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  1. gowlerk
    The lawsuit has been concluded.
  2. gowlerk
    From where I sit I see that most of the problem of polarization and the election of extremes, especially on the right, mainly stems from the unique American primary system and the lower turnout in those crucial contests.
  3. gowlerk
    They didn't teach that on FOX or Trump U.
  4. gowlerk
    I suppose that it is mostly because no one here really wants to jump into this complex set of issues with no good answers, but I am still surprised that we have no thread on it. On the other hand I don't want to start it either. Hamas being destroyed is an illusion. The best you could really hope for is a name change.
  5. gowlerk
    There definitely is a pattern here. The age of consent and the level of protection from the sexual exploitation has been steadily increasing for at least 150 years. It is a direct result of liberalism and the decline of religion. Things that were once tolerated are no longer. Men go to jail for long periods of time for having immoral photos on their hard drives and police forces have members dedicated of finding them. There is more effort being made to understand pedophilia and why it exists. You are in error thinking that this means our society may someday tolerate the abuse of children. What it really means is that we are working harder to prevent it. That is the pattern. The "left" believes in protecting children. Childhood marriage is a conservative and largely a religious based belief in paternalism and the leadership of strong men who take what they want. It is a problem of the extreme right, not liberals.
  6. gowlerk
    You can try all you want to justify it, but Israel has gone too far. And it is going to damage itself in the end. And yes, an unfortunate increase in anti-semitism will flow from it.
  7. gowlerk
    Since you have now come out I will too. My series of Iphones are the only Apples products I have ever owned. I watch cooler younger people struggle to do simple things on their very superior and complex Android devices and just shrug my shoulders thinking how easy I have it compared to them. It just works.
  8. gowlerk
    Winsor seems to dislike female D politicians almost as reflexibly as he does Muslims. I'm not sure what to make of it. The general hate on the right for Hillary seems to be the result of a long term focused slander campaign in the FOX and friends media. The hate goes beyond ordinary political dislike and seems visceral.
  9. gowlerk
    The same way you explain black people who owned slaves.
  10. gowlerk
    Look at the title of this thread and try to imagine it not leading to Rs feeling that they are being called nazis.
  11. gowlerk
    Who? No lifelong politician at this level gives up power willingly. Someone would have had to take it from him. The roster of potential nominees in 2020 contained no one better.
  12. gowlerk
    All people are racist to some extent, including black people and other minorities. It's part of tribalism and being human. But we can each control our behaviors. Trump and it seems many conservatives choose to use that fact to divide us from each other and gain power through manipulating our feelings. None of us can really ever know what is in another's heart. So we must judge them by their actions. The current leader of the R party behaves in a racist manner and since he is the leader the others are followers. Clearly his followers are willing to accept his racism. That means they are behaving in a racist manner. This is not stereotyping, this is fact.
  13. gowlerk
    I can’t keep up. I’m just not smart enough I guess.
  14. gowlerk
    How much does supplying Russia add hardness to the cutter? How many loops have failed to cut? How many questions have zero as answers?
  15. gowlerk
    I’m sure you could explain what you’re trying to say here. I don’t get it.
  16. gowlerk
    Slava Ukraini
  17. gowlerk
    Sort of like it’s okay to want to be POTUS. But it’s not ok to try to get there by staging a coup.
  18. gowlerk
    They may not have an association with Hitler, but they do have one with Trump. They may not support all that he stands for but they are more than willing to tolerate it which may as well be the same thing.
  19. gowlerk
    Sarcasm and cynicism "R" Us.
  20. gowlerk
    And that's what most conservatives will do. But thankfully, not all of them. Someday Trump will be a spent force. Hopefully in a matter of months.
  21. gowlerk
    I believe you are onto something there. Climate change seems to be a term used to soften and hide the true meaning. It is dishonest. Global warming is the driving force causing the so called climate change and it is better to state that right up front and not pussyfoot around it.
  22. gowlerk
    That would be an anti-free market action. And I have noticed you having trouble picking up on sarcasm before. I'll give you a hint. If you think it might be, then it almost certainly is.
  23. gowlerk
    They are protesting the extreme collective punishment and the blatant attempt at ethnic cleansing being meted out by Israel at the moment. Most of them probably don't completely understand the history and what led up to it. But they do understand that it has gone too far.
  24. gowlerk
    It is kind of weak for such an accomplished man.
  25. gowlerk
    Blah, blah,blah……