I cannot believe we are still on this ludicrous lie about injecting bleach. It’s been years, and nobody found a better criticism of Trump than this fabrication?
Whoever runs Biden’s Twitter account is being counterproductive because nobody save for the hyperpartisan Dems would like this.
It never stops surprising me how limp-wristed and silly the criticisms of Trump are. There is so much stuff to criticize him for but nobody ever talks about it, concentrating on the easily disprovable lies about “very fine people”, Mexican rapists, injected bleach, dictatorship / fascism, and a mocked disabled journalist. It’s never anything else. Never anything of substance.
— Business Ukraine mag (@Biz_Ukraine_Mag) July 20, 2024
Yes, it was a quiet retreat after Ukraine destroyed pretty much the entirety of the Russian Black Sea fleet.
Russia never escalates after getting drubbed. It only escalates after being coddled and appeased. Which is why the US policy that has been dedicated to appeasement since George W Bush is producing terrible results.
I think that there’s a potential of a very good question here but maybe it should be expressed more precisely.
I won’t speak to the Congo or the Philippines because I know absolutely nothing about those places. But I don’t understand what is meant by Christianity failing to produce Europe in Mexico. How did it fail? If you were speaking to a Mexican and a Spaniard, aside from some differences in vocabulary and accent, what major differences would you notice?
I routinely have Spanish and Mexican students together in my classroom, and the differences are what I said, pronunciation and some words. But in everything else, these are clearly people of an extraordinary cultural closeness.
Spain reproduced itself exceptionally well in the New World. So well, in fact, that it’s almost funny to observe how identically the transatlantic world of Hispanidad struggled with democracy, coups, and dictatorships well after the rest of Western Europe / the Americas calmed down and figured out democracy. The difficulty with accepting modernity and capitalism, the eternal love affair with socialism, the enduring love of the Baroque in art, again, well after the rest of the world moved on from it. The similarities are endless. Gosh, even the siesta, the bulls, the soccer, the plaza, the café culture, the viejitos verdes, the compadrazgo, the sociability practices – I could go on and on.
The methods Spain used to reproduce itself in its American colonies are fascinating. Actually, one of my most successful public lectures is about that. It was a concerted, purposeful plan of action conducted precisely through the Christian institutions of Spain. And it succeeded completely. If you want to observe this through a contrast, look at the British presence in India. India remained India, a very distinctive civilization that ate the British influence for breakfast. That’s why I teach a course called “Intro to the Hispanic Civilization” and easily discuss Spain, Mexico, Paraguay, and Cuba together but nobody would teach “Intro to the Anglophone civilization” and discuss the UK and India as part of the same culture.
The issue of why some colonial powers reproduce themselves in the colonies and others don’t is of great interest but Spain is, without a doubt, one of the most successful in this respect.
I’m no fan of JD Vance’s, as we well know, but this is a very bizarre statement. If anybody is entitled to criticize drug addicts, it’s a person whose childhood was destroyed by a vicious, disgusting addict parent. Vance’s mother is scum (read his autobiography before you start arguing). So is Hunter Biden. If they were childless, nobody would care but these terrible individuals fed their own children to their whim to indulge.
Of course, Hunter Biden is mega rich and could have purchased the best psych assistance on the planet, so he’s a worse kind of scum than Vance’s mom. But this is the shade of excrement kind of distinction.
We’ve all completely lost it and now treat drug addicts like poor victims and people who criticize their horrid actions as evildoers.
I’m reading Ruth Ware’s new novel One Perfect Couple, and at exactly 60% in the book devolves into a woke rant about a racisty racist homophobic homophobe YouTuber who is extremely racist and a “problematic misogynist.” Yes, that’s a quote.
There’s very little by way of actual mystery or plot. Ruth Ware used to be a star of the mystery genre but she now abandoned all that in favor of cheap sloganeering.
It’s such a low trick to bait people into reading and then feed them your stupid politics when they are over half done with the book.
The struggle session I dreaded attending was held yesterday. Nobody can make me go because it’s done. Overnight, my foot experienced a truly miraculous improvement. I’m now walking. In shoes! Even just yesterday it was unimaginable that these shoes would fit over the horribly swollen limb. I couldn’t even go to the bathroom yesterday evening, it hurt so bad.
At the previous struggle session, my blood pressure shot up dangerously high. So this time, my subconscious decided to protect me by sabotaging my foot and making it impossible for me to go to the struggle session in a very literal way.
I have two more years as department head, and I fear that I will end up self-mutilating in some irreversible ways in these two years that I’m obligated to attend the struggle sessions.
People who are still Democrats, I know you are good people. Do you support this? It’s done by your side and in your name. Do you think it is OK to do this to people who have not hurt you in any way? Why aren’t you saying anything?
I have stepped away from the rhetoric of imperialism, colonialism, and all that because it’s been hopelessly sullied by the Left and can no longer be recovered for any useful purpose. These are words that need to be abandoned together with “racism, fascism, Nazism, genocide” (except in historical contexts) and anything ending in -phobia (except if you are a qualified psychiatrist).
Folks, I’m grateful but I’m way too old for this. I don’t see people on screens like that. But I do have a good real-life story on the subject. I have a friend, let’s call him Victor. A wonderful dude but he was always kind of boyish. Not really immature but he was a boy more than a man well into his thirties. And then something happened, and I saw Victor transform into this very authoritative, strong, very adult man. And so what’s really interesting is that it wasn’t getting married, having children or even battling a serious illness that made Victor grow up. It was making a friend. He became very close friends with a slightly younger dude who needed a lot of assistance because of a complicated personal situation. And helping the new friend launched Victor into maturity.
Moral of the story: men need other men. They need to get together and be men together.
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 18, 2024
Yes, democracy is better than any alternative but it also has serious negatives. One of them is that the majority in any society is like the people in the video or in pussy hat demonstrations. They are nice, sweet people but easily spooked by anything a little complicated.
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