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Actually, it's worse than the numbers. During WWII, before the invention of microchips, bombs were highly inaccurate and missed their targets more often than not. That could make things worse in a populated area but there are many stories of bridges, say, that needed to be bombed over and over again in order to actually hit them.
By Vietnam, the trajectory of bombs was extremely accurate, so the disparity is a little deceiving in that the bombing there caused far greater damage than the numbers comparison indicates. The bombs didn't miss their targets at nearly the rate they did in WWII.
Even if the numbers make it seem larger than they are, that's a heck of a lot of bombs to drop on a country that didn't do anything to us.
This is the country you think God is blessing? I don't know.
"The United States Air Force dropped in Indochina, from 1964 to August 15, 1973, a total of 6,162,000 tons of bombs and other ordnance."
As compared to:
"World War II witnessed the first full application of strategic airpower in war. Allied air forces dropped nearly 2.7 million tons of bombs,"
Both quotes from Wiki. Maybe, if you meant God should be blessing America in order to stop military invasions of neutral countries, then, yes.
If America did have ever God's blessing for whatever reason, I'll bet It's sorely pissed off about it now.
You don't write / act like you've ever raised any kids, that's all. It would very hard for children to grow up in a situation where the parent makes assertions then provides no proof or reasoning when asked about them. Like you. That's what I know.
As far as your sister - in - law, doesn't your shithole state or county have a Child Protective Services program? Why don't you report her? Your brother's wife? If he's not taking the kid away, just shut the fuck up, it's not your business and no one's interested in your opinion about it. .
Oh, right, an 8 second video on TikTok makes your point. No context, no hearing what the kids had to say about it, or parents reactions. I mean, for all we know from that video, a parent's group asked for it. And there are no confused kids in it, at all.
So do adult MAGA opioid addicts living in your neck of the woods.
I mean, what do you care about this, anyway? You don't have any kids, no one's making your sister's kids change genders, why don't you go on about something that you know something about.
Name one teacher, in a link, in one school, anywhere in America who talked to elementary school kids about gender re-assignment, just one. This is just another right wing distraction from real world problems, a boogeyman.
Oh, I get it. Instead of referring to him as, say, Professor, you thought it would be clever to bring religion into the discussion as an insult, as "sarcasm". Ok, I guess we know where you stand on societal hierarchies.
Is he really a Rabbi or are you just being cute (in your mind) because he's Jewish?
Do you think it's a put down by calling him a Rabbi? I mean, what's the point of addressing him like that, otherwise? Because it's not cool to write, "Hey, Jew"?
A Rabbi is a learned individual, so if you think he's really one, pay attention to what he writes and take heed. If a Rabbi thinks you're a piece of human excrement, he wouldn't say that to be glib and there's a good possibility he's correct.
Yes, it was also a shame, erasing history as you put it, when they took down all of the Benedict Arnold and all of the Rosenbergs statues around the country. We can only hope they never dare change the name of the Aldrich Ames Air Force Base.
Thank you, I respect both your opinion and the work you do here, which surely cannot be loads of fun all the time.
Sorry not used to posting from my phone, mistaken duplicate
Obviously moderation is left to the mods. I am unaware of anyone else having the right to delete posts or ban people.
That being said, it seems a little thin skinned to be put out by comments about the nature of criticism of the dialogue. I had thought that the name Tornado Alley meant a rough and tumble situation but what you describe is closer to "in loco parentis".
My fear is that letting people slide because they seem insignificant is what leads to Fuentes dining with an ex President.
It seems that Zuckerberg and the former owners of Twitter were actually concerned with non moderators opinions of what should be de-platformed. I wont back down from my opinion that allowing dangerous info a platform is a mistake, and wont be silenced, you do as you see fit.
Alea Iacta Est.
Yes and no. I suspect there are people who read this board who don't post.
I'm remembering there was another board on iHub for a stock, SFOR, a pump and dump scheme. Whenever anyone posted something against the narrative, the mods would just erase the post, not ban the poster.
So, anyway, I guess in the end you're probably right, no harm no foul.
Ok. I didn't really mean it as a judgement on moderation, rather as a call to a recognition of common decency by all parties. It's unfortunate that you took it personally, I had advocated for ignoring him as much as banning him..
In my opinion, you've missed the point. By the time you get around to refuting him with facts, he's already been allowed to post potentially harmful disinformation, which is the goal. He's being given a platform to do so, here.
Of all the many times you've corrected him with facts, has he ever written back and stated something like, "my bad, I misinterpreted that, I didn't read that correctly, I didn't know that, thanks'? Or, does he just ignore your comments and keep posting lies?
Who could possible take a 26 year old idiot like Fuentes seriously? Yet, by him having various platforms for his hate messaging, it's found ears and followers.
Correct.
But the idea is not to ban them for legit political and philosophical differences or for being stupid and annoying.. It is to ban them for spreading dangerous disinformation about vaccines, for example. Or for demeaning trans people or insisting elections were stolen or even, to a lesser degree, to be climate change deniers.. Even FB came to eventually realize that not all free speech is created equal.
If someone posts that vaccines are causing deaths, then simply refuting it with facts doesn't solve the problem. In my opinion, not that anyone's asked, the problem is that you've given them a platform to disseminate potentially harmful stuff, which can be taken to heart by less informed readers.
If someone is consistently being negative about the idea of trans people getting to live their lives as we live ours - which happens here on occasion - those people should be made to shut the fuck up. That's not free speech, that's hate speech.
Bottom line, fuck off
I sort of resent that you keep responding to this creature. Just in the way that Trump's dinner the other day raised the status of the slime balls he ate with, so is it with you seeming to take this "person" seriously enough to keep answering. You raise its status.
Twitter and FaceBook de-platformed haters and science deniers as you should do as well. If not getting rid of them, please ignore them and hopefully they'll go away. They can always spew their hate and ignorance on Gab or Telegram or some such, it's not like they'll be shut up, they compromise the integrity of this board.
Conservatives should have their say, no one's arguing against it. I'm sure there are intelligent conservatives who bring facts to a discussion. Even if I've never met one, they should be welcomed in a reasoned dialogue. But this is not being a conservative, it's an attempt at toxicity, and by allowing it, you're enabling it. They are not operating in good faith.
Does it mention that the laptop repairman says he'll only testify if he can wear his kilt? That's in a story in NewsMax by the way, you'll have to find it, I won't link to any of their articles or videos.
So, not kooky at all, totally credible info, for sure. And what do you expect to find on Hunter's laptop, anyway? Him detailing about how his family stole $Bs from whomever and did whatever with it? I'm sure it's all laid out there in great detail. I mean when this was all purported to have happened, his Dad was VP, so you'd think they might have been able to get better encryption than this.
You guys get obsessed with the strangest shit, like this, Benghazi, Mena Airport, Pizzagate, Obama not a citizen, Seth Rich, whatever, it boggles the mind. While the Trump Crime Family was stealing everything that wasn't nailed down and playing nice with our enemies, your efforts went towards searching for the pedophile ring run by Democrats in the basement of a pizza place.
I'm probably wrong but it's almost as if you're trying to get peoples' attention away from actual problems, that you don't propose solutions, only sideshows. Bread and circuses, bro.
A terrible family, top to bottom. The boys have 2 sisters, one apparently stays out of the limelight, although she's a partner in the family real estate biz and the other spreads the sleaze:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/06/world/asia/jared-kushner-sister-nicole-meyer-china-investors.html
I'm sure Thanksgiving dinner with Karrie is a hoot:
https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-sister-in-law-karlie-kloss-campaign-for-biden-2020-9
Another I read about Joshua, can't remember where, was that the criminal dad Kushner didn't want him to marry Kloss because she hadn't graduated from an Ivy League school. Even though her father was / is a doctor.
There is also a Kushner Hall at Hofstra University, named after the dad, money apparently washes away all sins.
His brother, Joshua was supposed to be the real deal, smart, high tech entrepreneur, married to Karrie Kloss, but then, I guess, his DNA kicked in, from Wikipedia:
"Kushner owns 50% of JK2 (also known as Westminster Management), a real estate management company, his brother Jared owns the other 50%. In April 2021, a Judge ruled that JK2 was found to be have committed "widespread and numerous" violations Maryland's consumer protection laws at Baltimore-area properties by collecting debts without the required licenses, charging tenants improper fees, and misrepresenting the condition of rental units.[32][33][34]
Kushner's JK2 was also featured in an episode of Netflix's Dirty Money series titled "Slumlord Millionaire."[35] The episode was based on an expose from ProPublica accusing the company of abusing tenants rights, leaving homes in disrepair, humiliating late-paying renters and suing mostly poor immigrants to garnish their wages calling them a "tier-1 predator".[36]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, JK2 filed a significant number of lawsuits against tenants for debt collection and eviction, despite an eviction moratorium being in place.[37]"
So, lovely people the lot of them. Although I do like Karrie Kloss, she's doing great stuff with Kode With Klossy, can't figure out how these pieces fit together. Also, fun watching her tower over Bill Nye on some science special of his that she was in.
It must mean something, Ivanka had to convert to marry him.
He just seems so incredibly fucking stupid, like he doesn't understand what's mostly obvious to most people. He also comes off as nearly completely amoral, it's truly all about the Benjamins for him.
I believe I recall that Natalie Portman once said that she thought that he was the dumbest guy in their class at Harvard.
Ditto. My pediatrician chain smoked unfiltered cigarettes, probably I"m thinking the late 1950's, early 1960's.
My wife's mother smoked throughout 4 pregnancies. Two of the kids have had life long lung issues, cause and effect was never established, but still.
https://theflatearthsociety.org/home/
https://www.icr.org/article/evolution-biologically-impossible
https://answersingenesis.org/age-of-the-earth/
What you're doing is of a piece with election deniers, you can find something on the internet that supports any outlandish belief. In the old days Big Tobacco found doctors who claimed that smoking is good for you.
If everything is a conspiracy then nothing is a conspiracy. Charles Manson said, "total paranoia is total awareness" and that seems to be your mindset.
100%. Every gun owner should be tested and be required to have a license, like drivers are, every gun should be registered, like cars are, every one should have to re-register every 2 years, like cars are.
Guns should be permitted to people who need them, whether they're ranchers or people who live in rural areas or inner city businessmen who transport a lot of cash and that's it. Permits should be hard to get and the laws about them strictly enforced. Gun owners should have to have insurance and bullets should be extremely expensive.
Show the world you have a little dick someway else. Gun nuts are the real groomers of kids in our society. Why don't the cops in London routinely carry
guns? Huh?
If every idiot in America didn't own 2 guns, then police encounters wouldn't turn lethal so often, the police have to constantly worry about everyone they encounter being armed. Let's de-escalate the anger in our society and more guns isn't the way.
Oh, and everyone in a well regulated militia should be allowed to have guns, too, just like the 2nd Amendment states.
Well, go back to Copernicus, I think the Catholic Church back then can be accurately described as being on the right.
Then we have the Scopes trial, where they didn't want to believe in evolution and the cigarette smoking isn't bad crowd. Now the anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers and the people running around claiming the earth is 6000 years old..
Seems to be a pattern, no? Conservatives are, by their nature, afraid of change, afraid to think about things differently and with an open mind.
Or to understand anything, really.
I'm still trying to understand what the "left wing" is. You throw that term around a lot as some sort of signifier, but what does it signify? Are there boxes that can be checked off and when a certain number are checked, that's "left wing"?
If it's left wing to provide food stamps for families, say, are subsidies to large agricultural companies left wing, too? If it's left wing to want Medicare for all, is it left wing for the government to subsidize medical research and provide medical care for veterans, too?
If it's left wing to support DACA is it left wing for large farms to use illegals to harvest crops? I'd appreciate it if you could define this term or, maybe, stop using it as if everyone knows what it means.
If it's left wing to be a socialist was the $1T tax cut to corporations (primarily) left wing, too?
Well Trump has made several stabs at suspending or subverting the Constitution. Let's see, he wanted 2 more years added onto his term, tried to overturn an election and stop the transfer of power, ignored the emoluments clause. And Biden did what?
As far as confiscating personal property, why don't you ask the farmers in Texas whose land was taken to build the wall that Mexico was going to pay for. What land did the Biden administration confiscate?
And listen, asshole, one more time, every government that suspends a constitution and confiscates personal property is not Nazi, per se, that doesn't define Naziism. Nazis were a specific group that behaved a specific way, the term didn't exist before them. Since Hitler was elected you might as well claim that elections cause Naziism.
And, further, just to be clear, you're a miserable little shit who knows nothing, zippo, nada. Confine your fevered hallucinations to your mom's basement, please..
Did you actually read this? It seems unlikely - one mention of vaccinations, no definitive cause and effect cited. From Science magazine:
"So I've been getting questions about what this means for vaccination: if we're causing people to express Spike protein via mRNA or adenovirus vectors, are we damaging them just as if they'd been infected with coronavirus? Fortunately, the answer definitely seems to be "no" - in fact, the pseudovirus paper notes near the end that the antibody response generated by vaccination against the Spike protein will be beneficial in two ways, against infection and against the Spike-mediated endothelial damage as well. "
From Immunize BC:
"The mRNA vaccines work by teaching our cells how to make a harmless spike protein that triggers an immune response inside our bodies. The body then makes antibodies to help you fight infection if the COVID-19 virus enters your body."
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/07/scicheck-covid-19-vaccine-generated-spike-protein-is-safe-contrary-to-viral-claims/
Etc, etc. Listen, go through life believing whatever you'd like, it makes no difference to me. The thing that really is bothersome, though, is how your poorly reasoned stance might effect people who can get covid from you and other idiots.
You realize, I'm sure, that covid mutates in unvaccinated people, putting us all at further risk, continuously. And, hey, have you heard that vaccines cause autism? A lot of people are saying that's true!
Let me guess, you're a Gary Null fan.
What's a Nazi? Is that your word for someone whose ideas you don't like, similar to calling them a communist or socialist?
I haven't heard of Biden committing genocide, or throwing Jews out of their jobs and homes and rounding them up, but maybe you have some links that can credibly claim he is?
Because that's what Nazis do.
If you live your life only consuming media that enables bias confirmation, you'll never learn anything, although maybe that's your goal. Just cocooning in what you want to read and watch, so as not to have to think about anything or do any research:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/11/22/new-died-suddenly-film-pushes-unfounded-depopulation-claims-about-covid-19-vaccine/?sh=690e0f9649d0
https://aubtu.biz/109136/
https://www.themarysue.com/what-is-the-died-suddenly-documentary-and-why-isnt-it-on-netflix/
I'm wondering if you know if there are any openings for membership in the Flat Earth Society, I'm guessing you might be on its Executive Committee.
If you post shit like this just to irk some libs, I get that, no problem. But if you actually believe this stuff, good luck in the real world, you're gonna need it.
Sure, I'll bet he's just been waiting to be asked all this time.
If not for big oil, we'd be taking trolleys and driving cars powered by steam, etc. Big oil was not a help with public mass transportation, either. Plus, we, the taxpayers, paid for highways and road repairs to aid their cause. Plus, plus, the MIddle East would be a lot different today.
As an aside, I checked with my contact at the NYC DOT (for real), who project managed the Times Square transformation that was pictured in the article you posted, and he has never heard of Andy Cohen, the author.
True and it's a tantalizing idea, too. What could go wrong?
Sorry, pretty much apples and oranges. Sure, driverless buses, driverless cabs, tests in mock towns.
I appreciate the effort but this in no way addresses the situation of big, densely populated cities dealing with driverless cars. With an infinite number of cars being driven into these large city centers for whatever reasons, every day
I mean, like Hong Kong or some such, not Arlington, Texas. Yes, it's possible it could work in cities with a population of about 500,000 in spread out geographic situations, but not a major inner city.
In his dreams
An impressive expression of stupidity. Congrats!
Wtf? Do your handlers know you're on a computer?
You'd have to come off as a lot smarter to be fairly considered an idiot.
CRT is a college level curriculum, if you can post one legit link that shows it being taught in elementary or high school, I apologize. Side bet that you've never read the 1619 Project or actually know what CRT is. I guess Tucker told you it's bad!
You insult all hard working public school teachers and administrators with this nonsense.
It's doubtful they've had some "come to honorable behavior" moment. They are dishonest hacks running a company that provides ordinary products in which the marketplace shows no interest..
If they were the types of people who would give up their salaries as a show of good faith, they would be the types of people who wouldn't have been lying to investors forever.
Ain't gonna happen, might as well ask Kay to cut us all checks for the amounts we've lost investing in this shite company.
In this instance, going against Gridlock Sam is going against expert opinion. I'd bet the writer of the article you posted, who is not a world famous traffic planner, will be proven wrong in time, instead.
You still don't address the issues of people "driving" into a city and what becomes of their cars once there, which was 1 of my 2 points. Taxis are irrelevant in these cases, hanging around or no.
The Andy Cohen who wrote the article you posted is apparently a NYC Council member. While his heart is in the right place, he's hardly an expert.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/05/26/council-member-andy-cohen-knows-broadway-wont-get-safer-if-it-stays-wide-and-fast/