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stanky wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 1:26 pm Anyone think they'll do any good?

The problem with war is that one side can start it, but both sides have to agree to stop it.

No good comes out of arming the belligerents, and yet no good comes out of letting one side win, either.

"How Michael Cohen’s past lies make him a more credible witness" It's wishful thinking, people. When you have to explain why lying makes you credible, something isn't going to add up. I already read the story. Their point is that he lied to protect Trump. What's bizarre about this whole th...

neat link, thanks. interesting that, by their metrics, corruption is growing. i wonder if there's a biological analogy for what happens at max corruption? As when fermentation kills the yeast. I think there is. I fear America could fall into something like that, but not really the way you've been t...

To be perfectly frank, I would be very surprised if this sort of corruption didn't exist all over the place. I don't think Australians are uniquely virtuous, so that they never use their power to enrich themselves. If there's a way, people find it. I'm not sure America is special in this regard. No...

Jon Stewart Menendez: How Dumb Is You? 16:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5udtSQ-LtM0 Let's not look at American "democracy" with rose-tinted glasses. There's a couple of different sorts of corruption at play, here. This video is about corruption of people who hold office. To be perfec...

Consider: If all we did was make the vote mandatory, like Australia, and voted on a holiday...just that...we'd see very different results. That alone, if true, exposes the flimsy nature of our democratic intent. Trust me, mandatory voting is a hard sell to Americans. I've never seen someone so vehe...

sparks wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 6:47 pm MM said: " It doesn't seem a lot different than the America of my childhood."

Young person.

62.....and it might have been very different ten years ealier. I think the '70s was the decade where America's selfish, consumer driven, personality really came to the front.

Meanwhile, on Trump. I'm so tired of seeing "star witness" in headlines. Right now, the "star witness" is testifying. I'll be we don't see that phrase again after today. He won't tell us anything we don't already know. I've read a couple of columnists that explain that when his t...

I'm annoyed at the new direction america has taken. ... I'm not sure it's all that new. It doesn't seem a lot different than the America of my childhood. Except for the part where we lag behind other nations in education. When I was a kid we really were ahead of the world in education. Now, some pe...

They don't really care who wins, assuming any radical 'outsider' has been adequately assassinated by the corporate media. And that's where I'm having issues. I don't think the outsiders are being assassinated by media. I think they are outsiders because their ideas aren't popular. If I look at &quo...