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Autumn wrote:
The thing is, Trump didn’t really run on much of a platform in the first place.

Granted, much of his platform was dismissable rhetoric, but it energized a base to emerge, react, and vote for him in both 2016 and 2020: “Build a wall that Mexico will pay for”; “Lock her up”; more blame on immigrants “they’re rapists”; “ban Muslims f…[Read more]

Autumn I agree, as I also see most of what Unseen is pointing out. Maybe I’m too caught up on avoiding these smaller battles while a whole bunch of cultural and political battles are at large, with their general theme being their abuse of power while their grabs for even more power are so successful and threatening.

I’m ok with people calling…[Read more]

Autumn wrote:
I’ll help your Majesty out. What do I think of Unseen’s last post in this thread? Well, I think he’s deliberately misunderstanding the issue at hand so he can be dismissive of something he doesn’t understand well. I’ve now intentionally misgendered you several times.

I often think of how to rewrite what I wrote the day before, w…[Read more]

What’s at stake in these investments, other than personal hopes and dreams. Is it not the definition of a zero-sum game, based only on being lucky enough to guess right when it’s time to get out, without regard to any material  business effects? It seems to me that in the end, some industries or enterprises also lose out when that money isn’t…[Read more]

The reason why LGBTQ (and other rights issues)  are such explosive issues now is because of haters who want to keep raising the anger levels and blame libtards for everything… because they need an enemy to motivate them. So “woke culture” is triggering these conservative snowflakes? No, sorry, Trump and neo-right gang are stealing political po…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
So at some point that first macaque that washed fruit and had others observe and follow will become genetic. I guess, i don’t reallly know.

I’d word that slightly differently, and clarify a bit. The behavior was originally enabled by a chance, genetic condition. If beneficial to the species, then enhanced survival that ensues i…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
I think dogs read us and our facial expressions as well as we do each other.

Absolutely! And sidenote, dogs were once wolves until they started evolving with us, and then we bred them to be even more compatible with us… both of which might include newly bred abilities to read our emotions, but I can’t declare that as a fact.…[Read more]

Sidenote, withholding oil is effectively used to pressure entire countries. We need longer term energy strategies, asap. This is true not just wrt Putin’s Russia, but to get out from under the thumb of oil rich, autocratic theocracies like Saudi Arabia, as well. Notice in the graph how prices have been increasing for at least a year, giving Putin…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Not sure about that. Not an assumption i make.

I probably could have worded that better.

By saying “in ways that go much deeper than ways among other animals”, I mean, for example art, music, science. These ways of communicating more deeply are not mainly due to genetic differences, but are cultural capabilities that have…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
I just think it’s sad that there’s no place here that you can do that that isn’t church related or religious related. I have said this before… I think that it’s really sad that Community is hard to come by. Community is really hard to come by because it always exists within some kind of a context that has religion tied to it.

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I’ve mentioned before, years ago even, “beginning of life” definitions and “end of life” definitions are related in ways.

There’s not as much end of life controversy over definitions, although many here will remember opportunistic politicians jumping into the fray over Terry Shiavo falling into a coma in 1990 in Florida, which she never came out…[Read more]