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You think you're supporting nice people in Ukraine?

Garban comments on Jun 4, 2022:

“RT has regularly been described as a major propaganda outlet for the Russian government and its foreign policy. Academics, fact-checkers, and news reporters (including some current and former RT reporters) have identified RT as a purveyor of disinformation and conspiracy theories.” ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 4, 2022:

Frankly I am surprised that the frayed Russian bear would bother to cite a story from RT. I thought he was more sophisticated than that. I guess I was wrong.

You think you're supporting nice people in Ukraine?

noworry28 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

This is fake propaganda news distributed by Russian disinformation campain. No source. No verification.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 4, 2022:

That's his MO: consistently defend Russian aggression with lots of unsupported claims.

You think you're supporting nice people in Ukraine?

OldMetalHead comments on Jun 4, 2022:

The second Russian propaganda story you've shared in as many days. Why have you turned into Putin's shill?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 4, 2022:

It's his job (?)

WATCH: Marjorie Taylor Greene's Promises For Christian Nationalism Are Truly Chilling

CourtJester comments on Jun 3, 2022:

I’d hit it

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 4, 2022:

@SeaGreenEyez Too late, he's already got a chronic case 😂

Being an Atheist isn't always an easy path to walk, so many people will criticize and attack you for...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 4, 2022:

What a coincidence! I just heard some interesting commentary on the role of tribalism in the current gun violence crisis. I posted it only a moment ago. 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 4, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin Hmmm, the post I refer to in the above comment is in News & Links. I don't know why you can't see it. Strange! Here is the text: On the PBS Newshour tonight, New York Times columnist David Brooks opined that for Republicans, being anti-gun legislation is not a matter for debate. Rather, like belief in Trump's big lie that the 2020 election was stolen, being against gun control is a Republican talisman, a tribal marker, what T.S Elliot called an "objective correlative." If Brooks is correct in his analysis, when Republicans say they oppose legislation that would limit access to guns, they are merely signalling their membership in a tribe. And their desire to remain in the tribe, and fear of being ostracized by their tribe, is greater than any desire to be logical, or reasonable, or to protect school children from losers wielding military weapons. If this is true, then we are truly in a dark place. This is how Nazi ideology swept through Germany in the 1930s. There's also video which you can find if you google Brooks and Capehart youtube 6/3/22

Drought, or new normal? [cbsnews.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

I'm leaning towards "the new normal." Most of CA and NV should never have been watered. They're deserts, and to the desert they will return.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 4, 2022:

What should never have happened is our driving up the concentration of atmospheric CO2 beyond anything seen in the last 850,000 years (as far back as ice core data goes). This drought, its depth and severity, is largely a human-made crisis.

We should definitely acknowledge the failure of the police to stop the carnage, but ultimately that ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 3, 2022:

It is a distraction, but it is also telling. The fact that almost all the victims were Hispanic, instead of white, probably had something to do with why the cops didn't go in for over an hour. Colored lives are considered a lot less valuable than white lives by cops thinking of risking their own ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 3, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin I looked it up. It was the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. 17 killed. https://apnews.com/article/shootings-parkland-florida-school-shooting-bb5c5fe81cecb63886bd325b53b2e597

A teacher tore down a non-Christian verse on her classroom "prayer wall"

xenoview comments on May 5, 2022:

She needs to be fired as a teacher.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 3, 2022:

@Buck Actually I didn't quote him precisely, but it was F. Scott Fitzgerald. I can't speak for Professor Miller, but I would guess that he, like many other "believers," does not subscribe to literal interpretations of scripture. If you take it as poetry, then more of it becomes palatable.

We should definitely acknowledge the failure of the police to stop the carnage, but ultimately that ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 3, 2022:

It is a distraction, but it is also telling. The fact that almost all the victims were Hispanic, instead of white, probably had something to do with why the cops didn't go in for over an hour. Colored lives are considered a lot less valuable than white lives by cops thinking of risking their own ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 3, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin There was another case, not too long ago, where an armed school resource officer hid in the bushes outside a school while a killer rampaged inside. I wish I could remember where and when, but there have been so damned many school shootings, I can't keep track if them all.

A teacher tore down a non-Christian verse on her classroom "prayer wall"

xenoview comments on May 5, 2022:

She needs to be fired as a teacher.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 3, 2022:

@Buck You have a good point there. However, there are perfectly good scientists who are also religious believers. When I was a relatively new biology teacher I was part of a small group of science teachers who volunteered to serve on a textbook adoption committee. The book I voted for, which was infused with Darwinian evolution, and which we adopted for biology classes, was co-written by Ken Miller, Ph.D. Professor Miller, at the time, taught biology at Brown University, and testified as an expert witness (for the plaintiffs) at the court trial over the teaching of Intelligent Design in the Dover, Pennsylvania High School. The judge in the case ultimately decided that Intelligent Design is just what Miller said it was: religion masquerading as science. In a film documentary about the case Miller neatly does away with the argument that as a scientist he is biased against religion by revealing that he is also a devout Catholic who attends mass regularly. The documentary has footage of Professor Miller attending mass and praying at his church. And this guy is as serious an evolutionary biologist as you are ever going to come across. He's the real deal. Who was it that said a sign of a first-rate mind is the ability to simultaneously hold two opposing and contradictory thoughts?

We should definitely acknowledge the failure of the police to stop the carnage, but ultimately that ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 3, 2022:

It is a distraction, but it is also telling. The fact that almost all the victims were Hispanic, instead of white, probably had something to do with why the cops didn't go in for over an hour. Colored lives are considered a lot less valuable than white lives by cops thinking of risking their own ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 3, 2022:

The Uvalde Schools Police Chief, Pedro Arredondo, is a Hispanic guy. He was the one who gave the order to wait. So I doubt there was a racial motive. We will know more in coming days. Stay tuned.

We should definitely acknowledge the failure of the police to stop the carnage, but ultimately that ...

Betty comments on Jun 2, 2022:

How about amending the 2nd. amendment to reflect today's issues.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

@Betty Indeed.

We should definitely acknowledge the failure of the police to stop the carnage, but ultimately that ...

Betty comments on Jun 2, 2022:

How about amending the 2nd. amendment to reflect today's issues.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

@Betty It's the Republicans who are holding up the show.

Background: Trump falsely claimed that the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Perfect

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

What is really disheartening is that the egg on Durham's, Barr's, and Trump's faces isn't even seen by the red hats. Trump will just deflect it and it will disappear into the ether.

From our Fatal Distraction Department:

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

People know more about the trial than they do about the shooting and other real crisis in America. I think this experiment as a country is failing.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

The stuff that grabs people's attention is too often just hype, lies, disinformation, porn, gossip, and.....junk.

This wasn't the first time that a good guy with a gun failed to stop a bad guy with a gun.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Only in Texas they prevented and delayed the end of the crisis. They actually exacerbated the crisis. It takes a special kind of monster to do that.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

Well I don't know about monster, but certainly grossly incompetent.

The Republicans are hard workers, and earn every bit of ridicule they get.

Betty comments on Jun 2, 2022:

The idea of arming teachers is to risk potential power trips.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

It's a totally lame on idea. 😐👎

We should definitely acknowledge the failure of the police to stop the carnage, but ultimately that ...

Betty comments on Jun 2, 2022:

How about amending the 2nd. amendment to reflect today's issues.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

Way overdue, but given what it takes to change the Constitution, that's not surprising.

Fascist mother's milk.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

The seem to breathe, eat, and drink conspiracy theories.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

@HippieChick58 Rodger that. It's the gun toting white Christian nationalist wing of the Republican Party that wants this.

Fascist mother's milk.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

The seem to breathe, eat, and drink conspiracy theories.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

Obviously the educational system has failed.😔

Culture comes down from the top.

Garban comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Should have been in 🖍. And misspelled.😉

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

Yeah written in blood 🩸

From our Twisted Priorities Department:

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Bullshit culture war issues to distract people from seeing how the Repubs won't do anything about guns, and also about how they only care about the rich and corporations, altho Dems do the same thing with all the identity politics to distract from how they too only care about the rich and ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin I think messaging is easier for them because they are more unified around a few central ideological concepts, especially the "immigrants are bad" trope.

This should be the preaching

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Nice graphic! You do that yourself?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

@St-Sinner Don't we all?

This should be the preaching

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Nice graphic! You do that yourself?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

@St-Sinner The act of creation is good therapy.

From our Twisted Priorities Department:

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Bullshit culture war issues to distract people from seeing how the Repubs won't do anything about guns, and also about how they only care about the rich and corporations, altho Dems do the same thing with all the identity politics to distract from how they too only care about the rich and ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

There is some truth to what you say, but it's not ALL theater. One problem with the Dems (there are many) is they tend to go overboard in their reactions. A prime example is the "defund the police" rhetoric. It's silly nonsense and it only serves to give ammunition to the other side.

I stated 10 years ago that we could have a shooting damn near every day in this god infested ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 1, 2022:

You called it homie. Do you have to be so right all the time? Damn.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

@Buck 😂😂😂

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racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

What is amazing is how so many people are readily brainwashed to believe the Russian/GQP version of events, and make up utter bullshit to support their beliefs. Mueller's Report lays it all out, and if one believes it was a Democrat conspiracy, simply arm-wave it away. However, no small number of ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

It really is amazing. I'm accustomed to suspending disbelief long enough to enjoy a silly movie, but the Republicans do it 24 - 7 with the most bizarre lies. It's like they're hypnotized. And Trump is their Svengali. Must be a horror flick. 😱

My dream list of national gun laws.

rainmanjr comments on Jun 1, 2022:

Good list other than #2. That's shit. LOL.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 2, 2022:

@rainmanjr I can only hope that this wrongheaded move by the Republicans to continue with the same old charade will translate into greater turnout of voters who want change.

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