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Hey CAT52! delete that disgusting picture from the Best Image.
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Putin should listen to this song as I feel like the russia ukraine war is about the same as our American civil war. just trying to keep em all under flag.
There is a whole album of similar songs, all talking about different aspects of the civil war. I was talking to a friend that does reenactments of battles, alot of stuff about that war that gets ignored. Can you imagine what it would be like to be fighting at Gettysburg? 90,000 horses in that 1 battle combined from both sides.
I had often wondered how battlefields were cleaned up of dead bodys, if you notice there is not really alot of graves for either side.Thats because famers would turn their hogs out at night to eat the bodys. if you were gut shot, you were left lay because the dr's really couldn't do much for you. the tent where arms and legs were cut off, you never see in photos the pile of parts laying outside a "window" of the tent. Those to ,were ate by wild boars or local pigs from a farm.
All that because Lincoln wanted us under 1 flag and used slavery as a excuse. and we are supposed to forget? yea right.
You don't think that the North was justified to force the South back into the union,
so why are you arguing that Russia is justified to force Ukraine back into the union?
The American Civil War was fundamentally a conflict over whether the Southern states could leave the United States and form their own country. The Union fought to preserve the United States as a single state, while the Confederacy fought for independence. The Southern states did attempt to find a political solution before the war: there were several proposed compromises, most notably the Crittenden Compromise of December 1860, which sought to resolve the dispute over slavery and prevent secession. These efforts failed, and Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Slavery was central to the secession crisis, so the Civil War was not simply a war about “keeping everyone under one flag.” The key point is that the Confederate states were already legally part
of the United States and were attempting to secede from an existing political union.
Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991, and its independence was confirmed by referendum on December 1, 1991. Russia recognized Ukraine as a sovereign and independent state, and the two countries subsequently entered agreements explicitly recognizing each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, including the 1997 Russia–Ukraine Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership. This creates an important distinction from the American Civil War: Ukraine was not a state attempting to secede from a country that Russia still legally regarded as its own; Russia had formally recognized Ukraine as an independent country. Therefore, although both conflicts can broadly be described as involving a powerful state fighting over territorial unity, their legal, political, and historical circumstances are fundamentally different.
oh, here is the mess indirectly about cotton that helped the south decide to leave the union.
Protectionist Import Taxes: The federal government taxed manufactured goods coming from Europe to protect industrial interests in the North.Impact on Southern Planters: White Southern planters who sold raw cotton to Great Britain had to buy higher-priced Northern manufactured goods instead of cheaper British alternatives.Reduced Purchasing Power: Southerners argued that taxing British imports indirectly reduced Great Britain's ability or incentive to buy Southern cotton, lowering their overall export earnings.The Nullification Crisis: This ongoing friction over federal tariff policy led South Carolina to attempt to nullify the federal tariff laws, laying the groundwork for decades of sectional hostility prior to the Civil War
raw cotton, so they maintained the dependency on the North.
I see the same unwillingness to solve problems with renewable energy. It costs money and effort to transition away from oil that is causing lots of pollution and expensive energy, constraining progress, so because of some wealthy short-term thinking idiots, the problem isn't solved, by investing in opportunities that grow the whole economy
in the long run.
It turned to NaziAI, when Elon Musk was meddling too much, now it is FoxAI.
Ask yourself how Elon Musk got MAGA to like electric cars and space shit.
He bough Twitter as an investment to get MAGA to do his bidding,
by selling them the nonsense that they want to hear.
Nice that you shared yours.
However, no one should feel forced to express sadness over someone getting a horrible disease or dying, if they don't feel sadness, though.
I can promise you that I won't do that, when Trump dies.
I also don't support the idea "don't speak ill of the dead".
All I care about is honesty. If you have real arguments to express why we shouldn't be sad that the person died, then there is no reason to keep your mouth shut. The only people that should get some empathy is the people who cared about the deceased.
I want to make one thing clear: Just because Trump deserves criticism doesn't mean that Biden deserves the same criticism. Political arguments aren't a GAME, where every criticism of one side must have an equivalent criticism of the other. There is such a thing as reality. If the evidence shows that one politician did something worse, more often, or for fundamentally different reasons, then saying “Biden did something too” doesn't make the two things morally or factually equivalent.
I'm not saying president Biden was good, infallible, or above criticism. He wasn't. I'm saying that the existence of faults on both sides doesn't mean the faults are comparable. So let's look at the actual differences in conduct, priorities, and character.
1. Representing voters vs. personal loyalty
Biden: Represented his voters and party's political goals.
Trump: Has made loyalty to himself central to his political movement.
2. Keeping political promises
Biden: Generally tried to govern according to what he promised voters.
Trump: Often changes, abandons, or broadens promises when politically convenient.
3. Accepting democratic outcomes
Biden: Accepted electoral defeat and transferred power.
Trump: Refused to accept defeat and tried to overturn the 2020 result.
4. Respect for institutions
Biden: Generally worked within democratic institutions and accepted their constraints.
Trump: Treats institutions as legitimate when they serve him and enemies when they constrain him.
5. Personal power vs. public service
Biden: Primarily used political power to advance his party's agenda.
Trump: Has repeatedly put his own power, status, and political survival at the center.
6. Political opponents
Biden: Fiercely partisan, but generally treats opponents as legitimate political actors.
Trump: Frequently portrays opponents as enemies, traitors, criminals, or illegitimate.
7. Truthfulness
Biden: Has lied and exaggerated, but generally operates within an accepted factual reality.
Trump: Has made persistent, consequential false claims and repeatedly attacks inconvenient facts as conspiracies.
8. Vengeance
Biden: Does not make revenge against political opponents a central political theme.
Trump: Frequently promises or pursues retaliation against perceived enemies.
9. Corruption and self-enrichment
Biden: Has faced legitimate questions about himself and his family, but not a comparable pattern of openly intertwining the presidency with personal business interests.
Trump: Has repeatedly used the presidency and political power to advance his own financial interests, family interests, and personal wealth, creating an extraordinary level of corruption and conflicts of interest.
10. Treatment of vulnerable people
Biden: Generally frames government as having a responsibility to protect vulnerable people.
Trump: More often portrays vulnerable or unpopular groups as threats and makes harsh treatment politically valuable.
11. Human suffering
Biden: Has supported policies that caused serious suffering, but generally treats reducing suffering as a legitimate governmental goal.
Trump: More readily treats suffering inflicted on opponents or out-groups as evidence of strength or success.
12. Expertise and competence
Biden: Generally relies on institutions, career officials, and professional expertise.
Trump: More readily subordinates institutions and expertise to personal loyalty and political objectives.
13. Allies and international cooperation
Biden: Generally sees alliances and international institutions as valuable.
Trump: More often treats them as transactions based on immediate advantage and loyalty.
14. Political compromise
Biden: Comes from an older tradition of bargaining and compromise.
Trump: More often treats politics as winning, defeating, and humiliating opponents.
15. Replaceability
Biden: Ultimately accepted that his party and country could move on without him.
Trump: Has built a political movement unusually dependent on his personal leadership.
16. Policy vs. personal grievance
Biden: Politics is primarily about what government should accomplish.
Trump: Politics is unusually centered on his enemies, grievances, victories, and personal treatment.
17. Bad judgment vs. bad faith
Biden: Can be condemned for bad policies, hypocrisy, incompetence, or serious mistakes.
Trump: In addition, there is a strong case that personal power and self-interest are themselves major drivers of his politics.
18. Respect for Law and Order
Biden: Generally accepts that the law applies to him and that legal constraints are legitimate.
Trump: Repeatedly treats legal constraints as obstacles to overcome and has made attacking prosecutors, courts, and legal proceedings against him part of his political strategy.
19. Accountability
Biden: Generally accepts that mistakes and failures are part of governing.
Trump: Rarely accepts responsibility; failures are typically blamed on enemies, institutions, or conspiracies.
Warnings, fences, and etc, all to protect people from doing stupid shit but this guy, just graduated with a high level of expensive education, blew it all and is now DISOLVED and GONE from this earth. He should a just mowed yards for a living and let someone with more common sense get that expensive education. He didn't need it or deserve it if he couldn't read a simple sign..
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It is worth a try if you have some ground coffee. I was reading some of the 1200 plus comments and a number of them said that “used” coffee grounds could be used after they were completely dry. I was actually trying to find anything that supported “why” an aluminum foil bowl was needed. I did read a post where someone said they used a plate but my best GUESS is like a candle, having more wax/wick below the flame will ensure a longer burning time.
For a 6 year old to want to do that,must have been something bad.Perhaps sexual abuse or something?
SO yea,I know the frustration all to well of how it feels to grow up as "that kid" at the back of the room.
School bullying has been a issue for decades and if these folks that claim to want to make positive changes really meant it,they would do something about it.
Cyber school, It worked for the plandemic,why not keep on?
MUCH cheaper in the long run as the homeless issue could be partly solved by housing people in the old school buildings,busing would no logner be needed. School lunches,would be the PARENTS problem,not the taxpayers and etc. A win win for everyone.
Less school shootings and at the very least,less kids in 1 place to get harmed.
But no, just delete the gun and the whole world will be perfect and kumbaya will be the world anthem.
• Children needn't be bullied by children, teachers or parents.
• Teachers needn't be bullied by the children they're attempting to teach.
• Parents need to be more involved in parenting their children because it's NOT THE JOB OF THE TEACHER to babysit your li'l hooligans 8 hours a day while you're getting high.
Then something like this happens and everyone is like,"HOw could this happen"?
Well, gee,just as being discussed in another thread I mentioned i would like to see the country go back to the ways of the 50's and this is 1 of the reasons why. School shootings were rare.Parents,namely the mother,were involved in the teaching,raising and caring for the children.
Guns were less common and people didn't use agun to settle an argument.
You get to a point in your life sometimes where you are fed up and can NOT take it anymore. In the case of a 6 year old wanting KILL or harm with a gun, I would say exposure to video games and the killing on them may have been a negative influence.
People for decades have tried to explain that violent music, violent tv shows and games, have a negative effect on the people. Prompting violent behaviors and habits. But the liberals call it freedom of expression and whine to their lawyers, as our kids continue to play games and watch violent movies and listen to music that encourages violence without accountability.
The causes of the immense gun violence in aThe US has been debated and argued over for years and there will never be a agreement on how to deal with it.
You have your views on gun control, which I respect but totally disagree with, and. Ihave mine, which you totally disagree with. So the shootings and often killings just keep going on.
My guess is that a 6 year old child is not able to process what he did. He is not able to process what happens when you shoot someone or something with a real gun, that they are not able to get up, dust themselves off because they have a spare life or two. Regardless of how anyone feels about guns and gun violence in the United States, it circles back to current culture. Is it only that the mindset of Americans is fucked up and that we have access to guns? I kinda think that our society/the world is fucked up and folks living elsewhere need to be "creative" with the way they "accomplish" their dastardly deed.
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I mean if you are sending your teen age boy to school would you feel comfortable knowing he has a gay teacher I wouldn’t
I own my wrecker and the shop and all the tools so I don’t see any one trying to stop me the costumer can either ride with me and trust i will behave or walk it’s that simple
The problem is that the parent(s) did secure the gun properly.
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My bad, an incomplete thought, a better composed thought and sentence would have been as follows;
The problem is not about US gun problem, the problem is that the parent(s) did NOT secure the gun properly.
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And yet a conversation like this when I’m watching the movie four brothers filmed in the mean streets of Detroit
If we could get the guns away from the crooks the rest of us could keep ours locked up until we wanted to target shoot or something.
IF criminals were deterred or dealt with, we wouldn't feel the need to have a gun on our side so to speak.
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