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I think Space-X is a good thing, but Musk is evil - RL - 9/10/2023 12:43:18 AM
- Agitprop theater - RobVG - 9/13/2023 6:31:53 PM
  - What are you talking about?! - RL - 9/14/2023 3:43:55 AM
    - Your choice of link title. n/t - RobVG - 9/14/2023 6:16:06 PM
      - Not innacurate - RL - 9/14/2023 9:18:32 PM
        
        Fair enough. - RobVG - 9/15/2023 8:03:17 PM
  - You talkin' to me? - ER - 9/13/2023 7:02:54 PM
    - You're a hard one to argue with too. But not to the same extent. - RobVG - 9/13/2023 7:14:20 PM
      - Yes,I guess you could say; "I am a fisher of men." - ER - 9/13/2023 7:27:38 PM
        
        Wouldn't that be a 'Hooker'? - RL - 9/16/2023 7:03:39 PM
        
        I'm more of a 'catch and release' kind of guy. - ER - 9/16/2023 8:00:36 PM
        
        lol - RobVG - 9/13/2023 7:49:06 PM
- There has always been a strong correllation - ER - 9/10/2023 7:17:42 PM
  - I have known conservative physicists - RL - 9/14/2023 4:33:22 AM
    - Yeah, but its the engineers who will steal your lab notebook so they can copy it.. - ER - 9/15/2023 12:14:12 AM
      - While I appreciate what space-x is doing, there is no way in hell I would work for any of Musk's companies... - RL - 9/16/2023 7:03:23 PM

I bet the Sports and Business Administration budgets weren't cut. - ER - 9/15/2023 2:47:41 AM

There is a good reason you see 'A.C.A.B.' spray-painted around town... - RL - 9/15/2023 1:10:59 AM

"We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around." - RL - 9/14/2023 4:57:04 AM
- That's the pathogen, this is the symptomology. - ER - 9/14/2023 1:08:52 PM

This is really scary - ER - 9/3/2023 3:02:32 AM
- Anyone else see the irony of participants suffering from hypothermia... n/t - RobVG - 9/3/2023 7:40:58 PM
  - Irony, yes - podrock - 9/3/2023 9:10:11 PM
- Oh for crying out loud - podrock - 9/3/2023 7:19:02 PM
- It is raining again over the Black Rock Desert. - podrock - 9/3/2023 7:02:28 PM
- It's a playa! - podrock - 9/3/2023 5:05:42 AM
  - Don't hate the Playa, hate the game... - RL - 9/3/2023 4:25:19 PM
    - Someone wrote: - RL - 9/3/2023 4:55:51 PM
      - For the Trump Generation and the MAGA - ER - 9/5/2023 3:59:35 PM
        
        Like this guy? - podrock - 9/5/2023 9:51:39 PM
  - There are tens of thousands of people there - ER - 9/3/2023 12:54:59 PM
    - Went to the website - podrock - 9/3/2023 2:52:51 PM
    - Sorry to sound callous - podrock - 9/3/2023 1:46:46 PM

Florida Nazis - RL - 9/4/2023 5:48:59 AM
- Wherever America is heading, Florida will get there first. - ER - 9/4/2023 12:24:50 PM

He's been reading his Heinlein... - ER - 8/31/2023 12:20:19 AM
- Starship Troopers? - RobVG - 8/31/2023 8:04:38 PM
  - The movie explains that point in simplistic terms - BuckGalaxy - 9/1/2023 12:13:58 AM
    - In the novel, the bugs are communists. - ER - 9/1/2023 1:29:53 AM
      - In what other books does he out himself as a fascist? - RobVG - 9/1/2023 10:38:28 PM
        
        Thanks for the insights and recommendations n/t. - RobVG - 9/2/2023 7:08:27 PM
        
        I only remember Harsh Mistress vaguely. - ER - 9/2/2023 3:44:06 AM
        
        I don't consider Heinlein a fascist. - podrock - 9/2/2023 1:59:32 AM
      - And yet, in the same books, - podrock - 9/1/2023 1:42:11 AM
        
        Heinlein's brilliance was - podrock - 9/1/2023 2:03:01 AM
    - As I recall - podrock - 9/1/2023 12:56:52 AM

Yelling fire in a crowded theater - ER - 8/30/2023 11:58:30 PM
- The preprograming - podrock - 8/31/2023 3:12:06 AM
  - New conspiracies are born daily in the right wing fever swamps - BuckGalaxy - 8/31/2023 10:29:30 PM
  - Or, even more likely... - RL - 8/31/2023 3:52:46 AM
    - Yes, more likely - BuckGalaxy - 8/31/2023 10:32:30 PM
    - Tucker says: - podrock - 8/31/2023 5:36:11 PM

Be Aware: Their Agenda. - podrock - 8/30/2023 4:47:16 PM
- This program sounds an awful lot like - ER - 8/30/2023 6:30:36 PM
  - I'm still slogging through the introduction chapters. - podrock - 8/30/2023 7:37:10 PM
    - Koch, Coors, et al. - ER - 8/30/2023 8:34:16 PM
- And possibly right-wing death squads... - RL - 8/30/2023 4:59:36 PM
  - Of course there are politicians advocating for civil war.... - RL - 8/30/2023 5:01:43 PM

Right wing terrorism claims more victims - RL - 8/27/2023 2:59:22 AM
- This is in a state where the GOP has mandated history of racism be whitewashed... - RL - 8/27/2023 3:06:47 AM

So where is Prigozhin now? - ER - 7/4/2023 2:57:14 PM
- You come at the king, you best not miss. - BuckGalaxy - 8/23/2023 11:24:21 PM
  - Or if you do miss, fake your death in a plane crash... - RL - 8/25/2023 3:48:12 PM
- Let me count the ways...(in no particular order) - ER - 8/23/2023 7:59:49 PM
  - Order of likelihood - BuckGalaxy - 8/23/2023 9:16:16 PM
    - Cell phone video - ER - 8/23/2023 11:33:25 PM
      - Anti aircraft fire was heard. - BuckGalaxy - 8/24/2023 1:25:33 AM
        
        Trustworthy information is very scarce - ER - 8/26/2023 2:45:18 PM
- Prigo plane crash - BuckGalaxy - 8/23/2023 7:01:36 PM
  - After a wing fell off? - podrock - 8/23/2023 7:21:23 PM
- In Russia - BuckGalaxy - 7/8/2023 9:17:18 PM
- Hmmmm - podrock - 7/6/2023 2:39:41 PM
- Probably - podrock - 7/4/2023 11:46:11 PM

Trump indicted in Georgia - RL - 8/15/2023 2:57:51 AM
- Rudy, Meadows and Eastman... - RL - 8/15/2023 3:10:56 AM
  - Racism and sexual prudery. - ER - 8/15/2023 4:22:08 PM

Not woke enough for you? - ER - 7/17/2023 3:00:47 PM
- Hispanic vs Latino (a,x) - BuckGalaxy - 7/19/2023 5:57:38 AM
  - That may very well be the case, - ER - 7/19/2023 12:41:17 PM
    - Just passing on what I read a long time ago - BuckGalaxy - 7/20/2023 12:40:48 AM
      - There was a time in the USA when the Irish were not considered white. - ER - 7/21/2023 8:53:09 PM
        
        The Irish have been considered - podrock - 8/2/2023 10:10:22 PM
      - Good points - ER - 7/20/2023 12:59:43 PM
        
        Follow=up - ER - 7/20/2023 3:00:18 PM
        
        I'd like to read exactly what's being taught. n/t - RobVG - 7/21/2023 8:55:11 PM
        
        Slavery gave them job skills - BuckGalaxy - 7/21/2023 8:11:07 PM
        
        GiSantis is rturning out to be Trump on Steroids. - ER - 7/21/2023 8:56:20 PM
- Too close to the jim crow era. "coloreds" - RobVG - 7/17/2023 6:12:22 PM
  - ¿Latinx? - ER - 7/17/2023 7:07:28 PM

Simply terrorists or an extension of MAD? - RobVG - 7/21/2023 6:04:44 PM
- I'm not sure I think this is on the level/ - ER - 7/21/2023 9:24:41 PM

Counter propaganda - ER - 7/8/2023 6:10:44 PM
- You made me hit you. - podrock - 7/9/2023 4:50:43 AM
  - Yep - BuckGalaxy - 7/9/2023 9:25:51 AM
    - And shooting down a plane. - podrock - 7/9/2023 10:43:08 PM
- Pretty lame arguments - BuckGalaxy - 7/9/2023 1:01:50 AM
- Ugg. That guy. - podrock - 7/8/2023 7:14:13 PM
  - I did not know that. - ER - 7/8/2023 7:24:44 PM
    - The Spanish Civil War - ER - 7/8/2023 7:35:24 PM

A mad logic all its own. - ER - 7/7/2023 2:09:52 PM

Stand on Zanzibar - ER - 7/4/2023 7:20:22 PM

Twitter - podrock - 6/30/2023 12:28:31 PM
- On CNN - podrock - 6/30/2023 8:43:40 PM
  - The first taste is free - podrock - 7/1/2023 4:02:51 AM

The other Florida candidate - ER - 6/28/2023 3:24:02 AM

Putin Praises Military for Preventing Civil War - RobVG - 6/27/2023 5:26:51 PM

Paranoia strikes deep - ER - 6/25/2023 3:45:32 PM
- Into your life it will creep - BuckGalaxy - 6/25/2023 7:09:30 PM
- Ask an AI - podrock - 6/25/2023 6:08:33 PM
  - It starts when you're always afraid. - ER - 6/26/2023 3:18:36 AM
    - Also, a view from Politico: - podrock - 6/27/2023 2:25:20 PM
    - Missing White Woman Syndrome - podrock - 6/26/2023 3:22:05 PM
      - We better stop. Hey, what's that sound? - BuckGalaxy - 6/27/2023 12:23:46 AM
    - PS. - ER - 6/26/2023 3:35:30 AM

Prigozhin moving to Belarus. - ER - 6/24/2023 10:25:37 PM
- Exfil Plan? - podrock - 6/25/2023 7:50:52 PM
  - Read the Deep Analysis I posted below on this thread - BuckGalaxy - 6/25/2023 10:29:45 PM
    - I skimmed it. - podrock - 6/25/2023 10:53:04 PM
- The revolution was certainly televised. - ER - 6/25/2023 12:25:41 PM
  - "No one was hurt" - BuckGalaxy - 6/26/2023 12:09:59 AM
    - Those a choppers and crews that will never make it to Ukraine. - ER - 6/26/2023 3:54:28 AM
- Deep analysis - BuckGalaxy - 6/25/2023 6:05:32 AM
- Last I read no one knew his whereabouts - BuckGalaxy - 6/25/2023 5:40:38 AM

Wagner Coup... - RL - 6/24/2023 12:26:01 AM
- God bless America. - ER - 6/24/2023 4:14:02 AM
  - I never watch local news, but Cable news was covering it a LOT. - RL - 6/24/2023 4:49:16 PM
  - Credit goes to - podrock - 6/24/2023 12:57:41 PM
    - Ukraine defense Minister said something along the lines of... - RL - 6/24/2023 4:47:25 PM
- Cracks, delamination, rapid implosion? - podrock - 6/24/2023 2:56:45 AM

Cons blame sub sinking on Libs - ER - 6/23/2023 2:43:40 PM
- Crenshaw? - podrock - 6/24/2023 1:06:45 PM
  - Nothing good has ever come out of Texas. - ER - 6/24/2023 3:00:12 PM
- From the little I've read, I don't mind him excluding old white guys as "pilots" and techs. - RobVG - 6/23/2023 5:47:41 PM

About 16 seconds -- ignoring air resistance. - ER - 6/19/2023 3:40:27 AM
- 4000 feet??? - podrock - 6/19/2023 7:33:14 PM
  - XB-70 Valkyrie - RobVG - 6/21/2023 6:16:28 PM
    - I'm seeing more errors like that. - podrock - 6/22/2023 4:45:13 PM
  - It's FOX - ER - 6/19/2023 7:41:49 PM
    - All the articles I've seen have that in the headline - podrock - 6/19/2023 11:27:24 PM
    - While I've got you on the line... - ER - 6/19/2023 7:48:05 PM
      - I remember reading there's a mountain in the Andes... - BuckGalaxy - 6/20/2023 3:35:47 AM
        
        Here - BuckGalaxy - 6/20/2023 3:38:46 AM
        
        Cool. Thanks. - podrock - 6/21/2023 3:53:08 AM
      - What a relief! - podrock - 6/19/2023 11:26:16 PM

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