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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump's "national heroes" garden |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2020, 12:58 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 696
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| A garden is a nice idea, but I imagine the biggest and only statue will be of him. Carved from a single yuge piece of carnelian, no doubt... https://geology.com/gemstones/carnelian/carnelian.jpg Yes, and here is the prototype. The bigger the statue of himself he puts up, the more room there is for ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Who here likes me and still wants to be friends? |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2020, 12:55 pm
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Replies: 470
Views: 15,556
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| Yeah, I've learned not to take that kind of thing personally. If I see someone in distress and think a good word might help, I post, if I don't think I can help, I don't post at all. It's a pleasant surprise if they reciprocate, but I don't expect it. My policy exactly! :) Btw: Has your back mended... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Will this be life for decades? |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2020, 12:02 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,565
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Nothing, no matter how awful or glorious, lasts forever.
This is quite a sticky patch for us though: and no route out is known as yet.
One will occur, whether by accident or design: most likely a mixture of the two.
No guarantees on the timing being soon. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Happpy Birthday XFG |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2020, 5:57 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 909
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Birthday greetings to XFG!
Hope the days a good one.  |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Who do you think the sweetest person on WrongPlanet is? |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2020, 2:48 am
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Replies: 149
Views: 7,743
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sly279 wrote: Wp mostly killed my sweet side it seems.
Better get your necromancy kit out then.  |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: GAME: Leap Frog |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2020, 2:24 am
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Replies: 25,645
Views: 239,007
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What time is it now, where you are? |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2020, 2:19 am
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Replies: 17,356
Views: 416,573
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| 8:18am BST on Monday the 6th of July. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you detest people stating the obvious to you? |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2020, 2:55 pm
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,599
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| Well, I do laugh at such things quite often... although usually out loud. Which can lead to enhanced irritation levels from the other human(s) in question. To be honest the irritated thought I get these days is ”yes, yes: I know all that, can we skip to the next bit before my appetite for face to f... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How to Pull Someone Out of the Alt-Right |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2020, 7:10 am
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Replies: 87
Views: 3,239
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| ^ Also an early C20th Italian arts/design movement with distinct political overtones: I think that was what roronoa79 was referring to from context. Wikipedia page : note the centrality of intoxicating emotions, actions and experiences, such as violence, as an ethical principle within the movement. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How to Pull Someone Out of the Alt-Right |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2020, 5:36 am
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Replies: 87
Views: 3,239
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^ 
Yes, binary divisions of the citizenry of this nature are rarely good for healthy civil society, or the stability of political institutions.  |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How to Pull Someone Out of the Alt-Right |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2020, 5:30 am
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Replies: 87
Views: 3,239
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| ^ Good point arrived at (or implied by) final paragraph as I read it. We live in a cultural world which is infused by a wide array of live ideologies, and the culturally fossilised remnants of dead ideologies: but although these can and do/did operate as self contained sub-cultural “boxes”, their pr... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Goodbye Magna , you will be missed |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2020, 4:54 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,122
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Another sensible, well mannered member gone. 
Had only recently had a few short back and forth’s with him, a pleasure to converse with. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Is the Chinese government committing genocide? |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2020, 4:48 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 692
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| (Don't expect too many ppl to call it what it is though. Hatred of Islam and appeasement of the PRC are far too fashionable these days). "Islam is bad" and "genociding muslims is bad" are not oppositional statements. Agreed: holding that an idea, or linked structure of ideas, is... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What time is it now, where you are? |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2020, 4:15 am
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Replies: 17,356
Views: 416,573
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| 10:15am BST on Sunday the 5th of July. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How to Pull Someone Out of the Alt-Right |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2020, 3:37 am
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Replies: 87
Views: 3,239
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| Its very hard to make ideological generalizations about the alt right in general bc it's a catch-all for members of (ironically) rather diverse right-wing ideologies. You have Christian extremists, neo-nazis, neo-confederates, futurists, Constitutional extremists, accelerationists, authoritarian tr... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What time is it now, where you are? |
| Karamazov |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2020, 2:12 am
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Replies: 17,356
Views: 416,573
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| 8:11am BST on Saturday the 4th of July. |
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