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    Paris is no more

    in Politics

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    4 minutes ago, Latbear4blk said:

    Do not waste your time. Racists and xenophobes do not process evidence, they only process confirmation of their bigotry.

    You always hope for the one in a thousand who actually wants to understand rather than wallow in their self-righteous rage and sense of superiority.

    After that, it's just it's just for the humor value of poking the roaring bear.

    Paris is no more

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    You consider it name calling. I consider it descriptive, since in fact many of the riots in the link are by white citizens, and you immediately dismiss that to return to your preferred narrative about brown people.

    You may be blind to what you are doing, but those you are talking to aren't.

     

    PS. The Yassar Arafat quote has been the Catholic Church's strategy for many, many centuries.

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    Paris is no more

    in Politics

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    5 hours ago, EmmetK said:

    Really? Out of line? Are you saying that diversity of opinion is "out of line"? And the only thing that is being trashed is the proud nation of France.

    And if you think referring to mobs of immigrants looting and burning down businesses and property, causing billions of dollars/euros in damages, as "savages" is out of line, frankly that is the mildest reaction I can think of. Also, your argument is with the head of the French National Police Union. I suggest you take it up with him. Or, with the thousands of hard-working, innocent business owners whose shops have been looted, destroyed, or burned to the ground.

    I was called racist, xenophobic, Muslim-phobic (is that even a word?), and ignorant. I responded with FACTS. Not third grade name calling.

    And I'm still waiting for all of the examples of similar savage mob riots in France. The only historic examples were perpetrated by like-minded so-called immigrant groups.

     

    Um, how about the French Revolution? I guess all the mad peasants were really Tunisians?

    But if you'd like to know about all the French riots it took me less than 30 seconds to find this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_France

    The French have been rioting for centuries.

    Not that anybody needs to provide you with the evidence you demand when it is crystal clear that you aren't interested in the evidence, only in the racist story you want to tell yourself so you can be mad at the brown people.

    Onsens and brothels over Thanksgiving

    in Gay Japan

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    Yes, Sakura season is amazing. (I lived in Japan for a few years).  But, it is hard to fully predict, and short. Fall is more dependable. But, if you want the best of the best, Sakura it is. That is Japan at its finest. I'm planning to revisit with friends next year. If you're going, take a look at the matsuri (festival) schedule too. Some of them are quite amazing, and worth shifting a bit to incorporate. I got to participate in a few as an exchange student some (cough, cough) decades ago.

    Isn't it better if real Republicans nominate Trump, since DeSantis is a pussy and a traitor, anyway?

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    On 3/26/2023 at 1:47 PM, TotallyOz said:

    Nikki Haley is a strong candidate if Trump does not get the ticket. She, IMHO, would be the closest to beating Biden if Trump is not the nominee. I still think Trump will be the nominee if he wants it.

     

    I'm not so sure. I think recent elections and primaries have shown that the American electorate is pretty sexist.

    Another unlucky Brit denied insurance claim in Thailand

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    My father was a doctor in the Air Force for much of his career. All doctors had to pull ER duty. 

    He made me promise that I would never ride a motorcycle because of all the airmen he saw in his ER. I kept my promise except once( he was hot. AIDS took him like so many others).

    I don't want to trust a mode of transportation that if other people fuck up, you die. Trusting other people not to fuck up is a bad bet, I think.

    Michelangelo's David Deemed Pornographic in Florida

    in The Beer Bar

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    @KYTOP

    While I'm a democrat, I have, in fact, voted for republicans in the past. But, the republican party that was is no more. Maybe they're rediscover themselves. I hope so. I couldn't possibly support any republican today. It no longer has any ideas. It is just a mass of screaming infantile rage at the world for not all being stuck in the 1950s. It is a party that has lost the culture war, but is going to burn down as much as it can as it goes.

    My father is buried in Arlington. My older brother served in multiple combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. I wanted to serve but wasn't going to lie about not being a faggot to serve. I knew how that would go. But, I really did want to be a career navy officer. They used to talk about all the talent the gay witch hunts lost. They never talked about those of us who looked at it and never chose to join.

    I really, really want to love this country. Today, I can't. I have been shown how many of my fellow Americans want to be Nazis. I have been show how little compassion many of my fellow Americans have.

    I can't bring myself to love that truth.

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    Michelangelo's David Deemed Pornographic in Florida

    in The Beer Bar

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    Keying off KYTOP's comments, I tend to agree that education is a mess. I think it is a mess in large part because society devalues it so much. We expect teachers to be miracle workers for shit wages and then justify it by saying they get summers off. Teachers catch heaps of shit from people who can't be bothered to engage with their own children. If any of these parents gave a fuck, they'd know what their kids were learning.

    A long time ago, women had few career opportunities so whip smart women became teachers for shit wages because they had no other choices. We had great schools on the backs of trapped women. Now they do have other choices, and they take them.

    I looked into teaching as a second career and laughed at the pay scale. I wasn't expecting much, but it was pathetic enough to make me lose all interest. It is about as easy to become a nurse and earn 50% more, never mind that nurses have many more career opportunities and choices available.  Only the most dedicated, or those without much other choice would choose that occupation in my opinion. Building an education that depends on effectively secular nuns is idiotic.

    Shiny new bombs and guns? Buy them all!

    Invest in people? What are you a pinko socialist? A Liberal elite?

    I think the evidence of the consequences of that are everywhere to be seen in US politics.

    We have deified ignorance.

    What has been the effect of this new understanding of the state of our education system? The call to ban more books. To teach less of this or that. Nowhere do I read about parents rising up because their children can't do algebra, read another language, write a coherent essay, or the like. No, the rage is all about culture war crap. It isn't about education at all.

    Rant over.

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