jakelafort
@jakelafort
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Unseen replied to the topic We need to know why Trump is so popular in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
……………A plurality of voters believe that Biden’s age is a bigger problem than Trump’s authoritarianism because they just don’t see the latter as that big a problem…………Biden yesterday referred to Ukraine’s Zelenskyyy(yyy?) as Putin and his own Veep as Vice President Putin.
I used to worry about Trump having the…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic We need to know why Trump is so popular in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
……………A plurality of voters believe that Biden’s age is a bigger problem than Trump’s authoritarianism because they just don’t see the latter as that big a problem…………
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Why do the Brits do mysteries so much better… in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 11 months ago
How about the movie Fargo?
Oh yah Simon, you betcha they do.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic We need to know why Trump is so popular in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
Opinion piece by David Brooks in the NYT. The deep source of Trump’s appeal.
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Unseen replied to the topic Why do the Brits do mysteries so much better… in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 11 months ago
@ Simon
Well, in the States there are only a few distinct city accents. New York and Boston among them. Elsewhere, the phenomenon of city accents is virtually nonexistent, though regional accents happen though regional accents do exist. But Midwestern is what the vast majority of Americans speak.
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Unseen replied to the topic Why do the Brits do mysteries so much better… in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 11 months ago
One thing I’ve discovered in watching British mysteries is the existence of numerous distinct local accents. A witness will say detect a Yorkshire or Manchester or London or whatever accent. Here in the states, we do have local accents but much fewer. Vast swaths of the country speak the standard Midwest accent you hear ubiquitously on the…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic What will the coming civil war look like? in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
Trump, who claims on the one hand that he has “no idea” what Project 2025 is all about or who is behind it is actually lying (and not just because his lips are moving). It was actually largely written by members of his administration. Listen to this dark threat/prediction by the head of the Heritage Foundation, predicting that either it will be…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic What will the coming civil war look like? in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
@ Jake
I want some of whatever it is you were on when you wrote that.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic What will the coming civil war look like? in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
Yes, who could forget such a pretty mouth. Nero played the fiddle as Rome burned but MAGA have dueling banjo’s. Bet you are playing that tune in your head now 🙂
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic What will the coming civil war look like? in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
I look forward to the right wing militias uniting to bring down the next democratically elected POTUS while the orange man gets fitted for his new orange jumpsuit. I am sure they will trash the 100,000 active U.S. marine corps troops that will turn up that afternoon.
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Unseen replied to the topic What will the coming civil war look like? in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
_Robert_ wrote:
LOL, If Trump dies before the election, the MAGATs would still vote for him !You and I will probably vote for Biden even if he’s in a coma. Strangely, it’s not the progressives who are demanding Biden step down.Bernie Sanders and AOC are backing Biden.
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Unseen started the topic What will the coming civil war look like? in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
I have right-wing “gun nut” acquaintances who dream of using their weapons to help wrest the country from the grip of the leftist “commies.”
I do think the next election will result in a kind of civil war, especially if Biden wins.* I do not see it being won ior lost n gun battles, even if there are gun battles. I see it being won or lost by men…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 11 months agoSimon Paynton wrote:
The proposition has a truth value: true or false.A truth value is a linguistic/logical utterance or statement about the truth.
You’re c0nfusing statements about the world, which can have a truth value, with what they are statements about the world, which is truth itself.
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Unseen started the topic Why do the Brits do mysteries so much better… in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 12 months ago
than the Americans? And I’m not even talking about the Agatha Christie Marple/Poirot stuff.
I’m currently subscribed to BritBox in Amazon’s video space. I’ve watched programs of unparalleled excellence like Line of Duty (about what we Yanks would call Internal Affairs) and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
When I finally watched the last episode…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 12 months agoUnseen wrote:
The simplest definition of “the truth” is “the truth is that which is the case (whether you know it or not.”Surely it means “that proposition that corresponds with that which is the case” or “that proposition that is consistent with that which is the case”.
A true proposition is one that corresponds wit…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 12 months ago2-2=4 (base 10) was true before the universe came into being and will remain so after the last atom falls apart.
The simplest definition of “the truth” is “the truth is that which is the case (whether you know it or not.”
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 12 months agoSimon Paynton wrote:
We can’t have truth without a knower.Unseen wrote:
The philosophical question is not about what your life means to you.I hope the following, self-referencing logic doesn’t sound too convoluted.
We could just presume there’s a consciousness or two, e.g. God and/or humans, that know truth. But sans either, before the word “…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 12 months agoSimon Paynton wrote:
Exactly. We can’t have truth without a knower. What is truth without someone to judge it? When I say, I ought to help this old lady across the road, I am saying I feel I ought to do it.If something is true, it’s true even if no one knows it or will ever know it. If no one had ever discovered the Higgs boson, the thin…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 12 months agoSimon Paynton wrote:
I believe that meaning in life is when things affect my goals, so those things are significant or have meaning for me. I attend to those things that affect my goals and that therefore have meaning to me.The philosophical question is not about what your life means to you.
The meaning of life? What does that mean? The pu…
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic We need to know why Trump is so popular in the forum Politics 1 year, 12 months ago
Bannon and Trump knew how to work it, while the party supporting individual profit over public welfare became more selfish, and capitalized on some lucky breaks.
@PopeBeanie. I agree. Bannon was never going to become a politician but he could work the machinery in the background to help Trump on his path to power. Trump would not have the ability…[Read more]
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