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The art business is essentially a tax shelter and display of excess wealth. We live in a time when a pixelized permutation of cartoon ape brings 6 figures and we are correctly portraying ourselves as apes. Clearly there seems to be a need to remove all skill and creativity from our culture.

We’ll be listening to that one 50 years from now for sure. That and the other 100,000 songs generated this week. When will we find the time to consume all these masterpieces? Maybe they will pay you to listen? I think they may have to.

Belle Rose wrote:
I have been saying for so many years how I’m moving out of this country, goodbye and good riddance. I’m not at a place where I can do it just yet but I’m getting there… I cannot wait to call myself an expat. Ever since the day the Trump become the nominee of the Republican party for the very first time I knew it was over. I…

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unapologetic wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
…just let the boomers finish off what is left…

Hey. Don’t blame ME, I voted for Harris. And ever since 2020 voted straight Dem. Get those REPUgnants out of office.

Me too but the red hat boomers and very surprisingly, a shitload of Gen Z “Zoomers” as well, have spoken. I saw them at every busy inter…[Read more]

Nice summary, Pope. I never felt like Putin would be done after taking the Donbass or the entire country of Ukraine. That scenario makes no sense, and the Soviets understood that very well. The neighbor states (old Soviet bloc) in the area such as Finland and Poland seem to concur as they are more proportionally supplying Ukraine and gearing…[Read more]

Smith should keep trying and make the king pardon himself. Worth every penny. But yeah, the evidence should be fun at least.

When Trump/Musk kills the Affordable Care Act, and cuts pensions, Medicare and Social Security at least we won’t have illegal Mexicans picking our veggies. People will die for their Orange Mussolini and probably be happy…[Read more]

I remember years ago you said something along the lines that our human rights are only real because some government is there to give and uphold those rights to us. Now with the high court and congress all under our new king-elect, those rights are in peril. We will know how bad it is gonna get when we see how hard he starts going after his…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I read somewhere that Trump suffers from ‘delusions of adequacy’.

LOL. I am just plain embarrassed for the country. High speed internet is all it took to kill the republic. No one even needs to tell me our president-elect-felon never read a book.

Bernie is correct but the difference is more than just that. “Great Again” was when a woman totally needed a man to thrive, blacks were 2nd class and LGBTQ were closeted. That’s what this is all really about.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
There is a suggestion that Vance has somehow arranged for Trump to be poisoned with arsenic. Bear (in Central Park) with me for a second….but did you consider where RFK put that brain worm when he had it removed? That could explain a lot.

That worm was starving to death when they pulled it out. Not enough s…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Right now, my larger fear is that liberals lack the introspection to see where they went wrong, the discipline to do better next time and the humility to change.

Yeah. I have found myself in the receiving end of liberal prigs and pontificators for a vocabulary related misstep. Makes you wanna run to the dark side, at…[Read more]

All interesting stuff, @unseen. It is unfortunate that we have to go down this road.

Looks the Medicare, Social Security, Affordable Health Care Insurance, The Environment, Ukraine, Church/State separation, Womans Rights, LGBTQ+ rights, voting accessibility, migrant workers, and Fed. agencies such as FEMA are all on the chopping block. Vladmir Pootin’ and fat lil’ Kim must be so relieved that all their money was well spent.

Belle Rose wrote:
It’s been nice knowing you, democracy, hello dictatorship

Yeah, a moron at the 5th grade level really resonates with the red hats who go out and vote. Millennials and gens xyz just let the boomers finish off what is left before they all croak. Sad.

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
OK, so now absolute morality is just values “one holds dear”. So, if one culture holds sex with minors in high regard, and another will lock you away in jail, they are both following absolute morality. Got it. Yeah, see I don’t buy that.

When religious folk talk about absolutes they are talking about specific laws…

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OK, so now absolute morality is just values “one holds dear”. So, if one culture holds sex with minors in high regard, and another will lock you away in jail, they are both following absolute morality. Got it.

Yeah, see I don’t buy that. When religious folk talk about absolutes they are talking about specific laws set down by the creator of the…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

Unseen wrote:
You can’t have any sort of ethical system without absolutes. You can make ethical pronouncements till the cows come home, but without some sort of absolute value(s), you have no foundation to build one on.

It seems that with any sort of absolutes there ends up being a gazillion exceptions. Give us a…

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