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Mole

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  1. In a sane world I’d be considered conservative since I believe in an objective reality and morality — I’ll have none of that moral relativism that I heard so much about years ago. Interpretations may vary, but right is right, wrong is wrong, and truth is truth. This statement can’t be squared with the current Trump movement. To embrace this movement is to reject the very foundations any functioning society. Policy isn’t even a relevant discussion since we’ve gone full Pontius Pilate “what is truth?”
  2. He was probably thinking about Pergolesi. Pinochet was the famous dictator and Pergolesi wrote La Serva Padrona. Uberto can be viewed as a right wing archetype.
  3. Let’s be honest here, you were off the Trump train the moment he started ranting about saying, “Merry Christmas” again.
  4. Really? Were you expecting OSU to win it there instead?
  5. Wait, you and some other people here actually believe that there was ever a World Trade Center? Sheep. DO SOMETHING!!
  6. Counting on it... A little bit doomy... This is the content that we're counting on to start our impending doom weekend.
  7. Ah, the sweet optimism of morning. Twelve hours from now, this thread will be filled with hellish visions of Trump placing mind control agents in Elsinore beer and activating it with the Star Spangled Banner.
  8. Even the republican consensus was that the Mueller report was creditable, it just wasn’t impeachment-worthy. So even the opposition agreed with the claims.
  9. Worst Dylan song ever. A real deep cut from Saved.
  10. Just workshopping your session title here, “Goods, Not Hoods: Ideological Purity in a Party of Racial Purity.” I’d listen in/watch just for the eagle. Is Thujone still in the art game? Can he whip up live illustrations? I’m not sure how quickly the muse of his genius takes to hit.
  11. If the weather is nice, I'll be outside watching the stars and listening to music with my son. If the weather or bugs are bad, we'll be inside playing trains or watching a movie. If the mood strikes me or suspense gets to me, I'll probably check in here or AP/Reuters.
  12. It’s a bit of one of those stories we tell ourselves to make us feel better, but I can connect with the Jon Stewart take on Biden as the tragedy-stricken figure best suited to see us out of these dark times. As I’ve mentioned above and elsewhere, it’s not so much that the current policies are cruel and terrible (they’re cruel and terrible), it’s that we’ve become cruel and terrible — full of hatred and division. That works hand in hand with the Trump movement; he arose out of this division and hatred and continues to amplify it as his only strategy. It’s impossible to function or even rationally deal with policy in this environment. Even the perfect policies would fail under these conditions — it’s more fundamental than the right legislation. Our culture and social order is failing. Biden is relatively inoffensive politically and has a life story with a good bit of tragedy — the stutter, the accident, Beau’s cancer, even Hunter’s addiction. If I squint hard enough, I could buy him actually repairing some of the broken parts of our social order, to the extent that a president can impact this (Trump has surely proven that they can). Actual humanity can go a long way to getting back to arguing about marginal tax rates.
  13. If the question is was my vote for Biden or against Trump, it was without a doubt against Trump. I think Biden will be competent enough as a president, but that’s less of a factor than Trump. I would have voted for Lenin’s reanimated corpse against Trump. As to your scenario, I’d go talk with Biden. I don’t want vengeance against Trump, I just want obscurity for him. I have no intention of ever listening to him speak again. I just want to pretend that he doesn’t exist. Justice for him would be nice, but really, he just needs to go away.
  14. Everything he does isn’t bad, but because of the transactional and divisive way he “leads,” everything he does is destructive to good social and political order. This is ultimately bad — worse even than whatever good things he might accomplish.
  15. I live in Georgia, home of the gun-toting, self-proclaimed Trump conservative governor. My wife has taken to calling our state’s reckless COVID response as the disgusted insult, “liberal,” since the conservative response would surely be more measured than what we’ve seen here. At first I thought her comment was fodder for the wives thread (if not for the CR issue), but the more I think about it: 1. it’s correct — the conservative approach would be to protect life rather than radically experimenting with the public health 2. it must annoy Trump conservatives that use “liberal” as an insult have it pointed against them. Part of what makes the term conservatism so tough to nail down is all of the hacks using the term to give credence to their incoherent worldview. In the modern use of the term by its adherents, conservatism is nothing more than a post-hoc justification for whatever is most self-serving and expedient.
  16. That’s a masterclass in presenting info in the least clear way possible.
  17. So can we definitely say that they don’t have anything on Joe since they’re going so hard after Hunter?
  18. So Bernie to Texas and Jackie Sherrill for president?
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