Accessible lethal weaponry in a fragmenting society .... what could possibly go wrong !????stui magpie wrote:^
Frigging hell. Sticks and yelling is one thing, people openly carrying guns in a tinderbox situation like that..............Faaaaaaaaaaark.
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As I've come to expect from you, those are just links announcing that there are other people who have the same extraordinarily misguided opinion you do. Each of the links I posted was to an analysis by an author of what Reagan was said to have done well and what badly.
Don't forget to let me know if any of the words in any of the things (I nearly said "articles" - but, hey, there's a three-syllable word, right there) are too big for you.
Especially Hitchens, some of his contain a couple of syllables. "Stupid", for example. That, as it happens, is the first word that comes to my mind when I think of Reagan. A man of very low intelligence who managed to implement lowest-common-denominator policies and get lots of "likes" for it.
Don't forget to let me know if any of the words in any of the things (I nearly said "articles" - but, hey, there's a three-syllable word, right there) are too big for you.
Especially Hitchens, some of his contain a couple of syllables. "Stupid", for example. That, as it happens, is the first word that comes to my mind when I think of Reagan. A man of very low intelligence who managed to implement lowest-common-denominator policies and get lots of "likes" for it.
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Yes. I saw that bit on Q&A last night. I thought the way they cut him off and didn't give him the right of reply to their reply was pretty shabby But to hear that they then asked him to leave just for asking a question if that's all it was, seems pretty thin skinned to me. It's pretty much the same for dissenting voices about covid and vaccines. I think if there are heavily pushed theories online getting spread about, it would be better for the mainstream media to address them, rather than suppress them. I feel the same about internet echo chambers, that delete any comments that go against the grain of said echo chamber.
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I think there was something particularly crappy about Grant's wording: "I'm not comfortable with you being here." For goodness sake, he's running a (supposedly robust and fearless) political debate show, not a crochet club. What on earth relevance does the moderator's personal feelings about a situation have?
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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