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MC Fresh Breath

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  1. You're somewhat describing how I became a lefty and left my small town Texas whack-a-doo religious upbringing behind. Seeing more intelligent people question and ridicule assumptions I had held dearly a good chunk of my young life put me on a path of questioning everything. "If this really smart (and quite often funny) group of people think this way, and make this cogent argument, then why am I holding on to the opposite." Something about the unexamined life not being worth living.
  2. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/florida-school-district-now-requires-teachers-lgbtq-students-dont-say-gay/
  3. On a more macro level, it was pointed out in a reddit comment that 8 of the 10 R's who voted to impeach Trump are out of office. 4 retiring, 4 lost.
  4. The role she had then and the role she has now are in many respects the same one, applied to radically different circumstances—she is defending her movement against the pretenders who would sully its work. That she was wrong about Obama then and right about Trump now is obvious, but it was the willingness to play in the mud that made her a rising star and a member of Congress in the first place, just as it was the breakdown of public trust and civic guardrails during the Bush era that made possible Trump’s MAGA ascent. By the time she decided that orange man, in fact, bad, the damage had long since been done. She is left to critique the ruling party in exile; the sort of person who in a different context people like the Cheneys might think to covertly fund and equip. None of this is to erase the work she’s done as a dogged and justifiably incensed leader on the January 6 Committee. She stands almost alone in her caucus, in her decision to not just quietly retire, or gripe anonymously to the press, but to actually fight back and wield the power she has against the threat she’s so clearly recognized. She’ll be fine, of course, both professionally and financially, but if the stand she took cost nothing, well, a lot more people would have taken it. But perhaps her fate might also be a lesson to the aspiring public servants out there—that the movement you cynically stoke might some day come for you, too. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/liz-cheney-defeated-by-harriet-hagerman-wyoming-primary-donald-trump/
  5. The breaking of the country started before him, imo. He is a POS and the cult is indeed a pox from which we might not recover. But that cult didn’t just sprout up overnight. They have been with us for some time, waiting for the monster who encouraged them to take their masks off. I stand by my rankings.
  6. I don’t care about her and think her father is second to Kissinger in most evil politicos alive. But it is depressing that the reason she is out is because she went after Trump.
  7. Its a start. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23282217/climate-bill-health-care-drugs-inflation-reduction-act
  8. I don't understand why Scott Adams keeps getting posted in this thread. People haven't given a fuck about Dilbert in forever. This is the only place I see his dumb ass being discussed.
  9. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-jones-sandy-hook-shooting-defamation-case-will-proceed-connecticut-judge-ruling/
  10. r/iamverybadass He invited them to kick down his door. Mission accomplished.
  11. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-fbi-search-violence-b2145439.html
  12. FBI delivers subpoenas to several Pa. Republican lawmakers: sources say Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to multiple sources. At least some of the individuals receiving subpoenas were told they were not targets of an investigation, according to at least six sources reached by PennLive, but that they may have information of interest to the FBI. All of the sources had been briefed on the investigative moves in some way, but demanded anonymity in order to discuss them. The information being requested centered around U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and the effort to seek alternate electors as part of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after the 2020 election, several sources said. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/fbi-delivers-subpoenas-to-several-pa-republican-lawmakers-sources-say.html
  13. Meta's latest AI chatbot has mixed feelings about CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "It is funny that he has all this money and still wears the same clothes!" https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/metas-latest-ai-chatbot-has-mixed-feelings-about-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-it-is-funny-that-he-has-all-this-money-and-still-wears-the-same-clothes/articleshow/93380653.cms Link to chatbot in the article. Like most of these bots, I got bored with it pretty quickly.
  14. Was gonna work up a number 6 on them.
  15. Indeed. I notice the right has also decided to take and use the phrase "Banana Republic." With the usual complete lack of self awareness. The accusation/confession meme here.
  16. https://apnews.com/article/elections-pennsylvania-donald-trump-congress-cfa625f007ef38c18727a1755dec4a4f
  17. Meta also owns Instagram and Whatsapp. And fuck Nebraska. Goddamn.
  18. Sounds like this is the thread for this: https://newrepublic.com/article/167351/ron-desantis-lgbtq-trans-florida-republicans
  19. another one I read recently that I enjoyed. its a long read www.currentaffairs.org/2022/04/noam-chomsky-on-how-to-prevent-world-war-iii you may not agree with everything in it, but its a good representation of the overall world view. Fair enough. Again, apologies for any perceived slight.
  20. The dismissal of Russia and diplomatic attempts seemed very Western thought to me. I didn't mean it as a slight. @Serak The Preparer I hope I haven't presented myself as an expert. I do enjoy reading expert thoughts that don't always align (such as Chomsky) with the majority of thought in this country.
  21. Nope. Did not ignore Russia's choices. But it is strange that you're accusing myself ( and Chomksy?) of a Western centric view and then the rest of your paragraph gives a very Western centric take on the entire affair. What is the alternative to some form of diplomacy that we are not even attempting? To, as former ambassador Chas Freeman puts it "fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian?"
  22. I think of you as a sincere poster, so I'll respond to you, although you may find it disappointing. The "urgent diplomacy" line in that article I believe came from the interviewer. This is a decent summary, I believe of Chomsky's thoughts on the matter: https://scheerpost.com/2022/06/17/noam-chomsky-in-ukraine-diplomacy-has-been-ruled-out/ Entire thing worth a read. Esp for the background. I think the correct 'response' is too late. However, could there have been provocations prior (detailed better in that article than I could do myself) that perhaps should not have taken place? I can't answer your question as to exactly what that diplomacy would look like, but what I think doesn't really matter. As Chomsky points out, we won't choose it. We will choose war. We will keep the machine churning
  23. in the longer version of that interview he apparently also stated that "There are conversations on the phone stating that Jones & Infowars had a back channel for communicating with Ted Cruz"
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