If democracy ever had a chance it got its final stake in the heart with television.
When I was young a TV was a luxury and I saw the last days of community dry up like a water drop on a stone in bright sunlight, just as when I got on the web in 1996 I saw the last month of the literate Internet as A***OL* made it possible for morons to ge…
If democracy ever had a chance it got its final stake in the heart with television.
When I was young a TV was a luxury and I saw the last days of community dry up like a water drop on a stone in bright sunlight, just as when I got on the web in 1996 I saw the last month of the literate Internet as A***OL* made it possible for morons to get online.
I blame TV for a lot. Before TV a smile was a reaction, then a few years of advertising told people they're "sposta" smile all the time. A satirist named Osborn wrote about this. Smile People annoy me like crazy. Especially here.
I don't get "registering as an independent"; doesn't register mean declaring one's affiliation with a political party, while independent means not affiliated with a political party?
For me there is only one political issue: the survival of the natural kingdom. Seven eighths of the world could perish (smokers and conservatives first, please) and I would click my heels. All other political positions are spokes of a wheel whose hub is a world with parrots and pongids. People suck.
As I wrote, registering as an independent is largely symbolic, but I see no need to declare affiliation with a party. That is especially true due to the warlike state between the parties.
I don't see all ideas as equal or worthy of respect. I do try to understand why people believe some of the things they belief. Far too often it is confirmation bias rather than a reason to hold a worldview. But sometimes they have reasons that are not just confirmation bias, but rather from their experience. That doesn't make them correct or good, but it does help me to not become a member of the radicalized extremes of partisan politics.
Once it becomes war, there are no good guys and bad guys. There are only our guys and their guys. Like the draftee who arrived in my platoon thinking we were the bad guys and Uncle Ho was correct, when the bullets flew that idea vanished like a fart in the wind.
You wrote, "For me there is only one political issue: the survival of the natural kingdom." I agree, but at the moment I see the biggest threat to that as the hostility between political rivals that increasingly looks like an increased desire for violence in the thought that the solution would be the death of "those people" that you expressed.
Depends on the state. In NH you need to declare a party to participate in the Primary. So I register with a party to help push the major candidate slate in my direction.
Well the supreme Republican priority is is to þwn Teh Libs, and one of the best ways to do that is to wipe out as many species as they can.
Candidly, and I don't like saying this, I see no hope of reconciliation between the two poles. Conservatives who come back to the fold of sanity are at the level of anecdote. If they take back the Congress they are going to be as environmentally destructive as they can, regardless of the human consequences.
As far as I'm concerned the second civil war started long ago. It's them or us, and if it's them the world dies.
If democracy ever had a chance it got its final stake in the heart with television.
When I was young a TV was a luxury and I saw the last days of community dry up like a water drop on a stone in bright sunlight, just as when I got on the web in 1996 I saw the last month of the literate Internet as A***OL* made it possible for morons to get online.
I blame TV for a lot. Before TV a smile was a reaction, then a few years of advertising told people they're "sposta" smile all the time. A satirist named Osborn wrote about this. Smile People annoy me like crazy. Especially here.
I don't get "registering as an independent"; doesn't register mean declaring one's affiliation with a political party, while independent means not affiliated with a political party?
For me there is only one political issue: the survival of the natural kingdom. Seven eighths of the world could perish (smokers and conservatives first, please) and I would click my heels. All other political positions are spokes of a wheel whose hub is a world with parrots and pongids. People suck.
As I wrote, registering as an independent is largely symbolic, but I see no need to declare affiliation with a party. That is especially true due to the warlike state between the parties.
I don't see all ideas as equal or worthy of respect. I do try to understand why people believe some of the things they belief. Far too often it is confirmation bias rather than a reason to hold a worldview. But sometimes they have reasons that are not just confirmation bias, but rather from their experience. That doesn't make them correct or good, but it does help me to not become a member of the radicalized extremes of partisan politics.
Once it becomes war, there are no good guys and bad guys. There are only our guys and their guys. Like the draftee who arrived in my platoon thinking we were the bad guys and Uncle Ho was correct, when the bullets flew that idea vanished like a fart in the wind.
You wrote, "For me there is only one political issue: the survival of the natural kingdom." I agree, but at the moment I see the biggest threat to that as the hostility between political rivals that increasingly looks like an increased desire for violence in the thought that the solution would be the death of "those people" that you expressed.
Depends on the state. In NH you need to declare a party to participate in the Primary. So I register with a party to help push the major candidate slate in my direction.
Well the supreme Republican priority is is to þwn Teh Libs, and one of the best ways to do that is to wipe out as many species as they can.
Candidly, and I don't like saying this, I see no hope of reconciliation between the two poles. Conservatives who come back to the fold of sanity are at the level of anecdote. If they take back the Congress they are going to be as environmentally destructive as they can, regardless of the human consequences.
As far as I'm concerned the second civil war started long ago. It's them or us, and if it's them the world dies.