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@Enco

“But if some part of the mind were not free, doesn’t that make all your poetry and all your tomes on these subjects all for naught?”

What does this mean?

Thanks, Reg!!

jakelafort wrote:
Oh, i remember, i recall, not that i forgot at all. The afternoon, the street; sweet convergence then unknown but put down as a given with the pencil of intent in which true love is written. Organs smitten, covergence riven, the Sack of Suds the protagonist bitten.

I love all of this. I’ve missed this, Jake.

PopeBeanie wrote:
(Hmm, now I wonder if there were any connections to religion in McCarthyism.)

I finally answered my own stupid question. I say stupid, I should have remembered history, e.g. the term “Red Scare”. Here’s part of what I got from Gemini AI:

“Godless Communism” vs. “Christian America”: A central rhetorical strategy was to portray…

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jakelafort wrote:
I served up a tee ball and i could smash the shit out of it. Instead i will be quiescent and evanscent.

Thank you! It would likely go “over my head” anyway.

_Robert_ wrote:
Nothing interesting about it, Pope.

I really hope that view prevails, someday after Trump/MAGAism.

In my head I’ve started trying to compare Trumpism with McCarthyism. They’re both historically dark eras for USA, with some kind of group human nature built in that I want to learn about. Comparable to cults, in fact. (Hmm, now I…[Read more]

I wonder what ICE will do with all the money they’re about to get? We’re living in “interesting times”.
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@Reg THANK YOU!! I feel less weird about it now 🙂

@jake I am horrified at the way you grew up with such animosity. I’m full of admiration for the fact that you’ve turned out to be so decent.

You’re much more tribal here in America. People really like labels and grouping terms. Maybe it’s because you had to invade the land you live in, and had to manage indigenous peoples, so it’s a Cowboys a…[Read more]

@enco  There is no perfection, and arguably no equality in real life.  An example of equity might be the allocation of school bus costs on a headcount basis, even though some students live much further from school than others.

It is precisely because there is no such thing as equality, that equity steps into the breach.

Although I am very aware that anti-semetic beliefs or Jew hatred exists, I have somehow managed to avoid encountering any, in all my years. It’s bewildering to me. It’s as if everyone else can physically see something and I can’t. Maybe it’s partly because I grew up in an atheist family. Maybe it’s because there were many different religions…[Read more]

We can get swallowed by our own prejudices on occasion without even being aware of that.

@Jake I disagree with your perception of ‘lefties’. Perhaps we have a different interpretation of the definition of ‘lefties’.

I am a leftie. In my world view, equity is better than equality, women should be in charge of their own fucking bodies, we should…[Read more]