Random political thought thread.

[ceecee]

I'm pro-death penalty, but that's a whole different can of worms. I just don't understand all the fuss (and seemingly over complicated solutions) about how to carry out the deed. I've had pets euthanized. They heavily sedate them first, then once they are out, overdose them. Seems both easy and painless. Why that wouldn't work for humans is beyond me. I mean you can carry out open heart surgery and the like on sedated patients. They don't wake up from pain. I think overdosing causes a heart attack, but the subject is not going to feel it.

Anyways, this is a tiny fish to fry. The media seems to just want to stir up a controversy.

You don't even grasp what you're saying.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

No. It has been and always was going to be Africa. Think back to the news from the70's, 80's, and 90's It's always been there in the background. The novel Congo is literally about it and that was set in 1979. Raw Resources that the tech industry runs on. Its there. The Middle East has had a straw in it over gas but with the changing over to clean energy, the resources for that tech lies guess where? Africa is the new Milkshake. That's why you see commercials for donating to starving kids in Africa instead of India, Indonesia, or hell in Chicago for that matter. But take a look back through old news posts of the last 40 years. Cold War never ended, just changes theaters and how it gets covered. Its a long and subtle road winding through long cons and short intense distractions, the pieces kept and keep on getting placed, the shills keep on shilling, the auidience either pays attention to the show or they miss it and... *sigh* and the beat goes on...

If you'll try to refrain, I have this to explain, my boy, our lifeline is the wind and the rain...
Baby can you dig your man? He's a righteous man, Baby can you dig your man.​

I never thought of this occurring on a global scale, but of course it is.

 

[The Cat]

I never thought of this occurring on a global scale, but of course it is.

Welcome to your life...

There's no turning back.
Don't cha know it's just a land of confusion?​

Relax though, the cat said with a grin,
It's not the worst fix we could be in.
But from what I can tell the fix still aint quite in.
But take a look through africa and you'll notice a lot of things happening at once and when you realize a lot of instability in a lot of the areas its in are tied up in valuable resources. You'll find several powers down there offering help in one way or another. But don't look too close. Remember that your bread is buttered by your Uncle Sam, so remember to pledge that allegiance, it's more than just a flag. It's also a camera. So remember to smile for your country.

 

[ceecee]

No. It has been and always was going to be Africa. Think back to the news from the70's, 80's, and 90's It's always been there in the background. The novel Congo is literally about it and that was set in 1979. Raw Resources that the tech industry runs on. Its there. The Middle East has had a straw in it over gas but with the changing over to clean energy, the resources for that tech lies guess where? Africa is the new Milkshake. That's why you see commercials for donating to starving kids in Africa instead of India, Indonesia, or hell in Chicago for that matter. But take a look back through old news posts of the last 40 years. Cold War never ended, just changes theaters and how it gets covered. Its a long and subtle road winding through long cons and short intense distractions, the pieces kept and keep on getting placed, the shills keep on shilling, the auidience either pays attention to the show or they miss it and... *sigh* and the beat goes on...

If you'll try to refrain, I have this to explain, my boy, our lifeline is the wind and the rain...
Baby can you dig your man? He's a righteous man, Baby can you dig your man.​

Such an important point in all of this.

 

[The Cat]

Such an important point in all of this.

And yet no one ever really talks about it. So much for the free press. If only it weren't so dang expensive to make the news. Crazy little thing that.

 

[SensEye]

You don't even grasp what you're saying.

Well that profound analysis sure convinced me.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Welcome to your life...

There's no turning back.
Don't cha know it's just a land of confusion?​

Relax though, the cat said with a grin,
It's not the worst fix we could be in.
But from what I can tell the fix still aint quite in.
But take a look through africa and you'll notice a lot of things happening at once and when you realize a lot of instability in a lot of the areas its in are tied up in valuable resources. You'll find several powers down there offering help in one way or another. But don't look too close. Remember that your bread is buttered by your Uncle Sam, so remember to pledge that allegiance, it's more than just a flag. It's also a camera. So remember to smile for your country.

Even more worrisome, there is a guitar with four necks in that video. The most I've ever seen is three. Is there even a purpose to having more than one neck? Maybe you could hook each neck up to a different FX pedal.

 

[The Cat]

Even more worrisome, there is a guitar with four necks in that video. The most I've ever seen is three. Is there even a purpose to having more than one neck? Maybe you could hook each neck up to a different FX pedal.

No Agent Starling that is incorrect. The most you've ever seen is four. You said so yourself. The fact that you dont want to have seen it is incidental. The veil has been torn and the roof of who you were yesterday and what you thought you knew about what the you from yesterday understood as the world---ripped away in the tornado of reality. All changed in an instant of what you learned today. Just think about all you might learn tomorrow...

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

W

No Agent Starling that is incorrect. The most you've ever seen is four. You said so yourself. The fact that you dont want to have seen it is incidental. The veil has been torn and the roof of who you were yesterday and what you thought you knew about what the you from yesterday understood as the world---ripped away in the tornado of reality. All changed in an instant of what you learned today. Just think about all you might learn tomorrow...

We have such sights to show you:

 

[The Cat]

Don't worry folks...It's all part of the show. The more that you find out, the less, you learn, that you know. If you think something's over if you think something's passed there's always someone somewhere with time to kill and some gas. If you want to find out the elephant in the room look for what everyone else is doing their best to not notice. What's not in fashion to talk about. What isnt the mob up in arms about. There's your Story news hounds.

Riddle me this what is plentiful enough it should be more common than it is. Everyone claims to be looking for it yet hard enough to see that many people doubt it even exists... Everyone hopes they find it first. But the first one to share it is sometimes shunned and other times rewarded in ways most un fun. A Precious resource often missed for searching, feared by many costly to some. Priceless to others. Expensive Regardless. What am I?

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Don't worry folks...It's all part of the show. The more that you find out, the less, you learn, that you know. If you think something's over if you think something's passed there's always someone somewhere with time to kill and some gas. If you want to find out the elephant in the room look for what everyone else is doing their best to not notice. What's not in fashion to talk about. What isnt the mob up in arms about. There's your Story news hounds.

Riddle me this what is plentiful enough it should be more common than it is. Everyone claims to be looking for it yet hard enough to see that many people doubt it even exists... Everyone hopes they find it first. But the first one to share it is sometimes shunned and other times rewarded in ways most un fun. A Precious resource often missed for searching, feared by many costly to some. Priceless to others. Expensive Regardless. What am I?

Happiness?

 

[The Cat]

Happiness?

Happiness Happyness what ever that may be, but alas in this case, that's only a prestige. The thing I'm talking about is sometimes hard to hear and can leave you feeling on a lone road like a deer. Other's will tell you it's something they hold dear, and dispite this sentiment there's often this thing they fear; cause he's the rub this thing aint white or black, and once it comes, there aint no going back.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Don't worry folks...It's all part of the show.

Yeah, it is all a show, until some tanks actually roll over the borders. But you already know that part.

 

[The Cat]

Yeah, it is all a show, until some tanks actually roll over the borders. But you already know that part.

The Madness of Kings is deadly and contagious. And all the foresight in the world means little in a world of deaf men who only claim they can't hear and blind men who only pretend not to see.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Trump is killing the idea that ‘all politics is local.’ The GOP primary proves it.


Kinda ironic when you think about it.

 

[The Cat]

It's not quite like Rayaaiiiiiiiiiin on your wedding day, but it'll play.

 

[ceecee]

Well that profound analysis sure convinced me.

Your lack of basic humanity - comparing humans to animals - is something you are going to have to recognize and change in yourself.

 

[SensEye]

Your lack of basic humanity - comparing humans to animals - is something you are going to have to recognize and change in yourself.

Well at least in that comment, I can see your misunderstanding. Human beings are in fact mammals, as such, comparing them metabolically (in this instance for the purposes of euthanasia*) seems perfectly reasonable to me. You are free to disagree but I don't think I'm the one being unreasonable here.

*Let's not get into the semantics of whether applying the death penalty is technically euthanasia, let's just stick with the Oxford dictionary definition: put (a living being, especially a dog or cat) to death humanely.

My point, which you seem to have overlooked, is that nobody uses a strange and exotic method such as nitrogen gas asphyxiation to either euthanize and animal or as a method of medically assisted suicide. How it came to pass that it was considered a good method for death penalty cases is baffling to me.

 

[ceecee]

Well at least in that comment, I can see your misunderstanding. Human beings are in fact mammals, as such, comparing them metabolically (in this instance for the purposes of euthanasia*) seems perfectly reasonable to me. You are free to disagree but I don't think I'm the one being unreasonable here.

*Let's not get into the semantics of whether applying the death penalty is technically euthanasia, let's just stick with the Oxford dictionary definition: put (a living being, especially a dog or cat) to death humanely.

My point, which you seem to have overlooked, is that nobody uses a strange and exotic method such as nitrogen gas asphyxiation to either euthanize and animal or as a method of medically assisted suicide. How it came to pass that it was considered a good method for death penalty cases is baffling to me.

The issue is that you don't view basic humanity as something you should afford every other human. Your views on the death penalty (which you don't have to worry about in your country) and say, immigrants and refugees, are identical. The views you express here are right wing/conservative. The fundamental distinction between conservatism and liberalism is the former’s commitment to moral inequality. Conservatives are simply more comfortable with the idea that people are unequal, and so should be treated unequally.

Incidentally, none of this is a political view. Conservatives allow human and civil rights to be politicized because they frequently share the feeling (not the facts) that too many privileges and too high a status has been granted to the unworthy; their success owed a lot to an ability to convince citizens that too many people—immigrants, women, minorities—had cut in line and obtained benefits and government mandated advantages that they did not deserve.

This isn't a semantic argument. You are a white conservative man, your views align perfectly with other conservatives - you post them here regularly - and your anger comes from what the conservative pundits and politicians tell you to be angry at. And they'll keep you angry until they come up with the next thing they'll tell you to be angry about. Apparently that's....Taylor Swift.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]