Michael Hardner

I'm being sarcastic 💥

Yeah but there's a culture war to fight...

Nobody has any clear stake in the outcome, so nobody has a strong opinion.

Pew did some research on Muslim religiosity in the US, over time, and it found that they were losing their religion at similar rates to other religions. Even more than some Evangelical Christians. Social change is scary, though, especially for the older folks.

Does this really need a second thread? You're already commenting on the other one. Two threads on a topic doesn't make it more important.

I disagree. There are lots of people on here who call for violence the end of days etc etc, etc etc etc. It's cheap talk as far as I'm concerned. Again. You are free to do it.

Trolls be trolling. Trolls also attract... trolls.

Ok to all of this, but you can distinguish yourself from the masses by emphasizing an ethical and not reactionary response. Or even, if possible, change the conversation by making an inciteful comment or suggestion, that indicates engagement and real participation. But as you say you are free to comment in any way.

@Legato I am taking you off ignore for educating me.

So sad. Liberal Jews, and their institutions are admirable beacons of morality in these difficult times. And no politics embraces death, let that be said. To believe so is to believe half of one's countrymen are inhuman. 💕 I won't celebrate terrorism, murder, death...

Not bad. It looks forward but is a legit source. It doesn't talk about what happened so far but ok. Interesting that the populists are still unhappy... https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-poll-vote-rejoin-eu-brexit-new-referendum-pm-keir-starmer/

The economy isn't doing well from what I have seen. The analyses I have read blame Brexit. I used conventional sources and the arguments were straightforward and as expected. What do you have ?

1. He's a good guy? I must have those posters on ignore thankfully. As I said there's a large gap between he's a bad guy and he should be killed. It's actually not required to render judgement on his personality. 2. The French Revolution was a bloody failure, that ended up restoring the Monarchy. The American one created a strong, open, and lasting democracy.

The idea being, if they are left of center newspaper then everything they print is 100% wrong. The news. The weather. The sports reports. The crossword. They report that somebody else said something, then that person didn't say it and what they did say is wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.

Well, are the ones who voted for Brexit saying "Gee, we were wrong"?

I have seen tech guys like him before, and it has never worked out well. While he does have a point that there's a lot of fat in large organizations, mass firings means you end up with people who can't get a job elsewhere, or self-hating human pigeons.... The "chained to the desK' life is a dead end and it takes exactly 1 negative career event for people to learn that. I learned mine, and my career is now going great without me killing myself... The best was firing people that he had to hire right back. ( I worked for a company that did that in the 80s. )

I left it because it was buggy as hell and my feed was constantly screwed up.

Yes, however it's complicated. They could adjust it to project to 100%. It won't be "bankrupt"

1. Well, if we're talking about 'suspicion' then yes Gaetz is still under suspicion of violation of ethics etc. legitimately. But he is NOT a proven child molestor. 2. Patrick Brown, PC leadership candidate, purportedly had his campaign(s) torpedoed by opponents.

1. No, of course not. 2. Yes they can't say he IS a child molestor. I haven't seen anythingn that says the investigation is closed yet. Likewise with Hunter Biden, related to his father, I didn't see anything that showed influence peddling. 3. That happened to Brown.

Brown was torpedoed due to a non-existent scandal and was (thankfully) able to come back

I think ad hominems are a sign of bad debating, and generalizing any subgroup (including priests by the way) as being child molestors is akin to posting that you have no argument, only an opinion based on nothing. That said, people do get especially angry at hypocrites. So priests, moral majority types, and gold pulpit Christians will be metaphorically crucified with sharper nails than your run-of-the-mill mall pedo.

Any conservative would be concerned that foreign countries are thought to have worked against Patrick Brown in his leadership aspirations.

There's a gap between feeling sorry and celebrating, though. Kind of like when a murderer goes through capital punishment. It's a grim end, is how I look at it.

Clarity will come, because the system is open and correctable. It's a matter of faith, but regardless something better will come out of it.