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And my brother has said that corruption in Chicago makes Brazil look like amateurs… what a bunch of stretch goals, eh? Wendy P.
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But don’t worry; the right future president, and Bolsonaro will be pardoned or commuted. After all, Lula is serving as president again, and he was in jail (corruption) too. My Bolsonarista friends generally hate Trump, and understand the parallels. But democracy is hard, especially when there isn’t as solid a middle class. Of course, the US is now working on that one, too. Wendy P.
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Now there’s a mantra. So your silence after the targeting of Democratic people in Minnesota, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer in Wisconsin, are also violence? Wendy P.
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And their work is complete. Yet another person who could engage in dialog now sees others only as either like minded or enemies. Wendy P.
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Are you also good with the free speech that calls soldiers baby killers, and Republicans automatic racists? Or only with “truth?” Wendy P.
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Generally it takes a doctor to pronounce death under those sorts of circumstances. There weren’t any authorized doctors at the scene. So he had to be taken to the hospital. From a news story at the time: (Source) Wendy P.
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He’s a troll. We’d ban him here. Wendy P.
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Really, for a good 100 years or so until the late 1980’s and early 1990’s this was fairly true of the US. The “divide and conquer” strategy, especially when it’s US were dividing, is not good for a country that wants to adapt to the world. And the world isn’t going to adapt to it for real long Wendy P.
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To many in this world money is the stand-in for any sort of value, including intelligence. No matter how it’s gotten — “beating the system” is an American and a human game. Wendy P.
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Men at Work’s Down Under
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If said person is moving somewhere and is really concerned about what others are going to say, maybe they should take the time to talk to those others. If they are, in fact, trying to improve run-down properties, that is gentrification. It's also investment. Very little is solely good or solely bad -- some neighbors will be happy that the area is looking up, others will be pissed that taxes are going up. Take it from someone who has been called intimidating on the DZ when she was young. Mainly because she didn't want to be the latest play toy, and didn't know another way to avoid it. So, well, people apparently talked, and I got what I wanted -- independence and self-respect. Also a whole lot less RW coaching. Wendy P.
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Reframing an issue, particularly a complex one, to understand it from a different light is considered to be intellectually valid. CRT is largely reframing an issue to understand it from a different light. You just don't like that light. Wendy P.
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Ya know, I almost could have seen it after 9/11. Not really, but I wouldn't have been nearly as disgusted. But once you include the last 10 years... Wendy P.
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Official award day was weathered out. So, well, I'll have my own ceremony... I didn't join USPA until I was off student status I think, or at least on 15 second delays or something like that. Wendy P.
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I've actually been OK with minor discussion. How else would I have found out that the cab driver in Florence would be appalled for us, but happy for Italy, if we elected Trump in 2016 (because electing Trump would make everyone forget Berlusconi ). But minor, focusing on how people live and react to their lives can just include politics. I'm not that great at connecting, so I have to go with what I can manage... Wendy P.
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Some of them were the middle-of-the-road iconoclastic types 50 years ago, who more and more feel as though this protects what they have, because they’ve mastered this system. They weren’t die hard evangelicals then, many of them quite the opposite. WW2 and the depression were the unifying forces of their parents; that and the smaller number of mass media outlets. Everyone listened to the same news Wendy P.
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Well, mine doesn't say "liberal," but I do speak French and Spanish, and am polite. Never had an issue (yes, not even in France). I have a feeling it's that polite part that really helps, and not thinking that we have the solutions to all of the world's problems. Wendy P.
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Each of us has a small voice, and we know it. The 2nd types hope that the guns increase the volume. Not sure what volume is needed, but if we can still vote next year I suggest a movement of “it’s only 2 years — elect a Democrat, stop the madness. Wendy P.
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He da man. Dang. Wendy P.
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I agree with you about respect being missing (used to be that some respect was automatic; you could lose it, but you earned some simply by being human). I disagree that it should be mandated. But then I started a thread a few years ago about respect -- does it have to be earned or is it given? I think I was one of the few who said it's given, not earned. You can earn more respect from me, and you can lose respect, but you get some simply by being human. A difference between now and, say, 60 years ago, is that in some parts of the country respect was only automatic for white people. Others (furriners etc) could earn it individually, but were never granted it as a class. That's a generational change that's still happening, and part of this administration is trying to roll that back. Wendy P.
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Panty Raid
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For Trump, all that happens then is it pisses off the liberals. Stretch goal -- and we comply! Wendy P.
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A lot of people just like to think back to the days when men, generally white men, were looked to for decisions and opinions. Frankly, most of us like to be asked our opinion and treated as experts (I do...). It's just that white maleness no longer is a sorting mechanism for most people. For some, it's an automatic "sort into the selection pool," and for others it's an automatic "sort out of the selection pool." Kind of like every single other identifying characteristic. Wendy P.
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As a by the by, things are better in the fam. Not great, but definitely better — seems like a progress better, not just a crisis averted better. We’ll see And thanks, folks Wendy P.
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I have held a security clearance. I never actually dealt with secure materials (I was system support, so had godlike access to everything, including the secure areas), but yes, mistakes were addressed, and didn't lead to jail. If something was important enough in our world (which was proposals generally), a Chinese wall was set up to physically prevent any sharing. It seemed to work. Wendy P.
