting" replites.

    True he really makes little to no sense in his post's
    He should go back to being a twitter troll.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dr. What on Sat Feb 20 10:39:22 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dr. What to Denn on Sat Feb 20 2021 10:14 am

    Rush wasn't a hate monger, Everything he said he backed up.
    Most of what you said is unintelligible, makes no sense.
    It's always people like you that call others bigot's that are the
    real bigot's.

    Leftie's ALWAYS project.

    If a Leftie accuses someone of being <something bad>, it's because he actually is <something bad>.

    I have difinatley noticed that :)

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Deepend on Sat Feb 20 10:40:51 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Deepend to Dream Master on Sat Feb 20 2021 03:14 am

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of
    Rush Limbaugh. His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the
    Republican Party created the Trump Train.

    Well at least 2021 has had some good news. ;) ^^

    Thats the left for you, always greatful when someone dies that exposes them for what they are.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to SPRITE on Sat Feb 20 09:21:00 2021
    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of me, but it seems to be what experience has proven. GIGO, you know. Pump hate rhetoric in all day and you
    don't normally become the most compassionate and decent individual...

    I have not listened to him since the 1990s. Circa 1994 someone I worked
    with used to listen to him during lunch when the boss was out. The office
    was small and had no walls, so...

    He didn't seem so bad back then. He didn't like the Clintons, yes, but I
    never heard him say anything biggoted. A lot of what he said seemed to be tongue-in-cheek funny.

    I would occassionally pick up some of his show after that... sometime
    later, I noticed his show seemed to change some. He sounded more mean-spirited. I would note that this was also about the same time I
    noticed people on the other side of the spectrum also becoming more mean-spirited, so it didn't seem as far out of place as it might have.

    I have the feeling I'm going to get some interesting replies to this.

    Probably. There are people I have not enjoyed being around over the years,
    but I try to never make light of the situation if they get fired or pass
    away. I think it is bad mojo and in poor taste.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DREAM MASTER on Sat Feb 20 09:03:00 2021
    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of Rush Limbaug
    . His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the Republican Party created the T
    ump Train.

    More bad mojo.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Sprite on Sat Feb 20 07:42:00 2021
    Sprite wrote to Denn <=-

    Let me end my message here with a quote that I shared heavily
    around the Diaspora* network

    I need to check Diaspora out again. I've been playing on Mastodon, but I can never seem to spell it correctly and end up on a clickbait site. :(

    It's be nice to find an alternative social platform and get all of the BBS traffic off of Facebook.




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Boraxman on Sat Feb 20 07:44:00 2021
    Boraxman wrote to Sprite <=-

    The irony of opening up a reply by accusing someone you dont know of
    being a bigot, simply because you found they listen to some particular radio show host.

    I was going to read your post, but I've found that people who are critical
    of people who are critical of Rush Limbaugh rarely have anything of value to add.

    When does the cycle end?


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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 20 13:58:16 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dumas Walker to DREAM MASTER on Sat Feb 20 2021 09:03 am

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of Rush
    Limbaug . His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the Republican
    Party created the T ump Train.

    Can you Imagine if someone said that about let's say Stephen Colbert? just to throw a name out there how they might react?
    I don't like Stephen Colbert but I would never dis-respect his passing, he has a right to his views as did Rush.
    But Rush exposed who these people are without all the bad taste crap.

    More bad mojo.

    and mean spirited, from the so called party of tollerance.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Denn on Sat Feb 20 16:14:45 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 20 2021 01:58 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dumas Walker to DREAM MASTER on Sat Feb 20 2021 09:03 am

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of Rush
    Limbaug . His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the Republican
    Party created the T ump Train.

    Can you Imagine if someone said that about let's say Stephen Colbert? just to throw a name out there how they might react?
    I don't like Stephen Colbert but I would never dis-respect his passing, he has a right to his views as did Rush.
    But Rush exposed who these people are without all the bad taste crap.

    More bad mojo.

    and mean spirited, from the so called party of tollerance.


    honestly i would celebrate if hillary clinton died or obama. i'm a bad person , but that's what i'd do. 2 less evil people in the world.

    and when bill clinton kicks off i'm going to say his pedo ass is burning in hell.

    regarding rush, he did cross the line a lot. but that's how the radio biz was back then.
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to MRO on Sat Feb 20 16:34:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Rush wasn't a hate monger, Everything he said he backed up.

    I remember one time when Rush was called out on something he said, and Rush's response was something to the effect that his radio show is mainly for entertainment and isn't always to be taken seriously.

    well basically it was just that. it was entertainment with a
    political theme. i cant get him in my region anymore so i havent
    listened to him for 10+ years.

    Ummmm.... ever heard of streaming live radio from a radio station
    website?



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 20 16:38:00 2021
    Dumas Walker wrote to DREAM MASTER <=-

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of
    Rush Limbaugh. His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the
    Republican Party created the Trump Train.

    More bad mojo.

    Nah, just another ignorant dipshit Lefty spewing his own flavor of "hate speech". It's OK to do that if you're a socialist/communist wannabe, ya
    know. It's just the right/conservatives who aren't allowed to use hate speech.



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Feb 20 16:41:00 2021
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Boraxman <=-

    The irony of opening up a reply by accusing someone you dont know of
    being a bigot, simply because you found they listen to some particular radio show host.

    I was going to read your post, but I've found that people who are
    critical of people who are critical of Rush Limbaugh rarely have
    anything of value to add.

    So you're perfectly OK with people who say they are glad that a national figure has passed away, and that it was the "best thing to happen to
    America"? Really? You don't think anybody should be critical of a
    person who says stuff like that?



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  • From Vague@VERT/VAGUEBBS to Gamgee on Sat Feb 20 21:00:00 2021
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    Dumas Walker wrote to DREAM MASTER <=-

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of
    Rush Limbaugh. His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the
    Republican Party created the Trump Train.

    More bad mojo.

    Nah, just another ignorant dipshit Lefty spewing his own flavor of
    "hate speech". It's OK to do that if you're a socialist/communist wannabe, ya know. It's just the right/conservatives who aren't allowed
    to use hate speech.

    I mean... Rush did a segments on his shows mocking people who died of AIDS and also continually said school shooting were faked hoaxes.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Dream Master on Sat Feb 20 12:06:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Sprite to Denn on Fri
    Feb 19 2021 11:56 am

    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of me, but it seems to be what experience has proven. GIGO, you know. Pump hate rhetoric in all day and you don't normally become the most compassionate and decent individual...

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of Rush Limbaugh. His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the Republican
    Party created the Trump Train.

    See, this is what I dislike about the left. Not that you hate Rush
    Limbaugh, but that empty virtue singnalling and "rhetoric" is put as
    more important that real action.

    I doubt anyone is actually any better of now that Rush is dead. Are
    people deep in debt now with a new hope? Those whos familes are ruined
    by opiods now better off? Are we freer? Richer?


    None of that, yet this is the "best thing". No the best thing that
    could happen would be real, meaningful change that actually had a
    measurable and noticeable impact on peoples lives. The left stopped
    caring about that, and are now just about empty virtually signalling,
    and attacking those who just have a rhetoric they don't like. There are
    people who during their time on Wall Street ruined thousands of peoples
    of lives, but that isn't as bad as just being a shock jock...

    If you are going to hate, at least hate constructively.


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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Nightfox on Sun Feb 21 02:56:11 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Denn on Sat Feb 20 2021 09:39 am

    I remember one time when Rush was called out on something he said, and Rush's response was something to the effect that his radio show is mainly for entertainment and isn't always to be taken seriously.

    Agreed. Yet, people listen and take what they want from it. The modern Republican Party has its basis on Rush Limbaugh.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Denn on Sun Feb 21 03:19:01 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dream Master on Sat Feb 20 2021 10:34 am

    Wow, you people are absolutly clueless.

    Quite the contrary, I am not clueless. I simply see the world without blinders on. Making blanket statements like "you people are absolutely clueless" prepared me for a good response.

    What a horrible thing to say about someone, Rush devoted his life to exposing the leftist rhetoric and double standards.

    Rush Limbaugh devoted himself to changing the design of the Republican Party. Whether you like it or not, there should always be two views on a subject. If it wasn't for the demise of the Fairness Doctrine, you wouldn't have Rush, Fox News, and other organizations that distort facts.

    You people on the left led to Trump.

    No. Trump was the product of the lies and falsehoods spewed from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax, and the religious conservatives.

    You want socialism where everyone is dependant on government handouts, That was'nt the vision of our founding fathers, Hard work and planning ones life without the intervention and intrusion of government.

    America isn't what it was 300 years ago. Times change, we should change with it. The intervention of government is what ensures not only our health and safety, but keeps our water and air clean, our skies safe, and our roads paved.

    Who pays for all the Government handouts? that's right the tax payers, the dwindling middle class (the hard workers of America) and businesses pay the lions share of these taxes.

    I pay over $20,000 a year in taxes. I'm a hard worker. I'm middle class. I believe we should all help each other.

    Trump was a great presiden't.

    You are entitled to your opinion.

    Rush Limbaugh exposed the leftist and he was hated for it.

    Rush Limbaugh was a liar and a bigot:

    stated on December 15, 2020 in a radio show segment:
    The American Medical Association rescinded a previous statement and now says "hydroxychloroquine is okay" for COVID-19.

    stated on February 24, 2020 in an episode of his radio show:
    "The coronavirus is the common cold, folks."

    stated on February 17, 2019 in in an interview:
    "Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true."

    stated on August 27, 2018 in in a blog post:
    "It appears that the (Jacksonville) shooter was part of the Trump 'Resistance'."

    stated on October 5, 2016 in a radio show broadcast:
    Says "11 straight years of no major hurricanes striking land" in the United States "bores a hole right through the whole climate change argument."

    stated on May 31, 2016 in the Rush Limbaugh Show:
    The presence of gorillas calls into question the concept of evolution.

    stated on July 28, 2015 in an episode of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
    Austin is "effectively" imposing "a ban on barbecue restaurants."

    stated on March 10, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Rush Limbaugh Show":
    Says "Ted Kennedy sent a letter to then Soviet leader Yuri Andropov apologizing for Ronald Reagan and begging the Soviets not to overreact."

    stated on February 2, 2015 in his radio commentary:
    "A married couple that" use the same last name "is rarer and rarer in our country."

    stated on February 3, 2015 in a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show":
    The children coming across the southern U.S. border "were never examined after they got here and quarantined if they had a disease. They were just sent out across the country. Many of them had measles ... We now have an outbreak of it all because of our immigration policy."

    stated on March 6, 2014 in a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show':
    President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department."

    stated on January 6, 2014 in comments on his radio show:
    Says the media created the term "polar vortex" and the cold air proves "the ice isn't melting."

    Should I continue. Every one of these statements are either false, really false, or exceedingly false.

    Sorry. Find yourself another savior.




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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Gamgee on Sun Feb 21 03:24:37 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Gamgee to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 20 2021 04:38 pm

    Nah, just another ignorant dipshit Lefty spewing his own flavor of "hate speech". It's OK to do that if you're a socialist/communist wannabe, ya know. It's just the right/conservatives who aren't allowed to use hate speech.

    Dude, say whatever you want, hell, be hateful and angry. My skin is thick enough to tolerate it. But be prepared for facts that are sourced from both the left and right. Ignorance is bliss, sadly, I'm not ignorant, just a realist.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Boraxman on Sun Feb 21 03:29:53 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Dream Master on Sat Feb 20 2021 12:06 pm

    If you are going to hate, at least hate constructively.

    The passing of Rush Limbaugh will create a vacuum that will quickly be filled by other voices filled with lies and hate. Yet, the two or three weeks that will pass may ensure people will turn on something else, or read a newspaper, or go to a different website and gather real information that shows truth and not hate, lies, and bigotry.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 08:47:59 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Denn on Sun Feb 21 2021 03:19 am

    You people on the left led to Trump.

    No. Trump was the product of the lies and falsehoods spewed from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax, and the religious conservatives.


    In my opinion, Trump is the result of more than 8 years of Identitary Politics from the left.

    Here in Spain we are getting Abascal for pretty much the same reason.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 08:27:00 2021
    Dream Master wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Nah, just another ignorant dipshit Lefty spewing his own flavor of "hate speech". It's OK to do that if you're a socialist/communist wannabe, ya know. It's just the right/conservatives who aren't allowed to use hate speech.

    Dude, say whatever you want, hell, be hateful and angry. My skin
    is thick enough to tolerate it. But be prepared for facts that
    are sourced from both the left and right. Ignorance is bliss,
    sadly, I'm not ignorant, just a realist.

    Facts don't come from "the left" or "the right". Facts are just.....
    facts. The spin gets put on them by PEOPLE on the left/right.

    The FACT remains that you made light of, and stated that it was a GOOD
    THING, that a national figure passed away, based solely on your
    political beliefs, and your hatred of what he stood for. That's
    shameful and wrong, and that is a simple fact (with no left/right
    aspect). Your hypocrisy is almost unbelieveable, but is the norm when discussing the behavior of lefties.

    Now spin that.


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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 10:43:45 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Denn on Sun Feb 21 2021 03:19 am

    Wow, you people are absolutly clueless.

    Quite the contrary, I am not clueless. I simply see the world without blinders on. Making blanket statements like "you people are absolutely clueless" prepared me for a good response.

    No, you really see the world from a far leftist point of view.


    What a horrible thing to say about someone, Rush devoted his life to
    exposing the leftist rhetoric and double standards.

    Rush Limbaugh devoted himself to changing the design of the Republican Party. Whether you like it or not, there should always be two views on a subject. If it wasn't for the demise of the Fairness Doctrine, you wouldn't have Rush, Fox News, and other organizations that distort facts.

    Talk about News agencies that distort facts, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Washington Post, News n guts, and many others. they're the new tabloids.
    You can listen to or read all these outlets and they all use the exact phrases and the exact talking points that their masters at the DNC tell them to.
    Fox News until recent times had a leftist and conservative host's, they still do but it's leaning more left these days.
    CNN, NYT, Washington post MSNBC and many others are now just opinion and gossip, they no longer dispense NEWS.

    You people on the left led to Trump.

    No. Trump was the product of the lies and falsehoods spewed from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax, and the religious conservatives.

    UHM flat out NO.
    We voted Trump in to clean the swamp out, the swamp organized and did a coup, Biden will always be an ilegitimate President.
    The lies and falsehoods were from the radical (DNC) controlled left.

    You want socialism where everyone is dependant on government handouts,
    That was'nt the vision of our founding fathers, Hard work and planning
    ones life without the intervention and intrusion of government.

    America isn't what it was 300 years ago. Times change, we should change with it. The intervention of government is what ensures not only our health and safety, but keeps our water and air clean, our skies safe, and our roads paved.

    Look at California as an example of your socialist Utopia, 3 times they raised taxes significantly for the "roads" and 3 times they pillfered the taxes mostlty to pay for pensions for lazy government workers.
    Yes the air is cleaner but the roads suck.
    Government should not be in charge of health care period.
    Times always change, but socialism is not a working model.

    Who pays for all the Government handouts? that's right the tax payers,
    the dwindling middle class (the hard workers of America) and
    businesses pay the lions share of these taxes.

    I pay over $20,000 a year in taxes. I'm a hard worker. I'm middle class. I believe we should all help each other.

    Maybe you're the upper crust of the middle class, most of us are not and we struggle to survive.
    You believe we should help each other? NO, I believe everyone that can work should get off their lazy asses and work, I take care of my own and everyone should do the same, what you wan't is a welfare state, I'm against handouts because it leads to a socialist society that want's everything for free.
    If you're so in love with socialism move to a country where you can enjoy paying for everyone to sit on their fat asses while you and your ilk pay for them to survive.

    Rush Limbaugh exposed the leftist and he was hated for it.

    Rush Limbaugh was a liar and a bigot:

    No, Rush did his utmost to dispense truth and expose government corruption. that's ok you take your orders from the (DNC) like all the sheep in your party.

    "The coronavirus is the common cold, folks."

    stated on February 17, 2019 in in an interview:
    "Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to

    Anyone cane take what others say out of context and scew the real point of what someone is really saying, in this case it's Political Bias on your part.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 10:46:33 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Gamgee on Sun Feb 21 2021 03:24 am

    Nah, just another ignorant dipshit Lefty spewing his own flavor of
    "hate speech". It's OK to do that if you're a socialist/communist

    Dude, say whatever you want, hell, be hateful and angry. My skin is thick enough to tolerate it. But be prepared for facts that are sourced from both the left and right. Ignorance is bliss, sadly, I'm not ignorant, just a realist.

    I would not call you a realist.
    I would call you extremely biased.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DENN on Sun Feb 21 10:14:00 2021
    Can you Imagine if someone said that about let's say Stephen Colbert? just to >throw a name out there how they might react?
    I don't like Stephen Colbert but I would never dis-respect his passing, he has >a right to his views as did Rush.
    But Rush exposed who these people are without all the bad taste crap.

    They'd thrown a fit. "He was one of the greatest voices of our generation/movement/whatever, how dare you, you (fill in insult towards you
    for being a conservative/male/whatever here)!"

    More bad mojo.

    and mean spirited, from the so called party of tollerance.

    I thought so but left it unsaid.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Gamgee on Sun Feb 21 07:52:00 2021
    Gamgee wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    So you're perfectly OK with people who say they are glad that a
    national figure has passed away, and that it was the "best thing to
    happen to America"? Really? You don't think anybody should be
    critical of a person who says stuff like that?

    I wouldn't call Rush Limbaugh a "National Figure", although he was well
    known.

    I also feel that people are welcome to their opinions, although mine may
    vary. It's a sentiment that's sorely lacking today.

    In case you were curious, I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh way back when. I thought his fiscal philosophy had merit and it resonated with me, but was a little idealistic.

    You do reap what you sow, however. When you have a segment on your show
    called "AIDS Update" where you read off the names of recently deceased gay
    men with music and fanfare in the background, you lose the high ground.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dr. What on Sun Feb 21 08:30:00 2021
    Dr. What wrote to Denn <=-

    Leftie's ALWAYS project.

    If a Leftie accuses someone of being <something bad>, it's because he actually is <something bad>.

    DARVO. It's a political strategy, not a party strategy.


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  • From Vague@VERT/VAGUEBBS to Boraxman on Sun Feb 21 16:15:00 2021
    Boraxman wrote to Dream Master <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Sprite to Denn on Fri
    Feb 19 2021 11:56 am

    Sweet, always good to have another bigot in consideration for the twitlist. I mean, maybe that's a bit presumptuous of me, but it seems to be what experience has proven. GIGO, you know. Pump hate rhetoric in all day and you don't normally become the most compassionate and decent individual...

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of Rush Limbaugh. His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the Republican
    Party created the Trump Train.

    See, this is what I dislike about the left. Not that you hate Rush Limbaugh, but that empty virtue singnalling and "rhetoric" is put as
    more important that real action.

    I doubt anyone is actually any better of now that Rush is dead. Are people deep in debt now with a new hope? Those whos familes are ruined
    by opiods now better off? Are we freer? Richer?


    None of that, yet this is the "best thing". No the best thing that
    could happen would be real, meaningful change that actually had a measurable and noticeable impact on peoples lives. The left stopped caring about that, and are now just about empty virtually signalling,
    and attacking those who just have a rhetoric they don't like. There
    are people who during their time on Wall Street ruined thousands of peoples of lives, but that isn't as bad as just being a shock jock...

    If you are going to hate, at least hate constructively.

    I mean... Ruch repeatedly mocked people who died of AIDS in segments on his shows and repeatedly said school schooting are faked hoaxes.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 21:24:00 2021
    Dream Master wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Dream Master on
    Sat Feb 20 2021 12:06 pm

    If you are going to hate, at least hate constructively.

    The passing of Rush Limbaugh will create a vacuum that will quickly be filled by other voices filled with lies and hate. Yet, the two or
    three weeks that will pass may ensure people will turn on something
    else, or read a newspaper, or go to a different website and gather real information that shows truth and not hate, lies, and bigotry.

    As I said, there are far worse things going on in the world. Its EASY to go after Rush, but it doesn't solve much, does it?

    Besides, the kind of person who dislikes Rush would be the kind of person who would let a lot of bigotry and hate slide, because that hate is directed at 'approved' targets.

    Face it, very few, if any, people are free of racism and bigotry. Anti-racists are some of the biggest racists around, and often White Supremacist themselves.
    People that push for equality easily come to hate and action against people. Pretty much every one for "Social Justice" has a dark side, and can get nasty very easily. When it comes to bigotry in the modern world, it isn't bigotry vs no bigotry, its unapproved bigory vs approved bigotry. Look how people who preach tolerance, how quickly they will denigrate "hicks", Men, White people, etc, etc.

    The best way to improve human relations has been to improve living conditions.


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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Arelor on Sun Feb 21 20:39:47 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 08:47 am

    No. Trump was the product of the lies and falsehoods spewed from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax, and the religious conservatives.

    In my opinion, Trump is the result of more than 8 years of Identitary Politics from the left.

    Here in Spain we are getting Abascal for pretty much the same reason.

    Identity Politics is defined as "a tendancy for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from the traditional broad-based party politics." Therefore, what you are saying is that 8 years of Obama led to the radical religious right with conservatisim that has reached beyond what the Republican Party has had since its flip in the 50s and 60s?

    I don't buy it.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Gamgee on Sun Feb 21 20:42:35 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Gamgee to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 08:27 am

    The FACT remains that you made light of, and stated that it was a GOOD THING, that a national figure passed away, based solely on your
    political beliefs, and your hatred of what he stood for. That's
    shameful and wrong, and that is a simple fact (with no left/right
    aspect). Your hypocrisy is almost unbelieveable, but is the norm when discussing the behavior of lefties.

    Now spin that.

    How about this: I apologize for making a statement of such caliber. What I should've said, and what I meant to say, was that I am glad the message Rush Limbaugh communicated is now dead. It will likely come back from another mouthpiece but I can only hope it will be less divisive. I would and will never wish death upon anyone (except for someone who hurts my family and loved ones).

    Again, my apologies. I let my fingers type before the brain engaged.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 21 21:23:00 2021
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-

    So you're perfectly OK with people who say they are glad that a
    national figure has passed away, and that it was the "best thing to
    happen to America"? Really? You don't think anybody should be
    critical of a person who says stuff like that?

    I wouldn't call Rush Limbaugh a "National Figure", although he
    was well known.

    Well, he had the #1 talk show on radio, every year, for 33+ years. His program also had the highest radio program weekly listener totals, most recently 15+ million. I'd say he was a national figure. Every liberal
    major politician hated him, and mentioned him frequently by name.

    I also feel that people are welcome to their opinions, although
    mine may vary. It's a sentiment that's sorely lacking today.

    Oh, I agree completely that people can have their own opinions. It's
    just not always appropriate to express them in public, which is the
    point of this conversation.

    In case you were curious, I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh way
    back when. I thought his fiscal philosophy had merit and it
    resonated with me, but was a little idealistic.

    I listened to him occasionally, and agree with that assessment.

    You do reap what you sow, however. When you have a segment on
    your show called "AIDS Update" where you read off the names of
    recently deceased gay men with music and fanfare in the
    background, you lose the high ground.

    While I would never make excuses for someone doing that, let's remember
    that this segment on his show lasted only a few weeks, and was done in
    1990. That's over 30 years ago, and it's important to remember the
    changes that have happened in people's acceptance of gays, and AIDS, and similar things. In this example it makes all the difference in the
    world. Attitudes toward those things 31 years ago were VERY different,
    and that context should not be ignored.

    FWIW, you really didn't answer the question that was asked. You danced
    around it a bit, but didn't actually say what you think about somebody
    saying they're glad he's dead.



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 22:03:00 2021
    Dream Master wrote to Gamgee <=-

    The FACT remains that you made light of, and stated that it was a GOOD THING, that a national figure passed away, based solely on your
    political beliefs, and your hatred of what he stood for. That's
    shameful and wrong, and that is a simple fact (with no left/right
    aspect). Your hypocrisy is almost unbelieveable, but is the norm when discussing the behavior of lefties.

    How about this: I apologize for making a statement of such
    caliber. What I should've said, and what I meant to say, was
    that I am glad the message Rush Limbaugh communicated is now
    dead. It will likely come back from another mouthpiece but I can
    only hope it will be less divisive. I would and will never wish
    death upon anyone (except for someone who hurts my family and
    loved ones).

    Ahhhh, so you "didn't mean it", and that makes everything all good
    again. That's a standard leftie backpedal move.

    I don't believe you.


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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Boraxman on Sun Feb 21 22:08:00 2021
    Boraxman wrote to Dream Master <=-

    The passing of Rush Limbaugh will create a vacuum that will quickly be filled by other voices filled with lies and hate. Yet, the two or
    three weeks that will pass may ensure people will turn on something
    else, or read a newspaper, or go to a different website and gather real information that shows truth and not hate, lies, and bigotry.

    As I said, there are far worse things going on in the world. Its
    EASY to go after Rush, but it doesn't solve much, does it?

    Besides, the kind of person who dislikes Rush would be the kind
    of person who would let a lot of bigotry and hate slide, because
    that hate is directed at 'approved' targets.

    Exactly. Spot on. For those in Rio Linda, 'approved' in this context
    means 'conservatives'.

    Face it, very few, if any, people are free of racism and bigotry.
    Anti-racists are some of the biggest racists around, and often
    White Supremacist themselves.
    People that push for equality easily come to hate and action
    against people. Pretty much every one for "Social Justice" has a
    dark side, and can get nasty very easily. When it comes to
    bigotry in the modern world, it isn't bigotry vs no bigotry, its unapproved bigory vs approved bigotry. Look how people who
    preach tolerance, how quickly they will denigrate "hicks", Men,
    White people, etc, etc.

    Don't forget about the bitter folks clinging to their guns and religion.

    Democrat hypocrisy is pretty much beyond comprehension.


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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dumas Walker on Sun Feb 21 22:06:52 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dumas Walker to DENN on Sun Feb 21 2021 10:14 am

    Can you Imagine if someone said that about let's say Stephen Colbert?
    just to throw a name out there how they might react?
    I don't like Stephen Colbert but I would never dis-respect his passing,
    he has a right to his views as did Rush.
    But Rush exposed who these people are without all the bad taste crap.

    They'd thrown a fit. "He was one of the greatest voices of our generation/movement/whatever, how dare you, you (fill in insult towards you for being a conservative/male/whatever here)!"

    I have in the past split my ticket between Dems and Reps, but the left has just gone batshit crazy these last four years, If I vote for a Dem now my vote is literally thrown away.
    So now I have to take a chance that the Repulican isn't a rino.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Denn on Sun Feb 21 20:53:51 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 10:43 am

    Where to begin...

    No, you really see the world from a far leftist point of view.

    I am a liberal and proud to admit it. My beliefs are shared by some and not shared by others. I welcome the dialog.

    Fox News until recent times had a leftist and conservative host's, they still do but it's leaning more left these days.

    Shep Smith left because he saw the direction of FOX News skewing further right. His continued diagreement with the _talking heads_ further drove his decision to leave.

    CNN, NYT, Washington post MSNBC and many others are now just opinion and gossip, they no longer dispense NEWS.

    I believe you can read / watch each each news outlet and gather the facts. Opinions are what you make of them. There are many _talking heads_ on all the news channels that I refuse to watch as they are too divisive even for me.

    We voted Trump in to clean the swamp out, the swamp organized and did a coup, Biden will always be an ilegitimate President.

    Trump did not drain the swamp; he filled it with even more creatures.

    Biden won fair and square. Your inability to accept the outcome of our election demonstrates your inability to trust the democratically elected public officials throughout the country, both Democrat and Republican, who certified the election even after multiple recounts.

    The lies and falsehoods were from the radical (DNC) controlled left.

    I disagree. The lies and falsehoods generated from this past election were charged, in fact, by Conservative-leaning news sources, Trump's minions, and Rush Limbaugh himself.

    You believe we should help each other? NO, I believe everyone that can work should get off their lazy asses and work, I take care of my own and everyone should do the same, what you wan't is a welfare state, I'm against handouts because it leads to a socialist society that want's everything for free.

    Maybe I'm upper middle-class. I got where I am through hard work. Yet, I believe it is necessary to help those less fortunate. If you didn't have insurance, I'd be more than happy to help provide as it is the American way.

    If you're so in love with socialism move to a country where you can enjoy paying for everyone to sit on their fat asses while you and your ilk pay for them to survive.

    I love this statement. It is ridiculously divisive.

    No, Rush did his utmost to dispense truth and expose government corruption. that's ok you take your orders from the (DNC) like all the sheep in your party.

    Truth... sure.

    Anyone cane take what others say out of context and scew the real point of what someone is really saying, in this case it's Political Bias on your part.

    Okay, if that's what you think.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 21 21:20:05 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Gamgee on Sun Feb 21 2021 07:52 am

    You do reap what you sow, however. When you have a segment on your show called "AIDS Update" where you read off the names of recently deceased gay men with music and fanfare in the background, you lose the high ground.

    This is *precisely* why I couldn't stand the man. If your goal was to be divisive, this is how you win.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 02:54:35 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Arelor on Sun Feb 21 2021 08:39 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 08:47 am

    No. Trump was the product of the lies and falsehoods spewed from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax, and the religious
    conservatives.

    In my opinion, Trump is the result of more than 8 years of Identitary Politics from the left.

    Here in Spain we are getting Abascal for pretty much the same reason.

    Identity Politics is defined as "a tendancy for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form
    exclusive political alliances, moving away from the traditional broad-based party politics." Therefore, what you are saying
    that 8 years of Obama led to the radical religious right with conservatisim that has reached beyond what the Republican Part
    has had since its flip in the 50s and 60s?

    I don't buy it.

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    No.

    What I am saying is that 8 years of political campaign with a heavy dose of so-called "positive" discrimination lead to Trump.

    The left in general has been dividing the population in manageable minorities and telling them that all their troubles are the
    fault of some other big group. Then they have promised to improve their position regarding that group.

    If a gypsy steals a chicken from you and you complain to police that a "gypsy motherfucker" has stolen a chicken from you, you
    risk a bigger backslash over racism charges than the thief does over stealing the chicken here. So when people gets burnt by
    stating what they think it is the truth (the thief was a gypsy, and the thief was a motherfucker) they get sore about it.

    As they get sore when human resources try to recruit token minority-employees that are practically unemployable. Or they apply
    for a job and are told they are not getting it, because they want an employee from a minority group because those get better PR
    or better tax conditions.

    One or two of these things would not push sojebody to go radical,. but when you start piling them up over the years, while the
    people who pushes them tries to make you the bad guy of their narrative, or are condescending towards you at best, can somebody
    NOT expect things to get ugly?

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  • From BoonDock@VERT/GATOFUEG to Arelor on Mon Feb 22 09:59:54 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 08:47:59


    In my opinion, Trump is the result of more than 8 years of Identitary Politics from the left.
    Precisely!

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Gamgee on Mon Feb 22 06:52:41 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Gamgee to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 10:03 pm

    Ahhhh, so you "didn't mean it", and that makes everything all good
    again. That's a standard leftie backpedal move.

    I don't believe you.

    That's your prerogative, but the fact remains that I don't wish death upon anyone. My initial statement was flawed and you and others brought to light that my words were, in fact, poorly conceived. I am willing to accept my mistake; you may call it backpedaling, I call it correcting a mistake.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Arelor on Mon Feb 22 08:10:33 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 02:54 am

    What I am saying is that 8 years of political campaign with a heavy dose of so-called "positive" discrimination lead to Trump.

    I see where you are coming from now.

    The left in general has been dividing the population in manageable minorities and telling them that all their troubles are the fault of some other big group. Then they have promised to improve their position regarding that group.

    I see this as a problem on both sides of the aisle. The left wants and desires *Fantasy Land*, expecting everything to be handed out on a silver platter without a comprehensive and manageable way to pay for it, while the right wants *The Wild West* where everyone must fend for themselves while ensuring _God_, _Guns_, and _Freedom_ inviolable. Neither is realistic yet both are possible to some degree.

    If a gypsy steals a chicken from you and you complain to police that a "gypsy motherfucker" has stolen a chicken from you, you risk a bigger backslash over racism charges than the thief does over stealing the chicken here. So when people gets burnt by stating what they think it is the truth (the thief was a gypsy, and the thief was a motherfucker) they get sore about it.

    I understand the point are you are making, but could we look at it a little differently. Instead of calling the person a "gypsy motherfucker", why don't we simply say that a "gypsy stole a chicken and that motherfucker really pissed me off." Changing the word order solves the problem of perceived racism and also makes us look more *hurt* by the theft.

    As they get sore when human resources try to recruit token minority-employees that are practically unemployable. Or they apply for a job and are told they are not getting it, because they want an employee from a minority group because those get better PR or better tax conditions.

    This can be spun either way. On one hand, you review your candidates and see candidate 1 has excellent qualifications for the job and desires x amount of compensation. Candidate 2 also has excellent qualifications and desires y amount of compensation. Candidate 1s compensation requirements are significantly higher than Candidate 2s. Which candidate will you hire? Candidate 2.

    Come to find out, Candidate 2 is a minority.

    The only way Human Resources can determine this is through a social media search, identity research, or in an in-person or webcam-based interview. If the candidate was hired for PR or tax reasons, because they're a minority, than the company violated the law. Who'll know, right?

    Let's turn this around. My father, who is now 81, is an electrical engineer. He's been doing this since he joined the USAF at 18. He worked as a defense contractor for over 40 years retired at 65. My mother, who likes her peace and quiet, told him that he needs to get himself a job or she'll move out as she likes her "peace and quiet". He went around looking for electrical engineering jobs throughout Southern California. They'd review his qualifications and bring him in for an interview. They'd see that he's older but quite knowledgable...and still wouldn't hire him. Why? Age. Is this discrimination? Absolutely. Is it easy to prove? No. Needless to say, he is gainfully employed doing what he loves and goes into work every day at 5:30am and comes home at 2:30. My mother is happy. (no, he doesn't need to work, but it keeps him busy and that's all that matters)

    Is my father a minority? By definition, no, but according to the EEOC, not hiring him because of his age is considered discrimination. He's a minority. Ultimately, HR departments will do whatever they want because, at the end of the day, they make the rules and are deigned the responsibility of keeping the employer, not the employee, safe from litigation.

    I, in my capacity as a manager, will always hire the best candidate for the job whether a minority or not, yet that isn't the case for all too many employers.

    One or two of these things would not push sojebody to go radical,. but when you start piling them up over the years, while the people who pushes them tries to make you the bad guy of their narrative, or are condescending towards you at best, can somebody NOT expect things to get ugly?

    I've never been a fan of off-shoring work because "it's cheaper". The excuse most employers make is "there is an untapped talent pool waiting to be used", okay, that's terrific, but at what cost. The United States' cost of living is ridiculously high (nowhere close to many parts of Europe) and paying people a living wage has forced these companies to go off-shore. I can see why people are upset. I can see why people are begging to close the visa counts. I can see why employers are fighting tax advantages when they can pay off-shore employees much less.

    It's a wicked game. Something must be done and it isn't a left or right issue, it's an American issue.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 11:12:08 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Arelor on Mon Feb 22 2021 08:10 am

    If a gypsy steals a chicken from you and you complain to police that a "gypsy motherfucker" has stolen a chicken from you, you risk a bigger backslash over racism charges than the thief does over stealing the chick here. So when people gets burnt by stating what they think it is the trut (the thief was a gypsy, and the thief was a motherfucker) they get sore about it.

    I understand the point are you are making, but could we look at it a little differently. Instead of calling the person a "gypsy motherfucker", why don' we simply say that a "gypsy stole a chicken and that motherfucker really pis me off." Changing the word order solves the problem of perceived racism and also makes us look more *hurt* by the theft.


    *THIS* is exactly my point:

    ***My chicken is stolen and the way I complain about it is more important than the fact I haven't my chicken back***

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 09:18:00 2021
    Dream Master wrote to Denn <=-

    Maybe I'm upper middle-class. I got where I am through hard work.

    Same here. What I can't understand is why you don't get pissed off at
    the moochers who want the same things that you (and I) have, but are not willing to put in the hard work to get. They just want YOU to supply it
    to them, free of charge.

    Yet, I believe it is necessary to help those less fortunate.

    "Less fortunate", or "Less willing to work"?

    If you're so in love with socialism move to a country where you can enjoy paying for everyone to sit on their fat asses while you and your ilk pay for them to survive.

    I love this statement. It is ridiculously divisive.

    What exactly is divisive about it? What about it isn't true? Isn't
    that what socialism is? Some work, and all benefit. Everybody is
    "equal". Serious question - what is not true about the statement?



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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to BoonDock on Mon Feb 22 13:54:49 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: BoonDock to Arelor on Mon Feb 22 2021 09:59 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 08:47:59


    In my opinion, Trump is the result of more than 8 years of Identitary Politics from the left.
    Precisely!

    This is why I voted Trump twice.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 13:20:29 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Gamgee on Mon Feb 22 2021 06:52 am

    Ahhhh, so you "didn't mean it", and that makes everything all good
    again. That's a standard leftie backpedal move.

    I don't believe you.

    That's your prerogative, but the fact remains that I don't wish death upon anyone. My initial statement was flawed and you and others brought to light that my words were, in fact, poorly conceived. I am willing to accept my mistake; you may call it backpedaling, I call it correcting a mistake.

    I may dis agree with allot of what Dream Master say's but at least he has the courage to accept he said something he regreted, I try to do the same, I would'nt neccesarily call it back pedaling but being man enough to concede he made a mistake, I admire him for that.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Gamgee on Mon Feb 22 12:45:00 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Gamgee to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 09:18 am

    Same here. What I can't understand is why you don't get pissed off at
    the moochers who want the same things that you (and I) have, but are not willing to put in the hard work to get. They just want YOU to supply it to them, free of charge.

    I know I'm not the one you were replying to, but sometimes the way I see it is that I'm going to work and provide for myself regardless of what other people do; so, what someone else does isn't necessarily going to bother me. Sometimes, I think it takes too much energy to try to judge others and be angry at what other people are doing.

    Yet, I believe it is necessary to help those less fortunate.

    "Less fortunate", or "Less willing to work"?

    Some people are less able to work, due to a disability for instance.

    Also, what if someone wins the lottery and decides to retire early? Would you still think there's a problem if they decide not to work?

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Vlk-451 on Mon Feb 22 13:37:12 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Vlk-451 to BoonDock on Mon Feb 22 2021 01:54 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 08:47:59


    In my opinion, Trump is the result of more than 8 years of
    Identitary Politics from the left.
    Precisely!

    This is why I voted Trump twice.

    I also voted twice for Trump, Same reasons.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Arelor on Mon Feb 22 14:48:27 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 11:12 am

    *THIS* is exactly my point:

    ***My chicken is stolen and the way I complain about it is more important than the fact I haven't my chicken back***

    Yet, that's the problem. We, as a people, forget that words do hurt and affect others. If your child takes something of yours, are you going to say, "You fucking idiot. I can't believe you stole my chicken. Give it back to me you fucking retard"? Or, are you going to say, "Why did you take my chicken? Was that the right thing to do? Maybe you could've asked instead." Words, they make a whole lot of difference.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Gamgee on Mon Feb 22 17:18:40 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Gamgee to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 09:18 am

    Maybe I'm upper middle-class. I got where I am through hard work.

    Same here. What I can't understand is why you don't get pissed off at
    the moochers who want the same things that you (and I) have, but are not willing to put in the hard work to get. They just want YOU to supply it
    to them, free of charge.

    I *do* get pissed off at moochers who want the same things you and I have. Since you are the first person to ask me regarding my position, I will go into it.

    I believe you, or your spouse, *must* work to get social benefits and those benefits apply to the non-working spouse and all children until 26 (as long as they are living at home). Why the non-working spouse? For instance, prior to COVID, my wife was a stay at home mother while I went to the office. She'd pick up the children, make sure the house was taken care of, and be there whenever they needed a parent. If she went to work, there'd be additional expenses beyond childcare such as transportation, dining, etc. Anyway, back to my point. I believe children who live at home should be focused on their education. If they work, they can pay into the social benefits.

    For those that don't work or choose to be unemployed; categorically, moochers. I believe they should still be entitled to a standard of care. For example, they can go to county hospital, receive emergency care, and also obtain preventative care. If they choose to continue living unemployed, that's what they get and only get. Just like Social Security today, you only get what you pay into it. Not enough credits, you won't get it a full benefit.

    Yet, I believe it is necessary to help those less fortunate.

    "Less fortunate", or "Less willing to work"?

    I don't understand why people are unwilling to work. Mooching off the system should be deterred. I think the original idea behind the ACAs individual mandate was to force people into getting healthcare--so they wouldn't mooch off of country run hospitals. I still remember being in the hospital with my daughter (she was admitted for 11 days due to bacterial pneumonia) and an elderly lady was helicoptered in because she got sick. When I inquired with the nursing staff, they informed me that this is a normal occurrence for her. Come to find out, she didn't have insurance and was mooching off the system. Completely unacceptable. I, on the other hand, was left with over $20,000 in out of pocket medical bills for my daughter.

    If you're so in love with socialism move to a country where you can enjoy paying for everyone to sit on their fat asses while you and your ilk pay for them to survive.

    I love this statement. It is ridiculously divisive.

    What exactly is divisive about it? What about it isn't true? Isn't
    that what socialism is? Some work, and all benefit. Everybody is
    "equal". Serious question - what is not true about the statement?

    I believe there should be a _standard of care_ for medical care. Whether I have Tier-1+ insurance and you have Tier-3, we should receive the same care and have zero out of pocket expense. Today, My Tier-1+ insurance costs me more, covers more, and my out of pocket expense is more while your Tier-3 insurance covers less, costs less, and has less or no out of pocket. If you need a hearing aid, the insurance should cover it. In my _perfect world_, which we will call *Socialism*, my insurance and your insurance are the same. If I lose 3% of my paycheck to *Socialized Healthcare* and it costs me $6000/year and you lose 3% of your paycheck and it costs you $2000/year, we both are getting the same care. To the same point, someone right out of college making $40K/year, is only on the hook for $1200/year. This is a hell of a lot better than forcing them to pay more for less.

    To the point of someone who is mooching, yes, we pay for their coverage, but they won't get all the extra benefits, the hearing aids, bariatric surgery, the chiropractic procedures, or the knee braces, they'll get treated and that's it.

    Does this make better sense now?

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Denn on Mon Feb 22 17:24:18 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 01:20 pm

    I may dis agree with allot of what Dream Master say's but at least he has the courage to accept he said something he regreted, I try to do the same, I would'nt neccesarily call it back pedaling but being man enough to concede he made a mistake, I admire him for that.

    Thank you. A long time ago my conscience played an evil game with me. I wished someone death and sure enough, they died. I literally said, "God damn it, why won't you just die." Two weeks later, dead. When I made the statement about Rush Limbaugh, it was made without thinking. When someone brought to light my statement, it brought back those memories. My apology was and remains sincere.

    Denn, thank you again.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Nightfox on Mon Feb 22 20:20:00 2021
    Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Same here. What I can't understand is why you don't get pissed off at
    the moochers who want the same things that you (and I) have, but are not willing to put in the hard work to get. They just want YOU to supply it
    to them, free of charge.

    I know I'm not the one you were replying to, but sometimes the
    way I see it is that I'm going to work and provide for myself
    regardless of what other people do; so, what someone else does
    isn't necessarily going to bother me.

    I see that point, but what I'm saying is that what someone else is doing
    *CAN* and *DOES* affect you. When they choose to be a freeloader (by
    not working when they could), and therefore start to abuse the "social welfare" programs, it results in many bad things. One of those things
    is that your taxes will likely be raised to support the added burden of providing for shitbirds who choose to mooch. They overcrowd the
    healthcare systems, specifically the Emergency Rooms, because that's how
    they get their healthcare. They're not paying taxes. That means you
    pay more to take up their slack. So, that should bother you.

    Sometimes, I think it takes too much energy to try to judge others
    and be angry at what other people are doing.

    Sure, I agree, until... it starts costing me hard cash that I worked
    hard for, and that these freeloaders think they are "entitled" to.

    Yet, I believe it is necessary to help those less fortunate.

    "Less fortunate", or "Less willing to work"?

    Some people are less able to work, due to a disability for
    instance.

    Absolutely. And they would be well taken care of, if the system didn't
    have to also provide services/benefits to those who are abusing the
    system, because they want to and they can. The moochers cause the whole
    thing to break down, and those who *DESERVE* to be taken care of....
    aren't.

    Also, what if someone wins the lottery and decides to retire
    early? Would you still think there's a problem if they decide
    not to work?

    Of course not. They won't be drawing "benefits" from a system designed
    to help needy folks. And they'll be paying taxes.

    The *WHOLE* *POINT* of what I'm saying here is that there is a
    difference between people who *NEED* help because of disability or
    disaster, ... and those who *CHOOSE* to abuse the benefits system
    because they're lazy pieces of shit who don't want to pull their own
    weight.



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 20:40:00 2021
    Dream Master wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Maybe I'm upper middle-class. I got where I am through hard work.

    Same here. What I can't understand is why you don't get pissed off at
    the moochers who want the same things that you (and I) have, but are not willing to put in the hard work to get. They just want YOU to supply it
    to them, free of charge.

    I *do* get pissed off at moochers who want the same things you
    and I have. Since you are the first person to ask me regarding
    my position, I will go into it.

    I believe you, or your spouse, *must* work to get social benefits
    and those benefits apply to the non-working spouse and all
    children until 26 (as long as they are living at home). Why the non-working spouse? For instance, prior to COVID, my wife was a
    stay at home mother while I went to the office. She'd pick up
    the children, make sure the house was taken care of, and be there
    whenever they needed a parent. If she went to work, there'd be
    additional expenses beyond childcare such as transportation,
    dining, etc. Anyway, back to my point. I believe children who
    live at home should be focused on their education. If they work,
    they can pay into the social benefits.

    Sure, no argument with any of that. Doesn't even seem relevant to the
    point at hand, though.

    For those that don't work or choose to be unemployed;
    categorically, moochers. I believe they should still be entitled
    to a standard of care.

    Why? Why should a person who *chooses* to be a burden on society be
    entitled to get anything back from society? I'm not talking about stay-at-home-parents here, because they're (most likely) not collecting benefits in a fraudulent manner. I'm talking about "able-bodied" people
    who just choose to let others support them for no other reason than
    laziness.

    For example, they can go to county
    hospital, receive emergency care, and also obtain preventative
    care. If they choose to continue living unemployed, that's what
    they get and only get. Just like Social Security today, you only
    get what you pay into it. Not enough credits, you won't get it a
    full benefit.

    The problem with that is that that *ISN'T* the only things they get.
    They manipulate the system, and commit fraud, to continue to collect
    free money and benefits, pretty much indefinitely.

    Yet, I believe it is necessary to help those less fortunate.

    "Less fortunate", or "Less willing to work"?

    I don't understand why people are unwilling to work. Mooching
    off the system should be deterred.

    It should be eliminated, with severe consequences to those doing it.

    I think the original idea
    behind the ACAs individual mandate was to force people into
    getting healthcare--so they wouldn't mooch off of country run
    hospitals.

    It didn't work, largely because most young people (who need very little medical care, generally), chose to just pay the "fine" which was very
    low, instead of the outrageously high premiums demanded by Obamacare. A perfectly sound business decision, actually. So the whole garbage plan
    was doomed from the beginning, and should have been foreseen. And the moochers still got their free healthcare from ER's, just as they always
    have (and still do!).

    I still remember being in the hospital with my
    daughter (she was admitted for 11 days due to bacterial
    pneumonia) and an elderly lady was helicoptered in because she
    got sick. When I inquired with the nursing staff, they informed
    me that this is a normal occurrence for her. Come to find out,
    she didn't have insurance and was mooching off the system.
    Completely unacceptable. I, on the other hand, was left with
    over $20,000 in out of pocket medical bills for my daughter.

    Yeah, that sucks. Nice guys finish last, and all that.

    Honestly, sometimes hard decisions have to be made. Somebody like that
    woman who apparently made it a habit to get helicoptered in for
    "emergency" care, might just have to be denied treatment. Maybe not the
    first time it happens, but after a clear pattern has been identified, sometimes you might have to say "fuck you".

    I know, that sounds harsh. But you know what? The world is a harsh
    place. Sometimes bad shit happens, and sometimes hard choices are made.
    It's called reality, and personal responsibility.

    If you're so in love with socialism move to a country where you can enjoy paying for everyone to sit on their fat asses while you and your ilk pay for them to survive.

    I love this statement. It is ridiculously divisive.

    What exactly is divisive about it? What about it isn't true? Isn't
    that what socialism is? Some work, and all benefit. Everybody is
    "equal". Serious question - what is not true about the statement?

    I believe there should be a _standard of care_ for medical care.

    At the expense of those who may not share that belief? Medical care is
    not a "right", any more than food or shelter are. Sorry, but it's true.

    Whether I have Tier-1+ insurance and you have Tier-3, we should
    receive the same care and have zero out of pocket expense.
    Today, My Tier-1+ insurance costs me more, covers more, and my
    out of pocket expense is more while your Tier-3 insurance covers
    less, costs less, and has less or no out of pocket. If you need
    a hearing aid, the insurance should cover it. In my _perfect
    world_, which we will call *Socialism*, my insurance and your
    insurance are the same. If I lose 3% of my paycheck to
    *Socialized Healthcare* and it costs me $6000/year and you lose
    3% of your paycheck and it costs you $2000/year, we both are
    getting the same care. To the same point, someone right out of
    college making $40K/year, is only on the hook for $1200/year.
    This is a hell of a lot better than forcing them to pay more for
    less.

    Strange as it may sound, I don't have much of an issue with that. I
    wouldn't call it socialism, because everybody is paying (3% or
    whatever). Where things go off the rails for me is when some are paying
    and some are not, and those that are not get the same benefits.

    To the point of someone who is mooching, yes, we pay for their
    coverage, but they won't get all the extra benefits, the hearing
    aids, bariatric surgery, the chiropractic procedures, or the knee
    braces, they'll get treated and that's it.

    If that was true, it would be pretty workable. But it isn't true,
    because the moochers are able to get the same (or better) care for ZERO
    cost. Your example of your daughter's expenses above, as compared to
    the helicopter woman, is the perfect proof of what I'm saying.

    If the abuse/fraud would be stopped, and it could be!, things would work
    much better.

    Does this make better sense now?

    Not really. You seem to be willing to tolerate fraud and abuse, and I
    am much more against such things. I believe all members of a society
    (except those who CLEARLY cannot) should be pulling their own weight.
    I think that is a fundamental difference between the two political
    parties. Honestly, I don't want everybody "equal". That removes any incentive to work harder to get ahead, and even the chance that you
    might "hit it big" and become wildly successful. Some of us call that
    The American Dream.


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  • From BlaZ@VERT/PNLTYBOX to BoonDock on Mon Feb 22 15:43:07 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: BoonDock to Arelor on Mon Feb 22 2021 09:59 am

    In my opinion, Trump is the result of more than 8 years of Identitary Politics from the left.
    Precisely!

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  • From BlaZ@VERT/PNLTYBOX to All on Mon Feb 22 15:50:13 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: BlaZ to BoonDock on Mon Feb 22 2021 03:43 pm

    Whoops. Didn't mean to post that last message.

    All I wanted to add to the whole Rush Limbaugh conversation is... the guy was an incredible broadcaster. Anybody who doesn't realize that could never do what Rush did every day. Try to talk non-stop for 10 minutes. He did it for 3 hours.

    So out of those billions of words you found a few you could use to hate him? Ehhh. Seems silly. The guy was good at what he did, and it will be hard to replace him.

    BlaZ

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Dr. What on Tue Feb 23 01:04:24 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dr. What to Denn on Sat Feb 20 2021 10:14 am

    If a Leftie accuses someone of being <something bad>, it's because he actually is <something literally had a segment call AIDS Update
    where he would mock people who had AIDS and who died of AIDS and play funny music behind him. Fuck Rush, he was a fear mongering POS.

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Dr. What on Tue Feb 23 01:11:45 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dr. What to Denn on Sat Feb 20 2021 10:14 am

    If a Leftie accuses someone of being <something bad>, it's because he actually is

    In the 90's Rush had a segment call The AIDS Update where he would list people who had or died from AIDS while playing funny music. If I remember correctly it was songs like "I'll never love this way again".

    I used to listen to him in high school (because my family was very conservative) and even had a Rush Is Right bumper sticker on my car. I'm ashamed of it now. At the time he said that gays deserved AIDS. After be protested by ACT UP for weeks he eventually pulled it and appologized - but who the fuck even thinks of that? I remember hearing that and being horrified that my friends were laughing.

    Fuck that guy.

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Denn on Tue Feb 23 01:32:13 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 10:43 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    No, you really see the world from a far leftist point of view.

    The US doesn't have much a far left - other countries have far left parties that advocate for the complete abolition of private property and religion. Here our radical "far left" has been asking police to not murder people for decades, recently starting kneeling during sportsball games, and asking politicians to not let people in poverty die from lack of healthcare.

    Our far left are left leaning centrists most other places.

    Meanwhile, our far right are actual fascists who have threatened to
    murder our lawmakers and flimed each other beating police officers WITH BLUE LIVES MATTER FLAGS.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 23:40:46 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Denn on Mon Feb 22 2021 05:24 pm

    I may dis agree with allot of what Dream Master say's but at least he
    has the courage to accept he said something he regreted, I try to do
    the same, I would'nt neccesarily call it back pedaling but being man
    enough to concede he made a mistake, I admire him for that.

    Thank you. A long time ago my conscience played an evil game with me. I wished someone death and sure enough, they died. I literally said, "God damn it, why won't you just die." Two weeks later, dead. When I made the statement about Rush Limbaugh, it was made without thinking. When someone brought to light my statement, it brought back those memories. My apology was and remains sincere.

    Denn, thank you again.

    And thank you as well:)

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 18:45:00 2021
    Arelor wrote to Dream Master <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Arelor on
    Mon Feb 22 2021 08:10 am

    If a gypsy steals a chicken from you and you complain to police that a "gypsy motherfucker" has stolen a chicken from you, you risk a bigger backslash over racism charges than the thief does over stealing the chick here. So when people gets burnt by stating what they think it is the trut (the thief was a gypsy, and the thief was a motherfucker) they get sore about it.

    I understand the point are you are making, but could we look at it a little differently. Instead of calling the person a "gypsy motherfucker", why don' we simply say that a "gypsy stole a chicken and that motherfucker really pis me off." Changing the word order solves the problem of perceived racism and also makes us look more *hurt* by the theft.


    *THIS* is exactly my point:

    ***My chicken is stolen and the way I complain about it is more
    important than the fact I haven't my chicken back***

    That is what irritates me about these people. They are more concerned
    with how something is portrayed and talked about, than what IS. There
    seems to be almost a mysticism in our society, where if we simply change
    our language, then we change the world. Workplaces police what people
    say, are trying to get people to use this term instead of that, thinking
    that it will significantly change outcomes. This makes how you say
    something be treated as more important than whether something is done
    right.

    You are more likely to be criticised where I work for using the wrong
    language, than in managing a failing process.

    All around us we see things not working, but the blame is passed to
    those who discuss it, as if problems don't come into existence until
    they are mentioned. Immigration problems? Its the fault of people
    bringing them up! Discontent with the ruling elite? Its the fault of
    people saying the system doesn't work!

    What perverted logic.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Denn on Tue Feb 23 18:48:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Gamgee on
    Mon Feb 22 2021 06:52 am

    Ahhhh, so you "didn't mean it", and that makes everything all good
    again. That's a standard leftie backpedal move.

    I don't believe you.

    That's your prerogative, but the fact remains that I don't wish death upon anyone. My initial statement was flawed and you and others brought to light that my words were, in fact, poorly conceived. I am willing to accept my mistake; you may call it backpedaling, I call it correcting a mistake.

    I may dis agree with allot of what Dream Master say's but at least he
    has the courage to accept he said something he regreted, I try to do
    the same, I would'nt neccesarily call it back pedaling but being man enough to concede he made a mistake, I admire him for that.


    Reminds me of this story of some politician or someone who was questioned as to why
    he changed his positions. He replied "When I find out I'm wrong about something, I change my mind. What do you do?"



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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Dream Master on Tue Feb 23 18:54:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on
    Mon Feb 22 2021 11:12 am

    *THIS* is exactly my point:

    ***My chicken is stolen and the way I complain about it is more important than the fact I haven't my chicken back***

    Yet, that's the problem. We, as a people, forget that words do hurt
    and affect others. If your child takes something of yours, are you
    going to say, "You fucking idiot. I can't believe you stole my
    chicken. Give it back to me you fucking retard"? Or, are you going to say, "Why did you take my chicken? Was that the right thing to do?
    Maybe you could've asked instead." Words, they make a whole lot of difference.


    I have children, and if they did something against me, I would not be
    morally ambivalent about it. I think it is disrespectful to someone, to
    expect them NOT to react, to withhold their anger and make the effort
    not to offend me.

    The onus is on me as a person to do right by others. If I don't want
    bad things said about me, I don't steal. I think we make too many
    concessions for bad behaviour, we allow people to take advantage of us.

    Remember, many people will take advantage of you, and if you aren't
    forthright, they'll play that.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to BoonDock on Tue Feb 23 18:56:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on
    Sun Feb 21 2021 08:47:59


    In my opinion, Trump is the result of more than 8 years of Identitary Politics from the left.
    Precisely!

    When you are told to your face that being white, male and straight will
    put you at a disadvantage when going for a job, and that happens a LOT,
    you can understand why people would vote for the guy against that.

    Trump isn't a conservative, he represented a potential force against
    this evil.


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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Tue Feb 23 03:38:06 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Arelor on Mon Feb 22 2021 02:48 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 11:12 am

    *THIS* is exactly my point:

    ***My chicken is stolen and the way I complain about it is more important than the fact I haven't my chicken back***

    Yet, that's the problem. We, as a people, forget that words do hurt and affect others. If your child takes something of
    yours, are you going to say, "You fucking idiot. I can't believe you stole my chicken. Give it back to me you fucking
    retard"? Or, are you going to say, "Why did you take my chicken? Was that the right thing to do? Maybe you could've asked
    instead." Words, they make a whole lot of difference.

    Brian Klauss <-> Dream Master
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    In case I was not clear, Trump was put up there precisely because they would steal your chicken, you would complain, and the
    conversation would degenerate in a blamegame in which you would be blamed for hurting the thief's feelings.

    So you get wronged, then society backs the wrongdoer instead of you. And calls you a racist mysoginist loser whose parents were
    brothers, while they are at it.

    It reminds me of this joke:

    "Knights of the White Flame! Today is the day when we face the Army of Death! Today is the day when we defeat it! Today is the
    day in which we end the Dark Lord's Reign!"

    "Sir, Sir, Stop Racism is suing us because we are saying "Dark Lord" instead of "Lord of Color"!"

    * And darkness took upon the world and every creature perished because the Knights of the White Flame were sent to jail.


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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 09:49:08 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 2021 06:45 pm

    If a gypsy steals a chicken from you and you complain to police that
    a "gypsy motherfucker" has stolen a chicken from you, you risk a

    Because, using slurs indicates a bias that you have against that group. I'm so tired of (usually) white straight men getting upset when "the other" simply asks to be treated with respect. While I agree there are extremes on both sides (including cancel culture), 99% of the time, anyone who is complaining of the 'PC Police' just don't like the fact that they're finally being called out on being an asshole.

    That is what irritates me about these people. They are more concerned
    with how something is portrayed and talked about, than what IS. There

    Because what IS is a lot of systemic racism and part of it is the fact that what is said and how it is said does indeed matter. Systemic racism (and homophobia, and other isms and obias) thrived because people didn't talk about it for so long or when they did they're voiced were suprssed. Now that people are talking about it and calling people out via social media, it's making people uncomfortable and angry. It may not matter to YOU because you are not a member of the group that it matters to. It's as simple as that.

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 09:51:52 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to BoonDock on Tue Feb 23 2021 06:56 pm

    When you are told to your face that being white, male and straight will put you at a disadvantage when going for a job, and that happens a LOT, you can understand why people would vote for the guy against that.

    lol That is the most rediculous thing I have ever heard.

    Yes, white straight men - the most oppressed group! lol

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  • From Dux@VERT/PATHUNKN to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 15:33:52 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Dr. What on Tue Feb 23 2021 01:11 am

    I used to listen to him in high school (because my family was very conservative)

    Same here -- at the time it all felt reasonable, I honestly don't recall the segments about gay folks, AIDS, etc... I assume I was too naive and it just went over my head at the time, instead I only heard the generalized economic/political complaining.

    There's a local conservative AM host that I also listened to ~20 years ago, at the time I felt he made sense, listening to him today it's nauseating. He's overtly hipocrytical and clearly arguing everything from a self-centered and xenophobic position. I can't tell if I changed or he changed -- probably both -- there's no archive of the shows, but he also had a newspaper opinion column, so I suppose I could go back and peruse those.

    These days I try to stay pragmatic -- people should be treated equally, allowed to live their personal lives without judgement, and folks who are disadvantaged should receive a leg up.

    IMHO one of the biggest challenges socities face is how to motivate people to want to work when you have a large segment of the population that are only able/willing to work thankless, tedious, low paying jobs.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 08:12:16 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Dr. What on Tue Feb 23 2021 01:11 am

    ashamed of it now. At the time he said that gays deserved AIDS. After be protested by ACT UP for weeks he eventually pulled it and appologized - but who the fuck even thinks of that? I remember hearing that and being horrified that my friends were laughing.

    I remember hearing about a time in 2010 when Rush was talking with a fake Chinese accent, mocking a Chinese guy.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 08:16:58 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 2021 06:45 pm

    with how something is portrayed and talked about, than what IS. There seems to be almost a mysticism in our society, where if we simply change our language, then we change the world. Workplaces police what people
    say, are trying to get people to use this term instead of that, thinking that it will significantly change outcomes. This makes how you say something be treated as more important than whether something is done right.

    You are more likely to be criticised where I work for using the wrong language, than in managing a failing process.

    George Carlin (comedian) talked about that once. He noted that we think in language, and terms sometimes get changed over the years. He had an example where after World War 1, there was the term "shell shock" to describe the trauma that soldiers faced after battle. Then the term got changed to "battle fatigue", and eventually "post-traummatic stress disorder".

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  • From BoonDock@VERT/GATOFUEG to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 11:32:26 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 2021 09:49:08

    Because, using slurs indicates a bias that you have against that group. I'm so tired of (usually) white straight men getting upset when "the other" simply asks to be treated with respect. While I agree there are extremes on both sides (including cancel culture), 99% of the time, anyone who is complaining of the 'PC Police' just don't like the fact that they're finally being called out on being an asshole.
    Maybe true, for some values of true, but limited.
    With the demise of free speech, the invention of the term "hate speech" and the creeping inclination to believe that "speech is voilence" it's led to MORE bigotry not less. As am exaple, I point you to my home country where there is Affirmative Action to protect the majority from the minority. Where appointments on the basis of race are explicitly permitted, by definition racist, and in fact encouraged. The narrative though is that you cannot be racist if you discriminate against whites. (Plenty of references out there if you want them)

    The ol (classical) liberal ideals, which literally paved the way for the rise of Western Civilisation, are now seen as "conservative" and are bad.
    It amazes me that no-one (on the left) seems to grasp that the politics of identity are the politics of separation and bigotry. They are complete anathema to the concepts on which WC (and the USA Specifically) was founded.
    If there is no *absolute* freedom of speech, association and movement, then you are entering the territory of the oppressor. If you want to know what facism is (note small f) then it's exactly this, one group determining the "correct" way to think, act or speak and imposing it by force on everyone else.
    If you are wondering why there is a general trend towards conservatism, it's because of this. It's the realisation that the so-called *PC Culture*, the *Identity politics* etc is about social control, about power.
    If you want to understand the election in 2016, and most of the events since, then you have to understand this. The "basket of deplorables" have had enough. Enough of being told what to think, how to behave, what they are allowed to teach their children, where and how they are allowed to worship their gods, who they must venerate and who they must denigrate. They are tired of the mob. Not that the ID politics is WRONG intrinsically, but that they are being coerced into these things irrespective of their personal beliefs.
    Used to be a time when we would say things like "I completely disagree, even hate, the things you say, but I will defend with my life your right/ability to say them." When that became "If you say what I don't like, you will be pilloried, doxed, fired and jailed because I don't like what you *said*" that was the final straw for many people, and not just in the USA I assure you.

    Trump might well be a venal, despicable man, but he was the first to stand up and say exactly what he was thnking without fear of the mob. Simply that was enough. I remember that moment in the 2016 campaign when he spoke out about *illegal immigration* nd the press attacked him for being *racist*. When his response was to double down, and point out the hypocrisy, I knew then he would win the nomination.

    I despise racism of all kinds, yet I must celebrate, encourage and propagate racist acts and laws against mine! That's not just no, that's hell no.
    Get this straight, when the left promotes the old ideas of *equal* treatment, and fights against anything that prevents that, then they will regain the moral high ground. That's the opposite of what they want though; they want *special* treatment for each *special* group.

    NO!


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  • From BoonDock@VERT/GATOFUEG to Nightfox on Tue Feb 23 11:38:20 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 2021 08:16:58

    George Carlin (comedian) talked about that once. He noted that we think in language, and terms sometimes get changed over the years. He had an example where after World War 1, there was the term "shell shock" to describe the trauma that soldiers faced after battle. Then the term got changed to "battle fatigue", and eventually "post-traummatic stress disorder".
    That's sorta a bad example. Those terms changed with the evolving understanding of trauma suffered in combat. If you know anything about the field, you'll know that they are not the same thing with different terms, but each is a different diagnosis based on different understanding of mental (and physical) trauma.

    BoonDock



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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Gamgee on Tue Feb 23 07:52:18 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Gamgee to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 08:40 pm

    Not really. You seem to be willing to tolerate fraud and abuse, and I
    am much more against such things. I believe all members of a society (except those who CLEARLY cannot) should be pulling their own weight.
    I think that is a fundamental difference between the two political
    parties. Honestly, I don't want everybody "equal". That removes any incentive to work harder to get ahead, and even the chance that you
    might "hit it big" and become wildly successful. Some of us call that
    The American Dream.

    I decided against block quoting parts of your response as I wanted to say this: I believe you offer valid points that those who choose to abuse the system shouldn't be entitled to the same standard of care that the rest of us *should* get. There is a problem, though, and that is how to define someone who is indeed taking advantage of the system. My example, the lady who would get flown in to receive care for free while I was left on the hook for my daughter's hospitalization, makes me loathe people who sit there, too lazy to do anything, and get free care.

    Let me pause here.

    The compassionate side of me wants to ensure everyone is taken care of whether they can afford it or not. People shouldn't have to go into debt to receive medical care and that medical care should be part of a _standard of care_ that everyone *should* be entitled to.

    The cynical side of me sits here and wishes those who take advantage of the generosity of others, to receive the most basic of care and nothing more. Why? Because we can't have people dropping dead on the streets or in shelters because they aren't getting vaccinated or treated for medical conditions.

    Yes, I hate paying increased premiums because my insurance company feels the need to subsidize lower tier plans offered by mass employers of unskilled laborers, but I also know that they are at least working, trying to make a living, and should have healthcare.

    ...again, my only concern for those that refuse to work not because of disability is that we can't have them dropping dead, infecting others, or becoming even a greater burden on society.

    Unpausing.

    I agree that the ACA was flawed from the start. Medicare is, for all intents, a massive group medical plan. The savings derived from Medicare is due to its scale. The ACA could have easily become part of Medicare and the premiums charged would be more in-line with reality (and affordability). Why the Democrats chose to screw it up and not bring it inline with Medicare is beyond me and reason.

    Oh, well, I see your point and that of others. Hopefully, you see where I'm coming from and why I find it difficult to say "no" to people yet there's a whole part of me that is screaming "NO!!! I'm sick of giving you handouts!!!"

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 14:43:39 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 2021 09:49 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 2021 06:45 pm

    If a gypsy steals a chicken from you and you complain to police that >> a "gypsy motherfucker" has stolen a chicken from you, you risk a

    Because, using slurs indicates a bias that you have against that group. I'm so tired of (usually) white straight men getting upset when "the other" simply asks to be treated with respect. Wh
    I agree there are extremes on both sides (including cancel culture), 99% of the time, anyone who is complaining of the 'PC Police' just don't like the fact that they're finally being called
    on being an asshole.


    At least in Spanish, "gypsy" is no slur. It is an accepted denomination that they themselves use.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Tue Feb 23 15:24:00 2021
    Dream Master wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Not really. You seem to be willing to tolerate fraud and abuse, and I
    am much more against such things. I believe all members of a society (except those who CLEARLY cannot) should be pulling their own weight.
    I think that is a fundamental difference between the two political
    parties. Honestly, I don't want everybody "equal". That removes any incentive to work harder to get ahead, and even the chance that you
    might "hit it big" and become wildly successful. Some of us call that
    The American Dream.

    I decided against block quoting parts of your response as I
    wanted to say this: I believe you offer valid points that those
    who choose to abuse the system shouldn't be entitled to the same
    standard of care that the rest of us *should* get. There is a
    problem, though, and that is how to define someone who is indeed
    taking advantage of the system. My example, the lady who would
    get flown in to receive care for free while I was left on the
    hook for my daughter's hospitalization, makes me loathe people
    who sit there, too lazy to do anything, and get free care.

    Let me pause here.

    The compassionate side of me wants to ensure everyone is taken
    care of whether they can afford it or not. People shouldn't have
    to go into debt to receive medical care and that medical care
    should be part of a _standard of care_ that everyone *should* be
    entitled to.

    The cynical side of me sits here and wishes those who take
    advantage of the generosity of others, to receive the most basic
    of care and nothing more. Why? Because we can't have people
    dropping dead on the streets or in shelters because they aren't
    getting vaccinated or treated for medical conditions.

    Yes, I hate paying increased premiums because my insurance
    company feels the need to subsidize lower tier plans offered by
    mass employers of unskilled laborers, but I also know that they
    are at least working, trying to make a living, and should have
    healthcare.

    ...again, my only concern for those that refuse to work not
    because of disability is that we can't have them dropping dead,
    infecting others, or becoming even a greater burden on society.

    Unpausing.

    I agree that the ACA was flawed from the start. Medicare is, for
    all intents, a massive group medical plan. The savings derived
    from Medicare is due to its scale. The ACA could have easily
    become part of Medicare and the premiums charged would be more
    in-line with reality (and affordability). Why the Democrats
    chose to screw it up and not bring it inline with Medicare is
    beyond me and reason.

    Oh, well, I see your point and that of others. Hopefully, you
    see where I'm coming from and why I find it difficult to say "no"
    to people yet there's a whole part of me that is screaming "NO!!!
    I'm sick of giving you handouts!!!"

    I don't really have the energy to comment on this one any further. I do
    see your points, and am glad that you can see mine to some extent. I
    suspect you have a little more compassion for others than I do, perhaps
    it's one of my flaws. If there was a way to provide basic/reasonable healthcare for freeloaders, I wouldn't be against that in principle, I
    just dislike being FORCED to pay for them if I don't want to. Again I
    want to stress that I know there is a difference between freeloaders and
    those who really do need help. I believe it is possible to
    differentiate between the two, and that we could do that if we wanted
    to. It would cost money to do, but probably much less than is being
    wasted by the current system. So it would be a win-win if politicians
    on both sides would just do it.



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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 12:53:38 2021
    On 2/22/2021 11:32 PM, nolageek wrote:

    The US doesn't have much a far left - other countries have far
    left parties that advocate for the complete abolition of private
    property and religion.

    Have you not paid *any* attention to Seattle or Portland areas this
    past year?
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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 13:00:54 2021
    On 2/23/2021 7:49 AM, nolageek wrote:

    Because what IS is a lot of systemic racism and part of it is the
    fact that what is said and how it is said does indeed matter.
    Systemic racism (and homophobia, and other isms and obias) ...

    My biggest issue with that terminology, is that "systemic" has a
    meaning, and it's not the way it's being applied, with no evidence.
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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Nightfox on Tue Feb 23 15:31:57 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 2021 08:16 am

    example where after World War 1, there was the term "shell shock" to describe the trauma that soldiers faced after battle. Then the term got changed to "battle fatigue", and eventually "post-traummatic stress disorder".

    Yea. My Dr. called it severe "panic disorder". No govt. checks for it, but when you are in the armed services they call it "post-traummatic stress disorder and you get govt. checks and more. Think somethings wrong with "the system"?? So what's in a name? That was 35 years ago. I hope things have changed but I'll be it hasn't.

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  • From BoonDock@VERT/GATOFUEG to HusTler on Tue Feb 23 18:10:28 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: HusTler to Nightfox on Tue Feb 23 2021 15:31:57

    Yea. My Dr. called it severe "panic disorder". No govt. checks for it, but when you are in the armed services they call it "post-traummatic stress disorder and you get govt. checks and more. Think somethings wrong with "the system"?? So what's in a name? That was 35 years ago. I hope things have changed but I'll be it hasn't.
    Check the DSVIV and DSVV. In the IV version, PTSD was defined so broadly that people who were shouted at too loudly could be diagnosed with it (OK, a little bit of hyperbole). The new one is supposed to correct that somewhat with a seperate diagnoses reserved for "... as a result of sustained exposure to combat ..."

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 17:31:12 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Dr. What on Tue Feb 23 2021 01:11 am

    ashamed of it now. At the time he said that gays deserved AIDS. After be protested by ACT UP for weeks he eventually pulled it and appologized - but who the fuck even thinks of that? I remember hearing that and being horrified that my friends were laughing.

    well, at the time gays were extremely promiscuous and didnt care about STDS. they had a pill for most things so they behaved in that manner. in a way, aids was natures check and balance.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 17:31:56 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Denn on Tue Feb 23 2021 01:32 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 10:43 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    No, you really see the world from a far leftist point of view.

    The US doesn't have much a far left - other countries have far left parties that advocate for the complete abolition of private property and religion. Here our radical "far left" has been asking police to not murder people for decades, recently starting kneeling during sportsball games, and asking politicians to not let people in poverty die from lack of healthcare.

    that's an interesting but incorrect assesment of politics
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 17:37:38 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 2021 09:49 am


    If a gypsy steals a chicken from you and you complain to police that >> a "gypsy motherfucker" has stolen a chicken from you, you risk a

    Because, using slurs indicates a bias that you have against that group. I'm so tired of (usually) white straight men getting upset when "the other"


    it's not a 'slur', it's a descriptor.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 17:38:45 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 2021 09:51 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to BoonDock on Tue Feb 23 2021 06:56 pm

    When you are told to your face that being white, male and straight will put you at a disadvantage when going for a job, and that happens a LOT, you can understand why people would vote for the guy against that.

    lol That is the most rediculous thing I have ever heard.


    actually, that's true. there's nothing worse than being a straight white man in today's society. you cant do nothing right. it's being a second class citizen.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Tue Feb 23 17:39:26 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 08:12 am

    appologized - but who the fuck even thinks of that? I remember hearing that and being horrified that my friends were laughing.

    I remember hearing about a time in 2010 when Rush was talking with a fake Chinese accent, mocking a Chinese guy.

    yeah he probably did that. he was a shock jock.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Tracker1 on Tue Feb 23 17:40:29 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Tracker1 to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 12:53 pm

    On 2/22/2021 11:32 PM, nolageek wrote:

    The US doesn't have much a far left - other countries have far
    left parties that advocate for the complete abolition of private
    property and religion.

    Have you not paid *any* attention to Seattle or Portland areas this
    past year?

    he's a fucking canadian. he doesnt know shit like most canadians that come here.
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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 18:02:38 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 02:43 pm

    At least in Spanish, "gypsy" is no slur. It is an accepted denomination that they themselves use.

    'Gypsy' is considered derogatory by some members of the Romani people (the Roma) and has been for as long as I can remember. I think it can be used as a generic traveling person as well but was eventually used to refer to them specifically - I honestly don't know the history of the word, but I stopped saying it once I heard that (not that I ever said it to begin with.) It's a weird word for the OP to use, since it doesn't come up in conversation that often here, I can only assume they were speaking from experience when they had called someone a 'gypsy motherfucker' and was called out for it (and perhaps, rightly so - I don't know.)

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Dux on Tue Feb 23 18:06:56 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dux to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 03:33 pm

    IMHO one of the biggest challenges socities face is how to motivate people to want to work when you have a large segment of the population that are only able/willing to work thankless, tedious, low paying jobs.

    Easy, thank them, make it easier for them, and pay them more.

    As we have seen over the past year - we rely on these folks that work these thankless, tedious, and low paying jobs far more than we care to admit.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DENN on Tue Feb 23 16:57:00 2021
    I have in the past split my ticket between Dems and Reps, but the left has
    just gone batshit crazy these last four years, If I vote for a Dem now my vote >is literally thrown away.
    So now I have to take a chance that the Repulican isn't a rino.

    I have also. There are some local candidates that I like. There used to
    even be some US House/Senate candidates that I liked. Any more, the
    national level machine has been standing up the Democrat candidates for KY
    in those races also. Their values more mirror the DNC than the local
    party so, even if I don't like one of our senators or my rep, unless a third-party candidate runs and sounds reasonable, I wind up voting for the incumbent R.

    There once was a time I would not vote for McConnell but the candidates the
    DNC and the D voters in Louisville manage to get nominated have not lately
    been people I could ever vote for.


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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Gamgee on Tue Feb 23 16:19:06 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Gamgee to Dream Master on Tue Feb 23 2021 03:24 pm

    I don't really have the energy to comment on this one any further. I do
    see your points, and am glad that you can see mine to some extent. I suspect you have a little more compassion for others than I do, perhaps
    it's one of my flaws. If there was a way to provide basic/reasonable healthcare for freeloaders, I wouldn't be against that in principle, I
    just dislike being FORCED to pay for them if I don't want to. Again I
    want to stress that I know there is a difference between freeloaders and those who really do need help. I believe it is possible to
    differentiate between the two, and that we could do that if we wanted
    to. It would cost money to do, but probably much less than is being
    wasted by the current system. So it would be a win-win if politicians
    on both sides would just do it.

    We're good. I think I'm officially done writing for the day. :)

    I do have a lot of compassion for people... that's another story for another day.

    Have a great day!!!

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Boraxman on Tue Feb 23 19:04:07 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Sprite on Sat Feb 20 2021 11:15:00

    The irony of opening up a reply by accusing someone you dont know of being a bigot,
    simply because you found they listen to some particular radio show
    host.

    It is ironic, but I've yet to find a case where it doesn't apply. Please note that I'm not talking about just idle listening to, btw... I'm talking about the ones that are really fans...
    Let's not forget, this guy had a segment call the 'AIDS Update' which mocked the deaths of gay people. It's not hard to see that a fan of that is probably going to have some homophogic tendencies, as an example of very similar logic.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Denn on Tue Feb 23 19:07:39 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Sprite on Sat Feb 20 2021 00:34:51

    Rush wasn't a hate monger, Everything he said he backed up.
    Most of what you said is unintelligible, makes no sense.
    It's always people like you that call others bigot's that are the real bigot

    Like the AIDS Updates? How did he back up pulling up that information and making fun of their excruciating deaths?
    BTW: Pluralization doesn't come with apostrophes. I'll refrain from making any guesses about baseline education here, though...

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Dream Master on Tue Feb 23 19:08:41 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Sprite on Fri Feb 19 2021 23:35:33

    The best thing that happened to America this week was the death of Rush Limbaugh. His rhetoric was trash and what he did to the Republican Party created the Trump Train.

    Amen to that, brutha.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 19:12:04 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Denn on Sat Feb 20 2021 05:52:30

    He is a troll. He obviously posted what he posted as a provocation, and he knows it. He pretty much has admitted he expected "interesting" replites.

    Look, in general, no, I'm not a troll.
    In this circumstance, however, I most certainly fall under that definition. It's not just for pointless 'lulz', though. I'm doing it with a purpose. I'm goading prejudiced, homophobic, closed-minded, and poorly educated folks into identifying themselves. Hell I think that should get me points for selfless service. I take the hits because I'm the one being the 'big mean nasty troll', and the whole community gets to benefit because they can see which users like to judge their fellow human beings on superficial and genetic differences instead of their inherent qualities as a human being.
    You're welcome.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Denn on Tue Feb 23 19:19:15 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Arelor on Sat Feb 20 2021 10:36:58

    True he really makes little to no sense in his post's
    He should go back to being a twitter troll.

    I can't fit my nonsense into those little blubs. My lack of logic in posting usually requires that people be able to follow point A to B and then C. Simply not enough room on twitter for that.
    That being said, it does make a great forum for people that can't
    manage to follow point A the next points down the line, though. I mean don't get me wrong, there are some valid uses for it, but social discourse? Not so much.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Feb 23 19:23:33 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Sprite on Sat Feb 20 2021 07:42:00

    I need to check Diaspora out again. I've been playing on Mastodon, but I can never seem to spell it correctly and end up on a clickbait site. :(

    It's be nice to find an alternative social platform and get all of the BBS traffic off of Facebook.

    Well, I have liked it more than the other major players in the fediverse for a long time, but a recent spat with developers has made me wonder if its time isn't coming to an end. I'm starting to think that mastodon may have a brighter future ahead of it. I haven't really checked it out that much yet, but I've got active fediverse friends nagging me incesantly to check it out. Er maybe it was 'pleroma' I was thinking of, not mastodon. I'm not sure.
    Regardless, if you're interested in checking out diaspora, a lot of the publicly open pods suffer from some pretty bad lag issues. Let me know if you'd like an account on my own pod, I can hook you up with one to check it out on.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Denn on Tue Feb 23 19:27:53 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 20 2021 13:58:16

    and mean spirited, from the so called party of tollerance.

    When the hell did I say I was backing the other party? You guys are so damn black and white with your thinking...
    When it comes down to ideals and methods of governance, I think that the left holds a little more wisdom than the right. I think that the right is there to make the rich richer primarily. Unfortunately that ethos has infected both parties for quite some time now. I'd go for democratic ideals, but I don't see them reflected in any of the candidates that has won or has a chance of winning in the future. They're both as corrupt as can be. The only difference is that the left tries to uphold a _little_ bit of compassion and human decency on the way down, while the right just greases the skids to get to the bottom.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Vague on Tue Feb 23 19:38:53 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Vague to Gamgee on Sat Feb 20 2021 21:00:00

    I mean... Rush did a segments on his shows mocking people who died of AIDS a also continually said school shooting were faked hoaxes.

    Crap, I was just using the AIDS segment as an example of what a piece of shit he was for all of my replies here... Now I'm going to be accused of having gotten that from you, probably. ;)
    I guess I could fall back on some quotes of his:
    * The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
    * They\u2019re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
    * [To an African American female caller]: \u201cTake that bone out of your nose and call me back.\u201d

    I could go on, but I won't.
    I'm glad that someone else knew offhand about the AIDS segment, at least. Some of the shit he did on that show was so morally repugnant it was absurd. People drawn to that kind of rhetoric remind me more than anything of dogs smelling each others' shit.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 20:53:44 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 2021 06:02 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 02:43 pm

    At least in Spanish, "gypsy" is no slur. It is an accepted denomination that they themselves use.

    'Gypsy' is considered derogatory by some members of the Romani people (the Roma) and has been for as long as I can remember. I think it can be used as

    is that what fucking wikipedia told you?
    you dont know anything. my family were gypsies over there and some of them are american gypsies. there's nothing derogatory about it.

    go back to your liberal reddit.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 20:54:52 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Dux on Tue Feb 23 2021 06:06 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dux to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 03:33 pm

    IMHO one of the biggest challenges socities face is how to motivate people to want to work when you have a large segment of the population that are only able/willing to work thankless, tedious, low paying jobs.

    Easy, thank them, make it easier for them, and pay them more.

    nobody wants thanks, they want more money. if they work thankless tedious jobs they can work their way up in the ranks like i have.

    some of these people you think are beneath you actually make more money than you. restaurant servers can make a lot of money for example.
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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 21:56:00 2021
    nolageek wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Arelor on
    Tue Feb 23 2021 06:45 pm

    If a gypsy steals a chicken from you and you complain to police that
    a "gypsy motherfucker" has stolen a chicken from you, you risk a

    Because, using slurs indicates a bias that you have against that group. I'm so tired of (usually) white straight men getting upset when "the other" simply asks to be treated with respect. While I agree there are extremes on both sides (including cancel culture), 99% of the time,
    anyone who is complaining of the 'PC Police' just don't like the fact
    that they're finally being called out on being an asshole.

    That is what irritates me about these people. They are more concerned
    with how something is portrayed and talked about, than what IS. There

    Because what IS is a lot of systemic racism and part of it is the fact that what is said and how it is said does indeed matter. Systemic
    racism (and homophobia, and other isms and obias) thrived because
    people didn't talk about it for so long or when they did they're voiced were suprssed. Now that people are talking about it and calling people
    out via social media, it's making people uncomfortable and angry. It
    may not matter to YOU because you are not a member of the group that it matters to. It's as simple as that.

    I am from an 'immigrant background', but the racists don't give me full credit for that because I'm European. You see, my race determines my status in Western countries. How's that for "systemic racism". We live in a world where we have diveristy quotes, these rely on discriminating and categorising people by race, and making a heirachy that way. That is systemic racism. All that changed is the order of the heirarchy.

    The "anti-racists" are the most racist of all. So forgive me if I couldn't give a damn because some tradesperson made a comment in a pub, because while he does that, compaines like Coca-Cola attribute negative attributes to being "white". My children, because they are "white" will have disadvantages because their race is not considered "diverse" (despite having parents from two different cultural backgrounds).

    There is still bigotry and classification of people, ALWAYS WAS.

    Besides, why is having a polyglot, melting pot an achievement in the first place? It seems to be just ASSUMED that the goal of society should be maximum inclusion, but why? It's another baseless, modernist value with no real meaning, and frankly, wearing thin. A false vision and more poison espoused by nations which are sliding toward third world status.

    History will look on these ideals as those which contributed to the downfall.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 22:00:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to BoonDock on
    Tue Feb 23 2021 06:56 pm

    When you are told to your face that being white, male and straight will put you at a disadvantage when going for a job, and that happens a LOT, you can understand why people would vote for the guy against that.

    lol That is the most rediculous thing I have ever heard.

    Yes, white straight men - the most oppressed group! lol

    Its' literally company policy in many places to have quotas, which forces them to select against men.

    My choice is very clear. If we are going to have discrimination, why should I support that which works agiainst me, instead of that which benefits me?

    Hmm, tell me, why should I support this? Why should I cheer on something that doesn't benefit me?

    Do you think I'm a bloody idiot? Do you think that I'm just going to accept puttiny myself and my children at a disadvantage, because you think so? Because of YOUR moral code?

    NO!


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Nightfox on Tue Feb 23 22:03:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Arelor on
    Tue Feb 23 2021 06:45 pm

    with how something is portrayed and talked about, than what IS. There seems to be almost a mysticism in our society, where if we simply change our language, then we change the world. Workplaces police what people
    say, are trying to get people to use this term instead of that, thinking that it will significantly change outcomes. This makes how you say something be treated as more important than whether something is done right.

    You are more likely to be criticised where I work for using the wrong language, than in managing a failing process.

    George Carlin (comedian) talked about that once. He noted that we
    think in language, and terms sometimes get changed over the years. He
    had an example where after World War 1, there was the term "shell
    shock" to describe the trauma that soldiers faced after battle. Then
    the term got changed to "battle fatigue", and eventually
    "post-traummatic stress disorder".

    Not quite analogous. George was referring to how the terminology changed to become more and more accurate, to more and more reflect reality as we learned more.

    What I'm talking about, is people changing the terms to try and change reality.
    Its in fact the opposite. ITs like people saying "call it shell shock instead of PTSD so we don't stigmatise people and help them recover".

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to BoonDock on Tue Feb 23 22:14:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Boraxman on
    Tue Feb 23 2021 09:49:08

    Because, using slurs indicates a bias that you have against that group. I'm so tired of (usually) white straight men getting upset when "the other" simply asks to be treated with respect. While I agree there are extremes on both sides (including cancel culture), 99% of the time, anyone who is complaining of the 'PC Police' just don't like the fact that they're finally being called out on being an asshole.
    Maybe true, for some values of true, but limited.
    With the demise of free speech, the invention of the term "hate speech" and the creeping inclination to believe that "speech is voilence" it's
    led to MORE bigotry not less. As am exaple, I point you to my home
    country where there is Affirmative Action to protect the majority from
    the minority. Where appointments on the basis of race are explicitly permitted, by definition racist, and in fact encouraged. The narrative though is that you cannot be racist if you discriminate against whites. (Plenty of references out there if you want them)

    The ol (classical) liberal ideals, which literally paved the way for
    the rise of Western Civilisation, are now seen as "conservative" and
    are bad. It amazes me that no-one (on the left) seems to grasp that the politics of identity are the politics of separation and bigotry. They
    are complete anathema to the concepts on which WC (and the USA Specifically) was founded. If there is no *absolute* freedom of speech, association and movement, then you are entering the territory of the oppressor. If you want to know what facism is (note small f) then it's exactly this, one group determining the "correct" way to think, act or speak and imposing it by force on everyone else. If you are wondering
    why there is a general trend towards conservatism, it's because of
    this. It's the realisation that the so-called *PC Culture*, the
    *Identity politics* etc is about social control, about power. If you
    want to understand the election in 2016, and most of the events since, then you have to understand this. The "basket of deplorables" have had enough. Enough of being told what to think, how to behave, what they
    are allowed to teach their children, where and how they are allowed to worship their gods, who they must venerate and who they must denigrate. They are tired of the mob. Not that the ID politics is WRONG intrinsically, but that they are being coerced into these things irrespective of their personal beliefs. Used to be a time when we would say things like "I completely disagree, even hate, the things you say,
    but I will defend with my life your right/ability to say them." When
    that became "If you say what I don't like, you will be pilloried,
    doxed, fired and jailed because I don't like what you *said*" that was
    the final straw for many people, and not just in the USA I assure you.

    Trump might well be a venal, despicable man, but he was the first to
    stand up and say exactly what he was thnking without fear of the mob. Simply that was enough. I remember that moment in the 2016 campaign
    when he spoke out about *illegal immigration* nd the press attacked him for being *racist*. When his response was to double down, and point out the hypocrisy, I knew then he would win the nomination.

    I despise racism of all kinds, yet I must celebrate, encourage and propagate racist acts and laws against mine! That's not just no, that's hell no. Get this straight, when the left promotes the old ideas of *equal* treatment, and fights against anything that prevents that, then they will regain the moral high ground. That's the opposite of what
    they want though; they want *special* treatment for each *special*
    group.

    NO!


    Well said. But I don't think it is possible to be neutral. The Western/American push against racism was ALWAYS racialised. Conservatives were the ones who bought the lie, that you could have post-racial, propositional state. Anti-racists never believed it, they lied the whole time.

    As Gerald Celente said, Liberals lie, Conservatives believe.

    There is I think no way for a "diverse" population not to be heavily mired in identity politics. The only real struggle, is who dominates. And if you think you don't have to play the game, you'll end up the loser.

    You can tell that people were naive, because they think this type of identity politics is new.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Dream Master on Tue Feb 23 20:59:36 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Arelor on Mon Feb 22 2021 08:10:33

    I understand the point are you are making, but could we look at it a little differently. Instead of calling the person a "gypsy motherfucker", why don' we simply say that a "gypsy stole a chicken and that motherfucker really pis me off." Changing the word order solves the problem of perceived racism and also makes us look more *hurt* by the theft.

    Bingo.
    Gypsy can be used impartially as a description, adding to the facts of the matter. When you call them a 'gypsy motherfucker' you are adding a negative conotation to your view on the word gypsy. People that saw it happen, people that you know and that like you, and others finding your side of things more plausible are going to, at times, adopt this 'gypsy motherfucker' point of view and it begins to look like the important part of that sentence was 'gypsy' not 'stole'. It's divisive. It slanders a group of people that did not sanction the actions of this one individual.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 21:03:50 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 11:12:08

    I understand the point are you are making, but could we look at it a litt differently. Instead of calling the person a "gypsy motherfucker", why d we simply say that a "gypsy stole a chicken and that motherfucker really me off." Changing the word order solves the problem of perceived racism also makes us look more *hurt* by the theft.


    *THIS* is exactly my point:

    ***My chicken is stolen and the way I complain about it is more important th the fact I haven't my chicken back***

    No. You should get your damn chicken back. Just don't be surprised when people assume that you're a bigot because of the way your words were ordered.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Denn on Tue Feb 23 21:06:44 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 13:20:29

    courage to accept he said something he regreted, I try to do the same, I would'nt neccesarily call it back pedaling but being man enough to concede h made a mistake, I admire him for that.

    Indeed. It takes a bigger man to admit a mistake and move on accepting that 'scarlet letter' than to pretend it never happened or use some diversionary tactic. Integrity is a good thing.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to MRO on Wed Feb 24 00:57:53 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Tue Feb 23 2021 05:39 pm

    appologized - but who the fuck even thinks of that? I remember
    hearing that and being horrified that my friends were laughing.

    I remember hearing about a time in 2010 when Rush was talking with a
    fake Chinese accent, mocking a Chinese guy.

    yeah he probably did that. he was a shock jock.

    Rush always used absurdity to get his point across, If you didn't listen to his whole show you could easily twist his point.
    As for the guy who called Rush a racist, they should see what James Golden A.K.A (Bo Snerdly) the Black man that worked as his call screener for so many years had to say about Rush.
    I'll let the reader look it up for themselves.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dumas Walker on Wed Feb 24 01:05:08 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dumas Walker to DENN on Tue Feb 23 2021 04:57 pm

    I have in the past split my ticket between Dems and Reps, but the left
    has just gone batshit crazy these last four years, If I vote for a Dem
    now my vote is literally thrown away.
    So now I have to take a chance that the Repulican isn't a rino.

    I have also. There are some local candidates that I like. There used to even be some US House/Senate candidates that I liked. Any more, the national level machine has been standing up the Democrat candidates for KY in those races also. Their values more mirror the DNC than the local
    party so, even if I don't like one of our senators or my rep, unless a third-party candidate runs and sounds reasonable, I wind up voting for the incumbent R.

    There once was a time I would not vote for McConnell but the candidates the DNC and the D voters in Louisville manage to get nominated have not lately been people I could ever vote for.

    It's a shame that olny people that party leaders push get into office.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Sprite on Wed Feb 24 07:24:37 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Sprite to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 2021 09:03 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 11:12:08

    I understand the point are you are making, but could we look at it a litt
    differently. Instead of calling the person a "gypsy motherfucker", why d we
    simply say that a "gypsy stole a chicken and that motherfucker really me off
    Changing the word order solves the problem of perceived racism also makes us
    look more *hurt* by the theft.


    *THIS* is exactly my point:

    ***My chicken is stolen and the way I complain about it is more important th the
    fact I haven't my chicken back***

    No. You should get your damn chicken back. Just don't be surprised when peopl
    assume that you're a bigot because of the way your words were ordered.


    But here is the thing:

    If it is a "fucking kid" who steals your chicken, nobody accuses you of anything
    despite the fact you are (according to your logic) throwing shit gainst kids.

    If it is a doctor, or the guy from the next village, nobody accuses you of anything.

    My theory is that this is so because kids or guys from the next village don't have
    political or mediatic power enough to enforce their will the same way certain ethnic
    groups do. Which leads me to believe it is not a race struggle at all buan old good
    powergrab.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Boraxman on Wed Feb 24 08:12:02 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Nightfox on Tue Feb 23 2021 10:03 pm

    George Carlin (comedian) talked about that once. He noted that we
    think in language, and terms sometimes get changed over the years.
    He had an example where after World War 1, there was the term "shell
    shock" to describe the trauma that soldiers faced after battle.
    Then the term got changed to "battle fatigue", and eventually
    "post-traummatic stress disorder".

    Not quite analogous. George was referring to how the terminology changed to become more and more accurate, to more and more reflect reality as we learned more.

    Actually, from what I remember, George Carlin was trying to say they were trying to take the humanity out of the terminology, making it sound less urgent of an issue, or something to that effect.

    What I'm talking about, is people changing the terms to try and change reality.
    Its in fact the opposite. ITs like people saying "call it shell shock instead of PTSD so we don't stigmatise people and help them recover".

    I think part of George Carlin's point was trying to change terms to try to change reality (because people think in language).

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Tracker1 on Wed Feb 24 08:15:25 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Tracker1 to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 12:53 pm

    The US doesn't have much a far left - other countries have far
    left parties that advocate for the complete abolition of private
    property and religion.

    Have you not paid *any* attention to Seattle or Portland areas this
    past year?

    I think what he's saying is that the far left in the US is nothing compared to the far left in other countries.

    Nightfox

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  • From BoonDock@VERT/GATOFUEG to Nightfox on Wed Feb 24 13:09:28 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Wed Feb 24 2021 08:12:02

    Actually, from what I remember, George Carlin was trying to say they were trying to take the humanity out of the terminology, making it sound less urgent of an issue, or something to that effect.

    If that's true, then George Carlin was wrong.

    The three terms have some overlapping issues, but refer to different things. For example, "shell-shock" is used currently. It refers primarily to the physical effects. Things like being caught in a concussive blast and suffering TBI and various other damage from the blast wave. Experienced often from people caught in IEDs etc. There are associated mental issues, so it's quite likely that someone with "shell-shock" will ALSO have PTSD.

    BoonDock

    PS: I'm a Qualified IEDD Operator (EOD). I deployed as "Combat Demolitions Team Leader" with the SA Army as part of the Force Intervention Brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of the United Nations mission there in 2013.

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Nightfox on Wed Feb 24 14:02:58 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Wed Feb 24 2021 08:12 am

    I think part of George Carlin's point was trying to change terms to try to change reality (because people think in language).

    I mean, that was his point, but it's misguided. Terms change as our understanding changes. As we understood "shell shock" was never the medical terminology and it really relates to multiple conditions. So we normalized using the proper name for those conditions (adding new ones as they were diagnosed.) Science changes, terms changes, language changes. What is commonly used now will seem outdated in a few years, in many cases even less time. This notion that is pushed by the right that language doesn't change, or that it doesn't matter is absurd. At best it's just them resisting the fact that their status quo is no longer that, at worst it's them clutching their pearls over being told they shouldn't say the n word, or call people retarded anymore.

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to BoonDock on Wed Feb 24 14:05:06 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: BoonDock to Nightfox on Wed Feb 24 2021 01:09 pm

    If that's true, then George Carlin was wrong.

    The three terms have some overlapping issues, but refer to different things. For example, "shell-shock" is used currently. It refers primarily to the physical effects. Things like being caught in a concussive blast and suffering TBI and various other damage from the blast wave.

    PS: I'm a Qualified IEDD Operator (EOD). I deployed as "Combat Demolitions Team Leader" with the SA Army as part of the Force Intervention Brigade in

    Thank you for your service and for explaining this better than I was able to, or would ever be able to. :)

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Denn on Wed Feb 24 14:14:47 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 20 2021 01:58 pm

    and mean spirited, from the so called party of tollerance.

    This notion that this left is the "party of tolerance' is a right wing fabrication and psychobabble (to use a phrase of Rush Limbaugh).

    Google the tolerance paradox.

    It is perfectly acceptable to not tolerate intolerance.

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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to MRO on Wed Feb 24 16:11:31 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Tue Feb 23 2021 05:39 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 08:12 am

    appologized - but who the fuck even thinks of that? I remember hearing that and being horrified that my friends were laughing.

    I remember hearing about a time in 2010 when Rush was talking with a fake Chinese accent, mocking a Chinese guy.

    yeah he probably did that. he was a shock jock.

    You mean like any other radio personality or comedy show like South Park?

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Boraxman on Wed Feb 24 16:17:27 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 10:00 pm


    Yes, white straight men - the most oppressed group! lol

    Its' literally company policy in many places to have quotas, which forces them to select against men.


    this dude doesnt even have a real job.
    Do you think I'm a bloody idiot? Do you think that I'm just going to accept puttiny myself and my children at a disadvantage, because you think so? Because of YOUR moral code?

    NO!

    like i said he's an idiot gay dude from canada who plays little kids games. probably a pedo too.
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 16:55:28 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Denn on Wed Feb 24 2021 02:14 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 20 2021 01:58 pm

    and mean spirited, from the so called party of tollerance.

    This notion that this left is the "party of tolerance' is a right wing fabrication and psychobabble (to use a phrase of Rush Limbaugh).

    Google the tolerance paradox.

    It is perfectly acceptable to not tolerate intolerance.

    |01-|03nolageek


    "Intolerance" being defined as "Position held by people who does not sympathise with my party."

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  • From Vague@VERT/VAGUEBBS to Sprite on Wed Feb 24 18:49:00 2021
    Sprite wrote to Vague <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Vague to Gamgee on Sat Feb 20 2021 21:00:00

    I mean... Rush did a segments on his shows mocking people who died of AIDS a also continually said school shooting were faked hoaxes.

    Crap, I was just using the AIDS segment as an example of what a
    piece of shit he was for all of my replies here... Now I'm going to be accused of having gotten that from you, probably. ;)
    I guess I could fall back on some quotes of his:
    * The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
    * They\u2019re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
    * [To an African American female caller]: \u201cTake that bone out of your nose and call me back.\u201d

    I could go on, but I won't.
    I'm glad that someone else knew offhand about the AIDS segment, at least. Some of the shit he did on that show was so morally repugnant it was absurd. People drawn to that kind of rhetoric remind me more than anything of dogs smelling each others' shit.

    One Hell just isn't enough for that fuckface. They're gonna have to send him to Chinese Hells. Just when he gets used to the Hell of Being Boiled Alive they take him to the Hell of Drowning Upside-Down In A Pool Of Excrement. Next is the Hell of Continual Hunger And The Only Food Is Your Own Dick.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DENN on Wed Feb 24 17:48:00 2021
    There once was a time I would not vote for McConnell but the candidates the DNC and the D voters in Louisville manage to get nominated have not lately been people I could ever vote for.

    It's a shame that olny people that party leaders push get into office.

    I guess they get the most financial backing from the big wigs. :(


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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 16:17:17 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to BoonDock on Wed Feb 24 2021 02:05 pm

    PS: I'm a Qualified IEDD Operator (EOD). I deployed as "Combat Demolitions Team Leader" with the SA Army as part of the Force Intervention Brigade in

    Thank you for your service and for explaining this better than I was able to, or would ever be able to. :)

    One of my very close friends served pretty much 20 years between the Army and Navy. While in the Army, not only did he see his friends torn to shreds through gunfire but also IEDs and other incendiary weapons. His PTSD is horrible and worse leading up to and following Independence Day. At night he'll go home, pillow-up his windows, put on headphones, and close his eyes trying to sleep. It is truly insane. He's recounted some of the stories and it's a sad testament to our country where they effectively ignore these *inside* and *mental* traumas. Luckily, as more and more people come back from our never ending wars, it is forcing more people, businesses, and medical professionals to treat the unseen conditions.

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Nightfox on Wed Feb 24 16:35:15 2021
    On 2/24/2021 9:15 AM, Nightfox wrote:
    The US doesn't have much a far left - other countries have far
    left parties that advocate for the complete abolition of private
    property and religion.

    Have you not paid *any* attention to Seattle or Portland areas
    this past year?

    I think what he's saying is that the far left in the US is
    nothing compared to the far left in other countries.

    My point was there are plenty of far left in the US who believe
    and advocate for the things mentioned, including identity value,
    segregation and racial profiling.
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  • From BoonDock@VERT/GATOFUEG to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 23:48:31 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to BoonDock on Wed Feb 24 2021 14:05:06

    Thank you for your service and for explaining this better than I was able to, or would ever be able to. :)
    Pleasure. I'm no medical professional, but have suffered both.

    BTW, the US thing about saying "thank you for your service", while the sentiment is appreciated, it feels kinda uncomfortable. I did what I did and don't *need* to be thanked.

    BoonDock


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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Arelor on Thu Feb 25 00:25:35 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Sprite on Wed Feb 24 2021 07:24 am

    If it is a "fucking kid" who steals your chicken, nobody accuses you of anything despite the fact you are (according to your logic) throwing shit gainst kids.

    I guess I'm gonna bite this piece of troll meat, because why not.

    Because "kid" isn't a slur. If you were to say "that fucking ______ kid stole my chicken" w(here you fill in the blank with a chosen slur), it signals that part of the reason you're mad is because of the adjective you included because otherwise you would would not have used it.

    I really want to know what's so great about your chickens.

    |01-|03nolageek


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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Arelor on Thu Feb 25 00:33:22 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 2021 04:55 pm

    "Intolerance" being defined as "Position held by people who does not sympathise with my party."

    Well, that's the definition the right chooses to use when applying it to the left.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to BoonDock on Thu Feb 25 00:36:09 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: BoonDock to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 2021 11:48 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to BoonDock on Wed Feb 24 2021 14:05:06

    Thank you for your service and for explaining this better than I was able to, or would ever be able to. :)
    Pleasure. I'm no medical professional, but have suffered both.

    BTW, the US thing about saying "thank you for your service", while the sentiment is appreciated, it feels kinda uncomfortable. I did what I did and don't *need* to be thanked.


    yeah i think the thank you for your service thing is stupid and i dont know where it started.

    this guy nolageek is a canadian, though.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to BlaZ on Tue Feb 23 06:10:00 2021
    BlaZ wrote to All <=-

    All I wanted to add to the whole Rush Limbaugh conversation is... the
    guy was an incredible broadcaster. Anybody who doesn't realize that
    could never do what Rush did every day. Try to talk non-stop for 10 minutes. He did it for 3 hours.

    Including a period of time when he'd lost his hearing. His show suffered,
    with him lacking the auditory cues of what his caller was saying, but he had enough momentum to power through.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to BlaZ on Tue Feb 23 06:12:00 2021
    BlaZ wrote to All <=-

    So out of those billions of words you found a few you could use to hate him? Ehhh. Seems silly. The guy was good at what he did, and it will
    be hard to replace him.

    I'd never heard the percentage-of-words ratio used as a measure of good.
    I hope I never do again, or to hear someone speak of a death rate as a percentage of population as "acceptable".


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 06:17:00 2021
    Arelor wrote to Dream Master <=-

    In case I was not clear, Trump was put up there precisely because they would steal your chicken, you would complain, and the conversation
    would degenerate in a blamegame in which you would be blamed for hurting the thief's feelings.

    So you get wronged, then society backs the wrongdoer instead of you.
    And calls you a racist mysoginist loser whose parents were brothers,
    while they are at it.

    And then, conservatives counter with DARVO.

    Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.

    Trumps followers fell for it, hook, line and sinker. Kavanaugh should have gotten a DARVO emmy for his performance.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 06:07:00 2021
    nolageek wrote to Boraxman <=-

    Because, using slurs indicates a bias that you have against that group. I'm so tired of (usually) white straight men getting upset when "the other" simply asks to be treated with respect.

    Being a white straight man and automatically assumed to be biased because of my demographic is more upsetting to me - and dripping with irony.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 06:14:00 2021
    nolageek wrote to Boraxman <=-

    lol That is the most rediculous thing I have ever heard.

    Yes, white straight men - the most oppressed group! lol

    Yeah, for all the times that a white male didn't get a job backfilling a position held by a member of an ethnic minority group because it would mess
    up the EEOC numbers, there's a shit-ton of white male politicians, CEOs, business VPs and so forth.

    While it sounds apocryphal, I saw it firsthand, on 2 occasions.

    It shouldn't discount the former - the advantages offered by the latter
    don't mean much to someone looking for a low-end job somewhere.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Wed Feb 24 06:26:00 2021
    MRO wrote to nolageek <=-

    who the fuck even thinks of that? I remember hearing that and being horrified that my friends were laughing.

    well, at the time gays were extremely promiscuous and didnt care about STDS. they had a pill for most things so they behaved in that manner.
    in a way, aids was natures check and balance.

    As someone who lived in the San Francisco bay area all of my life, and in
    San Francisco in the early 80s, I saw the government's lackadaisical
    response to the AIDS crisis (because it only affected "the gays"), and saw
    the way it tore through the community. Your comment is short-sighted, overly generalizing, and completely without backing.

    Did you know anyone who died of AIDS between 1978 and 1989? I certainly do. Far too many. No one knew what was killing men for too long, and the connection between unprotected sex and AIDS took a while to connect. The gay community I knew accepted safe sex practices *long* before heterosexual America did (who thought you could solve all of your STD concerns with a *pill* and an occasional penicillin shot)

    I have friends my age who walk through the Castro district and realize that there's few people 50+ in the community because of how AIDS took its toll on
    a generation of gay men.

    They know this because they were going to funerals several times a month for way too long.

    "natures check and balance". Give me a fucking break.










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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Wed Feb 24 06:28:00 2021
    Dumas Walker wrote to DENN <=-

    There once was a time I would not vote for McConnell but the candidates the DNC and the D voters in Louisville manage to get nominated have not lately been people I could ever vote for.

    What would make Mitch McConnell seem like the better choice? Honestly
    curious here.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Wed Feb 24 06:30:00 2021
    MRO wrote to nolageek <=-

    is that what fucking wikipedia told you?
    you dont know anything. my family were gypsies over there and some of
    them are american gypsies. there's nothing derogatory about it.

    I wonder when this generation of #vanlife millenials will adopt the term?
    It might help their instagram and Youtube numbers.

    More power to them. I'd thought about buying a VW camper in 1992 when I
    needed a car and had a job with a ton of PTO. That would have been the time
    to travel around the country, but predated the possibility of making money documenting it.


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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to nolageek on Thu Feb 25 00:16:04 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Denn on Wed Feb 24 2021 02:14 pm

    and mean spirited, from the so called party of tollerance.

    This notion that this left is the "party of tolerance' is a right wing fabrication and psychobabble (to use a phrase of Rush Limbaugh).

    No the Democrats bill themselves as the party of tollerance, as in accepting everyone no matter what, that is except conservatives.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to nolageek on Thu Feb 25 02:13:31 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Arelor on Thu Feb 25 2021 12:25 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Sprite on Wed Feb 24 2021 07:24 am

    If it is a "fucking kid" who steals your chicken, nobody accuses you of anything despite the fact you are (according t
    your logic) throwing shit gainst kids.

    I guess I'm gonna bite this piece of troll meat, because why not.

    Because "kid" isn't a slur. If you were to say "that fucking ______ kid stole my chicken" w(here you fill in the blank with
    chosen slur), it signals that part of the reason you're mad is because of the adjective you included because otherwise you
    would would not have used it.

    I really want to know what's so great about your chickens.

    |01-|03nolageek



    Thing is "gypsy" would not be considered a racial slur around here. Specially because gypsies define themselves as gypsy and
    have a national gypsy day and used to have a gypsy party.

    But the point stands that when somebody steals your chicken youn get the PC crowd addressing you for complaining because you
    are not kind enough to the guy who stole your chicken, instead of addressing the real problem ("Why the hell did they steal
    your chicken?") I suspect it is often because the reason why your chicken was stolen has ethnical or cultural implications and
    they don't want to touch the subject with a 10-feet long pole, but that is another matter.

    Essentially, you get a wrong done against you and a large chuck of society backs the wrongdoer and paints you as a villain.
    Have that done three times in a row and you vote the first candidate who promises to end such thing.


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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 02:30:38 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 2021 06:14 am

    nolageek wrote to Boraxman <=-

    lol That is the most rediculous thing I have ever heard.

    Yes, white straight men - the most oppressed group! lol

    Yeah, for all the times that a white male didn't get a job backfilling a position held by a member of an ethnic minority gr
    because it would mess
    up the EEOC numbers, there's a shit-ton of white male politicians, CEOs, business VPs and so forth.

    While it sounds apocryphal, I saw it firsthand, on 2 occasions.

    It shouldn't discount the former - the advantages offered by the latter don't mean much to someone looking for a low-end job somewhere.



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    Interesting thing is when I was running the local Libertarian Party cell, when I offered a position of reponsibility to a
    woman, she always rejected it.

    Always.

    And then some moron would come up and say the Libertarian Party was mysoginistic because there were no women with positions of
    responsibility in this area.

    The local group didn't have an all-white male cast on top because we were discriminating. We had it because white males were
    the only ones who would take the positions. It is not hard for me to extrapolate it to other fields so I have grown very
    scheptic when people starts accusing orgs of being racist or sexists or whatever because they are not filling their quotas.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Nightfox on Thu Feb 25 19:03:00 2021
    Nightfox wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Nightfox on
    Tue Feb 23 2021 10:03 pm

    George Carlin (comedian) talked about that once. He noted that we
    think in language, and terms sometimes get changed over the years.
    He had an example where after World War 1, there was the term "shell
    shock" to describe the trauma that soldiers faced after battle.
    Then the term got changed to "battle fatigue", and eventually
    "post-traummatic stress disorder".

    Not quite analogous. George was referring to how the terminology changed to become more and more accurate, to more and more reflect reality as we learned more.

    Actually, from what I remember, George Carlin was trying to say they
    were trying to take the humanity out of the terminology, making it
    sound less urgent of an issue, or something to that effect.

    What I'm talking about, is people changing the terms to try and change reality.
    Its in fact the opposite. ITs like people saying "call it shell shock instead of PTSD so we don't stigmatise people and help them recover".

    I think part of George Carlin's point was trying to change terms to try
    to change reality (because people think in language).

    I'll have to watch it again. You might be right. I do remember him saying that "Shell Shock" was direct, confrontational, but PTSD no so much.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to MRO on Thu Feb 25 19:06:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to nolageek on Tue Feb 23 2021 10:00 pm


    Yes, white straight men - the most oppressed group! lol

    Its' literally company policy in many places to have quotas, which forces them to select against men.


    this dude doesnt even have a real job.
    Do you think I'm a bloody idiot? Do you think that I'm just going to accept puttiny myself and my children at a disadvantage, because you think so? Because of YOUR moral code?

    NO!

    like i said he's an idiot gay dude from canada who plays little kids games. probably a pedo too. ---

    Yeah, but there are many like this. So many people seem to think that they can just tell people "You will have to lump this program against you", and not expect anything in return. This view is really, really common. They are honestly genuinely surprised when "whites" and "males" and "straights" and "Christians" don't go along with knocking themselves down a peg or two in the social heirarchy. It's as if they are so mired in self-hatred and self-deprecation they are repelled and shocked when they meed someone who isn't.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to MRO on Thu Feb 25 19:12:00 2021
    MRO wrote to nolageek <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Denn on Tue Feb 23 2021 01:32 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to Dream Master on Sun Feb 21 2021 10:43 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    No, you really see the world from a far leftist point of view.

    The US doesn't have much a far left - other countries have far left parties that advocate for the complete abolition of private property and religion. Here our radical "far left" has been asking police to not murder people for decades, recently starting kneeling during sportsball games, and asking politicians to not let people in poverty die from lack of healthcare.

    that's an interesting but incorrect assesment of politics

    I don't really consider AntiFa and other anarchists as "far left". They are authoritarian, have some left wing tendencies, but there are others who are "far left" who are very difference.

    The left-right dichotomy isn't a good catch-all model. But I can see how someone from Europe would look at the USA and conclude there are no far-Leftists. They wouldn't be including the rabble, thats why. In Europe there are people with serious and sober Left Wing politics. In the USA, you have maybe Richard D Wolfe, maybe Chomsky? Most "lefties" are Corporate shills, or just rabid (i.e., the Squad)


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Arelor on Thu Feb 25 19:38:00 2021
    Arelor wrote to Sprite <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Sprite to Arelor on
    Tue Feb 23 2021 09:03 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Dream Master on Mon Feb 22 2021 11:12:08

    I understand the point are you are making, but could we look at it a
    li
    tt
    differently. Instead of calling the person a "gypsy motherfucker",
    why
    d we
    simply say that a "gypsy stole a chicken and that motherfucker really
    me off
    Changing the word order solves the problem of perceived racism also
    ma
    kes us
    look more *hurt* by the theft.


    *THIS* is exactly my point:

    ***My chicken is stolen and the way I complain about it is more important
    th the
    fact I haven't my chicken back***

    No. You should get your damn chicken back. Just don't be surprised
    when
    peopl
    assume that you're a bigot because of the way your words were ordered.


    But here is the thing:

    If it is a "fucking kid" who steals your chicken, nobody accuses you of anything despite the fact you are (according to your logic) throwing
    shit gainst kids.

    If it is a doctor, or the guy from the next village, nobody accuses you
    of anything.

    My theory is that this is so because kids or guys from the next village don't have political or mediatic power enough to enforce their will the same way certain ethnic groups do. Which leads me to believe it is not
    a race struggle at all buan old good powergrab.

    What people are trying to avoid is not bigotry, but some Leftist screaming at their face.

    Their whole strategy is about creating bad optics. People will see the accusations and placard and screaming and think "bad", and it is this fear of judgement that people react to, not the supposed bigotry.

    No one will care if you use harsh words about your chicken. But if there is a fuss made about a friend, a family member, people are screaming and make accusations, then the family, that friend will get uncomfortable. Even if the person is in the right (which the often are), people just don't want the fuss. Employers don't want the fuss. Hotels hosting guests don't want the fuss.

    That is how these bastards push their "tolerance", psychological games, fear and manipulation.

    I view anyone who dispenses accusations of bigotry easily, and who is uptight about tolerance, etc, with extreme suspicion.

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  • From BoonDock@VERT/GATOFUEG to Arelor on Thu Feb 25 10:42:12 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to nolageek on Thu Feb 25 2021 02:13:31

    Essentially, you get a wrong done against you and a large chuck of society backs the wrongdoer and paints you as a villain. Have that done three times in a row and you vote the first candidate who promises to end such thing.

    I've heard it said that "Liberals are one mugging away from being Conservatives". It holds some truth. You can see it in the stats of people who vote Conservative (all else being equal) when there are Law and Order issues. It's one of the reasons that COVID can be blamed for shifting the tide in what would otherwise have been a clear Trump win.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 08:23:59 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Wed Feb 24 2021 06:30 am

    More power to them. I'd thought about buying a VW camper in 1992 when I needed a car and had a job with a ton of PTO. That would have been the time to travel around the country, but predated the possibility of making money documenting it.

    You could have been a pioneer in that area. ;)

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 11:02:15 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 2021 06:07 am

    Being a white straight man and automatically assumed to be biased because of my demographic is more upsetting to me - and dripping with irony.

    We all have biases - why do you think you don't? I am a white man and am contsantly working on being able to recognise my biases when it comes to issues that affect others and many times struggle to see things from other perpectives.

    Having biases from our experiences isn't our fault. Refusing to recognise them and learning from others when they point them out IS our fault. I get called out LOTS of times by my friends who are members of different communities. Growing this way is a process that takes effort. It's hard.

    The right seems to think that the left all think they're perfect - when really, they call themselves out all the time. So called "cancel culture" isn't only left->right thing.

    |01-|03nolageek

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Denn on Thu Feb 25 11:13:34 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to nolageek on Thu Feb 25 2021 12:16 am

    This notion that this left is the "party of tolerance' is a right
    wing fabrication and psychobabble (to use a phrase of Rush

    No the Democrats bill themselves as the party of tollerance, as in

    By definition supporting 'tolerance' does not include supporting 'intolerance'

    accepting everyone no matter what, that is except conservatives.

    The left proclaimng to accept everyone "no matter what" is not a thing, never has been. Again, more Republican propaganda nonsense.

    |01-|03nolageek

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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to BoonDock on Thu Feb 25 15:42:47 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: BoonDock to Arelor on Thu Feb 25 2021 10:42 am

    I've heard it said that "Liberals are one mugging away from being Conservatives". It holds some truth. You can see it in the stats of people

    Well, I've been mugged twice. :)

    |01-|03nolageek

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 21:29:00 2021
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to nolageek <=-

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    nolageek wrote to Boraxman <=-

    Because, using slurs indicates a bias that you have against that group. I'm so tired of (usually) white straight men getting upset when "the other" simply asks to be treated with respect.

    Being a white straight man and automatically assumed to be biased
    because of my demographic is more upsetting to me - and dripping with irony.

    There are too many people (mostly white I might add), who get off on policing other peoples thoughts and opinions, and making accusations.

    In times gone past, nolageek would have been with the spanish inquisition. I'm sure there were plenty of people who get a sense of power being able to rat out others for heresy. No different here. It's all about the sense of power, being in a position where you get to admonish others. They just use marginalised people as an excuse and don't care if people are negatively impacted.

    The whole "don't be a bigot" is just a ruse. ITs not about whether you are a bigot or not, its about someone being able to assume moral superiority over you, and to get you to contort to their wishes.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Arelor on Thu Feb 25 21:36:00 2021
    Arelor wrote to nolageek <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Arelor on
    Thu Feb 25 2021 12:25 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Sprite on Wed Feb 24 2021 07:24 am

    If it is a "fucking kid" who steals your chicken, nobody accuses you of
    anything despite the fact you are (according t
    your logic) throwing shit gainst kids.

    I guess I'm gonna bite this piece of troll meat, because why not.

    Because "kid" isn't a slur. If you were to say "that fucking ______ kid
    stole
    my chicken" w(here you fill in the blank with
    chosen slur), it signals that part of the reason you're mad is because of
    the
    adjective you included because otherwise you
    would would not have used it.

    I really want to know what's so great about your chickens.

    |01-|03nolageek



    Thing is "gypsy" would not be considered a racial slur around here. Specially because gypsies define themselves as gypsy and have a
    national gypsy day and used to have a gypsy party.

    But the point stands that when somebody steals your chicken youn get
    the PC crowd addressing you for complaining because you are not kind enough to the guy who stole your chicken, instead of addressing the
    real problem ("Why the hell did they steal your chicken?") I suspect it
    is often because the reason why your chicken was stolen has ethnical or cultural implications and they don't want to touch the subject with a 10-feet long pole, but that is another matter.

    Essentially, you get a wrong done against you and a large chuck of
    society backs the wrongdoer and paints you as a villain. Have that done three times in a row and you vote the first candidate who promises to
    end such thing.


    Look up "Rotherham rape" to see where being sensitive about describing perpertrators leads to. The police literally preferred to let girls be raped to follow nolageeks sensitivities. They looked the otherway to a degree so as not to appear to be "racist". Utterly dispicable.

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  • From Boondock@VERT/ELGATO to nolageek on Thu Feb 25 21:58:02 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to BoonDock on Thu Feb 25 2021 03:42 pm

    Well, I've been mugged twice. :)
    We can all see you're deliberately contrarian, so I would take you as the classic statistical outlier ....



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 16:27:45 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to BlaZ on Tue Feb 23 2021 06:12 am


    So out of those billions of words you found a few you could use to hate him? Ehhh. Seems silly. The guy was good at what he did, and it will be hard to replace him.

    I'd never heard the percentage-of-words ratio used as a measure of good.
    I hope I never do again, or to hear someone speak of a death rate as a percentage of population as "acceptable".

    he was an entertaining host for a lot of people.

    also death is very important. people need to die every day. 150,000 people die every day.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 16:29:30 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Tue Feb 23 2021 06:17 am


    Trumps followers fell for it, hook, line and sinker. Kavanaugh should have gotten a DARVO emmy for his performance.


    what i fell for was the great economy and the low unemployment. also the simplified tax code and the laws that were established.

    i fell hook line and sinker.


    so how good is your guy biden?
    i dont hear ANY liberals say anything about how good biden is.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 16:29:56 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nolageek on Wed Feb 24 2021 06:07 am


    Being a white straight man and automatically assumed to be biased because of my demographic is more upsetting to me - and dripping with irony.


    people probably think you're gay
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 16:34:05 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Wed Feb 24 2021 06:26 am

    well, at the time gays were extremely promiscuous and didnt care about STDS. they had a pill for most things so they behaved in that manner. in a way, aids was natures check and balance.

    As someone who lived in the San Francisco bay area all of my life, and in San Francisco in the early 80s, I saw the government's lackadaisical response to the AIDS crisis (because it only affected "the gays"), and saw


    i wasnt talking about the government. i was talking about the the gay population. they were sexually irresponsible. look at how patient zero behaved.

    homosexuals getting hit hard by the aids virus is an example of looking for trouble and finding it.


    I have friends my age who walk through the Castro district and realize that there's few people 50+ in the community because of how AIDS took its toll on a generation of gay men.

    They know this because they were going to funerals several times a month for way too long.


    they should have stopped dirty dicking everyone's asshole.

    btw, who was the guy working on the aids crisis?
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 16:36:18 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Wed Feb 24 2021 06:30 am

    is that what fucking wikipedia told you?
    you dont know anything. my family were gypsies over there and some of them are american gypsies. there's nothing derogatory about it.

    I wonder when this generation of #vanlife millenials will adopt the term?
    It might help their instagram and Youtube numbers.

    More power to them. I'd thought about buying a VW camper in 1992 when I needed a car and had a job with a ton of PTO. That would have been the time to travel around the country, but predated the possibility of making money documenting it.

    no no no no. gypsies arent a bunch of beatnicks in vans.
    they're the ones that will do shitty construction on your house and take your money and run. they are the ones that will knife you and take your cash if you flash money.

    there's people who have no SS#. they work under the table their entire life. sometimes they have their own language they use with family.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Boraxman on Thu Feb 25 16:42:14 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Thu Feb 25 2021 07:06 pm


    like i said he's an idiot gay dude from canada who plays little kids games. probably a pedo too. ---

    Yeah, but there are many like this. So many people seem to think that they can just tell people "You will have to lump this program against you", and not expect anything in return. This view is really, really common. They are honestly genuinely surprised when "whites" and "males" and "straights" and "Christians" don't go along with knocking themselves down a peg or two in the social heirarchy. It's as if they are so mired in self-hatred and self-deprecation they are repelled and shocked when they meed someone who isn't.


    i just dont get why these canadians are so hateful towards the usa and obsessed with our politics. they have some serious issues THEY need to deal with.
    they need to clean up their own back yard.
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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to MRO on Fri Feb 26 01:04:16 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to BoonDock on Thu Feb 25 2021 12:36 am

    BTW, the US thing about saying "thank you for your service", while the
    sentiment is appreciated, it feels kinda uncomfortable. I did what I
    did and don't *need* to be thanked.


    yeah i think the thank you for your service thing is stupid and i dont know where it started.

    this guy nolageek is a canadian, though.

    Maybe we should stick our noses in the the boring Canadian Government, We could start with talking about that nimrod PM Justin Trudeau and their failed socalized Medicene, and their high tax rates.
    Let's see I have known Canadians that come to the USA for Medical procedures because the health care in Canadia Sucks swamp water. (there is no competetion).
    And how about the dude that beheaded a young man on a Bus in front of passengers, yep he's a free man now because the Judicial system in Canada think that pills will cure his murderous ass.
    this is where the USA is headed unless we can get these jackasses out and replace them with people who work for us and not themselves, I'm talking the left and the right need to be flushed.
    Term Limits!

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to nolageek on Fri Feb 26 01:25:01 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Denn on Thu Feb 25 2021 11:13 am

    This notion that this left is the "party of tolerance' is a right
    wing fabrication and psychobabble (to use a phrase of Rush

    No the Democrats bill themselves as the party of tollerance, as in

    By definition supporting 'tolerance' does not include supporting 'intolerance'

    accepting everyone no matter what, that is except conservatives.

    The left proclaimng to accept everyone "no matter what" is not a thing, never has been. Again, more Republican propaganda nonsense.

    Wrong, why don't you stick to things you know like your Country, It's pretty lame to have outsiders telling us what goes on where we live!

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to MRO on Fri Feb 26 01:36:21 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 25 2021 04:29 pm

    Trumps followers fell for it, hook, line and sinker. Kavanaugh should
    have gotten a DARVO emmy for his performance.


    what i fell for was the great economy and the low unemployment. also the simplified tax code and the laws that were established.

    i fell hook line and sinker.

    What I keep seeing now, is the left is eating it's self figurativly.
    the internal fighting going on in the DNC is getting worse.
    And all the leftist's that fell for the Biden Harris crap hook line and sinker.

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Denn on Fri Feb 26 13:43:00 2021
    The left proclaimng to accept everyone "no matter what" is not a thing, never has been. Again, more Republican propaganda nonsense.

    Wrong, why don't you stick to things you know like your Country, It's pretty lame to have outsiders telling us what goes on where we live!

    Unfortunately I find one reason why outsiders may be deeply interested and worried about US politics.

    Unfortunately XX century and victory during the WWII established US as the global dominant in the modern world with political decisions that are impacting not only US citizen in the homeland.

    Since communism collapsed and cold war ended, bi-polar world slowly changes into multiple-powers challenging themselves kind of situation.

    Internal situation in the country is indeed your internal problem, sometimes alien, sometimes laughable to observe from the outside world.. sometimes simply sad as there is no more America many people knew and remembered since 80ties and 90ties.

    It's been replaced by the behemoth that can barely sustain itself and fails to avoid natural conflict over Pacific and trade definitions with China, onboaring Russia into it, conflicted with EU at the same time trying to manage the toxic relationship.

    Not knowing how to deal with UK, completely screwing things up in Africa and Middle-East.. basically your dominance built in the past with failed decisions in the current times can bring us another global war very shortly.

    Hopefully to avoid but I less and less believe that our children will not be put to the frontline again with guns and not enough ammo once again.

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Denn on Fri Feb 26 08:48:00 2021
    Denn wrote to nolageek <=-

    No the Democrats bill themselves as the party of tollerance, as in accepting everyone no matter what, that is except conservatives.

    Not just conservatives. The Intolerant Left is intolerant of any ideas that aren't their own, and, by extention, anyone who doesn't hold the False
    Left Narrative as "truth".


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  • From nolageek@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Denn on Fri Feb 26 10:18:24 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to nolageek on Fri Feb 26 2021 01:25 am

    The left proclaimng to accept everyone "no matter what" is not a
    thing, never has been. Again, more Republican propaganda nonsense.

    Wrong, why don't you stick to things you know like your Country, It's pretty lame to have outsiders telling us what goes on where we live!

    What are you even talking about? I'm from New Orleans (the nola in my name) and I moved to Washington, DC after Katrina.

    I know it's isn't an airport, but I'm announcing my departure from this whole conversation.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to MRO on Fri Feb 26 23:55:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Thu Feb 25 2021 07:06 pm


    like i said he's an idiot gay dude from canada who plays little kids games. probably a pedo too. ---

    Yeah, but there are many like this. So many people seem to think that they can just tell people "You will have to lump this program against you", and not expect anything in return. This view is really, really common. They are honestly genuinely surprised when "whites" and "males" and "straights" and "Christians" don't go along with knocking themselves down a peg or two in the social heirarchy. It's as if they are so mired in self-hatred and self-deprecation they are repelled and shocked when they meed someone who isn't.


    i just dont get why these canadians are so hateful towards the usa and obsessed with our politics. they have some serious issues THEY need to deal with. they need to clean up their own back yard.

    I don't know about Canada, but in Australia there is definately this idea that Americans are gun-crazy, war loving, Trump voting crazies. So that gives people an opportunity to act morally superior by promoting their virtues as being better. They think their Liberal ideas are better because they don't have school shootings.

    On the other hand, American ideas DO spread outwards, so there is good reason to watch closely. For example, the Woke poison infects other countries, so its not like its true to say that what happens in the USA is none of our concern.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to nolageek on Sat Feb 27 00:01:00 2021
    nolageek wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nolageek
    on Wed Feb 24 2021 06:07 am

    Being a white straight man and automatically assumed to be biased because of my demographic is more upsetting to me - and dripping with irony.

    We all have biases - why do you think you don't? I am a white man and
    am contsantly working on being able to recognise my biases when it
    comes to issues that affect others and many times struggle to see
    things from other perpectives.

    Having biases from our experiences isn't our fault. Refusing to
    recognise them and learning from others when they point them out IS our fault. I get called out LOTS of times by my friends who are members of different communities. Growing this way is a process that takes effort. It's hard.

    The right seems to think that the left all think they're perfect - when really, they call themselves out all the time. So called "cancel
    culture" isn't only left->right thing.

    Why is having some biases a bad thing? Since when did completely erasing subjectivity be proven to be a winning strategy?

    You see this claim that we have to remove bias all the time, and I understand it in some contexts. But all bias? I'm biased towards what is good for my family. That is a good bias. I'm biased to what is good for my nation. That is a good bias.

    Trying to be objectively good is not really possible. Being without bias is equivalent of trying to square a circle. By virtue of existence, we have subjective experience and needs, so removing bias is an act of self-erasure. In a situation where there is identity politics, on what logical basis will I support the program that puts my race second, as opposed to the one that puts my race first? How do you promote your racial heirarchy to me without you being biased?


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Boraxman on Fri Feb 26 08:23:30 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 11:55 pm

    I don't know about Canada, but in Australia there is definately this idea that Americans are gun-crazy, war loving, Trump voting crazies. So that gives people an opportunity to act morally superior by promoting their virtues as being better. They think their Liberal ideas are better because they don't have school shootings.

    As with anything, it's good not to generalize. I'd guess that describes at most about half of Americans. For one thing, as far as the US president, the US has been very dividied, almost 50/50, about our president and other things. So it's not like everyone thinks the same way about everything. I actually feel like the US is more divided than ever - though maybe my perceptions over time have been a bit off.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Denn on Fri Feb 26 11:00:48 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 01:04 am

    this guy nolageek is a canadian, though.

    Maybe we should stick our noses in the the boring Canadian Government, We could start with talking about that nimrod PM Justin Trudeau and their failed socalized Medicene, and their high tax rates.
    Let's see I have known Canadians that come to the USA for Medical procedures because the health care in Canadia Sucks swamp water. (there is no competetion).

    yeah they are taxed up the ass, have to live in a crappy expensive apartment, they are living in poverty and for some reason they have to talk about our orange man who improved our economy and brought businesses back and with whom we had the lowest unemployment rate ever.

    they were ordered to stay home and given enough money just so they dont die and then it has taxes taken out. fuck that. canadians are second class citizens in their own countries. that's no way to live. they keep them complacent with their welfare system and drug culture.

    it's a shame that so many good people have to go through this.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Denn on Fri Feb 26 11:10:57 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 01:36 am


    What I keep seeing now, is the left is eating it's self figurativly.
    the internal fighting going on in the DNC is getting worse.
    And all the leftist's that fell for the Biden Harris crap hook line and sinker.


    they are saying that biden is going to bed super early and some days he puts a 'lid' on the white house. meaning all meetings and goings on are canceled for the day. harris is fielding calls with foreign leaders on her own.

    they are saying biden turns in around 7pm when trump would get 3-4 hrs of sleep.

    trump would be up at 5:30am and making calls around 6am, biden has a coffee with the wife later on in the day and then has a bunch of meetings.

    trump would take a 3 hr break where he would watch the news, but then he'd be up much later making phone calls and watching news late into the night.

    trump had an open door policy, biden does not.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nolageek on Fri Feb 26 11:17:02 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: nolageek to Denn on Fri Feb 26 2021 10:18 am

    Wrong, why don't you stick to things you know like your Country, It's pretty lame to have outsiders telling us what goes on where we live!

    What are you even talking about? I'm from New Orleans (the nola in my name) and I moved to Washington, DC after Katrina.

    I know it's isn't an airport, but I'm announcing my departure from this whole conversation.

    |01-|03nolageek

    oh i thought you were canadian. you only act canadian.
    my bad dawg.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Boraxman on Fri Feb 26 11:17:56 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 11:55 pm


    I don't know about Canada, but in Australia there is definately this idea that Americans are gun-crazy, war loving, Trump voting crazies. So that gives people an opportunity to act morally superior by promoting their virtues as being better. They think their Liberal ideas are better because


    i think it's the media doing that from what i've heard.
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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Boraxman on Fri Feb 26 10:49:20 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 11:55 pm

    I don't know about Canada, but in Australia there is definately this idea that Americans are gun-crazy, war loving, Trump voting crazies.

    I don't speak for all Canadians but I think most of us look at the US as being a close friend and ally, a neighbor in good times and bad.

    So that gives people an opportunity to act morally superior by promoting their virtues as being better. They think their Liberal ideas are better because they don't have school shootings.

    We have had school shootings here and crazies that go on a murderous rampage for reasons that are not well understood. There is not much of a moral high ground for us to stand on.

    On the other hand, American ideas DO spread outwards, so there is good reason to watch closely. For example, the Woke poison infects other countries, so its not like its true to say that what happens in the USA is none of our concern.

    America has been a leader in so many of ways and we partner with them on many projects and things that need doing.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Fri Feb 26 05:56:00 2021
    Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    More power to them. I'd thought about buying a VW camper in 1992 when I needed a car and had a job with a ton of PTO. That would have been the time to travel around the country, but predated the possibility of making money documenting it.

    You could have been a pioneer in that area. ;)

    Back then, they weren't called "#vanlife ambassadors", they were just those weird guys living in vans down by the river.





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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Fri Feb 26 05:59:00 2021
    MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    also death is very important. people need to die every day. 150,000 people die every day.

    Now some tone-deaf twit is going to downplay the number of Corona deaths by comparing the number of Corona deaths to total deaths...


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Fri Feb 26 06:00:00 2021
    MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    what i fell for was the great economy and the low unemployment. also
    the simplified tax code and the laws that were established.

    i fell hook line and sinker.

    so how good is your guy biden?
    i dont hear ANY liberals say anything about how good biden is.

    Wow.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 26 14:13:17 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 05:59 am


    also death is very important. people need to die every day. 150,000 people die every day.

    Now some tone-deaf twit is going to downplay the number of Corona deaths by comparing the number of Corona deaths to total deaths...


    well, we dont know the true amount of corona virus deaths because the medical community has been playing politics.

    one thing i'll say is all the things we have tried have amounted to nothing. it looks like we have to depend on our god given immune systems with this one.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 26 14:14:24 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 06:00 am

    MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    what i fell for was the great economy and the low unemployment. also the simplified tax code and the laws that were established.

    i fell hook line and sinker.

    so how good is your guy biden?
    i dont hear ANY liberals say anything about how good biden is.

    Wow.


    yeah how is that 15 dollar an hour thing going. or the relief checks day one. and the war biden is starting. and not stopping fracking?
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  • From Boondock@VERT/ELGATO to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 26 20:15:49 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 05:59:00

    also death is very important. people need to die every day. 150,000
    people die every day.
    There is some interesting stuff out there that points out that this concept that humans are some sort of virus that is over-running the planet is pretty much hogwash.
    It's a persistent "green" meme thoug which enfuriates me.

    Boondock

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Boraxman on Fri Feb 26 22:06:00 2021
    i just dont get why these canadians are so hateful towards the usa and obsessed with our politics. they have some serious issues THEY need to deal with. they need to clean up their own back yard.

    I don't know about Canada, but in Australia there is definately this
    idea that Americans are gun-crazy, war loving, Trump voting crazies.
    So that gives people an opportunity to act morally superior by
    promoting their virtues as being better. They think their Liberal
    ideas are better because they don't have school shootings.

    There once a country who thought it was virtually better than other nations. All that illusion ended up during Nurnberg trials.

    Also if commenting US politics is so monopolistic only to US citizen to dare (like if only Vatican could only comment Bible) and we should expect parity in expectation management, then what's the right for US to have an opinion about anything else outside. Continue building the wall, that's just one brilliant idea.

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to MRO on Fri Feb 26 22:07:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Denn <=-

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 01:04 am

    this guy nolageek is a canadian, though.

    Maybe we should stick our noses in the the boring Canadian Government, We could start with talking about that nimrod PM Justin Trudeau and their failed socalized Medicene, and their high tax rates.
    Let's see I have known Canadians that come to the USA for Medical procedures because the health care in Canadia Sucks swamp water. (there is no competetion).

    yeah they are taxed up the ass, have to live in a crappy expensive apartment, they are living in poverty and for some reason they have to talk about our orange man who improved our economy and brought

    So you're a Trump supporter. That explains a lot.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Fri Feb 26 17:18:00 2021
    i just dont get why these canadians are so hateful towards the usa and obsessed
    with our politics. they have some serious issues THEY need to deal with. >they need to clean up their own back yard.

    Some Canadians are like that. I have met a few, and converesed with some
    more on the BBSes, that are not. I think I have actually only found one or
    two that are, but there sure are a few.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Boondock on Fri Feb 26 19:30:46 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boondock to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 26 2021 08:15 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 05:59:00

    also death is very important. people need to die every day. 150,000
    people die every day.
    There is some interesting stuff out there that points out that this concept that humans are some sort of virus that is over-running the planet is pretty much hogwash.
    It's a persistent "green" meme thoug which enfuriates me.


    here is a youtube video i found by chance a while ago.

    i hope everyone watches it until the end
    https://tinyurl.com/2wz9zyf7
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to hollowone on Fri Feb 26 19:33:34 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: hollowone to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 10:07 pm

    yeah they are taxed up the ass, have to live in a crappy expensive apartment, they are living in poverty and for some reason they have to talk about our orange man who improved our economy and brought

    So you're a Trump supporter. That explains a lot.

    yeah it does explain a lot. it shows that i'm not a fucking idiot and i want everyone to do well and have a job.

    our current president is already starting a war and motherfucker goes to bed at 7pm.

    fuck off with your polish ass.
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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to MRO on Sat Feb 27 22:10:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 11:55 pm


    I don't know about Canada, but in Australia there is definately this idea that Americans are gun-crazy, war loving, Trump voting crazies. So that gives people an opportunity to act morally superior by promoting their virtues as being better. They think their Liberal ideas are better because


    i think it's the media doing that from what i've heard.

    The media are big players in this, no doubt. The rest is progressive culture.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Al on Sat Feb 27 22:13:00 2021
    Al wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Fri
    Feb 26 2021 11:55 pm

    I don't know about Canada, but in Australia there is definately this idea that Americans are gun-crazy, war loving, Trump voting crazies.

    I don't speak for all Canadians but I think most of us look at the US
    as being a close friend and ally, a neighbor in good times and bad.

    So that gives people an opportunity to act morally superior by promoting their virtues as being better. They think their Liberal ideas are better because they don't have school shootings.

    We have had school shootings here and crazies that go on a murderous rampage for reasons that are not well understood. There is not much of
    a moral high ground for us to stand on.

    On the other hand, American ideas DO spread outwards, so there is good reason to watch closely. For example, the Woke poison infects other countries, so its not like its true to say that what happens in the USA is none of our concern.

    America has been a leader in so many of ways and we partner with them
    on many projects and things that need doing.

    Australia needs US as a counter balance to China. Australia is hedging its bets between the USA and China. Our nation is still tied to the USA with the ANZUS treaty, but is courting Chinese business and influence, China being a major trading partner.

    If it came to war between the US and China, Australia would be faced with a stark decision, side with the US and lose Chinese support (and get pummeled by the Chinese influence which has been allowed to develop), or... Well, there is no or.

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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Sat Feb 27 08:21:00 2021
    Hello MRO!

    ** On Friday 26.02.21 - 19:33, MRO wrote to hollowone:

    yeah they are taxed up the ass, have to live in a crappy
    expensive apartment, they are living in poverty and for
    some reason they have to talk about our orange man who
    improved our economy and brought


    So you're a Trump supporter. That explains a lot.

    [...]

    our current president is already starting a war and
    motherfucker goes to bed at 7pm.

    I'm reading that his routine is "Oval Office starting just after
    9 a.m. and a return to his residence by 7 p.m." So, when he
    returns "home at 7pm" .NE. "goes to bed at 7pm".

    From what I see reported by the press, Biden seems fairly
    articulate speaking off the cuff, and always calm.

    The focus on stirring up a war is concerning. Even 60 Minutes
    had an episode last week of Assad's ways (when he gassed his own
    civilians). But does the spying on other countries and the
    hopes to oust unreasonable leaders ever stop? It probably
    doesn't matter who is prez.

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Boraxman on Sat Feb 27 10:45:23 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Al on Sat Feb 27 2021 10:13 pm

    Australia needs US as a counter balance to China. Australia is hedging its bets between the USA and China. Our nation is still tied to the USA with the ANZUS treaty, but is courting Chinese business and influence, China being a major trading partner.

    Yes, China is an economic powerhouse that can't be dismissed.

    If it came to war between the US and China, Australia would be faced with a stark decision, side with the US and lose Chinese support (and get pummeled by the Chinese influence which has been allowed to develop), or... Well, there is no or.

    Regardless of how one feels about the government of the PRC we all need to carry on trade relations with China.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Sat Feb 27 13:49:43 2021
    Re: ..goes to bed at 7pm
    By: Ogg to MRO on Sat Feb 27 2021 08:21 am

    I'm reading that his routine is "Oval Office starting just after
    9 a.m. and a return to his residence by 7 p.m." So, when he
    returns "home at 7pm" .NE. "goes to bed at 7pm".

    he gets up at 9am and has coffee with the wife. then he has a bunch of meetings.

    from what i've seen with joe, dude is tired all the time. he was falling asleep the few times he stayed up past 8pm to go to rallys.

    most of the time his eyes are barely open. i just see black slits. this is with them pumping him full of vitamins and god knows what.

    wrapping it up at 7pm is not what us presidents do.
    it's one of the hardest jobs in the world. all us presidents say up well past midnight.

    civilians). But does the spying on other countries and the
    hopes to oust unreasonable leaders ever stop? It probably
    doesn't matter who is prez.

    it most certainly matters. they are the ones that drop the bombs.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to BORAXMAN on Sat Feb 27 16:18:00 2021
    On the other hand, American ideas DO spread outwards, so there is good reason to watch closely. For example, the Woke poison infects other countries, so it
    not like its true to say that what happens in the USA is none of our concern.

    Yes, that spreads like the rona. It is a good idea to watch it closely.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DENN on Sat Feb 27 16:20:00 2021
    Let's see I have known Canadians that come to the USA for Medical
    procedures because the health care in Canadia Sucks swamp water. (there is
    no competetion).

    I have also. One of them was a volunteer in the US Army. He comes to the
    US because his VA care, which most people in the US think is not good, is better than what he'd get in Canada.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Sat Feb 27 16:35:00 2021
    so how good is your guy biden?
    i dont hear ANY liberals say anything about how good biden is.

    You must not visit the FIDO Politics echo too often.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Sat Feb 27 16:26:00 2021
    yeah how is that 15 dollar an hour thing going. or the relief checks day one. >and the war biden is starting. and not stopping fracking?

    But, but he stopped that pipeline and got rid of a bunch of jobs.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to HOLLOWONE on Sat Feb 27 16:35:00 2021
    Also if commenting US politics is so monopolistic only to US citizen to dare (like if only Vatican could only comment Bible) and we should expect parity in
    expectation management, then what's the right for US to have an opinion about anything else outside. Continue building the wall, that's just one brilliant idea.

    I don't mind others commenting about US politics as long as they are also willing to comment about theirs. Lots of people are not as willing to do
    so as you because they don't want any unflattering comparisons to come out.

    USA bad, but please don't look at what we are doing...


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 27 22:23:49 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sat Feb 27 2021 04:35 pm

    so how good is your guy biden?
    i dont hear ANY liberals say anything about how good biden is.

    You must not visit the FIDO Politics echo too often.



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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Sat Feb 27 20:46:00 2021
    Hello MRO!

    ** On Saturday 27.02.21 - 13:49, MRO wrote to Ogg:

    most of the time his eyes are barely open. i just see black
    slits. this is with them pumping him full of vitamins and
    god knows what.

    Yeah.. there is that. :/

    wrapping it up at 7pm is not what us presidents do. it's one
    of the hardest jobs in the world. all us presidents say up
    well past midnight.

    And that. Presidential things would often carry on into the
    long hours of the nights.

    ..It probably doesn't matter who is prez.

    it most certainly matters. they are the ones that drop the
    bombs.

    I'm thinking along the lines that the V.P. would step in if the
    prez is unavailable or incapable. I am sure important matters
    as such as issuing lauch codes would be in the hands of
    alternatives - not just one sole individual.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 27 21:37:38 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sat Feb 27 2021 04:35 pm

    i dont hear ANY liberals say anything about how good biden is.

    You must not visit the FIDO Politics echo too often.

    Hey, wait, I never said anything positive or negative about Biden in Politics.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Al on Sun Feb 28 22:01:00 2021
    Al wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Al on Sat
    Feb 27 2021 10:13 pm

    Australia needs US as a counter balance to China. Australia is hedging its bets between the USA and China. Our nation is still tied to the USA with the ANZUS treaty, but is courting Chinese business and influence, China being a major trading partner.

    Yes, China is an economic powerhouse that can't be dismissed.

    If it came to war between the US and China, Australia would be faced with a stark decision, side with the US and lose Chinese support (and get pummeled by the Chinese influence which has been allowed to develop), or... Well, there is no or.

    Regardless of how one feels about the government of the PRC we all need
    to carry on trade relations with China.

    Even if that means strengthing a power that will go to war against us?

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Sun Feb 28 09:53:00 2021
    You must not visit the FIDO Politics echo too often.

    i'd rather cut my dick off than frequent fidonet

    Ouch, but I do see your point. :)


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DREAM MASTER on Sun Feb 28 10:39:00 2021
    i dont hear ANY liberals say anything about how good biden is.

    You must not visit the FIDO Politics echo too often.

    Hey, wait, I never said anything positive or negative about Biden in Politics.

    Who said I meant you? LOL, I actually was not even thinking of you.

    There are a few Biden-happy folks there... or at least there were. I
    learned to tune the biggest ones out (for other reasons) so maybe they are
    no more. I usually read your stuff. :)


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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Dumas Walker on Sun Feb 28 12:36:53 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dumas Walker to DREAM MASTER on Sun Feb 28 2021 10:39 am

    Who said I meant you? LOL, I actually was not even thinking of you.

    I was teasing... there are a few in that group that simply freak me out.

    There are a few Biden-happy folks there... or at least there were. I learned to tune the biggest ones out (for other reasons) so maybe they are no more. I usually read your stuff. :)

    I am neither happy or upset with Biden. I'm meh. Then again, I'm am more unhappy with than happy with our current Congress.

    Thank you, btw. Differring opinions is a good thing. Just because we don't agree on something doesn't mean we can't learn to understand each other.

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Dumas Walker on Sun Feb 28 21:27:00 2021
    Dumas Walker wrote to HOLLOWONE <=-

    Also if commenting US politics is so monopolistic only to US citizen to dare (like if only Vatican could only comment Bible) and we should expect parity
    in

    expectation management, then what's the right for US to have an opinion
    bout
    anything else outside. Continue building the wall, that's just one brilliant idea.

    I don't mind others commenting about US politics as long as they are
    also willing to comment about theirs. Lots of people are not as
    willing to do so as you because they don't want any unflattering comparisons to come out.

    USA bad, but please don't look at what we are doing...

    I never called USA bad, and my own country's situation perfect. I'm not German


    Actually, I like many things American, both current and past virtues that you risk loosing if the nation continues to be confused and so polarized as I see today.
    I heavily respect the rebelious nature of freedom loving among its citizen. Regardless of opinions and how contradictory they can be to each other.

    I find the same in my country, but social unrest and verbal conflict between liberals and conservatists drives me personally nuts these days. I miss space for more central-grounded conversation, better balanced between right and left instead of focused on left and right extremism.

    What obviously makes our countries distinguishly different is the geo-political and economic situation. Roots of social unrest come from similar soil, I'd say.


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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to MRO on Sun Feb 28 21:54:00 2021
    So you're a Trump supporter. That explains a lot.

    yeah it does explain a lot. it shows that i'm not a fucking idiot and i want everyone to do well and have a job.

    our current president is already starting a war and motherfucker goes
    to bed at 7pm.

    fuck off with your polish ass.

    Oh.. this is so amusing. Actually sir, you're an idiot.

    I'm just not sure if this is genetic, lack of edu or just your personal choice.

    As for the choice, you have right to have your own and I respect that.

    What apparently your little brain does not comprehend is the fact that others (regardless of color, country origin and other aspect) may have opinions and you cannot stop them having them.

    You may even become unpleasant subject of that opinion. In fact it's more difficult to you to avoid dealing with that opinion than the other side can successfully be stopped to have one.

    You can't stop me having one about you and your view, regardless how vulgarly you continue to wine about it.

    That is what I meant by "it explains a lot": You're no different than any other conversatist around the world, regardless if western or eastern.

    Your lack of any understanding of progress and proggresiveness as a process limits your perspective. This process, regardless of your opinion and view exists at social, economic level as well as a political movement of course.

    It's not about supporting it. You simply don't get it. May be one big reason why you're so frustrated and find silly ways to find solutions like naive thinking that politicians can secure your job... If you really think this way, then you support socialism, which I doubt you would like to agree on.

    /h1

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Sun Feb 28 17:25:21 2021
    Re: ..goes to bed at 7pm
    By: Ogg to MRO on Sat Feb 27 2021 08:46 pm


    I'm thinking along the lines that the V.P. would step in if the
    prez is unavailable or incapable. I am sure important matters
    as such as issuing lauch codes would be in the hands of
    alternatives - not just one sole individual.

    i dont even know if our vp really does anything. i know they are the pres of senate. it's sort of like he's the president's wife.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to hollowone on Sun Feb 28 17:28:39 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: hollowone to MRO on Sun Feb 28 2021 09:54 pm

    fuck off with your polish ass.

    Oh.. this is so amusing. Actually sir, you're an idiot.

    i'm smarter than you are. and i didnt read the rest of your horseshit, just like usual.

    my country isnt like yours in the least.

    now fuck off, pollock.

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Boraxman on Sun Feb 28 15:35:00 2021
    Boraxman wrote to Al <=-

    Regardless of how one feels about the government of the PRC we all need
    to carry on trade relations with China.

    Even if that means strengthing a power that will go to war against us?

    A war changes everything. If there is a war or it looks like war then we
    need to do things differently.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Dream Master on Sun Feb 28 13:06:00 2021
    Hey, wait, I never said anything positive or negative about Biden in Politics.

    Overall, none of the politicians...no matter the party...is worth the
    powder to blow them up, and it's a waste of good gunpowder. Besides, a
    group of baboons is known as a CONGRESS.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Al on Mon Mar 1 06:55:00 2021
    Al wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Boraxman wrote to Al <=-

    Regardless of how one feels about the government of the PRC we all need
    to carry on trade relations with China.

    Even if that means strengthing a power that will go to war against us?

    A war changes everything. If there is a war or it looks like war then
    we need to do things differently.

    We don't know there is a war coming until its too late, and we've already contributed to our own demise.

    The war between China and the West is already underway I think.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Boraxman on Mon Mar 1 06:58:39 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Al on Mon Mar 01 2021 06:55 am

    A war changes everything. If there is a war or it looks like war then we need to do things differently.

    We don't know there is a war coming until its too late, and we've already contributed to our own demise.

    The war between China and the West is already underway I think.


    I don't think China is interested in open conflict. The current status-quo hevily benefits them. They can gather vast amounts of power by selling everybody cheap rubbish and then using that money to purchase debt from their customers.

    It would only get really bad it the West cut the *deal* short all of a sudden (which would make sense, because it is a prety bad deal in the long run, but I expect that such thing would not be done in a single day).

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to MRO on Mon Mar 1 15:12:00 2021
    i'm smarter than you are. and i didnt read the rest of your horseshit, just like usual.

    I'm pretty sure you did, otherwise you'd not feel so annoyed instantly.
    I'm having fun, do you?
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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Al on Mon Mar 1 15:30:00 2021
    Al wrote to Boraxman <=-

    Boraxman wrote to Al <=-

    Regardless of how one feels about the government of the PRC we all need
    to carry on trade relations with China.

    Even if that means strengthing a power that will go to war against us?

    A war changes everything. If there is a war or it looks like war then
    we need to do things differently.

    Do you think there will be another war over Pacific trade routes in XXI century?

    I mean like real war, not just a trade war and influencing?

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Boraxman on Mon Mar 1 15:33:00 2021
    We don't know there is a war coming until its too late, and we've
    already contributed to our own demise.

    The war between China and the West is already underway I think.

    One of the problems is that there is no single definition of the 'WEST'
    nymore.
    USA, UK, EU, Australia.. none of them are aligned into one direction.

    Nor I believe China and Russia can truly align in one camp either.

    Lack of alignment on the WEST encourages China in my humble opinion.
    Lack of alignment on the EAST is still kind of confusing to me.

    This could open quite a discussion alone, just not sure if this place is anyhow good to bring this topic up.

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Boraxman on Mon Mar 1 11:10:28 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Al on Mon Mar 01 2021 06:55 am

    We don't know there is a war coming until its too late, and we've already contributed to our own demise.

    There is a big difference between trade and war.

    The war between China and the West is already underway I think.

    There are also big differences between the PRC and governments in the west but I don't think that means war or that a war is immanent.

    Ttyl :-),
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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to hollowone on Mon Mar 1 11:14:48 2021
    Re: Another War over Pacific?
    By: hollowone to Al on Mon Mar 01 2021 03:30 pm

    Do you think there will be another war over Pacific trade routes in XXI century?

    Only if someone decides they are going to take what someone else has and I don't think anyone has an idea like that.

    I mean like real war, not just a trade war and influencing?

    I hope the trade wars will end but the negotiations will continue.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to all on Mon Mar 1 16:39:25 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: hollowone to MRO on Mon Mar 01 2021 03:12 pm

    i'm smarter than you are. and i didnt read the rest of your horseshit, just like usual.

    I'm pretty sure you did, otherwise you'd not feel so annoyed instantly.
    I'm having fun, do you?

    no i didnt and i'm not annoyed. in the twat filter you go, moron.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to hollowone on Mon Mar 1 16:40:11 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: hollowone to Boraxman on Mon Mar 01 2021 03:33 pm

    We don't know there is a war coming until its too late, and we've already contributed to our own demise.

    The war between China and the West is already underway I think.

    One of the problems is that there is no single definition of the 'WEST' nymore.

    there is if you're not an idiot. i'll give you a hint. it's to the west.
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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Arelor on Mon Mar 1 21:33:00 2021
    Arelor wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Al on Mon
    Mar 01 2021 06:55 am

    A war changes everything. If there is a war or it looks like war then we need to do things differently.

    We don't know there is a war coming until its too late, and we've already contributed to our own demise.

    The war between China and the West is already underway I think.


    I don't think China is interested in open conflict. The current
    status-quo hevily benefits them. They can gather vast amounts of power
    by selling everybody cheap rubbish and then using that money to
    purchase debt from their customers.

    It would only get really bad it the West cut the *deal* short all of a sudden (which would make sense, because it is a prety bad deal in the
    long run, but I expect that such thing would not be done in a single
    day).

    Agree, but wars have a habit of arising and being more than what people bargained for or wanted. I don't believe China intends for war, but it may create condition in which war is likely, much in the same way that the polarisation in the US leads to conflict. It isn't their goal, but it becomes the inevitable outcome of political action.

    It really comes to whether the West is willing to roll over and lose its dominant status. That remains an open question.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to hollowone on Mon Mar 1 21:38:00 2021
    hollowone wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    @REPLY: <603C914A.49079.dove-gen@bbs.mozysswamp.org>
    We don't know there is a war coming until its too late, and we've
    already contributed to our own demise.

    The war between China and the West is already underway I think.

    One of the problems is that there is no single definition of the 'WEST' nymore.
    USA, UK, EU, Australia.. none of them are aligned into one direction.

    Nor I believe China and Russia can truly align in one camp either.

    Lack of alignment on the WEST encourages China in my humble opinion.
    Lack of alignment on the EAST is still kind of confusing to me.

    This could open quite a discussion alone, just not sure if this place
    is anyhow good to bring this topic up.

    Good point. I would think there is an argument that the EU is not really a "Western" culture. I heard someone way that the USA *IS* now "The West", and that UK, the EU can no longer claim that they are part of Western culture. It's an argument that has merit.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DREAM MASTER on Mon Mar 1 14:32:00 2021
    I am neither happy or upset with Biden. I'm meh. Then again, I'm am more unha
    py with than happy with our current Congress.

    I cannot argue with you on that last bit. I don't know very many, who
    don't directly benefit from politics, who are happy with them.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to BORAXMAN on Mon Mar 1 15:46:00 2021
    Regardless of how one feels about the government of the PRC we all need to carry on trade relations with China.

    Even if that means strengthing a power that will go to war against us?

    If China doesn't have money to spend in parts of Canada that are their
    vacation hotspots, those areas of Canada would have serious financial
    issues. I think that is why.

    I personally see no value in carrying on trade relations with them,
    provided that you can get the goods elsewhere. They may have a monopoly on some rare earth substances, though.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Mon Mar 1 20:41:08 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dumas Walker to BORAXMAN on Mon Mar 01 2021 03:46 pm

    Regardless of how one feels about the government of the PRC we all need to carry on trade relations with China.

    Even if that means strengthing a power that will go to war against us?

    If China doesn't have money to spend in parts of Canada that are their vacation hotspots, those areas of Canada would have serious financial issues. I think that is why.

    I personally see no value in carrying on trade relations with them,
    provided that you can get the goods elsewhere. They may have a monopoly on some rare earth substances, though.

    china is a big world power and it's going to be hard to not do business with them. we could do without them.

    what happened is other countries dropped the ball and china got focused and created industrial revolutions. they almost have more farmers than people in the usa. they pretty much kick ass.

    every country should be copying china, quite frankly.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to hollowone on Tue Mar 2 00:47:38 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: hollowone to Denn on Fri Feb 26 2021 01:43 pm

    The left proclaimng to accept everyone "no matter what" is not a
    thing, never has been. Again, more Republican propaganda nonsense.

    Wrong, why don't you stick to things you know like your Country,
    It's pretty lame to have outsiders telling us what goes on where we
    live!

    Unfortunately I find one reason why outsiders may be deeply interested and worried about US politics.

    Unfortunately XX century and victory during the WWII established US as the global dominant in the modern world with political decisions that are impacting not only US citizen in the homeland.


    It's the leftist policies trying to push us into a "one world government" look at the Euorpian Union that has failed miserably.
    It dosent work even on a small scale, and there should be NO reason other countries should follow what we do here in America.
    We should stop all trade with Communist Socialist countries and take care of US and let them take care of them.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to MRO on Tue Mar 2 01:18:06 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to Denn on Fri Feb 26 2021 11:00 am

    Maybe we should stick our noses in the the boring Canadian Government,
    We could start with talking about that nimrod PM Justin Trudeau and
    their failed socalized Medicene, and their high tax rates.
    Let's see I have known Canadians that come to the USA for Medical
    procedures because the health care in Canadia Sucks swamp water.
    (there is no competetion).

    yeah they are taxed up the ass, have to live in a crappy expensive apartment, they are living in poverty and for some reason they have to talk about our orange man who improved our economy and brought businesses back and with whom we had the lowest unemployment rate ever.

    they were ordered to stay home and given enough money just so they dont die and then it has taxes taken out. fuck that. canadians are second class citizens in their own countries. that's no way to live. they keep them complacent with their welfare system and drug culture.

    it's a shame that so many good people have to go through this.

    Yes it really is, It's only getting worse here on a Daily basis, a $60 a month supply of insulin under Joe Biden shot up to $700.
    Our gas prices here over night shot up another 20 cents per gallon.
    We now have the dumbest Cluck in the whitehouse that's ever been there.
    I read that Joe Biden in his first month in office had 100,000 Covid deaths.
    I hope in two years Republicans can get a better footing in the Senate and Take back the house.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to MRO on Tue Mar 2 01:27:39 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to Denn on Fri Feb 26 2021 11:10 am

    What I keep seeing now, is the left is eating it's self figurativly.
    the internal fighting going on in the DNC is getting worse.
    And all the leftist's that fell for the Biden Harris crap hook line
    and sinker.


    they are saying that biden is going to bed super early and some days he puts a 'lid' on the white house. meaning all meetings and goings on are canceled for the day. harris is fielding calls with foreign leaders on her own.

    they are saying biden turns in around 7pm when trump would get 3-4 hrs of sleep.

    That's why he's sleepy Joe Biden :)

    trump would be up at 5:30am and making calls around 6am, biden has a coffee with the wife later on in the day and then has a bunch of meetings.


    trump would take a 3 hr break where he would watch the news, but then he'd be up much later making phone calls and watching news late into the night.

    Trump also beat covid quickly.

    Arizona Legislature Just subpoena'd the 2020 ballot's and voting machines.
    Gavin Newsome is being recalled, and Democrats are even trying to recall him.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to MRO on Tue Mar 2 01:32:11 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to nolageek on Fri Feb 26 2021 11:17 am

    Wrong, why don't you stick to things you know like your Country,
    It's pretty lame to have outsiders telling us what goes on where
    we live!

    What are you even talking about? I'm from New Orleans (the nola in my
    name) and I moved to Washington, DC after Katrina.

    I know it's isn't an airport, but I'm announcing my departure from
    this whole conversation.

    oh i thought you were canadian. you only act canadian.
    my bad dawg.

    He had me fooled with that Canadian accent lol, did'nt he say what you talkin aboot Willis?
    Maybe not.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to MRO on Tue Mar 2 01:46:29 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 26 2021 02:13 pm

    also death is very important. people need to die every day.
    150,000 people die every day.

    Now some tone-deaf twit is going to downplay the number of Corona
    deaths by comparing the number of Corona deaths to total deaths...


    well, we dont know the true amount of corona virus deaths because the medical community has been playing politics.

    There is a federal Gvnmt incentive for reported covid-19 deaths, My guess is many people would have died because of age and health soon any way.
    and I've heard stories of Heart attack deaths, Strokes and other types of death's being passed off as Covid so they could get the insentives.

    one thing i'll say is all the things we have tried have amounted to nothing. it looks like we have to depend on our god given immune systems w

    Some Scientist's beleive we should have just let it go through communities like we do the flu to get to heard immunity.
    Maybe less people would have died?

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to hollowone on Tue Mar 2 01:51:51 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: hollowone to MRO on Fri Feb 26 2021 10:07 pm

    this guy nolageek is a canadian, though.

    Maybe we should stick our noses in the the boring Canadian
    Government, We could start with talking about that nimrod PM Justin
    Trudeau and their failed socalized Medicene, and their high tax
    rates. Let's see I have known Canadians that come to the USA for
    Medical procedures because the health care in Canadia Sucks swamp
    water. (there is no competetion).

    yeah they are taxed up the ass, have to live in a crappy expensive
    apartment, they are living in poverty and for some reason they have
    to talk about our orange man who improved our economy and brought

    So you're a Trump supporter. That explains a lot.

    Certainly don't support the Commander in theif A.K.A (the Commander in Cheat) Sleepy Joe Biden and Heel's Up Harris.

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Al on Tue Mar 2 10:29:00 2021
    Al wrote to hollowone <=-

    Re: Another War over Pacific?
    By: hollowone to Al on Mon Mar 01 2021 03:30 pm

    Do you think there will be another war over Pacific trade routes in XXI century?

    Only if someone decides they are going to take what someone else has
    and I don't think anyone has an idea like that.

    I mean like real war, not just a trade war and influencing?

    I hope the trade wars will end but the negotiations will continue.

    I hope you're right, but that would mean we come back to the globalism as defined before the 2008 crisis. That thought is at crisis since 2008 and I can hardly believe we can avoid further decentrism and pushing/pulling lines to favour new ways to define global trade rules.

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Boraxman on Tue Mar 2 10:32:00 2021
    Good point. I would think there is an argument that the EU is not
    really a "Western" culture. I heard someone way that the USA *IS* now "The West", and that UK, the EU can no longer claim that they are part
    of Western culture. It's an argument that has merit.

    Not sure if I know how to answer before you elaborate a bit more how do you define Western culture in the context of not seeing EU/UK being one.

    Socialistic elements in the governing formula excludes them, or what do you mean?

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Denn on Tue Mar 2 10:40:00 2021
    It's the leftist policies trying to push us into a "one world
    government" look at the Euorpian Union that has failed miserably.
    It dosent work even on a small scale, and there should be NO reason
    other countries should follow what we do here in America.
    We should stop all trade with Communist Socialist countries and take
    care of US and let them take care of them.

    My country joined EU in 2004 when it was still on its growing path.

    Then 2008 came and each of the EU country instead of "let's go through it together' started showing a position 'me first, then perhaps you and we don't care about the poorest in our small union".

    That hit Greece and other southern countries in the EU badly.
    That made Turkey very alien to EU values (defined politically).

    Since then it's only worse as by general view only French and German interests are represented in the union. UK had already quit the game and I'm expecting more crisises within EU rather than growth until somebody defines a path that can help reunify individual approaches.

    I'm curious how this develops, but I have personally mixed feelings that EU can survive next 20 years. In this formula it will simply break being
    verregulated.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to hollowone on Tue Mar 2 09:20:51 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: hollowone to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 10:40 am

    Then 2008 came and each of the EU country instead of "let's go through it together'
    started showing a position 'me first, then perhaps you and we don't care about the
    poorest in our small union".

    That hit Greece and other southern countries in the EU badly.
    That made Turkey very alien to EU values (defined politically).


    I think the real problem in the EU is that it is trying to be a political "pan-nation" instead of a trade agreement, which is what it was supposed to be.

    The PIGS get hit hard not because Germany hates us, but because our economies were
    frail to begin with. You don't get into a debt crisis in which your debtors set conditions on you because you cannot pay if you don't indebt you for more than you cn
    pay.

    Hell I think some countries in Eastern Europe were complaining that the Greeks were
    beging for loans to riss/keep their pension system, when Greeks had higher pensions
    and prestations than the country doing the complaining (which I guess was not being
    giving shit. I think it was Hungary).


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Denn on Tue Mar 2 08:25:33 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to MRO on Tue Mar 02 2021 01:32 am

    oh i thought you were canadian. you only act canadian.
    my bad dawg.

    He had me fooled with that Canadian accent lol, did'nt he say what you talkin aboot Willis?
    Maybe not.

    "Who you talkin about Willis?" - Isn't that a quote from the TV Show Diff'rent Strokes? That's an American TV show, as far as I know.

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Denn on Tue Mar 2 09:33:00 2021
    We should stop all trade with Communist Socialist countries and take
    care of US and let them take care of them.

    Why should we send money to countries that hate us?? Charity should
    begin at home...keep the money here, and let them hate us for free. We
    help them, but they'd never return the favor.

    Daryl

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Daryl Stout on Tue Mar 2 12:31:26 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Daryl Stout to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 09:33 am

    Why should we send money to countries that hate us?? Charity should
    begin at home...keep the money here, and let them hate us for free. We help them, but they'd never return the favor.

    Maybe a show of goodwill can help ease tensions sometimes.

    Nightfox

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Arelor on Tue Mar 2 13:41:40 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Boraxman on Mon Mar 01 2021 06:58 am

    I don't think China is interested in open conflict. The current status-quo hevily benefits them. They can gather vast amounts of power by selling everybody cheap rubbish and then using that money to purchase debt from their customers.

    Wars are no longer fought with weapons but with money. If we can't bomb you out of existence we will bankrupt your economy. Look at the financial crisis of the late 80s... look at how trade is so one sided now. Amazing.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to hollowone on Tue Mar 2 13:44:29 2021
    Re: Another War over Pacific?
    By: hollowone to Al on Mon Mar 01 2021 03:30 pm

    Do you think there will be another war over Pacific trade routes in XXI century?

    I mean like real war, not just a trade war and influencing?

    War is always a possibility but I doubt anything like WW1 and 2 will ever occur again. With the ever increasing capabilities of nuclear strikes, no one wants to be obliterated. Yes, there are some countries that *think* they'll win, but no one wins in war.

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  • From Dux@VERT/PATHUNKN to Denn on Tue Mar 2 10:54:08 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to MRO on Tue Mar 02 2021 01:18 am

    Yes it really is, It's only getting worse here on a Daily basis, a $60 a month supply of insulin under Joe Biden shot up to $700.

    The increase in insulin prices has been going on for most of this decade, even before Trump. Iowa's Grassley has been yelling about this since before Biden took office.

    Republican's are all about privatizing and profiting, the idea that it's somehow Biden's fault, or Democrat plot to spike the cost of prescriptions and healthcare is idiotic, it's the exact opposite of their goal.

    This is classic FUD aimed at the AARP crowd who are increasing insulin dependent.

    Our gas prices here over night shot up another 20 cents per gallon.

    Big brain time here -- maybe, juuuust maybe, it has to do with price and demand for fuel catching up to the supply issues caused by the catastrophic cold, ice, and snow that huge parts of the south and Texas are still recovering from?

    We're paying market prices... should we not be? Should Biden be using the wealth of the nation and strategic reserves to somehow smooth the price of fuel? That certainly seem contrary to the small government and capitalistic mindset. It sounds like socialism to me.

    I read that Joe Biden in his first month in office had 100,000 Covid deaths.

    Cool... because Biden is a genie who can snap his fingers and immediately alter the tragectory that the GOP/Trump put us on in 2020, right?

    Attempting to blame Biden for CV19 deaths within his first month of office is low energy and low intelligence.


    If you really, honestly, believe that these are valid criticisms and failures of Biden during his first month or so in office then you have your head so far up Fox News ass that it's probably not recoverable.

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  • From Dux@VERT/PATHUNKN to Denn on Tue Mar 2 11:08:47 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to MRO on Tue Mar 02 2021 01:46 am

    There is a federal Gvnmt incentive for reported covid-19 deaths, My guess is many people would have died because of age and health soon any way.
    and I've heard stories of Heart attack deaths, Strokes and other types of death's being passed off as Covid so they could get the insentives.

    You're trying to imply that the government is paying for reporting CV19 deaths... Who are they paying? Why? It makes zero sense at all.

    Some Scientist's beleive we should have just let it go through communities like we do the flu to get to heard immunity.
    Maybe less people would have died?

    What scientists?

    This isn't a seasonal flu, it's far more dangerous short and long term... anyone disputing that at this point is ignorant of reality.

    Think critically -- how would it be possible for less people to have died by letting this run unchecked? The spread on this thing is greater than season flu and the impact, particularly to marginally healthy people, is far greater. There was no scenario where "heard immunity" would have been achieved before nearly everyone got it.

    What you're proposing w/ letting CV19 run its course isn't so much attaining heard immunity but a tacit culling of everyone with marginal health, which would likely include a shockingly large portion of our elderly population.

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  • From Dux@VERT/PATHUNKN to Denn on Tue Mar 2 11:10:48 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to hollowone on Tue Mar 02 2021 01:51 am

    Certainly don't support the Commander in theif A.K.A (the Commander in Cheat) Sleepy Joe Biden and Heel's Up Harris.

    textbook DARVO happening here... Yah when I think about grifters and thieves I certainly don't have the Trump family at the top of the list, its Biden...

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Nightfox on Tue Mar 2 17:49:48 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Daryl Stout on Tue Mar 02 2021 12:31 pm

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Daryl Stout to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 09:33 am

    Why should we send money to countries that hate us?? Charity should begin at home...keep the money here, and let them hate us for free. We help them, but
    they'd never return the favor.

    Maybe a show of goodwill can help ease tensions sometimes.

    Nightfox


    My personal experience says otherwise.

    You give a hand out, they take your whole arm.

    I like to give people one chance to prove otherwise but I usually get shown the same result.
    People are suckers who only watch their own navel and don't give a damn if you make some
    selfless sacrifice for them.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Tue Mar 2 15:56:00 2021
    what happened is other countries dropped the ball and china got focused and cre
    ted industrial revolutions. they almost have more farmers than people in the u
    a. they pretty much kick ass.

    This country sure did when it stopped building industry and started
    shipping those jobs to places like China.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DARYL STOUT on Tue Mar 2 16:12:00 2021
    We should stop all trade with Communist Socialist countries and take care of US and let them take care of them.

    Why should we send money to countries that hate us?? Charity should
    begin at home...keep the money here, and let them hate us for free. We
    help them, but they'd never return the favor.

    I have often wondered the same thing. Why do we do that?


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DENN on Tue Mar 2 16:14:00 2021
    We should stop all trade with Communist Socialist countries and take care of US and let them take care of them.

    That is what Communism is supposed to be (i.e. a society that doesn't need
    our filthy capitalism). But those countries will take the money when they
    can get it for sure.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Denn on Tue Mar 2 20:56:38 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to MRO on Tue Mar 02 2021 01:27 am


    they are saying that biden is going to bed super early and some days he puts a 'lid' on the white house. meaning all meetings and goings on are canceled for the day. harris is fielding calls with foreign leaders on her own.

    they are saying biden turns in around 7pm when trump would get 3-4 hrs of sleep.

    That's why he's sleepy Joe Biden :)


    look at the recent video of the press asking him about the border wall.

    "what did you learn?"

    "a lot"

    dude could barely function and his eyes were closed up again.
    he just had to get out of there.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Tue Mar 2 20:58:22 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 08:25 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to MRO on Tue Mar 02 2021 01:32 am

    oh i thought you were canadian. you only act canadian.
    my bad dawg.

    He had me fooled with that Canadian accent lol, did'nt he say what

    you
    talkin aboot Willis?
    Maybe not.

    "Who you talkin about Willis?" - Isn't that a quote from the TV Show Diff'rent Strokes? That's an American TV show, as far as I know.

    Nightfox

    oh poor data.

    i'm calling you data because you remind me of data on star trek when he doesnt understand humor so he analizes the joke in literal terms.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dux on Tue Mar 2 21:01:25 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dux to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 10:54 am


    Yes it really is, It's only getting worse here on a Daily basis, a $60 a month supply of insulin under Joe Biden shot up to $700.

    The increase in insulin prices has been going on for most of this decade, even before Trump. Iowa's Grassley has been yelling about this since before Biden took office.


    did you know what trump did about the insulin price?


    Big brain time here -- maybe, juuuust maybe, it has to do with price and demand for fuel catching up to the supply issues caused by the catastrophic cold, ice, and snow that huge parts of the south and Texas are still recovering from?

    WRONG. speculators drive up the prices of oil.
    there hasnt been enough time for prices to go up due to real world issues.


    I read that Joe Biden in his first month in office had 100,000 Covid deaths.

    Cool... because Biden is a genie who can snap his fingers and immediately alter the tragectory that the GOP/Trump put us on in 2020, right?

    Attempting to blame Biden for CV19 deaths within his first month of office is low energy and low intelligence.


    If you really, honestly, believe that these are valid criticisms and failures of Biden during his first month or so in office then you have your head so far up Fox News ass that it's probably not recoverable.


    "big brain time here" ... guess you didnt pay attention to all of biden's promises that he would deliver on DAY ONE.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dux on Tue Mar 2 21:02:51 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dux to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 11:10 am

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Denn to hollowone on Tue Mar 02 2021 01:51 am

    Certainly don't support the Commander in theif A.K.A (the Commander in Cheat) Sleepy Joe Biden and Heel's Up Harris.

    textbook DARVO happening here... Yah when I think about grifters and thieves I certainly don't have the Trump family at the top of the list, its Biden...
    Yeah the big biden guy and his son are so trustworthy.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Tue Mar 2 07:07:00 2021
    ========================================================================
    System: realitycheckBBS
    Area: DOVE-NET General
    Date: 03-01-21 16:39
    From: MRO
    To: all
    Subj: Re: Rush Limbaugh ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    no i didnt and i'm not annoyed. in the twat filter you go, moron.

    ========================================================================


    We all did it now...



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Denn on Tue Mar 2 07:14:00 2021
    Denn wrote to MRO <=-

    Yes it really is, It's only getting worse here on a Daily basis, a $60
    a month supply of insulin under Joe Biden shot up to $700.

    Insulin has been increasing in price for some time -- the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing called "Priced out of a Lifesaving Drug: Getting Answers on the Rising cost of Insulin".

    On April 10, 2019.

    I read that Joe Biden in his first month in office had 100,000 Covid deaths. I hope in two years Republicans can get a better footing in the Senate and Take back the house.

    Yet another case of Republicans making a mess of things and blaming the Democrats for cleaning it up.

    By better footing, do you mean trying to pass laws intended to supress votes and continuing to perpetuate the "stolen election" lie?


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Denn on Tue Mar 2 07:20:00 2021
    Denn wrote to MRO <=-

    Trump also beat covid quickly.

    As he claimed, they told him it was a miracle. He also had the best
    healthcare that no one else could afford.

    Then, why did he get vaccinated in secret in January if he'd gotten covid
    and shaken it off?

    Arizona Legislature Just subpoena'd the 2020 ballot's and voting machines.

    As is their right. It doesn't prove anything.

    Gavin Newsome is being recalled, and Democrats are even trying to
    recall him.

    No democrats that I know of. All of the people I see (I live in California, and I'm a democrat) at the recall tables are non-mask wearing rural Republicans who resent *any* kind of control from Sacramento. The only vehicles I see with stickers for the recall are usually jacked up 4x4 trucks with Trump stickers, which doesn't help their cause.

    His name is spelled "Newsom", BTW.








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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Denn on Tue Mar 2 07:25:00 2021
    Denn wrote to MRO <=-

    Some Scientist's beleive we should have just let it go through communities like we do the flu to get to heard immunity.
    Maybe less people would have died?

    Not likely. More would have died, but businesses would have stayed open and the economy may not have suffered. My guess is that the powers that
    influence the government thought that keeping things open would affect their bottom lines less than a lockdown that saves lives. Except for the whole "dying customers" thing. Dead people can't earn/spend money, not sure if they'd thought of that.








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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to hollowone on Tue Mar 2 07:31:00 2021
    hollowone wrote to Denn <=-

    Then 2008 came and each of the EU country instead of "let's go through
    it together' started showing a position 'me first, then perhaps you and
    we don't care about the poorest in our small union".

    That hit Greece and other southern countries in the EU badly.
    That made Turkey very alien to EU values (defined politically).

    When you have such a difference in economies a union doesn't make sense - unless there's unity between the countries.

    When Greece ran into problems, mostly of their own doing, a non-EU Greece could have devalued their currency and attracted exports and tourism. When tied to the Euro, they have no choice but to look to member countries.

    With the sociogical/cultural differences and you get the friction that happened between Greece and the other member countries (especially Germany, who "forgot" the whole issue of Greece forgiving a huge amount of German
    debt after WWII)

    It's like my college roommate, who left for the summer and expected me to carry his part of the rent, then lectured me about money management when I accidentally bounced a check to him.





    Since then it's only worse as by general view only French and German interests are represented in the union. UK had already quit the game
    and I'm expecting more crisises within EU rather than growth until somebody defines a path that can help reunify individual approaches.

    I'm curious how this develops, but I have personally mixed feelings
    that EU can survive next 20 years. In this formula it will simply break being verregulated.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Al on Wed Mar 3 22:39:00 2021
    Al wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    @REPLY: <603C914A.49079.dove-gen@bbs.mozysswamp.org>
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Al on Mon
    Mar 01 2021 06:55 am

    We don't know there is a war coming until its too late, and we've already contributed to our own demise.

    There is a big difference between trade and war.

    I'm not sure what you mean by this. China is already trying to maneuvre itself in opposition to the USA and to Australia. They have ramped up their rhetoric against Australia and are attacking us economically.

    The mood here about China has shifted dramatically now that they have ripped their mask off.

    The USA had hoped by opening trade to China that it would become like a democratic Western nation. Now that China has power, it no longer has to feign being a cooperative global player.

    The war between China and the West is already underway I think.

    There are also big differences between the PRC and governments in the
    west but I don't think that means war or that a war is immanent.

    It will depend on how far China want to press, and how much we are willing to bend.

    Look at what they have done to Tibet, to the Uighurs. This isn't a country that shy of using harsh coercive measures.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to hollowone on Wed Mar 3 22:44:00 2021
    hollowone wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Good point. I would think there is an argument that the EU is not
    really a "Western" culture. I heard someone way that the USA *IS* now "The West", and that UK, the EU can no longer claim that they are part
    of Western culture. It's an argument that has merit.

    Not sure if I know how to answer before you elaborate a bit more how do you define Western culture in the context of not seeing EU/UK being
    one.

    Socialistic elements in the governing formula excludes them, or what do you mean?

    Modern Western civilisation has been characterised by a move towards reason, freedom, liberty, self-ownership, a move away from rule by authority to contractual relations. It is characterised by Liberalism, tolerance of opinion and free and open discussion.

    We see in the UK for example, more and more state action which limits speech, which penalises speech, more control, coercion and more government oversight. Free speech is valued less and less, as is reason.

    Europe has always lagged with regards to freedom. European nations have chosen fascism, something that Americans have never done.

    I note that many of these problems exist in the USA, but the USA is divided. There exists elements in the USA which still oppose the emerging authoritarinism. Europeans however I think are less likely to do so.

    Also, Western Europe is demographically changing (as are parts of the USA).

    The USA really has been the only nation which truly valued freedom, where there has been a DESIRE for freedom.

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to hollowone on Wed Mar 3 07:44:12 2021
    On 3/1/2021 7:30 AM, hollowone wrote:

    Do you think there will be another war over Pacific trade routes in XXI century?

    I mean like real war, not just a trade war and influencing?

    Depends on if anything comes from China's naval posturing in the sea
    between Vietnam and Thailand... That would most likely draw inevitable, missiles in the air warfare with China if they invaded Thailand.

    I think the trade and cyber warfare with China and the US has been
    largely inevitable for a very long time coming.
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  • From Dux@VERT/PATHUNKN to MRO on Wed Mar 3 14:45:53 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to Dux on Tue Mar 02 2021 09:01 pm

    did you know what trump did about the insulin price?

    I do, Trump had 2 main initiatives to address insulin prices --

    1) EO which he claimed would have a huge impact, but actually boiled down to expanding discounts from those at 200% of poverty to those at 350%

    2) Capped co-pay for Medicare users at $35

    Both of these are still in effect, but people are mistakenly saying that Biden reversed them.

    The other bit of fake news around this is the whole $1000 claim which was actually traced to a CGM that a mom wanted for her son and wasn't covered -- not insulin.


    WRONG. speculators drive up the prices of oil.
    there hasnt been enough time for prices to go up due to real world issues.

    Gee, I wonder what those speculators are speculating about? Perhaps it's reduced supply due to 20% of Texas' refinery capacity being idled? Or maybe it's that OPEC hasn't boosted production? Neither of these are "Biden" problems.

    "big brain time here" ... guess you didnt pay attention to all of biden's promises that he would deliver on DAY
    ONE.

    We just had 4 years of Braggart In Chief and you folks are out there thinking Biden can stop CV19 deaths "DAY ONE" keep grasping at straws, maybe you'll get one...

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Boraxman on Wed Mar 3 12:26:28 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Al on Wed Mar 03 2021 10:39 pm

    There is a big difference between trade and war.

    I'm not sure what you mean by this. China is already trying to maneuvre itself in opposition to the USA and to Australia. They have ramped up their rhetoric against Australia and are attacking us economically.

    I was talking about trade, not war.

    The mood here about China has shifted dramatically now that they have ripped their mask off.

    Canada also has a tough go with China since we are holding one of their citizens on charges brought by the US. There is a trial now that will likely end in that citizen being extradited to the US so in spite China has arrested two Canadian citizens in China.

    This is the kind of backwards nation China is but it is not a trade issue. It could very easily escalate but I hope not.

    It will depend on how far China want to press, and how much we are willing to bend.

    Look at what they have done to Tibet, to the Uighurs. This isn't a country that shy of using harsh coercive measures.

    I don't think we want to bend at all do we? China does now and always has done these kind of things. We can bring these things up with them but we can't choose for them.

    Trade is not a weapon. We trade with other nations if that makes sense and if it doesn't then we don't. In spite of what other nations do we are better off with a working trade deal if we want to trade with those nations.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Boondock@VERT/ELGATO to Al on Wed Mar 3 22:44:46 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Al to Boraxman on Wed Mar 03 2021 12:26:28




    Trade is not a weapon. We trade with other nations if that makes sense and
    I disagree.
    So does the entire history of civilisation. Trade is a war, and trade is a reason for war.
    I refer you to Von Klauswitz as a basic primer.

    Boondock

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Boondock on Wed Mar 3 16:21:21 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boondock to Al on Wed Mar 03 2021 10:44 pm

    I disagree.
    So does the entire history of civilisation. Trade is a war, and trade is a reason for war.
    I refer you to Von Klauswitz as a basic primer.

    Trade can and has been used as a weapon but I don't think it's a good weapon today.

    War is always a possibility, history is full of war.

    Where would you like to go today?

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Boondock@VERT/ELGATO to Boondock on Thu Mar 4 10:21:00 2021
    Al wrote to Boondock <=-

    I disagree.
    So does the entire history of civilisation. Trade is a war, and trade is a reason for war.
    I refer you to Von Klauswitz as a basic primer.

    Trade can and has been used as a weapon but I don't think it's a good weapon today.

    You stated categorically that Trade was not a weapon. Are you changing your mind? Do you think bombs and bullets are "better" weapons than trade?
    I'm seeking clarity. So far all I see is alphabet soup.

    War is always a possibility, history is full of war.

    War is ongoing. I referred to Von Clauswitz.. One of the most famous quotes from him is ôwar is merely the continuation of policy by other means.ö Clausewitz elaborates on this, stating that ôthe political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose.ö



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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Al on Thu Mar 4 22:20:00 2021
    Al wrote to Boraxman <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Al on Wed
    Mar 03 2021 10:39 pm

    There is a big difference between trade and war.

    I'm not sure what you mean by this. China is already trying to maneuvre itself in opposition to the USA and to Australia. They have ramped up their rhetoric against Australia and are attacking us economically.

    I was talking about trade, not war.

    The mood here about China has shifted dramatically now that they have ripped their mask off.

    Canada also has a tough go with China since we are holding one of their citizens on charges brought by the US. There is a trial now that will likely end in that citizen being extradited to the US so in spite China has arrested two Canadian citizens in China.

    This is the kind of backwards nation China is but it is not a trade
    issue. It could very easily escalate but I hope not.

    It will depend on how far China want to press, and how much we are willing to bend.

    Look at what they have done to Tibet, to the Uighurs. This isn't a country that shy of using harsh coercive measures.

    I don't think we want to bend at all do we? China does now and always
    has done these kind of things. We can bring these things up with them
    but we can't choose for them.

    Trade is not a weapon. We trade with other nations if that makes sense
    and if it doesn't then we don't. In spite of what other nations do we
    are better off with a working trade deal if we want to trade with those nations.

    There is in Australia a conflict of interest between Big Business that wants to trade with China, and the people and the government, which is considering things from a political and cultural point of view. The nation isn't unified in its position towards China. Our mining and education sector will want us to bend to keep Chinese money coming in, as would many other businesses I bet. Business leaders in Australia have been calling for the government to back off on their rhetoric.

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Boondock on Thu Mar 4 10:12:24 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boondock to Boondock on Thu Mar 04 2021 10:21 am

    You stated categorically that Trade was not a weapon. Are you changing your mind?

    No.

    Do you think bombs and bullets are "better" weapons than trade?
    I'm seeking clarity.

    My comments on trade did not speak of war. I was not thinking of war.

    So far all I see is alphabet soup.

    That is your alphabet soup. Enjoy.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Mar 4 13:39:10 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Tue Mar 02 2021 07:07 am

    no i didnt and i'm not annoyed. in the twat filter you go, moron.


    that's good
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Mar 4 13:41:16 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 07:14 am

    Insulin has been increasing in price for some time -- the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing called "Priced out of a Lifesaving Drug: Getting Answers on the Rising cost of Insulin".


    what did donald trump do to stop that that biden reversed?

    I read that Joe Biden in his first month in office had 100,000 Covid deaths. I hope in two years Republicans can get a better footing in the Senate and Take back the house.

    Yet another case of Republicans making a mess of things and blaming the Democrats for cleaning it up.


    but joe said he was going to save lives and do so many things day one.

    By better footing, do you mean trying to pass laws intended to supress votes and continuing to perpetuate the "stolen election" lie?


    there was rampant voter fraud. more than this country has ever seen before. the election was stolen.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Mar 4 13:44:09 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 07:20 am


    Trump also beat covid quickly.

    As he claimed, they told him it was a miracle. He also had the best healthcare that no one else could afford.

    hold on now. trump is a bad ass. dont be attributing it to his healthcare. dude ate big macs all day, got 3 hrs of sleep and watched tv and tweeted all day and night for 4 years. he didnt age a day.

    the man is a super human.
    Then, why did he get vaccinated in secret in January if he'd gotten covid and shaken it off?

    because some liberal whiner would do a story on it if he didnt.
    they would say he's convincing people to not get the shot.

    vehicles I see with stickers for the recall are usually jacked up 4x4 trucks with Trump stickers, which doesn't help their cause.

    whats wrong with trucks? i think you have truck envy
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Mar 4 13:45:37 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 07:25 am

    Denn wrote to MRO <=-

    Some Scientist's beleive we should have just let it go through communities like we do the flu to get to heard immunity.
    Maybe less people would have died?

    Not likely. More would have died, but businesses would have stayed open and the economy may not have suffered. My guess is that the powers that

    nothing we did accomplished anything. masks dont work and covid spread freely. not only THAT, but people were packing into the big box stores because they were bored as fuck. home depot and other stores were full to the fucking max.
    like every space was taken in the parking lot and nearby lots were used.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dux on Thu Mar 4 13:49:57 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dux to MRO on Wed Mar 03 2021 02:45 pm


    2) Capped co-pay for Medicare users at $35

    Both of these are still in effect, but people are mistakenly saying that Biden reversed them.


    biden froze an executive order from trump that was aimed at lowering the
    cost of insulin and injecable epinephrine which was not yet in effect.
    why?

    WRONG. speculators drive up the prices of oil.
    there hasnt been enough time for prices to go up due to real world issues.

    Gee, I wonder what those speculators are speculating about? Perhaps it's reduced supply due to 20% of Texas' refinery capacity being idled? Or maybe

    they do whatever they want. they drive up the price when they feel like it.
    you dont know how it works.

    We just had 4 years of Braggart In Chief and you folks are out there thinking Biden can stop CV19 deaths "DAY ONE" keep grasping at straws, maybe you'll get one...


    "big brain time" i thought trump was such a liar and biden was going to fix everything day one. he's not doing shit but reversing all the good trump has done.
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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Al on Thu Mar 4 11:07:25 2021
    On 3/3/2021 12:26 PM, Al wrote:
    Trade is not a weapon. We trade with other nations if that
    makes sense and if it doesn't then we don't. In spite of
    what other nations do we are better off with a working trade
    deal if we want to trade with those nations.

    Trade is, was and always will be a place for state level
    negotiations. In the end, trade should usually be limited
    to those that have at least respectable cultures and ethics
    IMO. That doesn't mean you force them to do anything,
    but you do NOT have to trade with them, and you can always
    suggest that others follow a similar precedent.

    In the end, the trade war with China was largely inevitable.
    They are a totalitarian state and do not negotiate in good
    faith. Opening trade in the hopes that it would lead to a
    more Western development of culture in China has failed. All
    it has done is make China slightly less Communist, much
    more Fascist and in the course has weakened domestic production
    in so many ways. If China invades Taiwan, it will take nearly
    two decades to catch up.
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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to MRO on Thu Mar 4 23:26:00 2021
    MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 07:14 am

    Insulin has been increasing in price for some time -- the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing called "Priced out of a Lifesaving Drug: Getting Answers on the Rising cost of Insulin".


    what did donald trump do to stop that that biden reversed?

    I read that Joe Biden in his first month in office had 100,000 Covid deaths. I hope in two years Republicans can get a better footing in the Senate and Take back the house.

    Yet another case of Republicans making a mess of things and blaming the Democrats for cleaning it up.


    but joe said he was going to save lives and do so many things day one.

    By better footing, do you mean trying to pass laws intended to supress votes and continuing to perpetuate the "stolen election" lie?


    there was rampant voter fraud. more than this country has ever seen before. the election was stolen. ---

    At least you can say that here, without being censored by authoritarians. +1 for BBS's.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Boraxman on Thu Mar 4 23:53:51 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Thu Mar 04 2021 11:26 pm


    there was rampant voter fraud. more than this country has ever seen before. the election was stolen. ---

    At least you can say that here, without being censored by authoritarians.
    +1 for BBS's.


    yeah that would be a ban on fb and instagram and twitter
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Boraxman on Fri Mar 5 08:11:38 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Thu Mar 04 2021 11:26 pm

    there was rampant voter fraud. more than this country has ever seen
    before. the election was stolen. ---

    At least you can say that here, without being censored by authoritarians. +1 for BBS's.

    Well there's a debate over whether there was actually voter fraud or not.. If there was no actual fraud, then it would be fake news, and then people who say "the election was stolen" etc. would be spreading falsehoods.

    Nightfox

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Fri Mar 5 06:24:00 2021
    MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    no i didnt and i'm not annoyed. in the twat filter you go, moron.

    that's good

    That wasn't me.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Fri Mar 5 06:25:00 2021
    MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    there was rampant voter fraud. more than this country has ever seen before. the election was stolen.

    Yes, someone should be looking into Mcconnell's and Graham's election
    results.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Fri Mar 5 06:43:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Dux <=-

    biden froze an executive order from trump that was aimed at lowering
    the cost of insulin and injecable epinephrine which was not yet in
    effect. why?

    He put a pause on all executive orders until March 22, which is accepted practice of incoming administrations to make sure the previous administration's executive orders are aligned with the new administration's direction.

    MRO is either spreading FUD or is unaware of history.




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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Fri Mar 5 16:04:41 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Fri Mar 05 2021 08:11 am

    At least you can say that here, without being censored by authoritarians. +1 for BBS's.

    Well there's a debate over whether there was actually voter fraud or not.. If there was no actual fraud, then it would be fake news, and then people who say "the election was stolen" etc. would be spreading falsehoods.

    Nightfox

    it's on video. there are sworn statements.
    so they can debate whatever they want.

    who here really thinks more black people voted for sleepy joe than
    obama?

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 5 16:05:04 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Fri Mar 05 2021 06:24 am

    MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    no i didnt and i'm not annoyed. in the twat filter you go, moron.

    that's good

    That wasn't me.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 5 16:06:53 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Fri Mar 05 2021 06:43 am

    biden froze an executive order from trump that was aimed at lowering the cost of insulin and injecable epinephrine which was not yet in effect. why?

    He put a pause on all executive orders until March 22, which is accepted practice of incoming administrations to make sure the previous administration's executive orders are aligned with the new administration's direction.

    MRO is either spreading FUD or is unaware of history.

    poindexter is making excuses.
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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Dream Master on Fri Mar 5 23:05:00 2021
    Dream Master wrote to Arelor <=-

    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Boraxman on Mon Mar 01 2021 06:58 am

    I don't think China is interested in open conflict. The current status-quo hevily benefits them. They can gather vast amounts of power by selling everybody cheap rubbish and then using that money to purchase debt from their customers.

    Wars are no longer fought with weapons but with money. If we can't
    bomb you out of existence we will bankrupt your economy. Look at the financial crisis of the late 80s... look at how trade is so one sided
    now. Amazing.

    Back in the times organized economic masses could dominate. What is equally fascinating today is how masses of chaotically motivated individuals can shift the course as well (vide: GameStop/Reddits vs. hedge funds)

    Economic war today is fought on many fronts

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Tracker1 on Fri Mar 5 23:22:00 2021
    Tracker1 wrote to hollowone <=-

    On 3/1/2021 7:30 AM, hollowone wrote:

    Do you think there will be another war over Pacific trade routes in XXI century?

    I mean like real war, not just a trade war and influencing?

    Depends on if anything comes from China's naval posturing in the sea between Vietnam and Thailand... That would most likely draw inevitable, missiles in the air warfare with China if they invaded Thailand.

    That's interesting reminder. I totally forgot that both Vietnam and Thailand and generally whole Siam part of far east won't just watch China exploring the trade routes. Not even saying India...

    This reminds me that it's not exactly an easy game to go for.. not as easy as Japan did during early WWII they unleashed in the Pacific, at least.

    I think the trade and cyber warfare with China and the US has been
    largely inevitable for a very long time coming.

    This is something amusing and terryfying at the same time. China's and Russia's power to cyber-influence things... especially at the country that fucking invented hacking 50 years ago or so...

    /h1





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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Boraxman on Fri Mar 5 23:44:00 2021
    Not sure if I know how to answer before you elaborate a bit more how do you define Western culture in the context of not seeing EU/UK being
    one.

    Modern Western civilisation has been characterised by a move towards reason, freedom, liberty, self-ownership, a move away from rule by authority to contractual relations. It is characterised by Liberalism, tolerance of opinion and free and open discussion.

    Well I find liberalism at huge crisis in the Western world for a while. UK, US as nominal examples of Western culture. My own Poland, Hungary as recently acquired western affiliates from Central/eastern flank, to add their own cents to the story.

    Then think about countries like France who champion freedom by DNA, being hit by terrorism and counter terrorism acts just because freedom isn't undestood the same way as it used to.

    Certainly freedom to speak and reason beyond borders set up front is something that is heavily tested across both continents (US, EU). I miss the world we did not need to even talk about it and have things for granted.

    But aside of small disputes, even those I have here.. I trust in freedom-driven rebelious natures of both individuals and nations per se.

    That's what also keeps me here. Aside of some stupid, arrogant comments I'm driving or receiving. I respect the right to have a unique feeling and perception among anybody I disagree with or more often, I simply don't understand.

    We see in the UK for example, more and more state action which limits speech, which penalises speech, more control, coercion and more
    government oversight. Free speech is valued less and less, as is
    reason.

    UK is tricky to me today. From one side I think leaving EU is a mistake, from the other I think I envy the courage. I deal with my UK partners business wise on a daily basis.. some things are like I respect your uniqueness.. some are like.. just few months ago it was so easy... now you're fucked... I trully believe it's just temporary and we all be just fine. but limiting freedom to speak is something I haven't spotted.

    Among my UK friends both native and international people are pissed being locked down wiht various level of understanding. there are people who still don't accept brexit.. and there are people who just crack on it... life/business as usual beside all that.. never talked about the impression that you can't express what you really mean (unless I take usual british indirectness for something unusual)

    Europe has always lagged with regards to freedom. European nations
    have chosen fascism, something that Americans have never done.

    I'd not say so.. there are some pioneers of freedom... it just did not connect with fighting for freedom so bravely, thus different outcomes. But I'd never say French are not brave to fight for freedom and understanding freedom wrongly..

    I also appreciate Viking times old understanding of freedom in Nordics, which may be hard to get for people who understand they trust in gov and system to go into social support beyond even Democrats-driven imagination in US-standards...

    in my own country - poland - we value freedom more than most of the things.. we just fight for it mostly in a stupid way... occasionally we just help to collapse communism -- accidentally :>

    I don't see lack of feeling the freedom in EU.. but EU as instituation is something that I'd call freedom last. All I see when I observe Brussels is amateur and naive approach to create a federation against any player who is part of the trade union and that's fucking it.

    I note that many of these problems exist in the USA, but the USA is divided. There exists elements in the USA which still oppose the
    emerging authoritarinism. Europeans however I think are less likely to
    do so.

    I'm not sure how much I want to comment US after 'you're fucking alien, go fuck yourself with your opinion' approach.. but yes.. USA encounters a very interesting shift in both policing and social movements. indeed.


    The USA really has been the only nation which truly valued freedom,
    where there has been a DESIRE for freedom.

    One of the few untouched US values I see as foreign commenter is the _rebelious_ nature of valueing freedom. Although sometimes it sounds like 70+ years old Iggy Pop singing 'I'm a punk rocker, yes I'm' with what many Americans call 'a Sleepy Joe' style of singing about rebelion.

    I still remember how to punk rock the 'I fucking rip you off' way to take this sleepy jumps as rebelion what so ever..

    Even attacking Capitol looked like staged, pretty lame effort to make a statement.

    But I'm sorry. I miss American spirit that could teach IRA how to do domestic terrorism. That I could call a freedom.

    Now it's just bunch of retired downs in youngster skins, who just try hard but can't run. Pretty laughable... 80+ y/o Clint Eastwood could take down half of those clowns before they finished supporting that act of rebelion.

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 5 23:44:00 2021
    When Greece ran into problems, mostly of their own doing, a non-EU
    Greece could have devalued their currency and attracted exports and tourism. When tied to the Euro, they have no choice but to look to
    member countries.

    With the sociogical/cultural differences and you get the friction that happened between Greece and the other member countries (especially Germany, who "forgot" the whole issue of Greece forgiving a huge amount
    of German debt after WWII)

    It's like my college roommate, who left for the summer and expected me
    to carry his part of the rent, then lectured me about money management when I accidentally bounced a check to him.

    I believe that there is a certain level of simplification in your statements that make things innaccurate. But I can't say you don't have valid points up there.

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  • From BoonDock@VERT/GATOFUEG to Nightfox on Sat Mar 6 12:12:05 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Fri Mar 05 2021 08:11:38

    Well there's a debate over whether there was actually voter fraud or not..

    It's not "debate"... it posturing.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Nightfox on Sun Mar 7 15:09:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Thu
    Mar 04 2021 11:26 pm

    there was rampant voter fraud. more than this country has ever seen
    before. the election was stolen. ---

    At least you can say that here, without being censored by authoritarians. +1 for BBS's.

    Well there's a debate over whether there was actually voter fraud or
    not.. If there was no actual fraud, then it would be fake news, and
    then people who say "the election was stolen" etc. would be spreading falsehoods.

    True, but many falsehoods are not determined till later. Same with many truths, they aren't know as true until later.

    Either way, the problem isn't so much "free speech", but lack of
    critical thinking. It takes two to deceive, one to spread deception,
    and the other to buy it. There sure are a lot of buying easily buying
    into it.



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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to hollowone on Sun Mar 7 15:31:00 2021
    hollowone wrote to Boraxman <=-

    Well I find liberalism at huge crisis in the Western world for a while. UK, US as nominal examples of Western culture. My own Poland, Hungary
    as recently acquired western affiliates from Central/eastern flank, to
    add their own cents to the story.

    Then think about countries like France who champion freedom by DNA,
    being hit by terrorism and counter terrorism acts just because freedom isn't undestood the same way as it used to.

    I agree. Liberalism isn't simply freedom, it the breaking of restraint. Liberalism isn't just freedom to live your life as you see fit, it is
    free market Captalism, open borders, a reevaluation of values, which
    places the right of action above tradition. I see chaos as the result,
    not just in our politics, but in our cities, in our buildings, in
    suburbs that are the creation of hundreds of amateur "developers" each
    doing their own thing for their own purpose, instead of being designed
    as a cohesive whole.

    I value freedom, but I'm not keen on Liberalism. True, USEFUL freedom
    needs restraint, barriers, restriction. Look at young millenials, who
    are so, so free to express their identity however they want, work
    wherever they want, work how they want, yet struggle to get life
    started, mired in debt, gig-economy jobs, high housing costs etc.
    Liberalism cannot deal with crisis, because it is a "sunny weather"
    ideology. A liberal society faced with a problem can only hope the
    "free market" somehow solves it, which it doesn't.

    Certainly freedom to speak and reason beyond borders set up front is something that is heavily tested across both continents (US, EU). I
    miss the world we did not need to even talk about it and have things
    for granted.

    But aside of small disputes, even those I have here.. I trust in freedom-driven rebelious natures of both individuals and nations per
    se.

    That's what also keeps me here. Aside of some stupid, arrogant comments I'm driving or receiving. I respect the right to have a unique feeling
    and perception among anybody I disagree with or more often, I simply
    don't understand.

    I respect anyone that tries to engage in honest debate. There are
    people here who I think have wrong views, but they at least debate in
    good faith.

    We see in the UK for example, more and more state action which limits speech, which penalises speech, more control, coercion and more
    government oversight. Free speech is valued less and less, as is
    reason.

    UK is tricky to me today. From one side I think leaving EU is a
    mistake, from the other I think I envy the courage. I deal with my UK partners business wise on a daily basis.. some things are like I
    respect your uniqueness.. some are like.. just few months ago it was so easy... now you're fucked... I trully believe it's just temporary and
    we all be just fine. but limiting freedom to speak is something I
    haven't spotted.

    Among my UK friends both native and international people are pissed
    being locked down wiht various level of understanding. there are people who still don't accept brexit.. and there are people who just crack on it... life/business as usual beside all that.. never talked about the impression that you can't express what you really mean (unless I take usual british indirectness for something unusual)

    I've spoken to a friend in the UK, and that is his impression too.
    Australians don't seem as worried about lockdowns.

    Europe has always lagged with regards to freedom. European nations
    have chosen fascism, something that Americans have never done.

    I'd not say so.. there are some pioneers of freedom... it just did not connect with fighting for freedom so bravely, thus different outcomes.
    But I'd never say French are not brave to fight for freedom and understanding freedom wrongly..

    I also appreciate Viking times old understanding of freedom in Nordics, which may be hard to get for people who understand they trust in gov
    and system to go into social support beyond even Democrats-driven imagination in US-standards...

    in my own country - poland - we value freedom more than most of the things.. we just fight for it mostly in a stupid way... occasionally we just help to collapse communism -- accidentally :>

    I don't see lack of feeling the freedom in EU.. but EU as instituation
    is something that I'd call freedom last. All I see when I observe
    Brussels is amateur and naive approach to create a federation against
    any player who is part of the trade union and that's fucking it.

    There definately are Europeans who value freedom, but I find that in
    Europe, in particular Western Europe, there is more of an acceptence of
    rule by intellectuals or the elite. Well there WAS. That may be
    changing now, and may now not be true.


    I note that many of these problems exist in the USA, but the USA is divided. There exists elements in the USA which still oppose the
    emerging authoritarinism. Europeans however I think are less likely to
    do so.

    I'm not sure how much I want to comment US after 'you're fucking alien,
    go fuck yourself with your opinion' approach.. but yes.. USA encounters
    a very interesting shift in both policing and social movements. indeed.


    The USA really has been the only nation which truly valued freedom,
    where there has been a DESIRE for freedom.

    One of the few untouched US values I see as foreign commenter is the _rebelious_ nature of valueing freedom. Although sometimes it sounds
    like 70+ years old Iggy Pop singing 'I'm a punk rocker, yes I'm' with
    what many Americans call 'a Sleepy Joe' style of singing about
    rebelion.

    I still remember how to punk rock the 'I fucking rip you off' way to
    take this sleepy jumps as rebelion what so ever..

    Even attacking Capitol looked like staged, pretty lame effort to make a statement.

    But I'm sorry. I miss American spirit that could teach IRA how to do domestic terrorism. That I could call a freedom.

    Now it's just bunch of retired downs in youngster skins, who just try
    hard but can't run. Pretty laughable... 80+ y/o Clint Eastwood could
    take down half of those clowns before they finished supporting that act
    of rebelion.

    Rebellion is a critical element of a free society. Rebellion is what overthrows tyranny and authoritarianism. Freedom is the grandma on her
    porch with her gun, defending her home against state seizure, and a
    scepticism of your rulers. The USA is unique in the sense that the
    founding father actually intended for the people to be able to oppose
    the government to a degree. They recognised that people had a right, a
    duty, to overthrow a bad government. In monarchical societies, the
    ruling family never said "If we go bad, we deserve to be kicked out".
    Emperors don't say that. In Europe, people were often SUBJECTS,
    whereas the US tradition is that the nation IS the people, and they are
    not subjects.

    Now of course, much has changed since then.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to hollowone on Sun Mar 7 15:45:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Arelor to Boraxman on Mon Mar 01 2021 06:58 am

    I don't think China is interested in open conflict. The current status-quo hevily benefits them. They can gather vast amounts of power by selling everybody cheap rubbish and then using that money to purchase debt from their customers.

    Wars are no longer fought with weapons but with money. If we can't
    bomb you out of existence we will bankrupt your economy. Look at the financial crisis of the late 80s... look at how trade is so one sided
    now. Amazing.

    Back in the times organized economic masses could dominate. What is equally fascinating today is how masses of chaotically motivated individuals can shift the course as well (vide: GameStop/Reddits vs.
    hedge funds)

    Economic war today is fought on many fronts

    Gamestop is just chaos though, with no constructive goals. Few people
    are going to benefit in the end. It has no objective, no constructive
    vision, other than "screw you". It's the last attempts at dignity from
    a financially broken generation.



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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Boraxman on Sun Mar 7 05:16:26 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Nightfox on Sun Mar 07 2021 15:09:00


    Boraxman> Either way, the problem isn't so much "free speech", but lack
    Boraxman> of critical thinking. It takes two to deceive, one to spread
    Boraxman> deception, and the other to buy it. There sure are a lot of
    Boraxman> buying easily buying into it.

    Wizard's First Rule:
    People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
    People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident
    they can, and so are all the easier to fool.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Rampage on Sun Mar 7 14:10:31 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Rampage to Boraxman on Sun Mar 07 2021 05:16 am

    Wizard's First Rule:
    People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

    people are stupid because they are raised to be stupid. they are fed untruths since their childhood. only a few people start seeing the contradictions and
    stop believing everything they are told buy untrustworthy sources.

    i knew the media was full of shit ever since i was young and i saw a story on something local and strangely enough, everything was wrong about it. and then it happened again. and again.
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to MRO on Sun Mar 7 16:20:47 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to Rampage on Sun Mar 07 2021 02:10 pm

    i knew the media was full of shit ever since i was young and i saw a story o something local and strangely enough, everything was wrong about it. and th it happened again. and again.

    Pretty much this.

    Seriously.

    Everybody will pick a newspaper and scorn some article which talks about something they are experts about, when the article gets everything wrong. Then they will turn the page and swallow the next article whole as if it was Holy Truth writen by the All-Mighty Himself.

    Just no.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Rampage on Mon Mar 8 13:31:00 2021
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    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Boraxman to Nightfox on
    Sun Mar 07 2021 15:09:00


    Boraxman> Either way, the problem isn't so much "free speech", but
    lack
    Boraxman> of critical thinking. It takes two to deceive, one to
    spread
    Boraxman> deception, and the other to buy it. There sure are a lot of
    Boraxman> buying easily buying into it.

    Wizard's First Rule:
    People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and
    beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People
    are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and
    the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the
    easier to fool.


    Motivated reasoning, it is called. Pretty much everyone will rearrange their priorities, their values, for any immediate gain. Does the company I work for want to redifine sustainability as just being about "social justice" and not preventing the sixth mass extinction? Then they will perform whatever mental gymnastics are necessary to believe that this new definition is still effective environmentally.

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to MRO on Mon Mar 8 10:35:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Rampage <=-

    i knew the media was full of shit ever since i was young and i saw a
    story on something local and strangely enough, everything was wrong
    about it. and then it happened again. and again. ---

    And more people are realizing this. That's why the media companies are having financial problems. And it got worse over the last year for them.


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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Boraxman on Tue Mar 9 22:03:00 2021
    I value freedom, but I'm not keen on Liberalism.

    I still like to call myself moderate liberal, but this is heavily tested.
    Still this is closer to me than traditional conservatism, although I also have lots of respect to tradition.

    True, USEFUL freedom
    needs restraint, barriers, restriction.

    I'd rather say guidance, but I think I get your point.

    Look at young millenials, who
    are so, so free to express their identity however they want, work
    wherever they want, work how they want, yet struggle to get life
    started, mired in debt, gig-economy jobs, high housing costs etc.

    I blame the Internet not unrestrained freedom of expression alone.
    If you keep freedom unrestrained and allow information to pass through and influence at speed of light not years, decades or generations.. you get chaos as the net product of the untackled dynamism and lack of proper change management as I call it at work.

    Hippie generation back in 60ties envies for uncontrolled freedom and it changes the pop culture, not mainstream tradition. If these people had internet back then as fucked up as we do have today... you'd have lsd junky gays full of color, preaching spaghetti gods, speaking nonsense in mixed set of languages you can't recall yours anymore... which is what we commonly call schisophrenia by medical terms...

    Our kids generations all are bi-bolar due to overload of info they are hit by and can't process properly, not even speaking of adaptation.

    Liberalism cannot deal with crisis, because it is a "sunny weather" ideology. A liberal society faced with a problem can only hope the
    "free market" somehow solves it, which it doesn't.

    Too much liberalism in economic "uncontrol" is always a good recipe for a crisis if I add this context to the talk. I love the idea of the free market and I had a moments of belief that this can be self-controlling mechanism.. but not if there the stash of capital available to individual parties contributting to the system is so much unbalanced over time.

    Certainly freedom to speak and reason beyond borders set up front is something that is heavily tested across both continents (US, EU). I
    miss the world we did not need to even talk about it and have things
    for granted.

    I like borders but I equally like clear and safe paths to cross them in a way. I have no problem with visas.. I have no problem with protecting your own people first.. at the same time I see that richer the country is, easier it is to import aliens to do the dirty job. When you accept it, you also can't blame the alien that they come to you with an ambition to leave the low-job, kind of legal slavery prison and do better.. that was their dream when they came in.

    How can you incorporate them into your culture, embrace them.. learn from them.. be inclusive and respectful is something of a challenge to many.

    I respect anyone that tries to engage in honest debate. There are
    people here who I think have wrong views, but they at least debate in
    good faith.

    That is fair enough to continue. I believe that conversation is not about fighting with words to change the mind of the other contributors who joined it. It's about enriching all sides who contribute in a way that's often unique to each of them.


    I've spoken to a friend in the UK, and that is his impression too. Australians don't seem as worried about lockdowns.

    In Poland I see people rebeling against it more often. Or trying to have life as usual as much as possible.


    There definately are Europeans who value freedom, but I find that in Europe, in particular Western Europe, there is more of an acceptence of rule by intellectuals or the elite. Well there WAS. That may be
    changing now, and may now not be true.

    It's been always like that, aristocratic/elitarian Europe hasn't changed much since colonial times or imperialistic moments of the XIX century. XX and WWII changed many things but some old traditions are bouncing back unfortunately.

    I note that many of these problems exist in the USA, but the USA is divided. There exists elements in the USA which still oppose the
    emerging authoritarinism. Europeans however I think are less likely to
    do so.

    In this context I divide Europeans with their opinions about US into two
    roups:
    - those who never experienced US and Americans and American culture and have an opion
    - those who experienced US, its people and culture and have an opinion.

    You may hear a variety of different opinions from these people.

    The USA really has been the only nation which truly valued freedom,
    where there has been a DESIRE for freedom.

    Still there is a lot of policing around there, isn't it?

    Rebellion is a critical element of a free society. Rebellion is what overthrows tyranny and authoritarianism. Freedom is the grandma on her porch with her gun, defending her home against state seizure, and a scepticism of your rulers. The USA is unique in the sense that the founding father actually intended for the people to be able to oppose
    the government to a degree. They recognised that people had a right, a duty, to overthrow a bad government. In monarchical societies, the
    ruling family never said "If we go bad, we deserve to be kicked out". Emperors don't say that. In Europe, people were often SUBJECTS,
    whereas the US tradition is that the nation IS the people, and they are not subjects.

    Poland lost independence by the end of XVIII century to regain it in XX, because it valued freedom just too much for its time and wasn't prepared to defend it.

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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Boraxman on Tue Mar 9 22:04:00 2021
    Gamestop is just chaos though, with no constructive goals. Few people
    are going to benefit in the end. It has no objective, no constructive vision, other than "screw you". It's the last attempts at dignity from
    a financially broken generation.

    I find the objective, although it's naive by nature. I find these people trying to fuck the establishment as much as they can with their pocket money.

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to MRO on Tue Mar 9 18:21:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Rampage <=-

    @TZ: 4168
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Rampage to Boraxman on Sun Mar 07 2021 05:16 am

    people are stupid because they are raised to be stupid. they are fed untruths since their childhood. only a few people start seeing the contradictions and stop believing everything they are told buy untrustworthy sources.

    People are indeed stupid because that's how they are raised. They follow the same path their parents did, read the same books, and listen to the same news. It is only when those same people open up their eyes and realize what is actually happen do they become truly involved.

    i knew the media was full of shit ever since i was young and i saw a
    story on something local and strangely enough, everything was wrong
    about it. and then it happened again. and again.

    Without a doubt the media is biased but I believe you need to take a more open and pragmatic approach to it. You can't make the statement that "all news is bad" when the factual reporting of news is unbiases. It's when you turn on the Fox, CNN, or MSNBC talking heads do you start to question the veracity of the news.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to hollowone on Tue Mar 9 23:43:00 2021
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    I'd rather say guidance, but I think I get your point.


    Indeed. There are people who know better than us, and culture and tradition is the result of experience, trial and error.

    I blame the Internet not unrestrained freedom of expression alone.
    If you keep freedom unrestrained and allow information to pass through
    and influence at speed of light not years, decades or generations.. you get chaos as the net product of the untackled dynamism and lack of
    proper change management as I call it at work.

    Hippie generation back in 60ties envies for uncontrolled freedom and it changes the pop culture, not mainstream tradition. If these people had internet back then as fucked up as we do have today... you'd have lsd junky gays full of color, preaching spaghetti gods, speaking nonsense
    in mixed set of languages you can't recall yours anymore... which is
    what we commonly call schisophrenia by medical terms...

    Our kids generations all are bi-bolar due to overload of info they are
    hit by and can't process properly, not even speaking of adaptation.

    That is true. The other factor is that there is little community input to counteract that information. Young people get their information from the media/information, but without those interactions with the community, with their community institutions, they cannot test them, they aren't challenged. There is no restraint on silly ideas.

    Too much liberalism in economic "uncontrol" is always a good recipe for
    a crisis if I add this context to the talk. I love the idea of the free market and I had a moments of belief that this can be self-controlling mechanism.. but not if there the stash of capital available to
    individual parties contributting to the system is so much unbalanced
    over time.

    Certainly freedom to speak and reason beyond borders set up front is something that is heavily tested across both continents (US, EU). I
    miss the world we did not need to even talk about it and have things
    for granted.

    Free Markets are good for solving particular types of problems. They are good for figuring out what entertainment products to create, whether we should manufacture more vitamins, or developing low cost storage media. But there are many questions which are outside of what "markets" can solve. And we are losing our ability to answer these, because there is less and less left in our society, other than market driven organisations.

    I like borders but I equally like clear and safe paths to cross them in
    a way. I have no problem with visas.. I have no problem with protecting your own people first.. at the same time I see that richer the country
    is, easier it is to import aliens to do the dirty job. When you accept
    it, you also can't blame the alien that they come to you with an
    ambition to leave the low-job, kind of legal slavery prison and do better.. that was their dream when they came in.


    How can you incorporate them into your culture, embrace them.. learn
    from them.. be inclusive and respectful is something of a challenge to many.

    Exactly. I believe you should only accept people into your country if you, and they, are committed to being full, equal members of your nation. If not, then don't. Not as "guest workers", not just to "fill a job". If you don't want that person who your brought in to pick fruit to be your equal, then don't let them in, pick your own fruit.

    That is fair enough to continue. I believe that conversation is not
    about fighting with words to change the mind of the other contributors
    who joined it. It's about enriching all sides who contribute in a way that's often unique to each of them.

    Its about connection, and if you just want to make accusations at me, I've got better things to do.

    In Poland I see people rebeling against it more often. Or trying to
    have life as usual as much as possible.

    It's been always like that, aristocratic/elitarian Europe hasn't
    changed much since colonial times or imperialistic moments of the XIX century. XX and WWII changed many things but some old traditions are bouncing back unfortunately.

    I do admire how some Europeans are protesting though. The Yellow Vests come to mind.

    In this context I divide Europeans with their opinions about US into
    two roups:
    - those who never experienced US and Americans and American culture and have an opion
    - those who experienced US, its people and culture and have an opinion.

    You may hear a variety of different opinions from these people.

    Still there is a lot of policing around there, isn't it?

    Yes, the USA is quickly becoming an authoritarian state.

    Poland lost independence by the end of XVIII century to regain it in
    XX, because it valued freedom just too much for its time and wasn't prepared to defend it.

    I do hope that Europeans become the model to follow, because with the USA going the way it is, the future for the free world looks grim.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to hollowone on Tue Mar 9 23:44:00 2021
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    Gamestop is just chaos though, with no constructive goals. Few people
    are going to benefit in the end. It has no objective, no constructive vision, other than "screw you". It's the last attempts at dignity from
    a financially broken generation.

    I find the objective, although it's naive by nature. I find these
    people trying to fuck the establishment as much as they can with their pocket money.

    Yeah, but you end up just shitting in your own bed. Don't do it unless you've got a plan to change the sheets.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Daryl Stout on Tue Mar 9 22:53:56 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Daryl Stout to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 09:33 am

    We should stop all trade with Communist Socialist countries and take
    care of US and let them take care of them.

    Why should we send money to countries that hate us?? Charity should
    begin at home...keep the money here, and let them hate us for free. We help them, but they'd never return the favor.

    I agree 200%

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dux on Tue Mar 9 23:01:43 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dux to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 10:54 am

    Yes it really is, It's only getting worse here on a Daily basis, a $60
    a month supply of insulin under Joe Biden shot up to $700.

    The increase in insulin prices has been going on for most of this decade, even before Trump. Iowa's Grassley has been yelling about this since before Biden took office.


    Really? Uhm NO
    It didnt start again until old sleepy Joe tried to re implement Obama care.
    Obama Care never fully went away but the single payer mandate was striped, and now Biden is allowing his buddies in big Pharma to get filthy rich again.

    Republican's are all about privatizing and profiting, the idea that it's somehow Biden's fault, or Democrat plot to spike the cost of prescriptions and healthcare is idiotic, it's the exact opposite of their goal.

    It's the DemocRAT's fault not just Biden, Biden is just a puppet at this point.
    and no it's not idiotic its the facts.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dux on Tue Mar 9 23:07:54 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dux to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 11:08 am

    There is a federal Gvnmt incentive for reported covid-19 deaths, My
    guess is many people would have died because of age and health soon
    any way. and I've heard stories of Heart attack deaths, Strokes and
    other types of death's being passed off as Covid so they could get the
    insentives.

    You're trying to imply that the government is paying for reporting CV19 deaths... Who are they paying? Why? It makes zero sense at all.


    Not trying to imply anything, It's fact look it up, google it!

    Some Scientist's beleive we should have just let it go through
    communities like we do the flu to get to heard immunity.
    Maybe less people would have died?

    What scientists?

    You can save yourself some time and look it up for yourself, I won't do the work for you.
    the truth is there you just need to look beyond your DNC rose colored glasses and do some honest digging.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to MRO on Tue Mar 9 23:13:09 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: MRO to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 08:56 pm

    they are saying that biden is going to bed super early and some
    days he puts a 'lid' on the white house. meaning all meetings and
    goings on are canceled for the day. harris is fielding calls with
    foreign leaders on her own.

    they are saying biden turns in around 7pm when trump would get 3-4
    hrs of sleep.

    That's why he's sleepy Joe Biden :)


    look at the recent video of the press asking him about the border wall.

    "what did you learn?"

    "a lot"

    dude could barely function and his eyes were closed up again.
    he just had to get out of there.

    My guess is he will be in an elderly Care Facility pretty soon, I hear Cuomo has 15,000 beds opened, if he don't mind being in NY.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Mar 9 23:18:06 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Tue Mar 02 2021 07:14 am

    Yes it really is, It's only getting worse here on a Daily basis, a
    $60 a month supply of insulin under Joe Biden shot up to $700.

    Insulin has been increasing in price for some time -- the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing called "Priced out of a Lifesaving Drug: Getting Answers on the Rising cost of Insulin".

    On April 10, 2019.

    I read that Joe Biden in his first month in office had 100,000 Covid
    deaths. I hope in two years Republicans can get a better footing in
    the Senate and Take back the house.

    Yet another case of Republicans making a mess of things and blaming the Democrats for cleaning it up.

    HAHAHAHAAAHHAAAA NO, all you need to do is look at Democrat run states like California and New York to see how DemocRATs mess shit up.
    You must live in a fairy dust world.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Dream Master on Wed Mar 10 02:48:19 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to MRO on Tue Mar 09 2021 06:21 pm

    i knew the media was full of shit ever since i was young and i saw a story on something local and strangely enough, everything was wrong about it. and then it happened again. and again.

    Without a doubt the media is biased but I believe you need to take a more open and pragmatic approach to it. You can't make
    the statement that "all news is bad" when the factual reporting of news is unbiases. It's when you turn on the Fox, CNN, or
    MSNBC talking heads do you start to question the veracity of the news.

    The point is that "factual reporting of news" is severy broken for every piece of news I have had personal experience with and
    then found in a news paper.

    You may think a fact like "Man has an arm amputated because of a workplace accident" is a fact when you read the newspaper, and
    wonder how such fact can be twisted. Then you talk to the man and it turns out he lost a leg instead of a hand.

    I used to do some work for digital journals and they don't give a damn for the accuracy of a fact. They need articles and they
    need them _now_, so you are pressed to produce a lot of content even if you can't check the facts very closely.

    The amputation case is made up, but I have a nice collection of broken news, such as dog attacks that involved no dog
    whatsoever, or "miracleous technology recently intriduced to Spain" that has been in hospitals since 20 years ago or earlier.

    Of course people wants to believe there are reliable sources of information so they refuse to believe this, because people only
    believe what they want to believe. And thus crappy new sources thrive. As I said, people will read a news paper, find a piece
    of information that ios totally inaccurate, laugth at it, and then turn the page and believe every word of the next article as
    if it was Holy Word.

    I can't blame the media. We sheeps created them by buying their junk.

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to hollowone on Wed Mar 10 05:13:11 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: hollowone to Boraxman on Tue Mar 09 2021 22:03:00


    I value freedom, but I'm not keen on Liberalism.

    hollowone> I still like to call myself moderate liberal, but this is
    hollowone> heavily tested.

    https://www.politicalcompass.org/


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Denn on Wed Mar 10 19:14:00 2021
    It's the DemocRAT's fault not just Biden, Biden is just a puppet at
    this point.

    He can't even remember who is in charge of certain agencies. It wouldn't surprise me if they're working to vote him out, and put Kamala Harris in.

    Daryl

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Daryl Stout on Thu Mar 11 11:06:00 2021
    Daryl Stout wrote to Denn <=-

    He can't even remember who is in charge of certain agencies. It
    wouldn't surprise me if they're working to vote him out, and put Kamala Harris in.

    The Vice-Whore is already in. She's already doing parts of his job.


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Dr. What on Thu Mar 11 18:40:00 2021
    The Vice-Whore is already in. She's already doing parts of his job.

    Yep...screwing us over.

    While I'm not happy with the pork in the latest "COVID-19 bill", I can
    use the stimulus for medical and tax expenses right now. But, my health
    has gotten so where I can't travel outside of central Arkansas anymore.

    I had wanted "one last trip" after being my late Mom's caregiver
    before she passed away in August, 2019...just to get away from things
    for a few days...but it was not meant to be.

    Daryl

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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to Arelor on Fri Mar 12 18:51:00 2021
    Arelor wrote to Dream Master <=-

    @VIA: VERT/PALANT
    @MSGID: <604887D3.21552.dove-general@palantirbbs.ddns.net>
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    @TZ: 4168
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to MRO on Tue Mar 09 2021 06:21 pm

    I can't blame the media. We sheeps created them by buying their
    junk.

    Do you remember all those bullshit periodicals found at grocery
    stores... "Michael Jackson is the son of an Alien" or "Ronald Reagan is secretly a cyborg as the real Reagan is dead." They were trash but
    people still bought them. This is exactly the same people that Rush
    preyed on and eventually FOX News was created to appeal to the same
    gullible crowd.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Dream Master on Sat Mar 13 10:59:51 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: Dream Master to Arelor on Fri Mar 12 2021 06:51 pm

    Do you remember all those bullshit periodicals found at grocery
    stores... "Michael Jackson is the son of an Alien" or "Ronald Reagan is secretly a cyborg as the real Reagan is dead." They were trash but
    people still bought them. This is exactly the same people that Rush
    preyed on and eventually FOX News was created to appeal to the same gullible crowd.

    A long time ago, I saw a National Enquirer in a store, and the front page had a photo of the sun shining through some clouds, with a headline that said someone had photographed heaven.

    Nightfox

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Mon Mar 15 07:14:00 2021
    Nightfox wrote to Dream Master <=-

    A long time ago, I saw a National Enquirer in a store, and the front
    page had a photo of the sun shining through some clouds, with a
    headline that said someone had photographed heaven.

    Longer ago, there was a National Enquirer in a store that had an article titled "Tips on Crime go ONLINE", and it singled out three BBSes in the bay area - &TOTSE, realitycheckBBS and Lies Unlimited. Look for it, it's the
    March 1995 issue with Fabio and Rosanne Barr in bed together on the cover.

    That was my 5 minutes of fame.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Mar 15 21:28:16 2021
    Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Mon Mar 15 2021 07:14 am

    A long time ago, I saw a National Enquirer in a store, and the front
    page had a photo of the sun shining through some clouds, with a
    headline that said someone had photographed heaven.

    Longer ago, there was a National Enquirer in a store that had an article titled "Tips on Crime go ONLINE", and it singled out three BBSes in the bay area - &TOTSE, realitycheckBBS and Lies Unlimited. Look for it, it's the March 1995 issue with Fabio and Rosanne Barr in bed together on the cover.

    That was my 5 minutes of fame.

    That's cool. :)
    And the National Enquirer I'm remembering, I remember seeing it in 1990 or 1991.

    Nightfox

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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Mar 15 23:10:00 2021
    Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

    ** On Monday 15.03.21 - 07:14, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox:

    Longer ago, there was a National Enquirer in a store that
    had an article titled "Tips on Crime go ONLINE", and it
    singled out three BBSes in the bay area - &TOTSE,
    realitycheckBBS and Lies Unlimited. Look for it, it's the
    March 1995 issue with Fabio and Rosanne Barr in bed
    together on the cover.

    Give us a sneak-peak of the cover. A quick google found nothing.


    That was my 5 minutes of fame.

    You can add a few more seconds in one of the recent *new* BBS
    Documentary, I think.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Ogg on Wed Mar 17 06:04:00 2021
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    That was my 5 minutes of fame.

    You can add a few more seconds in one of the recent *new* BBS
    Documentary, I think.

    Really? I must have missed it.


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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 19 21:01:00 2021
    Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

    You can add a few more seconds in one of the recent *new*
    BBS Documentary, I think.

    Really? I must have missed it.

    I'm pretty sure I saw your BBS logo at some point. Sometimes
    when the narrator goes on with general statements, he fills the
    screen with changing images and other media for barely 1 or 2
    seconds each. He also, runs a "Credits.." roll at the end of
    each episode.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Sat Mar 20 16:28:06 2021
    Re: National Enquirer..BBSes..realitycheckBBS
    By: Ogg to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 19 2021 09:01 pm

    Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

    You can add a few more seconds in one of the recent *new*
    BBS Documentary, I think.

    Really? I must have missed it.

    I'm pretty sure I saw your BBS logo at some point. Sometimes
    when the narrator goes on with general statements, he fills the
    screen with changing images and other media for barely 1 or 2
    seconds each. He also, runs a "Credits.." roll at the end of
    each episode.


    so do people actually LIKE this 'back to the bbs' series?
    it just seems real boring to me. i try to watch them but i just skip through. ---
    ■ Synchronet ■ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
  • From Linuxdan@VERT/DMINE to MRO on Sat Mar 20 16:52:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Ogg <=-

    so do people actually LIKE this 'back to the bbs' series?
    it just seems real boring to me. i try to watch them but i just skip through. ---

    I like them . . . but I have fond memories of my BBSing days in the 90's.

    BTW, this is my first - hopefully successful - public post on a BBS in probably 27 years? :-)

    Hi!


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Linuxdan on Sat Mar 20 18:37:49 2021
    Re: National Enquirer..BBSes.
    By: Linuxdan to MRO on Sat Mar 20 2021 04:52 pm


    MRO wrote to Ogg <=-

    so do people actually LIKE this 'back to the bbs' series?
    it just seems real boring to me. i try to watch them but i just skip through. ---

    I like them . . . but I have fond memories of my BBSing days in the 90's.

    BTW, this is my first - hopefully successful - public post on a BBS in probably 27 years? :-)

    Hi!



    congrats!
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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Sat Mar 20 21:59:00 2021
    Hello MRO!

    ** On Saturday 20.03.21 - 16:28, MRO wrote to Ogg:

    I'm pretty sure I saw your BBS logo at some point..
    ..He also, runs a "Credits.." roll at the end of
    each episode.

    so do people actually LIKE this 'back to the bbs' series?
    it just seems real boring to me. i try to watch them but i just skip through. -+-

    I really liked the 1st two. The interview style with some
    sysops and users is pretty good. I like the interview with
    Shooter Jennings.

    The 3rd episode seemed to gloss over the messaging part too
    quickly.

    The series tries to be instructional, but not overly so. It's
    more about reporting on the state of bbsing as it exists today.


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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Linuxdan on Sat Mar 20 22:20:00 2021
    Hello Linuxdan!

    ** On Saturday 20.03.21 - 16:52, Linuxdan wrote to MRO:

    BTW, this is my first - hopefully successful - public post on a BBS in probably 27 years? :-)

    Welcome to the fold.

    fold noun (2)

    Definition of fold (Entry 3 of 5)

    1a : a group of people or institutions that share a common
    faith, belief, activity, or enthusiasm His former colleagues
    would be glad to welcome him back into the fold.

    b : a flock of sheep

    2 : an enclosure for sheep



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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to MRO on Sun Mar 21 11:32:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Ogg <=-

    so do people actually LIKE this 'back to the bbs' series?
    it just seems real boring to me. i try to watch them but i just skip through. ---

    I like it. But I also liked the original Jason Scott's BBS Documentary too.

    But for me, and I would expect many here, we grew up during the hey day of BBSs. Having a documentary that basically
    shows how BBSs survived and are even making a comeback is very interesting.

    It's also very nice to put a face to the name you see on the computer screen.


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  • From JIMMY ANDERSON@VERT/OTHETA to LINUXDAN on Mon Mar 22 08:25:00 2021
    LINUXDAN wrote to <=-

    so do people actually LIKE this 'back to the bbs' series?
    it just seems real boring to me. i try to watch them but i just skip through. ---

    I like them . . . but I have fond memories of my BBSing days in the
    90's.

    Me too. :-)

    BTW, this is my first - hopefully successful - public post on a BBS in probably 27 years? :-)

    WHOA! Very cool!!!




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  • From Lupine Furmen@VERT/FURFOL to MRO on Tue Mar 23 12:36:57 2021
    Re: National Enquirer..BBSes..realitycheckBBS
    By: MRO to Ogg on Sat Mar 20 2021 16:28:06

    so do people actually LIKE this 'back to the bbs' series?
    it just seems real boring to me. i try to watch them but i just skip through.

    I've actually been enjoying it. I feel he's doing a pretty good job. I've even learned a few things I didn't know before about our hobby's history and some of the old software.
    -+-

    Lupine Furmen
    -Dallas Vinson
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    SSH: furmenservices.net:23222
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    Legends of Yesteryear (FIDO 1:123/256) - telnet: furmenservices.net:23322
    Sound Source ]|[ - telnet: furmenservices.net:2323



    Dallas

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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Lupine Furmen on Wed Mar 24 07:58:10 2021
    Re: "Back to the BBS"
    By: Lupine Furmen to MRO on Tue Mar 23 2021 12:36 pm

    so do people actually LIKE this 'back to the bbs' series?
    it just seems real boring to me. i try to watch them but i just skip
    through.

    I've actually been enjoying it. I feel he's doing a pretty good job. I've even learned a few things I didn't know before about our hobby's history and some of the old software.

    Have they mentioned Synchronet yet? Last time I watched they were all Mystic guys.

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  • From Lupine Furmen@VERT/FURFOL to HusTler on Wed Mar 24 15:32:51 2021
    Re: "Back to the BBS"
    By: HusTler to Lupine Furmen on Wed Mar 24 2021 07:58:10

    Have they mentioned Synchronet yet? Last time I watched they were all Mystic guys.

    He's 3 episodes in, and he's even done an interview or two with Rob.
    -+-

    Lupine Furmen
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    Dallas

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