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Unseen wrote:
@robert I don’t think it’s widely held that there is a brain tumor gene much less a violence gene. There do seem to be vulnerabilities that run in families but families being families they may have nongenetic ways of setting up diseases. For example, if there’s a family with a high incidence of lung cancer, maybe there’s a lung ca…

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@Robert

I don’t think it’s widely held that there is a brain tumor gene much less a violence gene. There do seem to be vulnerabilities that run in families but families being families they may have nongenetic ways of setting up diseases. For example, if there’s a family with a high incidence of lung cancer, maybe there’s a lung cancer gene or…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@Enco @jake @robert So, I guess the consensus is that, yeah, sometimes war crimes are okay.

It would have been a much worse war crime not to drop the bomb, IMO.

I feel that a defending nation that has been violently attacked by an invader nation naturally has a softer moral standard because starting a war to gain territory, money,…[Read more]

@Enco @Jake @Robert

So, I guess the consensus is that, yeah, sometimes war crimes are okay.

@Robert and Jake

The church I went to here was more of a “Seeker church – come as you are – rock band mega church. Where everyone is welcome….And palatable to anyone and everyone….welcoming to people from ALL walks of life – Baptist roots (I think) very rich church. Does a LOT for the community, etc….

But I know the different flavors of Christi…[Read more]

@Robert

The war in Ukraine is a matter of discomfort for us, but it has dire implications for the Third World, who have it bad enough as it is.

The war is far more devastating for the Third World than for Russia.

We are hurting the world’s poor more than we are hurting Russia.

And what is this war really about? Freedom for Ukrainians…[Read more]

@Robert

The ruble is probably stronger than the dollar right now.

I note that there’s no mention of cost of living in your supposed refutation. It’s about assets, not how much food, fuel, housing, etc., cost.

Russian tanks aren’t on a par with American tanks, but there would have been far fewer tanks knocked out except that their military seems…[Read more]

@Robert

What are your thoughts on the ethics of proxy wars?

@Robert

I think Great Britain is more of a shithole than Russia.

@Robert

Science is now saying stop the general vaccination program. Denmark takes the lead. They are accepting what Dr. Fauci admitted the other day: We are out of the pandemic stage and in the endemic stage. The reality now has to be how to live with Covid as a fact of life like the flu and the common cold.

Expect Pfizer and the others to rebel…[Read more]

@Robert

Millennials get their news from online sources, often social media, but social media manages what their users get to hear just like the mainstream media.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@robert – I was going to put this link in yesterday which addresses some of your question. Putin has primed their minds with misinformation about Ukraine for several years now and he also controls all media sources.

…But modern well-educated middle-class Russians, particularly tech-savvy younger generations, h…

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@Robert – I was going to put this link in yesterday which addresses some of your question. Putin has primed their minds with misinformation about Ukraine for several years now and he also controls all media sources.

@Robert

There are religious Jews and there are ethnic Jews and an ethnic Jew can be pretty much an ex-Jew in an important sense.

Anyway, your black-and-white and 1940’s thinking of what a Nazi is doesn’t necessarily apply to Ukraine’s neo-Nazis. You can bone up by reading this article from The Times of Israel.

@Robert

No, enlighten me…

@Robert

List of political comedians (aka “assclowns”): Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory, The Smothers Brothers, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, George Carlin, Stephen Colbert, Dennis Miller, Lewis Black, and Jimmy Dore.

Here are two of our favorite comedians disagreeing about where the coronavirus came from. One of them is…[Read more]