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Willfully Horn

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  1. Two contrary thoughts to keep in mind, with which to face our future: Racism is too deeply entrenched to be eradicated, and I will do everything I can to end racism. But, you aren’t wrong.
  2. Have caught up on this thread, and I wish the families involved, the city of Memphis, and our nation, peace. I confess to feeling frustrated with thread, but that is the nature of DT, an almost free speech space. It is an ideal of the USA that all deserve equal protection under the law. Yet, both of the following statements are true: racism has yet to diminish to a non-systemic level, and also that denying this truth has become a political plank. I will defend the first claim with a clear cut, free market fact. The second claim cannot be openly supported here, because, well, hypocrisy. So, I will spoiler that part of this post. For most citizens, their greatest power is the right to vote- and their greatest wealth is tied to their home. Black citizens have demonstrably been systematically disenfranchised from realizing the wealth homes represent. “They really are all tied together,” Nelson said. “It’s just different forms of extremely harmful discrimination that shuts Black people out of home-buying, whether that’s in access to certain neighborhoods, receiving a discriminatory appraisal in refinancing or selling, or having a foreclosure next door not being marketed or maintained -- which impacts the value of their own homes.” https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/landmark-housing-discrimination-settlement-with-fannie-mae-sets-key-precedent-2022-02-11/ The following is spoilered for those whose panties get wadded from all the sand in their vaginas:
  3. Chose that word deliberately, to reference the myth surrounding the purpose of Limbo- a way station to higher planes, if you will. But mi charas is su charas.
  4. Limbo’s most Benevolent and Excellent Brothel and Nail Salon is always looking to higher.
  5. I love this lady. And she also supports the premise, as do many in the CR, that only one side has their mouths too full, of shit to critcixe their own.
  6. Ah, yes. The personally aggrieved anti-abortion loon. A microcosm of the permanently aggrieved anti-abortion Republican nutcases. The larger group has done far greater harm to our country, from the threats posed by denying health care, to compounding the trauma of rape, and incest, to blowing out a gaping, structural fault in public perception of both SCOTUS and the rule of law. And this is due to their slack jawed inability to understand what freedom of religion actually means, and to hold that right dear.
  7. Mobile Loaves and Fishes \tampons. I used to think socks were their greatest non-food need, then my daughters learned me.
  8. One that is incapable of killing children by the dozen. And I grew up with guns. I, too, have multiple shotguns and rifles. But I recognize gun availability is what has crippled this country’s security. And I will vote for folks who will try to remove the threat. Join me. .
  9. Want to address mass casualty shootings? Or, nah?
  10. Them Jesuits are trouble, huh. Good trouble.
  11. Three round capacity. Or less, of course. As for space, and size, and gun safe deflections:
  12. You’re right. My sentence was flawed. It should have ended: “… I will do whatever it takes to solve the problem.”
  13. I reject the idea that self defense requires the ability to shoot three plus times before reloading. So, my shotgun serves my needs. I have no issue asking the same of others. If stopping the killing were important enough to you, you’d vote to try and solve the problem. Which is, of course, the easy availability of guns due to sheer volume.
  14. @fattyflattie laughs often at ideas that make him uncomfortable. He admits he is not too smart; certainly he seems incapable of holding too contrary thoughts in mind at the same time. An example would be that the gun problem is hopeless and also that we must do whatever possible to solve the gun problem. He goes with the former idea, because he is too cowardly to embrace the latter. And, of course, he is not alone. Writ large, that cowardice is truly a both sides issue. Yes, I speak of the obscenely bloated military budget. But that is a discussion for another thread.
  15. Lying piece of shit. Abortion before quickening was not illegal until the 1860s.
  16. RJ doesn’t provide a link to his data, but, folks over 40, and under 20, vaccinate their kids in numbers that pull up the average. “As of January 4, 2023, the CDC recorded: 1.9 million US children ages 6 months-4 years have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine Representing 11% of 6 months-4 year-olds” https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-vaccination-trends/
  17. You know who sees a lot of clown shows? Clowns. Swine? Really? In my day, I did a bit of teaching. Never called one who had yet to learn a swine.
  18. Authority is less about consent of the governed and more about a shared belief that authorities know what the hell they are doing, and that they do so under the rule of truth, to paraphrase a Michael Ventura observation. The CDC’s truth has been called into question, but what I find most telling is the implication that everyone is wrong, except for the outlier dissidents. John Hopkin’s, the American Academy of Pediatricians, and the American Lung Organization all agree that children should be vaccinated. But, it’s all a big conspiracy. The deep state. This ongoing narrative makes Putin types happy. Color me surprised. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiy54-Fx9_8AhXXlGoFHVZJBQAQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lung.org%2Fblog%2Fwhy-children-should-get-covid-19-vaccine&usg=AOvVaw3HbsVHNCEsTvCjLad3Ldte https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-vaccination-trends/ https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/covid19-vaccine-what-parents-need-to-know
  19. @Skipper, the vaccine is good at two things, reducing the chance of infecting others, and lessening the harm of infection. Given the likelihood that children will be infected repeatedly, as will adults, minimizing the effects of Covid infection is critical, for there is evidence that subsequent infection is more harmful than the first. As you noted, the belief that herd immunity will solve the Covid problem was wrong. I suggest that your belief that Covid will negligibly affect healthy kids and college students might also be wrong. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/repeat-covid-is-riskier-than-first-infection-study-finds-2022-11-10/
  20. Hey, Skip, the shots not only slow transmission rates, they mitigate the damage caused by the virus. Given that multiple infections can lead to more serious outcomes, I think the benefit of shots for tots is mostly about trying to limit the damage caused by what will likely be a dozen (more?) infections before the age of thirty. There were folks convinced herd mentality would be a thing. They were wrong. You seem convinced that contracting Covid isn’t harmful for healthy kids. What if you’re wrong? Again, there is evidence multiple infections can have a cumulative effect. I’m sorry the boosters were tough on you. I am lucky, neither the vid, or flu, or any other vax, was particularly tough for me. Maybe that’s why I’d urge parents to err on the side of caution. Which, as you seem to criticize, is trusting the doctors.
  21. Different, but the same. If the center looks right, or left, wing from where you’re standing, you aren’t that close to the center.
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