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

Seeing performances like Trump's follow up speech after his conviction suggest that he's the person for whom the debates are a serious risk. 

Biden will stutter at times and probably mix up a name or two. But there's a good chance Trump will spend a great deal of the debates on incoherent tangents, sounding like someone's drunk crazy uncle. 

Still won't cost him the base. But there have to be a few undecideds who hadn't been paying attention to Trump and will be finding out for the first time how addled he sounds. 

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Discussion: Inconsequential Chat

 

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

GoSlugs said:

Hopefully that will change some votes.

As for me, I am definitely voting against Trump (as opposed to for Biden).  Biden's actions have killed thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians.  I could never think of  him as anything but the lesser of two very evil Evils. His murderous policy is a stain that will never be erased.

So you're saying that without America's support, Netanyahu wouldn't have killed all of those Palestinians?

ridiculous. and so wrong.

don't get me wrong - I think our attitude towards Bibi should be far harsher. But to blame Biden for something he has zero control over is just dumb.

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Discussion: Twitter is a Private Company

Similarly, I thought of this thread when I saw this.

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— Bodega Cats (@bodegacats.bsky.social) Jun 10, 2024 at 12:51 PM

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

Yes, possible personal earliest? 7:20ish, a miracle i can even focus on the screen.

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

Smedley said:

We shall see. Wake me when there's a material poll movement in the battleground states, which will decide the election and which Biden is currently in danger of being swept.

are you sure you want to be woke?

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

GoSlugs said:

Hopefully that will change some votes.

As for me, I am definitely voting against Trump (as opposed to for Biden).  Biden's actions have killed thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians.  I could never think of  him as anything but the lesser of two very evil Evils. His murderous policy is a stain that will never be erased.

no… you never mention Hamas attacking civilians and slaughtering them. Torture and rape by Hamas on young women they captured. wtf is up with you and this obsession with Biden and Palestinian politics? Biden has been trying to walkwa tight rope between these two warring factions and all you do is blame Biden! Hamas hiding among children, you don’t mention that! Hiding under hospital! Hiding in the mosque… that’s how they get people like you riled up. Enough! Hamas has to be destroyed regardless. 

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Discussion: What does Putin want (and whatabout it)

nan said:

Stop preparing for attack with esoteric situations from the 17th century to explain why Putin eats nails for breakfast.  OK?

It's not esoteric -- which, I suspect, is why you'd like to avoid this discussion. After all, if Russia was an colonial power in the past, then the natural follow up is when did it stop, or even if it has stopped.

Moscow's expansion was unambiguously imperialistic -- it did call itself the Russian Empire. Is imperialism synonymous with colonialism? I'm not sure, though at the very least they do often seem to go together very closely. But let's just stick with your definition of colonialism and look at some candidate examples from Russian history -- how about Crimea, to start?

The Russian Empire annexed Crimea in 1783, and from that time forward engaged in repeated purges of the Crimean Tatars and settlement of Russians in that territory. This culminated in the 1944 forced deportation of nearly all of them to central Asia (yes, I'm explicitly treating the USSR as continuous with the Russian Empire).

How does that match up with your definition of colonialism?

Colonial power refers to a country that extends its political, economic, and military control over other regions or territories outside its own borders. This domination often involves establishing settlements, exploiting resources, and imposing cultural norms and values on the colonized people.

Russia annexed Crimea, territory that was outside of its borders. It used Russian law and military might to place the inhabitants of Crimea into a subordinate position and Russian language and culture in a dominant one. It encouraged the emigration of Crimeans and engaged in the resettlement of Russians on Crimean land, finally completely removing non-Russian Crimeans.

This would seem to meet all the criteria you laid out for colonialism.

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

I'm in good company...early QB for me too  :bz

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

French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, at the age of 80, after having suffered with lymphatic cancer for many years.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/12/francoise-hardy-french-pop-singer-and-fashion-muse-dies-aged-80

This is her first song, released in 1962

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