impartialobserver

Can only judge based on what they post. Been on these forums for 16 years now and with very few exceptions.. the posters always foretell of a ____ wave. The other party's demise is coming. And yet they still exist today.. hmm..

Another peculiar aspect to political chat forums is that both sides ALWAYS proclaim that there will be a Blue or Red wave depending on which side they are on. The idea is that not only will their side win but resoundingly.. win every single race/election. Not only will their side win every election but it will continue seemingly in perpetuity.. the other side is so screwed. You wonder why they do not go into the business of writing fiction novels.

Going off into left field.. the point of this is not education or quality of education. It is lower birth rates and depopulation.

Well... your fantasies have not materialized yet.. Why is that? I know that things being realistic is not part of your schpiel.

My prediction is that if legal issues do not preclude him.. Trump wins in 2024. Do I like that? No. Trump vs. Biden Part 2... can it be less interesting? This is like having a moldy Pastrami sandwich served in a dirty ashtray and then saying, "Sure add some rotten, liquified eggs to that".

I am in the minority in that I have zero desire to have an animal in my house. Dogs are overrated IMHO

Given only those two options (which is completely unrealistic and yes.. you are well aware of how ridiculous you are).. I would go with the a streamlined version. However, this is fantasy on your part so feel free to have your moment alone stroking yourself. My one vote is not going to change it all on its own. Yes, I know yours will. What I would stand behind is a simplification of the tax code. The two primary areas where I would have the amount of rules/exceptions trimmed down are the Schedule K (transfer of property) and form 706 (estate taxes). If you really want to know.. the IRS has lower employment today than it did in 2010. Mainly because most folks do their taxes online and not on paper but that contradicts your fantasy world.

I would think that having an independent state of Palestine would be a suitable compromise. However, I am not religious and do not understand the need to keep bringing up past grievances.

I think that some on here should take a day or two and be in the middle of nowhere and then see how petty all these grievances you whine about are. Spent the weekend in Vya, NV... Few places in the lower 48 are as remote as this. 215 miles of very empty alkaline desert from Reno and 216 to Medford, OR. Any other places in the US or Canada that folks go to that are very remote? 10 miles from a major city is not the middle of nowhere.

No. I was there mostly by accident. I just happened to be in Coeur D'Alene on a saturday morning in 2003. Only reason that I figured out that it was the Aryan Nations march is that we drove into downtown and noticed that some streets were blocked off and as most people do.. we investigated. It was hilarious that the two men would even bother. They had no audience so why even try. As for why North Idaho went from the HQ of the Aryan Nations movement to it being laughed off, it comes down to population growth.

It does not really matter who was there first.. What matter is now. Israel is going to fight to maintain it's own existence. Palestine is going to keep fighting Israel due to past grievances.. and as they keep fighting and Israel keeps fighting back. the number of grievances will keep accumulating

Back to the topic.. I would say that there is and should not be a legal mechanism for stopping support rallies for topics like this. Do I support Hamas? No. The point is that government should not be the one to decide whether the topic of protest is valid. Society has a way of weeding that out. In Coeur D' Alene Idaho, they used to have an Aryan Nations March in downtown. The city approved the permit and let them have it... and as time went on, the attendance and participation dwindled to nothing. I was there during the last attempt.. It was two men with one pulling a dog in a wagon and that's it. Rather pathetic. The very few attendees were laughing as well.

Depopulation does not mean they are no children.. come on now. It means that less children are being produced today than in the past. All you have to do is look at birth rates in the developed world.

Good lord.. you are dense. By your logic... If I state an objective fact such as the Texas Rangers leading the Houston Astros in the ALCS 2- 0 .... I must be whining about the Texas Rangers.. How did you ever get past middle school? Any government needs revenue... this is an objective fact and your approval is not necessary for this to exist. So no matter the name (IRS) or structure.. any government will have to collect revenue.. again, your approval means nothing.

This is what happens when a relative minority of a group is violent. Most of the world's muslim population does not actively engage in terrorism but the few that do.. ruin it for the others. My impression is that the majority of the world's muslim population while not entirely supportive of these actions.. do not outright condemn them. This enables them to keep going. Nations being apprehensive of those from certain majority Islamic nations is justified.

Haha.. so when I say that the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 3-1 in the NLDS.. i am whining about the Phillies. It is simply a matter of objective reality... my liking or not is not relevant (and that means you as well..your approval means nothing).

or that they believe it just because they can. They do not necessarily trust their information source but they have to have something to hang on to. If there was no Russian Collusion myth.. their dislike of Trump would be just because. That is not sufficient in order to help them win an argument. I do not like Trump and did not vote for him.. however, unlike others I do not believe in the Russian Collusion myth nor do I think that he orchestrated anything on January 6. As a matter of practice, I do not react and form opinions upon hearing about a story for the first time. I give it a few weeks and therefore try (sometimes not successful) to read multiple sources/views of something. I know that most people do not operate that way. They read, react, and do so with this odd sense of authority. All it takes to be an expert on a topic is to read one headline, one tweet, or gasp! one article.

Not talking about Israel.. more general than that. All humans are flawed.. dishonest, hypocritical, have an agenda, etc. To read an article by your side and assume that they can't possibly be dishonest just shows a lack of knowledge concerning human nature. Everybody cherry picks to some degree.. they kind of have to. There are sometimes thousands/millions of information sources and so you can't possibly show them all. Also, no one can be impartial and not give a damn. Before you blast away.. my moniker comes from when I was on the now defunct Amazon politics forum and kept getting banned. I was running out of names to use and found this in an amazon book review and decided to use it. Since then, I just use it as my default on chat forums.

most people take a side and then do the following. Praise/support 100% of what their side says and then reject/criticize 100% of what the other side says. This comes with this built in assumption that those on their side are universally good, honest, not corrupt, altruistic, objective, and so on. The other side is universally deceitful, immoral, evil, and so on. I would like to think that I can teach them that everyone is flawed no matter the label.

Can't say if it will stick but been starting to teach my two kids to be critical to a fault of what they read. Believing something... no matter which side writes it, is for simpletons. Its one thing if it is a fiction novel but if the content is meant to be informative.. one has to be skeptical by default. So much opinionated garbage out there and it can be challenging to discern what is of value and what is not.

Show me some explicit quotes where I "cry" about Trump.. Your posts about eliminating the IRS are nothing but pointless whining that will never translate into tangible action. You know this.. yet have not the character to own up to this.

Absent father but economically viable does not create the plethora of social ills. Poverty and absent father does create them. Sometimes poverty leads to the absent father and sometimes the absent father leads to poverty. Also, left out is whether a situation occurs in a rural or urban setting. Drug dealing as a source of income is likely in Chicago while Carey, ID.. not quite.

Weaklings sit and complain about things that they know that they themselves can't change. You know that you alone are not bring about the end of the IRS.. yet you sit and whine about it.

Not sure that we will ever see peace in the Middle East. The grievances (real or perceived) are too firmly rooted in the culture/religion. They will find something to be angry about and therefore act upon. Even if Israel was to forcefully take the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians would simply move somewhere and keep fighting the battle.

Depopulation. on the smaller scale.. we are seeing what depopulation does to places like Wyoming and West Virginia. Continued out migration coupled with negative birth rates (deaths exceed births) has led to a decline in their local social services (police, fire dept). On the bigger scale, the changes will come due to lack of tax revenues.