Political Roundtable Part XXIX
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President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries
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Today has been a good day.
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gtn130 wrote:Today has been a good day.
Now let the arrests begin.
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President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries
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JWizmentality wrote:gtn130 wrote:Today has been a good day.
Now let the arrests begin.
Hear hear....
Go Joe!
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I heard this loud rolling thunder last night while I was trying to get to sleep - turned in early because of emotional exhaustion, I think. Took me a second to figure out what it was.
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It is REALLY hard to find the parade across america video, I think they took it down because it had a ten minute technical snafu in the middle. I managed to watch it while it was still up and it was a lot of fun - if I find it I'll post it. You can watch the individual pieces one by one but it's a pain in the neck. The evening one went a little better:
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JWizmentality wrote:gtn130 wrote:Today has been a good day.
Now let the arrests begin.
UNITY UNITY UNITY!
I think people who committed crimes should be held accountable. But I don't think we should be displaying heads on pikes outside the walls, if that makes sense.
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I voted for Biden. I dislike Trump intensely. His actions and attitudes likely have caused an additional 100-200,000 deaths of Americans because of COVID. But I'm not sure what the purpose of this thread is, particularly with the word "roundtable" in it. It seems more like an echo chamber circle jerk to me. For example, I believe there is systemic racism, but that CRT as a whole is a terrible way to address it. While I'm not to the point where Rod Dreher is for example regarding a woke technocracy leading to a social credit system, it has led to a chilling atmsophere in academia as an example.
When we now frequently have headlines like "Lactating Individuals..." instead of women or mothers is a symptom and signal of a culture that celebrates pseudo-reality. We have menstruators, chest-feeders, front holes, etc. We have Asian-Americans and other minorities being considered "white adjacent" or concepts such as "multiracial whiteness" to explain that the attitudes of certain groups are not suitably monolithic.
So perhaps there should be a change to the title of this thread that more accurately reflects its reality.
When we now frequently have headlines like "Lactating Individuals..." instead of women or mothers is a symptom and signal of a culture that celebrates pseudo-reality. We have menstruators, chest-feeders, front holes, etc. We have Asian-Americans and other minorities being considered "white adjacent" or concepts such as "multiracial whiteness" to explain that the attitudes of certain groups are not suitably monolithic.
So perhaps there should be a change to the title of this thread that more accurately reflects its reality.
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Looks like the flood of late xmas packages has finally come to an end. Only got one package yesterday.
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I think the biggest cultural problem right now are people seemingly hand waving away 100-200k extra dead Americans in order to complain about critical race theory or headlines using "lactating individuals". One of those things is a real and major thing, and the other stuff is enormously stupid and minor.
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dckingsfan wrote:
I was switching between CNN and Fox for the coverage yesterday. Everyone had the save video, but the audio on Fox - at least when I watched - was complete silence. CNN didn't have anything particularly interesting to say, but at least they made an effort.
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Fairview4Life wrote:I think the biggest cultural problem right now are people seemingly hand waving away 100-200k extra dead Americans in order to complain about critical race theory or headlines using "lactating individuals". One of those things is a real and major thing, and the other stuff is enormously stupid and minor.
Agree, Fox News has invested a lot of time and energy into magnifying "political correctness" into a huge crisis that is more important than all other issues - including systemic racism. I hesitate to even engage on this frivolous topic, since its entire purpose is to distract away from more important things. One thing I will say - if you think political correctness is a problem, or more to the point if you think having a civil discourse about courtesy is a *problem,* well, I strongly disagree with you.
Would love to hear anyone's thoughts on Critical Race Theory and what's wrong with it. I don't know as much about it as I should, would welcome hearing from both sides. I hope an anti-CRT stance is not just a euphemism for "I don't want to admit out loud that I hate BLM and Antifa."
Here's some Fox News anti-CRT propaganda:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/legal-coalition-critical-race-theory
Nice anti-censorship stance there btw.
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Zonkerbl wrote:JWizmentality wrote:gtn130 wrote:Today has been a good day.
Now let the arrests begin.
UNITY UNITY UNITY!
I think people who committed crimes should be held accountable. But I don't think we should be displaying heads on pikes outside the walls, if that makes sense.
Sigh...fiiine. *puts pike away*
Can I at least go pee pee on nate's front door?