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Reg, you’ve confused me with Enco…

Apologies to you both…..I was thinking that you Jake, would appreciate the word when you read it.  Not quite a mondegreen though. Mrs. Malaprop, you have a rival in Lisa Simpson, but don’t worry Lisa, iconoclasts are very welcome here 🙂

Ever see that movie “Airplane”?  A passenger asks the flight attendant if she has any light reading available. She brings back a pamphlet entitled “Famous Jewish Sports Legends”.

Right now, christian nationalism is the #1 immediate threat to our nation and democracy on this planet. Not Islamists, not trans athletes, not antisemitic  Harvard, not China, not Ukranian Nazis, not even climate change. Anyone fighting this shit, I am gonna root for them. When the threat is over, then back to the regularly scheduled program.…[Read more]

Here is one of the reasons that Jews were discriminated against at Harvard and many elite American institutions in the early 20th century.

Jewish enrollment at elite colleges in the U.S. began to rise significantly due to merit-based admissions (which emphasized academic achievement). By the 1925, Jewish students made up more than 25% of the…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Harvard has a long history of discrimination against Jews. This lefty iteration of secular Jew hatred as an academic subject is such a joke. I want to see the money trail from Qutar to Harvard. Who has been paid off? Anti Jew. Anti western. Anti intellectual. Smoothing the pathway for Islamism to penetrate USA and being partly…

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Permit me Jake the indulgence of extending my most effulgent approbation for your recent prolix perambulations through the luxuriant lexicon of our beloved English tongue. Your sesquipedalian predilections, far from being an impediment to intelligibility, represent a salubrious balm upon the oft-diminished art of articulate articulation.

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Here’s the press release you forgot to link: Students Against Antisemitism and Kasowitz Benson Torres Announce Settlement of their Lawsuit Against Harvard https://www.kasowitz.com/media/client-news/students-against-antisemitism-and-kasowitz-benson-torres-announce-settlement-of-their-lawsuit-against-harvard/

As p…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
cromulent

Umm, you know, I have a far larger vocabulary than the average American, yet I had to run to the dictionary.

A little advice: if you want to be a smart communicator and not just a narcissistic egghead show off, use the common vocabulary.

The dictionary gives several synonyms: fine, acceptable or normal;…[Read more]

Watched the video. Was dumbfounded at the Nazi (or Naziesque) palm-down salutes.

At the White House. This is America.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Bos_NLeR7q8?si=a52GbVrsnWt3tGGH

Everything Trump is doing sets a precedence and becomes normalized. Harvard is just one aspect on the attack on education. It may seem partially righteous now, but more is to come.

Oklahoma just passed a state resolution that “Christ is King”.

https://www.okhouse.gov/posts/news-20250418_1

“This resolution is a bold testament to Oklahoma’s f…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Here is the video I referenced linked on The Hill: https://x.com/MarkGoldfeder/status/1912283082364998131

Yeah, I know, but Harvard already settled the discrimination case with pro-semitic provisions and a five-year plan.

Marc Kasowitz of Kasowitz Benson Torres, LLP, counsel for Students Against Antisemitism said…

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_Robert_ wrote:
The “Free Palestine” camp should be allowed to express their misguided opinions like everyone else AND be punished for rule breaking like everyone else. That should be the focus of the effort, but it’s not. The focus is on crushing education and replacing learned people with easily controllable idiots wearing red dunce caps. Defun…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
You could have teamed with Eli Whitney and made a Strawman Assembly Line with that line of thought.

Slaves, of course, are morally blameless for their condition

If you accept determinism, as I do, then everyone is blameless for their condition.

That said, slaves have rebelled and freed themselves. There are many examples…[Read more]

@Enco, sure companies pay taxes, but no company was going to orchestrate a mission to the moon. The return on investment as far as business development enabled by the Apollo program was 700% or 7:1 to the taxpayers.

The point is that universities and businesses work together to elevate our nation and that no business can afford to undertake risky…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Perhaps atheism asserts nothing but an atheist can assert that God doesn’t exist and here I am doing it.

God does not exist because he/she/it is impossible like a round square, counting to infinity, or unringing a bell. If that is true, then God’s nonexistence is true to a mathematical-level certainty.

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Triggering empathy is a Spielberg specialty. Most of us are running the same basic software (if you are not a sociopath). The thing is, I am never a fan of having people take pity on others if there is nothing they can or will do to really help. In fact, it results in the most helpless of feelings having to look up at “empath”, shaking their head…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
If empathy is what it takes for us to do the right things, that’s great. However, the dichotomous situation of living standards always throws me for a loop.

In a recent Facebook post answering a person who likes to remind leftists like me that the Democrats were very keen on the KKK and it was a Republican who f…

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_Robert_ wrote:
If empathy is what it takes for us to do the right things, that’s great. However, the dichotomous situation of living standards always throws me for a loop.

In a recent Facebook post answering a person who likes to remind leftists like me that the Democrats were very keen on the KKK and it was a Republican who freed the slaves, I…[Read more]

13,100 children under the age of 5 die every day. 9 kids a minute. Many starve or just don’t get medicine they need.

We love our pets. More than half a million cats are snuffed out in shelters each year.

Mother nature is absolutely ruthless. How many creatures are eaten alive every day?

Should one have empathy for someone who stubs a toe? It…[Read more]