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    You know you lost the war when they laugh in your face

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    5 hours ago, Latbear4blk said:

    I am arriving at this thread too late, and I have no time to read it all. From a quick read, I was left with the need to praise @tassojunior. We have clashed before, and we still disagree on many things, but I respect your braveness to confront alone what seems to be the entire local dwellers. 

    I am also warmed at seeing your understanding, tasso, of American self-delusion. 

    If you are enjoying the conversation, please do not stop. However, my advice is to move on. It does not matter how many flaws in America you may highlight. The response will always be that others are worse, with no traces of self-examination. 

     

    I have no trouble acknowledging American flaws. They are quite numerous. We're a ridiculously self-righteous nation. We've pretended to high ideals and done many shitty things.

    But the idea that because America has been an ass repeatedly that all else is ok is moronic. All the sins of the world do not lay at our feet. 

    You know you lost the war when they laugh in your face

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    3 minutes ago, tassojunior said:

    Putin is a weak leader who was installed by the US as a puppet and he is seen as weak by the Russian people. He did nothing when the US killed 200 Russians in one day when they attacked ISIS. He played around with Trump when the US did that and while Zelensky was killing 14,000 ethnic Russians in Donbas. The opposition to him is much harsher on the war with the US and Ukraine. Be careful what you wish for. 

     

    Wow. You think that Russians think that Putin is weak? You think we installed him? You think those kids you claim to know volunteered because they think their leader is weak? Do you even listen to yourself?

    I hope your tin foil hat protects you from the mind control rays. You're too busy diddling your own conspiracy theories to see what's right in front of you. Putin is telling you, repeatedly, with his public words who he is. He is telling you he is a strong man who wants to reclaim the lost Soviet Empire.  But, you're rather jerk off to your fantasies about what is happening rather than look at what is right in front of you. Read Putin's own fucking words.

    Thank you software for the block feature. Like most conspiracy theorists I'm sure you believe you have 'hidden insight' into the unrevealed secrets of the world. It's an essential feature of the conspiracist to self-congratulatorily believe they see what nobody else understands.  To the rest of us, you're a crazy person barking at the moon. 

    You've taken a couple of right statements and spun them into a web of utter bullshit. Good bye.

    Last weekend in Medellin

    in Gay Colombia

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    Language is very hard to learn for adults. That part of the mind loses its strength in adulthood.

    If I ever had a kid to raise, I would make them learn as much language as possible in childhood when the mind is malleable enough that it just all soaks in easily. For us older folks, it is a hard slog to mere incompetence. Fluency is beyond most of us.

    You know you lost the war when they laugh in your face

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    War sucks. America's record is nothing to be proud of. We get fed a lot of propaganda about how great and noble and pure we are. We aren't. We're pretty mud splattered with espoused ideals that we frequently fail to live up to. Hell, right now many republicans don't even bother to espouse the ideals of democracy and freedom. But, if you think this is somehow new or different, you're naïve as fuck. We all believe lies about ourselves and always have.

    But, Putin is a monster, and those in Russia who elected him repeatedly until he became absolute dictator, and then believe the lies they are told get to live the consequences of that. Kids in Russia who volunteer based on their idiocy reap the consequences of that idiocy. Our failings don't excuse other monstrosities.

    I will never understand people's love of 'strong men'.  Why is it that people think that if they give all the power to the biggest bully around that it will end well for anybody except the bully?

    Our best feature is that whoever the guy in charge is, he never stays long enough to gain enough power to allow him to let his own personal whims command the nation.

    Hopefully we will keep staggering towards our ideals. At the moment, it feels like we've taken a break to puke in the gutter. I hope we get up and carry on.

     

    Should Biden run again. And, if not, what's Plan B?

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    Just now, Moses said:

    It's not Biden and Trump, it is COVID. In 2020 many jobs positions were closed because of COVID, in 2022 many jobs positions were opened because of end of COVID.  There is no Trump's or Biden influence.

    Presidents have a lot less influence on the economy than most americans think. Americans vote as if they did, but they don't. More reason why I have little respect for most american voters. They're idiots who engage in magical thinking and don't have a clue what the policy implications of their choices are.

    Should Biden run again. And, if not, what's Plan B?

    in Politics

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    On 2/20/2023 at 10:53 AM, alvnv said:

    John McCain was an honorable man and a great patriot of the USA. I don’t think there are many republicans left that have not been soiled by their association with Trump. John Kasich, Mitt Romney, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Slim Pickings…?

    And sadly, to win the nomination McCain had to soil himself. I lost respect for him for the shit he chose to say to win the nomination. If he had actually stayed honorable, I was considering voting for him. He didn't.

    It was hard to fault him for it though, since if he hadn't, I don't think he could have won the nomination. That's the growing sickness in the republican base.

    To those who ejaculate more than once a day

    in The Beer Bar

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    18 hours ago, PeterRS said:

    Isn't age a factor? As I wrote some time ago, about 6 years ago on one of my regular visits to Taipei, I had an orgy of hits on a couple of the apps. One day I had arranged two hook ups - one at lunchtime and one late afternoon. Then after breakfast, another guy wrote that he'd be passing by my hotel at around 11:00 and pleaase, please could we meet! We did and he was great. By early evening I was already quite exhausted when a student from the nearby University asked if he could come round about 9:00pm. He looked ridiculously cute and I gave in. Another great encounter. Four times in one day was and remains a record for with age creeping up I certainly could not do that now. Nor indeed do I have the interest for meeting up with more than one guy each day when away from Thailand. Thankfully a heart MRI scan last year showed absolutely no abnormalities and so I am on no medication! Just a sex drive!

     

    perhaps, but I turn 60 this year. I think the biggest change for me was getting very serious about exercise and weight loss. As I got healthier, my ability to perform increased.

    I do high intensity interval training with a personal trainer 3x a week. I'm lying in a pool of my own sweat when I finish because he pushes me HARD. The results, however, show. 

    But, I know that suffering is critical to maintaining my health after too many years of neglect so I keep at it. I do have high blood pressure and anxiety, but both are pretty well treated with medication.

    Should Biden run again. And, if not, what's Plan B?

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    I see no republican currently considered in play for the 2024 nomination to be better than a demented Biden. 

    As for the Carter statement about our wars, I don't disagree, but let's remember the wars in question were all started by republican neocons with grand delusions of being welcomed as saviors.

    Those wars were very different than the Ukrainian war. Does any sensible person believe that the Neville Chamberlain approach to Russia's imperial ambitions will work? That Putin will just stop when he gets some more pieces of Ukraine?

    >>If the Democrat Party cannot find a suitable alternative to Biden then that should make one wonder about the Democratic Party.<<

    Is there anyone anyone at all that isn't a disaster in the republican party now? In the past, I have occasionally voted for republicans. I can't today, republicans have gone insane. All they are now is culture war crazies and give aways to big corporations. Our nation, indeed the world, is sliding towards fascism and authoritarianism. 

    Should Biden run again. And, if not, what's Plan B?

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    We've not yet had a chance to test the homophobia in a general election, but I'm sure they're homophobic too.

    I'm in a wait and see kind of space, since I don't really know who will emerge as a viable alternative to Biden. I hope someone does. I personally like Elizabeth Warren, but I don't think she can win.

    PS. Didn't know you were a fellow PDXer (I'm out in the burbs, but still). /wave

    Should Biden run again. And, if not, what's Plan B?

    in Politics

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    I think recent elections have shown that the American electorate is sexist and racist, so white guys still are the best to win an election.

    My 85 year old mother and her friends are a good example. They all like Biden. I think he merely doesn't blow chunks like a republican would.

    It sucks, but it may well be he's the best chance to hold onto sanity in America. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll resign or die after re-election and we'll get a chance at a president who isn't a fossil.

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