evince (07-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (07-22-2021), Phantasmal (07-22-2021)
"More Red-State Trouble, U.S. looks increasingly like two different countries"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/b...states-us.html
"Delta variant sweeps through states that dialed back health powers"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...d-cases-500483
"The Delta variant is hitting red states hardest as the US's vaccine divide widens"
https://news.yahoo.com/delta-variant...132500281.html
"As the Delta variant spreads, Republican reluctance will mean thousands more deaths"
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/09/as-...s-more-deaths/
"Delta Variant Now Accounts for 83% of U.S. Cases"
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/2021...us-covid-cases
And as an epitome of the stupidity behind it - “I’d rather have a dangerous freedom than a comfortable safety" - Arkansas state Sen. Trent Garner (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...d-cases-500483)
evince (07-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (07-22-2021), Phantasmal (07-22-2021)
"More Red-State Trouble, U.S. looks increasingly like two different countries"
Well I certainly HOPE so. Geeeeesh. Kind of senseless if people can't tell the difference and make choice. It's the American way. LOL
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
anonymoose (07-23-2021), Grokmaster (07-23-2021)
Guno צְבִי (07-23-2021), Joe Capitalist (07-23-2021), Phantasmal (07-22-2021)
I'm kind of glad we are not one homogenous monstrosity of an Authoritarian State.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
anonymoose (07-23-2021), dukkha (07-22-2021), leaningright (07-22-2021), Stretch (07-23-2021)
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Guno צְבִי (07-23-2021), Phantasmal (07-22-2021)
Phantasmal (07-22-2021)
Guno צְבִי (07-23-2021)
It also gives sanctimonious gasbags something to use to demand more government authoritarian control over every aspect of every life. "If it would just save one life it would be enough" and all the other platitudes aside.... I'd prefer to live with danger than life with Fascists protecting me (and others) from every danger.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Guno צְבִי (07-23-2021)
BLUEXITA Modest Proposal For Separating Blue States From Red
Dear Red-State Trump Voter,
Let’s face it, guys: We’re done.
It is a tragedy that so much of the work that so many men and women toiled at for so long to make this a better country, and a better world, has been thrown away, leaving us all in such needless peril.
This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.
https://newrepublic.com/article/1409...mp-red-america
Guno צְבִי (07-22-2021)
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