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Post by Repat Van on Feb 10, 2021 23:56:29 GMT
Do you think schools should be open or not, Rick? torn on that one. obviously they need an education, but they aren't getting one even with schools opened. if they re-open schools, what will they be taught? a few examples. 1. biological differences between men and women don't exist. it's just a human construct. 2. science and math are racist. 3. all whites are racist and guilty for slavery. 4. blacks are the master race. do i like kids going to "schools" like that? no. the left wing elites send their kids to private schools. but the commoners are stuck with the public indoctrination factories. Who says biological differences between men and women don’t exist? Which school teaches that? 2 I have heard a couple of fringe looneys come out with but 3 and 4 sounds like your invention. |
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Post by mids on Feb 11, 2021 8:03:01 GMT
Second worst president of my lifetime.
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Post by whiterum on Feb 11, 2021 14:56:25 GMT
Rick's links that start with hotair is a dead give away.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 11, 2021 15:02:51 GMT
It's odd that they think it's Biden moving the goalposts and not viral evolution.
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Post by voice on Feb 11, 2021 16:35:12 GMT
They hate science and people changing views and approaches based on new evidence and learnings.
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Post by ootlg on Feb 11, 2021 16:46:21 GMT
Ongoing science which proves old science was at fault? careful. Steady as she goes there.
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Post by voice on Feb 11, 2021 17:14:59 GMT
Thats not really how it works, evidence, measurments, understanding gets clearer most of the time, occasionally there are paradigm shifts of course, but mostly its incremental.
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 11, 2021 18:47:25 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Feb 11, 2021 18:54:02 GMT
The trouble is that the US system entrenches the two-parties even more solidly than the UK system does. And I believe it actually provides all kinds of structural funding and things, too. There's always talk about third parties (usually, but not exclusively, on the left), but they never create much noise.
The big problem that these "principled Republicans" have is that the only reason low-tax-low-government Republican parties have been at all successful in the US in the last three decades is by bringing the god-and-guns brigade along, and they're fully on board with Trumpism. This lot would win the Think Tank vote, and the billionaires vote, but would have real trouble at the ballot box.
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 11, 2021 18:58:25 GMT
Yeah, I can see that. Good points. They had better hope they can put their house in order from within. It seems to me that,like Islam,there appears to be no central authority in the GOP.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 11, 2021 19:02:48 GMT
There isn't in any central authority in any US political party. The closest it ever gets is when there's a President, or for a few months a Presidential Candidate.
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 11, 2021 19:10:11 GMT
I can't really see an up-side to it.
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Post by Repat Van on Feb 11, 2021 21:01:58 GMT
Rick's links that start with hotair is a dead give away. You just know it’s going to be complete nonsense. |
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Post by Marshall on Feb 13, 2021 2:01:44 GMT
Biden is standing up to the Saudis, unlike the last guy that was in office (what's his name?). Ending U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition’s offensive operations in Yemen and halting Trump-era U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia were two of Biden’s first moves on foreign policy. He also reversed the Trump administration’s eleventh-hour designation of the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, which the United Nations and aid organizations warned would hamper efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in Houthi-controlled territory. foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/10/biden-envoy-push-yemen-war/ |
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 13, 2021 9:00:47 GMT
I'm no special fan of the Saudis but I wonder why support of them in Yemen is seen as a necessarily bad thing? Have we suddenly developed a love of medieval Shia backed by Iran over medieval Sunnis?
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Post by whiterum on Feb 13, 2021 9:26:35 GMT
The US relies on selling weapons to countries to keep their economy stable, otherwise the factories that make those weapons would close and put millions out of work.
When was the last time was there a war on American soil?
Republican or democrat makes no difference when it comes to fighting wars abroad well away from their own soil.
Maybe the US should start telling unstable countries to start sorting out their own sh*t from now on, just for a change like.
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 13, 2021 9:36:33 GMT
I'm not sure that's a fair characterisation of US arms manufacturing and supply TBH. It's much more likely that they supply advanced weaponry to keep other countries stable.
I suppose you could argue that a stable oil price is a good thing for the US economy.
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Post by whiterum on Feb 13, 2021 9:42:36 GMT
Selling arms to a unstable part of the world is in no way helping to even try to make it stable.
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Post by ootlg on Feb 13, 2021 9:52:23 GMT
It's no longer a should or shouldn't thing now though. It's too late to return to a world without high-tech arms. One answer's more Covid worldwide until man finally says "f**k, maybe we should stop killing each other." The thing about Covid is that it's non-selective.
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 13, 2021 9:55:23 GMT
Selling arms to a unstable part of the world is in no way helping to even try to make it stable. Of course it is. Arms and armies are the ultimate guarantor of stability. I'm not saying it's always a good thing and we've often used kit, training and intelligence to shore up some pretty shabby regimes, but there it is. |
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