What I mean is, you strike gold having someone at the top when the situation suits their skills. As a Scottish person, I know Mark Carney of old. You'll do fine.
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What I mean is, you strike gold having someone at the top when the situation suits their skills. As a Scottish person, I know Mark Carney of old. You'll do fine.
I know. You are educated enough that any use of the written word can and will carry more than one meaning. I am referring to targeting.
Because you are cowards.
You are talking to an international audience. Please, direct yours posts appropriately fellow human.
I have been handed PCs that look like this on the inside because the builder thought they had to use every cable even if it only connected one thing to the air.
Churchill was only popular during the war.
Well, I confess you are older and wiser and better educated that I. As long as we are good humans now, we can at least point out where the red flags are now based on our combined history.
No problem,when you do get time, look up the peasantry of briton. If you think they were treated any better, change my mind. Your family history was ripped from you and have only a few hundred years to have built up hatred. Try a few thousand years of hatred of slavery, apartheid like the rest of us
There have been slaves in Europe for thousands of years before white people went to America. Do you know who those slaves were? Hint: not black people. Poor people have been enslaved all over the world just because they were too poor to do anything about it. Both black and white people had slaves.
That is just so sad. I feel your pain. The first I knew about William Wallace was when an Australian decided to sell us a false narrative about our own history.
I was never taught about him and was never given a reason to learn. We were only taught English history. No Scottish history was taught in Scottish schools. We were only given lessons about how the English conquered the world and how great they were.
I don't know much about Africa either. I bet there are some epic movies in those pages. An entire continent of heroes and villains that we both no little about.
My bedroom window where I grew up looked over the ruins of a castle that was built circa 1200AD. People who looked to rule over their fellow human fought and died over control of that castle. Guess what, they all lost. Humans are designed to be free willed.
I think I did search what you suggested? I know my true humanity and I don't value myself as precious. I value others as precious. Scotland has rebelled against being a serf nation for longer than America has had white people.
Your right, I didn't mean it that way, I mean that if you need something to make you a good person, all well and good and also if you can be a good person without it, all good too. I have nothing against spirituality, I just don't need it my life. I will always blame the evils of humans on humans.
I watched the video and read the words, I don't need to be spiritual to be like that. No one does, but I don't really care either way, whatever it takes to make you a good person is just what you needed. Right now if you believe that the trees are telling you to be a good human, I'm good with that
Fair enough, I'm not spiritual. I don't expect to be remembered.
In the grand scheme of things were are just bags of mostly water foraging around on a hot rock travelling at thousands of miles per hour. The universe will not remember any single one of us when we are gone. A big stone could come from afar and in a blink of an eye, everything we know is gone.
Right wingers love a good conspiracy though.
Another conspiracy theory?
I don't know if they would let Vance take over. Whoever it is, will be much, much worse than Trump.
Americans should read "The Conquest of Bread" from 1850, freely available online. It will open your eyes.
My short time on Bluesky has illustrated to me that the majority of Americans would be considered raving right wing lunatics pretty much everywhere else in the world.
Really? You need this to decide which of this you will chose to do in your life?
I know I cannot answer your question because I have the same question. I would love to be able to make happen the scene I see behind my eyes. I cannot do it because it is not the same view behind the eyes of everyone I meet.
I'd love to be traveling around anywhere. I hope you enjoy it for me as well. So jealous. But anyway, if you are on the left the majority of europe is on your side. I mean the proper left. The left that helped their neighbours during the pandemic.
You know that you only feel like that because you live in the US? Right? (preview: the UK is trying to copy the US right now) Move to Europe my friend (not the UK until after the US collapses)
You are so right and all power to you for that.Eventually you will have to make allies or kill everyone one else.Won't matter to me because I'll be dead.But at some point everyone will just have to get along or all that will be left of us are 4 starving white people and a token black person on Mars.
Ok, well the rest of the world, white or no, now sees your country as a fascist country. It has been becoming this way for more than 20 years. Don't get me wrong but black or white you'll still suffer. Authoritarian fascism is the same as authoritarian communism.
Ha ha, nae luck.
Yeah but it was like 8 bucks two weeks ago!!!
Take the test, see where you lie. It was very enlightening for me.
"It is a measure of how far to the right the US fulcrum has swung that the Republicans feel able to portray the centrist Democratic ticket as “far left”. In fact it is still to the right of many European conservative parties." www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2024
This makes me feel like an Owen Wilson meme more and more every day.
And to answer your question, for those of us who were allowed to be whatever we would be, we turned into us as we are now. If there was interference, there are any number of serial killers that will tell a different story.
That's why I worry for them. I know a few guys who came out in the late 80s, early 90s. They thought we would be surprised but we were just waiting for them to sort it out for themselves. Some people think because there is a more visible LGBT community, it would be easier. I think it might be harder
Very true. Some people just need a bit longer to figure themselves out. What kind of idiot would most of us be if we fixed on who we were at 13 for the rest of our lives? We survived as GenX and recently I am worrying for later generations that are not given enough space to find out who they are.
The killer was trans, so for sure they'll make it all about that. Just goes to prove that guns are not a problem, again. Also proves that people with mental health issues (not related to being trans) are totally safe carrying guns.
Exactly the same, no idea what the job he desperately trying to get even entails.
At some point a journo is going to have to ask, "What about education? What about transport? What about Financial Affairs? What about the NHS? What about every other thing you need to do to run a country?" Instead we get his upcoming speeches announced on the fecking news.
I am starting to see that all of the money the Democrats spent in the last election was to Preach to the Choir.
How many people who voted for trump heard this? Correct, NONE!
You have to write that.
You know what? I think we "pale blue" people (the Picts and the Celts) have that in our background as well. And you are correct, I cannot see an instant solution, it's a multi-layered problem, and that makes my whole mind hurt. (that's as close to soul as a non-spiritual person gets).
I am filled with despair. I am filled with rage. Right now, despair is tipping the balance and that makes me angry. I was brought up with no prejudice against colour, sex, nationality and yet all I see around me is hatred with no basis in reality. The Abyss is looking back at me and laughing.
To be honest, Trump has declared sanctions on his own country with the tariffs. We have to combat our own far right to do anything that might help. Hopefully, history will show once again, how bad it is to allow the far right to run a powerful country.
We were discussing banana bread at work the other day and I realised I've never had cold banana bread. Our house devoured it as soon as it came out of the oven.
During season 1 of The Orange Shitshow, we all laughed at how stupid Americans were to vote for it. This time round we are watching to see how you get the fuck out of this mess as it looks like it's about to happen to us. Apologies for then and all power to those plotting a way out. Good luck!
That'll change when the troops land in New York.
I remember going to school in the morning. Pristine. By lunchtime, I was a mobile toxic waste dump ;/
Muhahahaha, one of my coworkers had his grandkids for a week. A week in bed was his reward.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Nope, all true. In england and Wales only as far as I can tell.
TBF it only required one agent to turn up at the White House and all those crimes are covered :/
If it wasn't so serious, I'd have grabbed the popcorn weeks ago.
I used to finish at 7am & the carpark would either be filled with Seagulls or Crows. The mornings it was Seagulls felt like you were supposed to have the holy grail in your hand, a cacophony of expectant noise. When it was Crows, you had to check your pockets and ensure your keys were in your hand
If this is the way you need to read it, what is bigger than ALL-CAPS?
More awaky and less sleepy :)
I you want to understand why we are in the global situation we are right now and the tools that were used to get us here, you should watch this very important and insightful documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=to72...
Is he also working for QVC?
I much prefer when we all do a little dance. We go left, we go right,left,left, right, right left, then stop, have a laugh at each other and go about our business.
A modern day Neville Chamberlain.
Both my pcs are sleepers, ugly grey boxes. They are on the floor on top of wheeled platforms. Plus three monitors make up 120% desk space. The stands only just fit on the desk.
Looks so sleepy.
Let loose with no restrictions, humans really are the most dangerous animal on this planet. And i'll concede the white ones are possibly the worst at this point in time.
We saw the horrendous footage of the fires over here but I never saw a detail like that. The fact that there are people responsible for these deaths and no one has been jailed is incredible.
"Like all but one of the victims of the Eaton fire, this person died west of North Lake Avenue, which served as a dividing line between those who received evacuation alerts before the flames arrived and those who did not." -- LA Times. Wow, just staggering. I can hardly wrap my head around that.
Never mind telling me a story, you need to out this down. You have some history to tell. East of & West of Lake Ave. One of the best stories about our town involves an Orange fight, yes the fruit, I'll leave the detail for the author but finding this story brought me closer to enlightenment.
I'm going to have a look now. Wait? This January? Are we living in the past? Off to learn now...
Makes sense to me. I have only experience of bigoted behaviour which is really quite personal. The things I read about racial behaviour is much less personal which seems to make it worse. I can defend me. I may not be able to defend everyone who is like me.
I see what you mean. Believe and believe could be very different points on different compasses.
Your last point, I am guilty of doing that. I went proper grammar nazi on a woman's youtube video only to find there was an historical and racial reason as to why. I almost deleted my google account. Didn't and have subbed to her new channel. I am here to learn. I will also admit when I am wrong.
Before I do some reading. Other nations have been given this "pass" in the past. I don't know if it works or ever did. I have a feeling that if you cannot control yourselves, you also cannot be trusted. Earning trust is not one treaty away. It takes longer. Betrayed trust takes longer to fix.
You are of course, correct. At least a few of you guys will help to educate me rather than butt heads. I'm off to do some reading, thank you.
About the only reason I am jealous of your country.
After seeing all the broadcast news at that time I watched the film "W". I sat with my mouth open for the entire movie. If I had watched it in a theatre, I'd probably have been sectioned.
Anyone who has not already turned away from Israel by now is complicit. My own government is treading a knife's edge and may well fall foul to their own support of this fascist regime.
I don't mind youths making up their own "language". As long as they understand what I am saying, I'll make the effort to understand them. Some of it makes me laugh as they are reusing stuff I said as a child. "but now it's cool/hip/whateverdafuqtheysaynow". As long as they have a point to make!
No, YOU have told me this over and over. The professional victim in you cannot help it. You had a choice, Drama or Politics and you chose drama. I'm guessing the stage didn't offer enough and that's why you are here. Perhaps you should start adopting cats and play out your drama for them.
I honestly believe she may be one of the most skilled politicians on the planet right now. The GOP seem to be distracted by how she looks and where she hails from but she is a vicious bird of prey, dodging all the branches of the forest until she tucks her wings in and goes for the kill.
Shocking but not entirely surprising.
Real Fries are fish fried in lard Especially if they are covertly gained by bribing a fisherman that's heading back to his boat from the bar. "Any change of a fry mate?"
The people need Tiny Elvis back.
The last splinter I got.
My point being is that if something towards socialism is the best we can get, vote for that. Look after your nation's health, education and offer a fair day's pay for a fair day's work and we're heading in the right direction.
Also, shame on them because they do not have a functioning communist movement, they should have voted to elect the closest person towards their ideal as I have to. Proper communists have to hope that a few communist ideals slip into the more left's policies. Ms Harris was their best shot.
So have I, as far as I am aware. You are the only professional victim to have a go at me in this way.
You are so right there. Not voting is verging on criminal, especially in the digital age. They literally could have mailed it in. They'll still be on social media bleating about how bad things are. If you don't vote, you should have social media rights removed. Last part is sarcasm, I'm not a nazi.
And you have been neither. I look forward to our next encounter!
Not quite. But we do have a leftish government and we don't have masked white men kidnapping people in broad daylight.
Well as I don't live in the USA, I am allowed to be Communist.
Well I am an actual communist so you could be correct.
Oh well, I guess that makes you a better white person than me. See you on the next thread...
You do see that through conversation, a bit of back'n'fore, that greater knowledge & understanding comes about? I have no knowledge of what it feels like to be a black woman in america. But by sharing & commenting on any little bit of similarity helps me gain some level of understanding & empathy.
I'm Scottish, I would have voted for her if I could have but I couldn't so I didn't. At least you accept that you are right wing.
it has one point in history to pass but it is well on it's way.
Only white people make race an issue in the western world.
I'm watching Palmour Street and I'm about halfway through and I'm so angry with everyone that I can't continue. Why am I so angry? She's just teaching her kid how to comply. What the actual? If nothing has happened before, (my life) then fine but so much has happened. What is she so compliant?
However, show me that stats that prove that 58% of white women voted at all.