oromagi

->@oromagi

Then run on nukes for 20 years until renewables are preponderant and reliable enough to replace non-renewables

Should we abandon nuclear after 20 years or just supplement with other green sources? There is no cataclysmic danger or economic incentive to remove atomic energy. There is enough fuel for at least centuries of nuclear power, and new innovation will make every step of the process more efficient and safe. An example is thorium reactors and projects to utilize new atoms as fuel, thus recycling radioactive waste instead of burrying it. 

According to World Health Organization, nuclear energy is safer per TerraWatt compared to other green energy sources. Doesn't that make it preferable for longer?

-->@oromagi

Please explain why you feel insulted or disregarded by my usage in this forum.

Aside from the fact that you spell it with hard R,

you keep using the term intentionally to trigger

in a context that isn't actually about or towards black people so I am not sure why you think I am personally insulted or disregarded.  I know black people who even for your usage of it in this forum would be offended and insulted. I am not such a person, though I do find it very distasteful/offputting.

-->@oromagi

Drag Queen story hours are still happening in Florida because nothing in this bill does anything to try to stop it.

Isn’t it possible that this is because the bill has not become law yet?

women who exhibit the kinds of toxic masculinity required to be a leader usually end up destroyed by their own gender.

The bill mandates that new “comprehensive sex ed” classes must include 

Drag Queen Storytime....

A white person can literally not use the N-word without offending

-->@oromagi

Were saying the same thing, you are just using more words ;-)

Like I said, he knows a lot of black people so he gets the N word pass lol

Part of the problem is that it’s impossible to explain to a young child what “gay” or “transgender” is without also exposing her to concepts that are not appropriate for pre-pubescent children

A bill prohibiting sex education to kindergarteners

has had about 10% truthful coverage, and 90% fake news. Even the president lies about this bill.

If we can't trust news on something as small as a State bill protecting kindergarteners, we surely can't trust them covering anything else. Especially the fall of Ukraine.

"Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards."

• schools must notify parents if there is a change in the student's services or monitoring related to the student's mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being
  
• (this is already established law in FL)
  
• schools may not withhold from a parent information about his or her student's mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being, or a change in  related services or monitoring, or that encourage or have the effect of encouraging a student to withhold from a parent such information, unless a reasonably prudent person would believe that such disclosure would result in abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
  
• So if a child confides in a teacher something that child does not want their parents to know, this bill compels teachers to notify parents against the wishes of the child.  I don't have a problem with this generally although I do object to big govt. inserting its big nose into matters that teachers generally handle very discretely and competently.  Republicans claim they oppose big govt. interference when it comes to privacy but bills like this expose the lie of such claims.
  
• schools may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.
  
• So if children ask their teacher why only men get to Be President of the United States, that teacher may not reply without risking a lawsuit.
  
• Parents can sue if they think teachers have "encouraged classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity"
  

This effectively ends the pedo ring of men dressing up as women for Kindergarten storytime to get a chubby around little kids.

 then about 1.2 billion people would move to the US

 India is an American ally, so there would still be western dominance.

-->@oromagi

No.  Your associate had her say and now she must deal with the consequences of her free speech.

You've now provided an exclusion to her free speech.

Suppose, you had a sign in front of your house which bore the statement "No calling my spouse a bitch." That renders the speech of each person who enters your home subject to this exclusion less they face the consequences.

You however could call your spouse a bitch because its your home. And that's my point: you should be able to say whatever you want as long as you're on your own property. If you're on someone else's property, then your speech is subject to their criteria (e.g. yelling "fire" in a movie theater.)

-->@Greyparrot

Biden is Putin's best buddy.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if in the future we learn that Biden had given Putin the nod and wink to invade the Ukraine while telling  President Zelenskiy   that the US would support him militarily.

You invite an associate over to your home. That associate calls yours your spouse a bitch. You, in response, tell said associate to get his/her ass out of your home. Have you curtailed his/her First Amendment rights?

-->@oromagi

What if every country except Russia and China initially join the world nation, we sanction the Russian and Chinese oligarchs until they give up their power, and then get Russia and China to join once they are sanctioned into submission?

Also, how would a one world nation lead to American decline?

• US would no longer be a superpower with the advantage accorded therein
  
• US would no longer be leader of the Free World with the advantages accorded therein
  
• US is only 4.2% of world pop.  Obviously, the priorities of China and India would dominate any real global democracy at the disadvantage to US priorities.

I was taught this lesson by black people.    Most of my elementary school teachers were black.  In high school, my principal was Bobby Seale's little sister.  I went to a small city college where I studied black poetry and black literature.  I was an apprentice baker to a black woman for two years.  I live in the oldest largest black neighborhood to be found west of Chicago and east of LA.  My little townhouse was owned by Black Panthers in the 60's and by Crips in the 80's and as a center of black politics many famous black people have walked down my street and shook the hands of the black people who lived in my house- MLK, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis, Jr.,  etc.  My next door neighbor is a black poet.  I've had black lovers and black friends all my life.

I learned how to write and speak the word nigger from Richard Wright and Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston and above all, from James Baldwin.

So you've paid your dues, and became an honorary so-called "Black" person?

I agree there should never be any racial restriction for the usage of any word.  Much simpler to simply allow everybody to use every word.

I believe anyone should be able to say whatever they want as long as they own the property on which they say it.

...or when gay men like me use the slurs queer or faggot.  I have long advocated for using queer as a preferable one syllable catch all instead of the tiresome LGBTQetc, in spite of Larry Kramer's objections.

Terms like Nigger, faggot, kyke, dyke, spic, dick, bitch, etc. roll off of the tongue so easily that they produce euphony, especially in charged moments. "Queer" does not have the same impact. 

We are now dealing from a position of extreme weakness where both Maduro and Iran can extract the most favorable deals that won't benefit American interests at all, essentially creating new threats to replace old threats.

I never understood a single reason (not one single reason) why black people need to use the N-word nor why gay people need to use the F-word etc.

ROFL. the delusion required to believe Russia fabricated that press conference.

I was right to avoid you since you seem to have cognitive issues.

Not simply that it's cost effective, but that it's objectively cost prohibitive to get bogged down in yet another war we have no hope of winning. It's beyond the concept of the cure simply being worse than the virus since the virus has essentially already won here.

Again, there is only one thing a leader needs to focus on and that is his people first.   I take it you got the Moby Dick reference?

Why is it all of a sudden convenient to declare Biden's actions bad only now and not a year ago when he was making policies to enrich Russia and increase our dependence on him to maintain affordable oil? Seems to me that if the premise of "helping Putin" was bad on it's face, People would have been outraged a year ago.

The point of this thread was to force people to see that glaring oversight since most of them were caught up in the propaganda that Biden was objectively "not-Trump" and that "Trump was Putin's buddy"

 That's a major problem right now in America. That Americans can be so easily fooled by foreign propaganda as long as it's convenient for maintaining political power until it bites them in the ass.

your position was and hopefully still is that helping Putin is bad.

Elsewhere, Kon Artist (of D-12) had this to say about Eminem: “That nigga ain’t white. He got white in him, but he ain’t white” (Toure 70). In The Eminem Show, black rappers accompany Eminem in only three songs. But in two of these songs (“Drips” and “When the Music Stops”), his black helpers repeat the “N-word” a total of ten times. Therefore, it’s OK to have his minions use the word but it’s not OK for Eminem to do likewise. In Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Kennedy contends that by refusing to use the “Nword” Eminem is “following a prudent course” (51). But this conclusion seems unwarranted given two of Kennedy’s other points. First, Kennedy says that to condemn whites for using the word “without regard to context” makes the word a fetish (52). Second, he writes that many whites yearn to use the word like their black rapper heroes who have given the term “nigger” a “new currency and enhanced cachet” (45). Eminem’s context is gangsta rap and Eminem’s hero is Dre. Prudence does not enter into either qualification.

-->@oromagi

Big talk.

Go and say it to black people for real then talk big.

I think it is pointless to allow the word even if the user is black IRL because it would require doxxing to properly moderate like that.

It is like when LGBT use the slur Dyke. It is futile and rude in a self-deprecating manner.

There is fun in trolling, sadistically and rebellion-wise but...

There weren't really World Wars previously.

That's just how things were recorded for Western Posterity.

There were some very big wars for sure, that sadly drew a lot of poor suckers in from around the globe......But chiefly centred around old European political  machinations......Just as we see today.....Europe and Russia still wallowing in the past.....The similarities between Vlad and Adolf's states of mind, are obvious.

And for sure, the Japs had their own little dig.

It all made for great patriotic films though.

What consequences are they gonna face if they take Taiwan? We gonna sanction them and literally shoot our selves in the foot?

I think that we could realistically switch to almost entirely green energy in 20 years without all of the growing pains.

-->@FLRW

Can't wait for 4 more years of DeSantis derangement syndrome.

So why do I get the feeling that GP will change nothing about his stance,

America should be trying to become as self-sufficient as possible. 

I have no problems with transitioning to EV, but it was foolish for Biden to shoot ourselves in the foot to try to force our hand in the manner (assuming he is Machiavellian and not just dumb).

Stopping construction of the pipeline would have lowered our dependence on Russia and would have given us breathing space to transition to EV instead of forcing our hand.

Now we have to scramble to get our supply chains ready, and it will be a much messier switch than we had hoped ($4+ gas prices, expensive/limited quantities of electric cars)

And this is all assuming that our companies will pay higher than the slave wage prices they currently do from China, another reason we lost production. We can start another trade war, but I’m not sure the old timer is up to it

-->@Thoth

With Airmax as site president you can even use the n-word.

600 mil/day = 250 mil/year. Same thing, right? lmao. Feelings don't care about facts.

China may become the antivillain of the war if it switches to actively condemn Russia. It takes one change of mind and it's done.