Open Thread - 08-19-22 - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 8:07amHow are we divided? Let me count the ways.
Race, gender, economic class, religion, ethnicity, age, education, language, profession, geographic location, medical status, on and on and on. We have become so pigeon-holed and compartmentalized that a certain group wants to divide us further into human and trans-human entities. One is no longer able to just be "me", you must be labeled and categorized, many times over. Have we ever been so divided as we are now?
I purposely left out a big one on my list, politics, that which I think of as building "interpersonal walls", divisions which to me are a mental construct designed as a control mechanism. It has served psychopaths and sociopaths for millennia.
Here in the US politics boils down to a republican/democrat, red/blue dichotomy. Oh. sure, there are other subsets, but for intents and purposes, it is boiled down to the two party system. The system is rigged as such.
We here at c99 are at least trying to open discourse between the two factions with our nonpartisan discussion policy. In my humble opinion, we don't stand a chance unless we stand together and find common ground. I'll iterate again, the struggle is not horizontal, it is vertical. It's a class struggle.
The current political zeitgeist could make a person feel a bit schizo, no?
The Evening Blues - 8-18-22
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 08/18/2022 - 4:34pmUnpopular Opinion - Student Loan Forgiveness
Submitted by bondibox on Thu, 08/18/2022 - 10:24amFrom the very get-go, something has rubbed me wrong about the plan to cancel student loan debt. At first it was the logical disconnect with which its advocates supported their position, but now I think its nefarious intentions are relying on people's selfishness to sneak through a massive money grab.
Open Thread - Thurs - 18 Aug 2022: Garlic!
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 08/18/2022 - 5:13amGarlic - Why Not?
I decided to 'relax' and write a bit about something we just harvested here in the last few weeks. Garlic.
The Evening Blues - 8-17-22
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 08/17/2022 - 3:19pmTrump is done! The Walls are Closing In on Him
Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 08/17/2022 - 1:13pmThis is why I’m leaning towards the raid on his home was politically motivated by democrats and just more of the same kabuki we’ve been subjected to for the last 6 years.
Donald Trump's evolving excuses over the Mar-A-Lago raid have reached the absurd
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 08/16/2022 - 5:32pmDonald Trump sounds increasingly like Bart Simpson.
The Evening Blues - 8-16-22
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 08/16/2022 - 4:13pmOpening a can of worms
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 08/16/2022 - 9:47amNothing is more divisive than the debate over electric vehicles. Even my own son is in the anti-EV camp and we go round and round regularly over ICE (internal combustion engines) and fully Battery Electric cars, and now trucks.