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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...

Money, whether yours or donated, can give you a platform, but you cant buy votes. Technically correct, which as we all know is the best kind of correct, but you cannot deny that advertising manipulates people - that's its purpose. That's true, and the people doing it must feel like it works. I thin...

President Bush wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:30 am Meadmaker, have you ever read Justice John Paul Stevens dissent to the SCOTUS ruling on Citizen's United?

I recommend it, though it is long it is quite interesting.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/08-205P.ZX

I'll give it a shot. I should be able to find some time in the next few days.

There are issues with the way we pick elected representatives, but there are issues everywhere in the world where there are elections. I'm just glad we have elections to complain about. If things were as bad as you say they are, power wouldn't shift back and forth the way it does in America. Oh com...

Bill Maher gives some of his own tips for spotting misleading or stupid headlines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lap1YE0uAC8

I hope the title of the video was intentionallly ironic.

Perhaps you recall the dem primary in West Virginia where Bernie won every district by a lot. The state was given to Hillary. That sound like a democracy? I didn't recall that. So I looked it up. According to Wikipedia, Bernie Sanders won 51% of the popular vote. Hillary got 36% Other candidates sp...

President Bush wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 10:57 pm Things are getting strange...

Photoshop is getting too good.


ETA: Apparently....those shirts are a thing.

So, yeah, things are getting strange .....r.