US Politics - Trump cancels summit having to do with North Korea

twitter.com/MackenzieAstin/status/941459382864437248

What the strawberry float

Mafrozen wrote:

twitter.com/MackenzieAstin/status/941459382864437248

What the strawberry float

I know, what does he think Sean Astin is going to do about it?

#teamDodds

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:I know, what does he think Sean Astin is going to do about it?

Boil him, mash him, stick him in a stew.

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:I know, what does he think Sean Astin is going to do about it?

Boil him, mash him, stick him in a stew.

I actually squeaked out a little laugh then, my colleagues are now wondering how much work I actually do

Advent7 wrote:#teamDodds

I understood that reference

Boil him, mash him, stick him in a stew,
my colleagues now wondering how much I actually do.

twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/941484131757838337

5 minute shared interview for a lifetime position as a judge with no experience

I assume palms have been greased or he's a right wing nutjob. Or both!

The Republican Party is stacking the courts with their own, regardless of qualifications, because Obama left office with a record number of court vacancies... because of the Republican Party.

If there is a Blue Wave next year and the Democrats get at least one house majority back, maybe even both, they should absolutely strawberry float Trump in the same way.

Hexx wrote:

twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/941484131757838337

Saw that this morning. It's halfway between funny and utter terrifying.

Sidenote: the guy doing the questioning, Kennedy, was forced by the GOP to vote for the guy anyway.

Donald Trump barred from Greenwich

Lastpostamorph wrote:Donald Trump barred from Greenwich

I see from my great friend Nigel that failing Greenwich (they pronounce it wrong) has banned everyone's favorite President (me) from visiting their loser city or town or village whatever they are. I have been there before and it was full of crooked losers that all smelled like Hillary and read the failing NYTimes. I hear the police don't dare go there because of terrorists, it's a real mess. So important. STAY SAFE. Sad!

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I hope this nonsense means he's feeling under pressure again and there's another shoe about to drop.

Christmas Name Change wrote:

$ilva $hadow wrote: Knowledge over ignorance, what shitty subtle attempt at a jab.

I wasn't attempting subtlety. Your behaviour is ignorant.

You were presented with evidence that contradicts your own opinion and chose to disregard it. Which suggests that the views you hold are beliefs rather than opinions.

Ironically, I'm sure you and I would agree that this is a problem among some religious groups.

Where behaviour is abhorrent, criticise, but treating an entire group so despicably because of the actions of a tiny minority is a disgusting, ignorant thing to do.

Jab jab.

Mate, you tried a subtle jab and I'm just not bothered in trying to explain to you that you can't be an extremist bhuddhist because in bhuddist literature, there is nothing that calls for violence, so when you try to compare 'violent' bhuddhists against known terrorists and islamic speakers who directly quote the quran and then blow themselves up, or encourage others to do so, you look like severely ignorant to people who actually research this gooseberry fool.

An extremist bhuddist can never draw from his/her religion, a verse that supports violence. The mechanism for bhuddists renounce this behaviour as unbhuddist like is there, but this is not the case with islam.


What you're just trying to do, is take my emotionally charged words and try to twist them to fit your narrative that I want all innocent muslims to die, when in fact that's not the case. I want christians, muslims, and any other religious people to pay for their behaviour, their calls for violence, I want them taken out by our military in other countries or I want them to be arrested, jailed, prosecuted and sent back to their hell hole islamic country. I don't want that rotherham gooseberry fool to happen to children because white people are too scared of retaliation from a religion known for barbarism, and I don't want ignorant people like you to try and appear like some sort of saviour just because you pointed out christianity is riddled with this gooseberry fool too, pretending like people don't want to put christianity through a strawberry floating wall already.

You stick to your white knighting for the 'brown' religion and make sure everyone knows how racist you aren't. To me, you're clearly uneducated on the mechanisms these religions have for justifying violence, if you're seriously trying to compare an 'extremist' bhuddist to an extremist christian or muslim. There is nowhere for bhuddists to point to violent texts in bhuddism that could exonerate anyone for crimes against humanity, unlike christianity and islam. You didn't present any evidence at all, not a single bit of evidence, it was all garbage, trying to compare non religious violence to religious violence.

I'm trying to not be condescending, but don't throw that gooseberry fool at me and then cry to the mods and ask for gooseberry fool be banned/locked or closed. If you want to have a civilised debate, be civilised yourself and then expect others to follow suit, just like bhuddism expects you to meet violence with non violence.


Evidence and knowledge even a quick google and a small bit of thinking would let anyone know you can't compare bhuddism to islam or christianity.

Someone strawberry floating change my username to evidence and logic pls.

Buddhist nationalism is a major force in the ongoing persecution and genocide of Rohingya muslims in Myanmar.

Your islamophobic bullshit is wrong-headed and tedious.

Is Silva still going?

$ilva $hadow wrote:I'm just not bothered in trying to explain to you that you can't be an extremist bhuddhist because in bhuddist literature, there is nothing that calls for violence, so when you try to compare 'violent' bhuddhists against known terrorists and islamic speakers who directly quote the quran and then blow themselves up, or encourage others to do so, you look like severely ignorant to people who actually research this gooseberry fool.

An extremist bhuddist can never draw from his/her religion, a verse that supports violence. The mechanism for bhuddists renounce this behaviour as unbhuddist like is there, but this is not the case with islam.

To me, you're clearly uneducated on the mechanisms these religions have for justifying violence, if you're seriously trying to compare an 'extremist' bhuddist to an extremist christian or muslim. There is nowhere for bhuddists to point to violent texts in bhuddism that could exonerate anyone for crimes against humanity, unlike christianity and islam. You didn't present any evidence at all, not a single bit of evidence, it was all garbage, trying to compare non religious violence to religious violence.

I'm trying to not be condescending, but don't throw that gooseberry fool at me and then cry to the mods and ask for gooseberry fool be banned/locked or closed. If you want to have a civilised debate, be civilised yourself and then expect others to follow suit, just like bhuddism expects you to meet violence with non violence.

Evidence and knowledge even a quick google and a small bit of thinking would let anyone know you can't compare bhuddism to islam or christianity.

Why do you believe this total nonsense? Here's Theravāda Buddhism on ethnic cleansing:

And thereon the king said again to them: 'How shall there be any comfort for me, O venerable sirs, since by me was caused the slaughter of a great host numbering millions?'
'From this deed arises no hindrance in thy way to heaven. Only one and a half human beings have been slain here by thee, O lord of men. The one had come unto the (three) refuges, the other had taken on himself the five precepts. Unbelievers and men of evil life were the rest, not more to be esteemed than beasts. But as for thee, thou wilt bring glory to the doctrine of the Buddha in manifold ways; therefore cast away care from thy heart, O ruler of men!' Mahāvamsa 25:108-111.

Wow, so pacifistic. And that passage and others like it are being used to justify violence today.

There are passages just like that in every religion. Saying "I think religious people who justify their violence with their beliefs are mental and should be punished" is obviously completely reasonable. Saying "...And them Muslims are the worst because Islam is the most evil!!!" is unsupported by reason and at best quite ignorant.

If you love rationalism, up your game and reconsider your silly opinions.

So shortly before the GOP approve a deeply unpopular tax bill and it looks increasingly likely that some in the GOP will give Trump cover to meddle with Mueller, at least ....

twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/941780767461511169

The recent FFC ruling and tax reforms are deeply depressing. I have sort of given hope of the current arc of western civilisation ending peacefully. When people like Trump masquerade as friends of the people and then accelerate cronyism all it does is obliterate any faith left in democratic processes. Imagining what the level of rage and anger out there is going to be in ten years time makes me nervous. Ironically, its the elite now in charge who are writing their own eulogies. History paints a colourful picture of what happens when a decadent and out of touch cabal start assuming they are untouchable and it isn't pretty.

Soon the world will be entering a new industrial revolution based on AI and robotics. I had hoped that the gains of this would be evenly spread and that the disruption to labour this causes would be mitigated, but I think we can now agree that that is a very optimistic view. More than likely the owners of the technology will use it to entrench and increase their own wealth and cast more and more into the gutter right up until the public decide to take it out of their hands. Some socialists will probably be rubbing their hands together in glee at this prospect but history also tells us how that usually turns out.