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Discussion: RFK Jr. For President?

Jaytee said:

nan said:

He must be doing better in the polls.  They have the sharp knives out.  

have you ever been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia?

Mental health professionals no longer use the term paranoid schizophrenia.  It's also not a good response to nan's points even if you disagree with her.

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Discussion: Inconsequential Chat

Rock on!!

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Discussion: Pope Francis, Catholics, and Christians in the news worldwide

mtierney said:

Gee whiz, Ridski, even this Luddite knows how to enlarge a story, with just two fingers!

you know, some of us use a PC and not a phone. and enlarging something that's already fuzzy just gives you big fuzzy. it's very hard to read. Like  3 Likes

Discussion: Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

Holy ****, Steve Albini! RIP to the fuckign man! Apart from Big Black being a massive influence on me, he produced some of the best albums of my early twenties, when he was in his late twenties. I followed his funny and sometimes poignant posts on Twitter and immediately followed him again on Bluesky when I moved over there. His political views, his musical knowledge... Heck I didn't know him and I'm gonna miss him. 7 years older than me. Jesus.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/08/steve-albini-us-alt-rock-musician-and-producer-dies-aged-61

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Discussion: The Rose Garden and White House happenings: Listening to voters’ concerns

drummerboy said:

GoSlugs said:

mtierney said:

What happened on university campuses across the country by undereducated “students” - the generation of kids who were denied high school normalcy and proms and  graduations, and attended classes in a vacuum on Zoom — and who revealed themselves to be  as dumb as rocks in understanding the history of the USA and any other country for that matter.

Your posts here clearly demonstrate that it is you who in undereducated, not the students. You literally spend your days posting factual distortions, misunderstandings and out right lies.

yeah, that comment by mt reveals so much. 

She blames a few months of Zoom classes for an "undereducated" generation of students. She's repeated this talking point many times already.

mt, please tell us how they're dumb as rocks regarding history? What do they get wrong that apparently you think that you get right?

Why do you hate these kids so much? They're protesting the deaths of 10's of thousands of innocent civilians that the US is complicit in. Don't they deserve some credit for that? Even if you don't approve of very tactic?

Why do you think there are "outside agitators"? The right always blames protests they don't agree with on outside actors? But has there ever been any proof of their allegations? I think "never" is the right answer there.

Can you do some independent thinking here? Use some compassion and empathy instead of mindlessly repeating talking points?

there are a couple of things we can stipulate to. First, that Oct 7 was an atrocity worthy of outrage and strict condemnation. Second, there is no doubt a segment of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that is anti-semitic (no doubt there is also a segment of pro-Israel supporters who are anti-semitic as well. Unfortunately there's a lot of anti-semitism in this country all around).

but the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children and the resulting humanitarian crisis is its own atrocity. The vast majority of people protesting just want the mass killings and maiming to stop.

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Discussion: The Rose Garden and White House happenings: Listening to voters’ concerns

ml1 said:

mtierney said:

If indeed some outside agencies and   agitators —which appears likely — were stirring the pot (who paid for all those pop-up tents?) then the consequences can be shared, but in no way should the students get a pass for being gullible in the extreme. 

How much do you think a pop-up tent costs? You can get one on Amazon for under $40 and have it delivered in two days. (h/t John Oliver)

"Who paid for the tents?" is another one of those "IT'S GEORGE SOROS" rants.

Because the ranters are so unhinged that they freely use old antisemitic tropes at the same time they're calling all the protesters antisemitic.

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Discussion: Seen today, Church Street Millburn

saw this truck(?) in Springfield and thought... it couldn't get any uglier

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Discussion: Inconsequential Chat

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Discussion: The Trump Indictments

I have not really been following this thread but thought I would let people know that the prosecution witness who testified today reading Trump's tweets, Georgia Longstreet, is a graduate of Columbia High School. Evidently she is working for DA Braggs office and that was one of her assignments. My daughter realized it right away because she graduated with Longstreet, and is covering the trial for Bloomberg. Small world it is!

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Discussion: What does Putin want (and whatabout it)

It's ok -- at some point in the future, someone on this thread might say something you find upsetting. In the face of such an existential threat to MOL, we understand you had no choice but to try and destroy this thread.

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