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This Thread is SPlit from What Positions Should I hold to get into public office Just curious/quibbling but why is it that people think serving in the military is a good qualification to serve in public office? Is it just a traditional way to limit the field of candidates to males? I realize...

I wasn’t certain of the best place to put this but since Politics has often discussed issues surrounding higher education and specifically, medical schools, I thought I’d share this article which everyone should be able to view...

No, I’m responding to the very frequent accusation/supposition that someone was only admitted or hired in order to fill some non-existent quota. It’s right up there with the insistence that composite SAT scores are indicative or even good predictors of who will be more successful academically...

Not completely sure where to post this but because it relates to the 2020 election, I'm bringing it here. Please move if it belongs somewhere else better. My speculation is that the conviction of four of the Proud Boys as well as convictions of Oath Keepers might lay the groundwork for sedition...

Loved his music and was fortunate to have seen him twice in concert, although in neither was he in his best voice. Most people remember him for The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is hauntingly beautiful but after the gifted link to the NYT piece, I'm posting a link to one of my...

:staffwarn: SPLIT from here. https://iidb.org/threads/mississippi-passes-more-dead-kids-please-bill-texas-responds-w-hold-my-beer.27109 Hey, get off Joe, willya. I know he's a decade or two past the age most of us would prefer to have a sitting president but he's still way better than any...

I don't know if anyone else has seen this article on NYTimes but it's interesting and rather terrifying. Sydney is an AI and here is a transcript of a conversation it had with a human being...

Donald J. Trump’s family real estate business was convicted on Tuesday of tax fraud and other financial crimes, a remarkable rebuke of the former president’s company and what prosecutors described as its “culture of fraud and deception.” The conviction on all 17 counts, after more than a day of...

For those who were not able to see it on network televison:

Well, what do we expect? Lots and I do mean LOTS of oh so smugly superior progressives think that working class people and those living in rural areas and flyover zones really don't count for much. They're just a bunch of bumpkins with bad clothes and worse tats, overweight, bad hair and bad...

Every unwanted pregnancy begins with some man’s ejaculation. But sure, let’s punish women…

Whoever thought condoms are 100% effective? Never have I posted such a thing. My position is that if a man is unwilling to support whatever choice his sex partner(s) make as a result of his orgasm, then he should be upfront about that, in writing, before engaging in any activity that might...

Ashli Babbitt wasn't running away. She was actively engaged in an armed insurrection--treason, in fact. I wonder if Mike Pence feels the same about Babbit as you do. Or if you'd feel the same if there were an armed insurrection attempting to prevent the certification of the 2016 election...

I haven't seen this posted yet, but if it is, I hope the mods will merge or delete this thread: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/us/derek-chauvin-22-and-a-half-years-george-floyd.html

So I read this article : https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/fashion/weddings/from-best-friends-to-platonic-spouses.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR3fLF_kLYx1VSKa83qn87fmeIdHSbW7wMk2szT0_vuwWIhF5YDLCxqq8KM about friends marrying each other and the benefits they gain from such...

This is behind a paywall but you can get around it by using an incognito mode on your browser: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/ Here is his complete statement: We may all say, righteously, it's about damned...

So, I've been reading online about people who are worried about things like: how to explain to their 4 year old that the world has changed and will never go back the way it was??????? Which, to a 4 year old, the world is changing every day and they really won't know much different unless...

As an offshoot from another thread, I thought I'd post a link to this article about how immersed boys are in violence from childhood forward. This article appeared in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/sunday/boys-men-violence.html As a note: When I googled 'why are men...

A friend posted this youtube with Woodie Guthrie--and a more contemporary roots music group singing songs about Donald's father https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jANuVKeYezs “Ain’t Got No Home” and “Old Man Trump.” (Trump’s dad was such a racist, Woody wrote a song about it. Here are the...

I started to post this in another thread when it was mentioned that poor people shouldn't have nice things but thought it deserved its own thread...