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Legato

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  1. You could vote Green, that is, if you're colour blind.
  2. You have to wait for a full moon to be able to see it properly
  3. You use the acronym LMAO quite a lot.......So, has your butt fell off yet?
  4. … https://www.salon.com/2023/08/05/why-america-is-going-backward-being-the-richest-nation-in-history-isnt-enough/ And another goodie on conservatism: … However much modern theorists have elaborated upon the ideas inherent in conservatism during the two centuries since Maistre, they all seem to me to boil down to three simple points: A desire for hierarchy and human inequality. This belief derives from the medieval religious notion of the Great Chain of Being, whereby there is a place for everybody and everybody must know his place. It justifies economic exploitation and denial of political rights. Conservative writers propagandize on its behalf with a straw-man argument: Any gain in equality costs society an equal or greater loss in freedom; egalitarianism is the mere soulless equality of the gulag, where we cannot own property and must share toothbrushes. This sentiment pops up consistently in the works of American conservative theorists, from Buckley's "Unless you have freedom to be unequal, there is no such thing as freedom," to David Brooks' hankering for rule by a wise elite. American-style laissez-faire economics and libertarianism are largely based on this idea. The only acceptable society is based on Christianity. Never mind the establishment clause of the First Amendment; conservatives will forever try to smuggle in more and more official endorsement of religion until the United States is effectively a theocracy. The rationale is that some sort of divine or transcendental dispensation is the sole basis for a just temporal order. Translated into the bumper-sticker mentality of American Christian fundamentalism, that means that if people don't believe in God, there's nothing to stop them from running amok and killing people. This thesis would have been news to medieval crusaders, the Holy Inquisition, Francisco Franco's Falangists or the Russian Archbishop Kyrill, who has blessed Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the resulting carnage. We must obey tradition. For some unexplained reason, our ancestors were infinitely wiser than us, and apparently they get a vote on present affairs. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, if we're going to have democracy, let's extend it to the dead. Scratch someone who fancies himself an educated conservative and you will often find a person who reveres the past; unfortunately they leave out details like slavery, witch burning and childbed fever. Many psychologists consider this mentality to be a cognitive bias in brain function, but whatever its source, the political utility of the attitude is obvious: Utopia only exists in an ever-receding past, progress is impossible, and future generations shall profess bygone superstitions. And tradition, in this case, means the folkways of a specific, favored culture, thus denying the universality of the human spirit. The idea is well expressed by Buckley's statement that conservatives must "stand athwart history yelling 'stop.'" Joseph de Maistre was "a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, an intransigent legitimist ... always and everywhere the champion of the hardest, narrowest and most inflexible dogmatism." All the essential points of the present conservative mind. One can grasp that the three precepts dovetail together in that they all rely on dogmatic assertion, denial of a scientific or empirical basis of reality and reactionary nostalgia. They are also pretty thin gruel for founding an intellectual tradition: there are simply too many departments of knowledge, for instance, much of science, that must be declared off limits to prevent them from tainting the party line. This is why conservatives habitually retreat into mysticism, gut feelings and the wisdom of our fathers when the facts are against them. It is more accurate to say that conservatism is a counter-intellectual activity that sometimes employs the trappings of intellectual discourse... https://www.salon.com/2023/07/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-conservative-intellectual--only-apologists-for-right-wing-power/ Salon.com is a liberal blog known in recent years for sensational clickbait headlines, questionable content, and low journalistic standards.1 Salon has adopted an increasingly strident brand of leftism that feigns outrage to advance the site’s liberal agenda on countless political issues.2 https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/salon/
  5. He will probably hire a landscaper to dig up a bunch of shells from a local beach. Then set up a least 20 shell companies to follow the Biden family initiatives and receive money's from China, Ukraine, Romania etc . That should help a little.
  6. That sentence alone shows an inability to see your cornflakes are bereft of milk.
  7. You should quote that to all the climate alarmists who buy property on coastlines..
  8. Whom/Which are?. They shall not suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
  9. With PR you will end up with a monkykangorillapig government. No zoo would take it and the bacon would have a bad taste.
  10. What's interesting is the interest rate of the Liberals' is falling due to high interest rates.
  11. and coal burning power stations are going to solve it?
  12. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/China-Has-Approved-More-Than-50-Gigawatts-Of-New-Coal-Power.html
  13. A faggity boat is much better than all those lefty liberals who drive around in dodgy mini-vans.
  14. I agree the term is over the top Using high energy wide swath echo sounders to cover large area's of the sea bed in a single pass. The data used to identify the most stable locations for the placement of offshore windmills.
  15. https://dosits.org/people-and-sound/examine-the-earth/how-is-sound-used-to-research-wind-energy/
  16. The whales have been migrating from their southern stations during the spring up through the mid-Atlantic region, and they didn't even slow down the acoustic carpet bombing. And as a result, the Atlantic was littered with the dead whales and dolphins and sharks. There doesn't seem to be any environmental concern. This is a manmade environmental disaster that's unfolding. I expect that it will half a whale population in 10 years and probably the same for our fish."
  17. Which part of "always kids" do you not understand?
  18. https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/08/08/shakespeare-belongs-classrooms-florida-says-knocking-hillsborough/
  19. It does when it's always kids.
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