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[Wymsey]

8 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Not sure there's enough hours in the day for Biden to discuss every domestic murder in the US tbh.

You've got a point, but it seems like the culprits are getting younger and younger on average.

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

You've got a point, but it seems like the culprits are getting younger and younger on average.

I do wonder however what kind of conversation he could have that would lead to meaningful change without a two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress.

 

Sandy Hook happened over 10 years ago now.

[fox_up_north]

The bomb on a ferry plot was done in the Denzel Washington film Deja Vu. It's decent but it...gets a bit weird with technology.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Tony Soper has died.

 

That's another part of my childhood gone.

[Izzy]

20 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Tony Soper has died.

 

That's another part of my childhood gone.

95 is a ripe old age, he had a good innings. I bet he enjoyed nearly every minute being in nature, wildlife, and travelling the world.

[Free Falling Foxes]

Exterminate M'Lady. Oink Oink

[Tuna]

56 minutes ago, fox_up_north said:

The bomb on a ferry plot was done in the Denzel Washington film Deja Vu. It's decent but it...gets a bit weird with technology.

Good movie

[Daggers]

4 hours ago, MPH said:

 ... her far left voters 

Well, that is basically six people in the States, and consequently nonexistent. 

[MPH]

2 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Well, that is basically six people in the States, and consequently nonexistent. 

 

To Americans, Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez and illan Omer at all are considered far left

[Daggers]

6 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

To Americans, Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez and illan Omer at all are considered far left

To all people who aren't American who consider them "far left", consider all of those people to be absolute idiots who are rendering the term meaningless.

[MPH]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

To all people who aren't American who consider them "far left", consider all of those people to be absolute idiots who are rendering the term meaningless.

 

with all due respect, it only matters what Americans think of them.

[Daggers]

2 hours ago, MPH said:

 

with all due respect, it only matters what Americans think of them.

With even dueer respect, you used the term on a British forum.

[Lionator]

17 hours ago, ajthefox said:

I firmly support rehabilitation in general but for someone well into his 50s who likes looking at pictures of children being raped what does rehabilitation even mean?

 

Maybe this was a relatively new thing for Edwards but I can't help but think that this 'desire' of his is not new. More broadly, what can you do to rehabilitate people who are so inclined ?

 

 

You’d probably go back and try and work out how the hell he ended up in a position that he gets off to this stuff

[leicsmac]

7 hours ago, MPH said:

 

with all due respect, it only matters what Americans think of them.

 

4 hours ago, Daggers said:

With even dueer respect, you used the term on a British forum.

There's something in both thoughts here.

 

Yes, the Overton Window is skewed so far to the right in the US you can barely see it with the James Webb Telescope and they're the only ones that have a bearing on that because they're the only ones that vote there.

 

On the other hand, our friends across the pond make political decisions that affect the entire world, in the most serious terms, so perhaps it might be a better idea for some of them to think bigger than themselves, their family and their half acre with the white picket fence.

Edited 21 September 2024 by leicsmac

[grobyfox1990]

6 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

 

There's something in both thoughts here.

 

Yes, the Overton Window is skewed so far to the right in the US you can barely see it with the James Webb Telescope and they're the only ones that have a bearing on that because they're the only ones that vote there.

 

On the other, our friends across the pond make political decisions that affect the entire world, in the most serious terms, so perhaps it might be a better idea for some of them to think bigger than themselves, their family and their half acre with the white picket fence.

Agree with the theory but the reality surely can’t and won’t happen. Most peoples concern is rightly on securing their family’s immediate future.
They care as much about anything outside their picket fences as we do about all the damage we’re wreaking as we go about our daily lives of destructive western opulence 

[leicsmac]

37 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Agree with the theory but the reality surely can’t and won’t happen. Most peoples concern is rightly on securing their family’s immediate future.
They care as much about anything outside their picket fences as we do about all the damage we’re wreaking as we go about our daily lives of destructive western opulence 

We've chatted about this before, and I can hardly disagree given current evidence. It's pretty plain to see that you're right - apart from a few noteworthy examples that could be used going forward, that is.

 

But on a few matters, this isn't about moral concern - it's about survival of our civilisation.

Edited 21 September 2024 by leicsmac

[grobyfox1990]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

We've chatted about this before, and I can hardly disagree given current evidence. It's pretty plain to see that you're right - apart from a few noteworthy examples that could be used going forward, that is.

 

But on a few matters, this isn't about moral concern - it's about survival of our civilisation.

Ah yes I now see your username, didn’t appear at first. Apologies for repeating! 

[leicsmac]

4 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Ah yes I now see your username, didn’t appear at first. Apologies for repeating! 

Nowt to apologise for.

[MPH]

4 hours ago, leicsmac said:

 

There's something in both thoughts here.

 

Yes, the Overton Window is skewed so far to the right in the US you can barely see it with the James Webb Telescope and they're the only ones that have a bearing on that because they're the only ones that vote there.

 

On the other hand, our friends across the pond make political decisions that affect the entire world, in the most serious terms, so perhaps it might be a better idea for some of them to think bigger than themselves, their family and their half acre with the white picket fence.

 

Eloquent as ever, but  the point was about how Americans  define the term far left.

[MPH]

8 hours ago, Daggers said:

With even dueer respect, you used the term on a British forum.

 

 

you voted for Brexit didn’t you!?

 

 

[Zear0]

6 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

 

you voted for Brexit didn’t you!?

 

 

I'm not sure he was one of 26% of the country that voted for this wonderful idea. 

[leicsmac]

15 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

Eloquent as ever, but  the point was about how Americans  define the term far left.

A point with which I agree.

 

I would add though that the point that such a definition is consequential in places outside the US also adds to the overall picture, but maybe I'm mistaken there.

[grobyfox1990]

55 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

I'm not sure he was one of 26% of the country that voted for this wonderful idea. 

Anyone who was in 2016 part of and continues to willingly remain to be part of the uk democracy is culpable for brexit. No get out clauses allowed! 

[Otis]

7 hours ago, Zear0 said:

I'm not sure he was one of 26% of the country that voted for this wonderful idea. 

I bet he was in the 20%  who voted for Labour 

[Sly]

Just catching up on the P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs or whatever he’s calling himself now. 
 

If you get into reading it, this could blow up bigger than most stories in the past few years if it’s true. 
 

Racketeering / blackmailing people who were at Drug Fuelled forced orgies isn’t something I had on my bingo card for 2024. 
 

I guess it could be a case of who else goes down with him, it he is found guilty.