Belle Rose

PopeBeanie wrote:
Even the populists who are voting for these self-serving politicians can’t see what’s probably going to overwhelm their needs and dreams too, eventually. The populists could become servants when the right gains full power. Jake, how can we slow down and reverse this single-party political freight train? Finally I have to con…

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Jake, everything you’re saying makes perfect sense, and I’d love it if our future could go that way.

This Trump era’s changed my expectations of what’s possible. I’ve seen how political arrogance and thirst for power have prodded a populist hate movement that can take over. What’s still gaining ground now is a political thirst for power, so…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Passing on things I know that could save somebody’s Life, Liberty, and Property and standing by it is just one of many skills. I could always charge for lessons. 😁

The smiley face feels encouraging to me, in light of other lessons that seem more obviously one-directional. 🙂

@asianne I can move posts on Mexico to a…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
If you are too stressed out…then you can always just not engage and avoid news and political discussions.

Umm, speaking for myself, the only thing that would make that possible would be with the aid of some kind of psychotropic agent.

YMMV

But your suggestions for geographic relocation sound well informed!

@asianne (Ivy), I t…[Read more]

Ivy – @asianne, I really don’t know.  I have participated in presidential elections since Ronald Reagan vs President Jimmy Carter.  However, this is truly the first time I am voting for the proverbial “lesser of two evils”, and that would be Joe Biden.  Yet, I don’t really know.  The electorate have already shocked the pollster over and over aga…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
at what juncture does the government have sufficient standing and interest to intrude in hiring and and promotion matters.

Recently I’m thinking that there’s too much negative impact on small companies, and too much litigation necessary to prove and “remedy” alleged gender bias… but “affirmative action” as a solution can be…[Read more]

@asianne, my bad… I forgot (or never knew) that the window for editing a post is 30 minutes. (I can edit any post for you, if you ask.)

@asianne – how do you define spirituality?  I see it as: 1) personal transformation; 2) nurturing what sustains us.  But it carries an ethical component too.

@Asianne – I disagree. I think some people need religion.

I disagree, people think they need religion because they believe what the myth (as the post says) of religion claims to offer. It is our tolerance of religious moderates that gives continuity to the myth. If people were taught coping skills, critical thinking skills, literacy skills,…[Read more]

@Asianne, what do you think would be the right way to go?

I think it was obvious to everyone that the judge was guilty, by the way, but nobody’s allowed to say it.