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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:43 am
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: What if Nixon Era Satire Becomes Trump Era reality? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:24 am
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| I think due to the practical issues if convicted he will be sentenced to house arrest. Nixon was perfect fodder for satire, no politician has come close since. Almost agree. But we had two close runner ups back to back. "W" and Bill Clinton. Both had foibles and peccadillos that lended th... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: What if Nixon Era Satire Becomes Trump Era reality? |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2024, 7:29 am
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| I think due to the practical issues if convicted he will be sentenced to house arrest. Nixon was perfect fodder for satire, no politician has come close since. Almost agree. But we had two close runner ups back to back. "W" and Bill Clinton. Both had foibles and peccadillos that lended th... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: OJ Simpson dies at 76 |
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Posted: 15 Apr 2024, 7:23 am
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Replies: 22
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| The OJ trial in the 90s made me realize just how sensationalist and ridiculous the American news media really is. And over the past two decades it's gotten even worse. I have to forcibly ignore it or I'll go completely insane. Even the eclipse on April 8th, before it even came out I was already sic... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: OJ Simpson dies at 76 |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2024, 10:41 am
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| What can one say? If you're over a certain age...he was the greatest guy in the world in the Seventies and Eighties. Good looking football star turned movie and TV actor. Then all non Black Americans became convinced that he was a murderer. Then gradually and quietly Black America came to accept th... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: ‘Love on the Spectrum’ Netflix show |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2024, 1:41 pm
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Replies: 86
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| One way in which the episodes produced in the US were better was that the producers seemed less beholden to the idea that autistics are the best match for other autistics. They can often be a terrible match. Two really shy, socially unskilled and anxious people dating rarely cancels out, rather, th... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: ‘Love on the Spectrum’ Netflix show |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2024, 10:40 am
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| One way in which the episodes produced in the US were better was that the producers seemed less beholden to the idea that autistics are the best match for other autistics. They can often be a terrible match. Two really shy, socially unskilled and anxious people dating rarely cancels out, rather, th... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: ‘Love on the Spectrum’ Netflix show |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2024, 8:26 am
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| One way in which the episodes produced in the US were better was that the producers seemed less beholden to the idea that autistics are the best match for other autistics. Agreed. I know this is very much wishful thinking, but it would be really awesome if someday ABC did a season of "The Bach... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: My love life has a lot to live up to! |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2024, 2:18 pm
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I understand your mindset completely!! As someone who's managed to get their fair share of platonic hugs from famous/popular women over the course of my lifetime, as terrible as this is to say, I feel like dating anything less would feel like settling  |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: As Tree Species Face Decline, Assisted Migration Gains Popul |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2024, 12:00 pm
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Stanford University has been working on human-tree hybrids for decades   |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: What are your thoughts about Gypsy Rose |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2024, 2:10 pm
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| Extremely fascinating case all around. Very relevant to us here on WP as well actually since her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn (who was the one who actually stabbed Dee Dee to death) was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum and this was unsuccessfully offered as a defense for his actions, althoug... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2023, 4:50 pm
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| These Jewish Centers throughout the USA m ( simon Weissenthal) and the commenoritive monuments With non- profit status . Am getting the feeling . That they should not be there anymore . Why commemorate a people who have committed such atrocities. Glad to know I'm not alone in thinking this. Heck, l... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Soon you will be rooting FOR the Taliban. |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2023, 11:26 am
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| Please correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember in the Bill Clinton era, the Russians were trying to get rid of the Taliban but didn't have the support to do it. I forget if it was the Taliban or if that was just Al Qaeda during the '80s that was being funded by the US to fight the Russians. ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Soon you will be rooting FOR the Taliban. |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2023, 11:23 am
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KitLily wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember in the Bill Clinton era, the Russians were trying to get rid of the Taliban but didn't have the support to do it.
Pretty sure you're right. Always thought it was a shame we never convinced Russia under Yeltsin to join NATO back in the 1990s  |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2023, 3:37 pm
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| The Tamil Tigers popularized the use of suicide vests among terrorist groups, Very famously the former prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, was assassinated by a young Tamil girl strapped with explosives who in the process also blew herself up. The Indian media shocked that a young girl would com... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2023, 8:55 am
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cyberdad wrote: Little known fact, the founders of the liberation tigers of Tamil Elam were trained by the PLO in the 1970s.
Took history of terrorism courses in graduate school (I have a master's degree in history) and can confirm. The Tamil Tigers popularized the use of suicide vests among terrorist groups, |
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