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well, when i mentioned it, you told me i was mistaken. if you're going to make a statement like that, it would be polite to explain what i was mistaken about rather than just put out a blanket statement. so... what was i mistaken about?
Do you really expect Chryses to answer a question? He may respond with some vague proselytizing, but with a to the point, distinct answer? We will wait and see.
In that context, it doesn't.
While justice is supposed to be blind, politics and government surely is not.
But should government help those who have been held back by racism, prejudice, economic class, and corruption? Kind of like finally pushing justice and opportunity for all
Quote by WellMadeMale
America hasn't burned nor banned enough schoolbooks yet. We're falling behind in the eyes of fellow Nazis, worldwide.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-746102
'Anne Frank pornography' being banned in Florida, Texas schools
A new version of the famous Holocaust diary is being called ‘Anne Frank pornography’ and is in turn getting banned from schools in Texas and Florida.
Florida and Texas are ripe for the next historical 'Salem With Trials'.
DeSantis is such a Trump wannabe, only much, much shorter. Word is out that he wears lifts in his shoes. Maybe that should go over in Favorite Conspiracy Theories...
Why not arm the Hall Monitors with at least a small handgun. Maybe a .22 auto. Those kids have earned it my brown nosing the teachers. And let's not forget the volunteer crossing guards. They could strap on a piece and be ready for some hot action should bullets start flying.
Also, bus drivers! Why not AR15s for the bus drivers?
Shouldn't Honor Roll students be considered for a gun each.
I mean, shit, the school could be packed with gun defense.
And have we considered school janitors or sanitary engineers or whatever they are called now. They could even get a concealed gun carry permit to be like undercover gun defense.
I'm sure we all would feel so much safer.
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Sure, but even in rural areas many people live in small towns.
Yeah, Farmers and Small Towners are opposing violent gangs, always having rumbles at the edge of town. Farmers wield a mean pitch fork. But Small Towners smack 'em upside the head with mayo filled BLTs. There ain't nothing scarier than an old dude in overalls and a John Deere cap tossing a corn cob at your tractor..
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I highly doubt that rural residents 'generally work in agriculture', unless perhaps you also count the guy selling tractors or the trucker driving animal food around, etc. But these jobs provide no more exercise than selling family cars or driving around with grocery supplies.
There may be more physical work in the countryside, relatively speaking. But I'd think there are also way more city folks who hang out in gyms.
The countryside in The Netherlands can probably fit into just one country county in just about any US state. Agriculture industry and jobs are basically what country living in America is all about. Do you have any idea the distances between things over here?
Of course, in many places it is a few hours driving to the nearest hospital. So, yeah, you could die on the way.
Generally country folk are really into eating green vegetables. But they will fry green tomatoes, okra, squash, and pickles. Yum!
Working out in gyms? Well, l do that. Do you know how popular it is for gym people to munch down on protein adding products? The answer us a helluva lot. I'd much rather munch down on some collard greens, much tastier.
My granddad, who is retired from a career in agriculture, sure loves to eat a big juicy steak with collard greens, and corn bread. He's 99 years old and going strong.
There really aren't a lot of job opportunities in rural living that aren't agriculture related. When is the last time you drove an hour or much more way out into the country to meet with your attorney, stock broker, accountant, occupational therapist, doctor, psychologist, tailor, or purchase a cell phone, etc.
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You are not the first to ask that question.
The Congressional Budget Office recently published a ten year estimate of $400 billion to maintain and update the U.S. nuclear arsenal from 2017 to 2026. One major cost center in the report is $25 billion for the “operation, sustainment, and modernization of tactical nuclear delivery systems — the aircraft capable of delivering nuclear weapons over shorter ranges — and the weapons they carry.”
I too wonder if the Russian military receives and spends similarly on its tactical nuclear arsenal.
The Russian military surely has given an inept performance. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Russians explode a nuke on themselves.
Their military morale seems really low. It looks like a military forced to do something they dont believe in.
It is hard to believe rural residents get less exercise since they generally work in agriculture.
Obesity? When they have access to healthier food?
I'll be on the look out for fat farmers. Usually, the obese can be found shopping at Walmart.
Now, death and dismemberment from farm machinery accidents, well, l can see that as a big problem.
Quote by Ironic
The Durham report refutes the Trump-Russia Collusion story
Anybody who refuses to accept evidence will remain ignorant.
It actually criticizes the investigation, but is really vague in its handling of evidence.
...and Trump may be a convicted felon by the '24 election.
Trump sewed inflationary roots when he put tarifs on Chinese imports. China retaliated in a huge way, raising prices on their manufactured goods US megacorporations depend on. They had to raise prices to defend profits and bonuses for top execs.
American farmers, who depended on China purchasing their crops went bankrupt in droves, and Congress had ro bail them out with a large economic package.
Then, oh yeah, the Covid shut down, yes, that economic disaster was originally put into affect by Trump. All economists said inflation would follow.
Finally, inflation is seriously slowing, and under Biden's watch.
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The Durham report documents the whole Trump-Russia Collusion story was a hoax. A lie.
Media should give Biden 'Trump treatment' during GOP investigation (usatoday.com)
John Durham concludes FBI never should have launched full Trump-Russia probe | CNN Politics
Trump-era special counsel's final report sharply criticizes FBI's Russia probe : NPR
The FBI knew RussiaGate was a lie — but hid that truth (nypost.com)
You didn't get taken in by it too, did you?
Do you have anything provable, rather than this vague accusatory fluff?
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I mean... murder in red states is going wild.
https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-two-decade-red-state-murder-problem
The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem
Takeaways
The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020.
Over this 21-year span, this Red State murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state murders in 2019, before settling back to 43% in 2020.
Altogether, the per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State murder rate when all 21 years were combined.
If Blue State murder rates were as high as Red State murder rates, Biden-voting states would have suffered over 45,000 more murders between 2000 and 2020.
Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18 of the 21 years observed.
Jack, don't torture Chryses with facts.
The fact that Republican states are more violent with more murders may be too much for right-wing Trumpers to take.
Gee, Hollywood movies are just entertainment and rarely historically accurate. Actors are just acting. Don't get worked up over an actor playing someone they are not. If Tom Cruise had to dogfight a real fighter pilot, he'd be dead right away. Cruise might be too short to see over the dash anyhow.
History is often hijacked from accurate reality to push a political agenda. The German Nazis pushed a false historical narrative in a huge way to promote their racist beliefs.
Quote by Magical_felix
Amazing levels of treason here... This guy is just a straight up foreign weapon that was elected president.
Well, Trump said he fell in love with communist North Korean dictator and mass murder, Kim Jong Un. Plus, As president. Trump sided with Putin over our own CIA, FBI, and Homeland Security.
Trump is, no doubt, Vladimir Putin's sock puppet.
And remember, as a young man Trump was a draft dodger and would not serve in the US military.
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Much has recently been written about how a recent Netflix series depicting Queen Cleopatra as a black African was a "falsification of history" or at least as "cultural appropriation."
And now,
The exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) - entitled Kemet. Egypt in Hip Hop, jazz, soul & funk - aims to demonstrate how Ancient Egypt and Nubia have been "an undeniable source of inspiration for musicians of African descent for over 70 years".
Are these expressions of art with just claims of free speech (at least in some countries), or are they apparent distortions of history and to be condemned as such?
We do know Cleopatra was a Ptolemy. The Ptolemy family lineage was highly inbred, and they were Greeks. Cleopatra could've had a Black African ancestor, though. We do know from extensive Egyptian artwork that Egyptian people were represented by the full spectrum of skin tones.
