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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
Top general planned to stop a U.S. coup: 'You can't do this'
posted by
san_jose_guy

'Reichstag moment': Joint Chiefs chairman feared Trump was laying groundwork for coup

yahoo.com

WASHINGTON – The highest-ranking U.S. officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and other top military leaders made informal plans…

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started 3 yrs ago
Front Room
is The System (tm) merely Paying Hookers For Sex?
posted by
san_jose_guy

This has been alleged, but I was slow to see it.

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At least it is not buying dances, as that is a chump's game.

But we see the low esteem Dugan holds the dancers in. And…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
Real Danger In COVID
posted by
san_jose_guy

is that in the hysteria marginalized population groups will be scapegoated and we will have a police state.

The national leadership of the Democratic Party wants the hysteria because then they don't have to talk about…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
Transmitting Viruses
posted by
san_jose_guy

Phoung had just come from San Francisco and bought a hair salon with massage rooms. I had stepped away at lunch time and walked in. There she and some of her girls were.…

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started 3 yrs ago
Political Discourse
The End of Work
posted by
san_jose_guy

by Jeremy Rifkin

amazon.com

a 1995 book, really old now. But this was early in the Clinton admin, when they were "creating jobs".

The problem goes back much further, to the 50's and 60's, and even to…

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started 3 yrs ago
Front Room
Marriage is just like Russian Roulette
posted by
san_jose_guy

Except that instead of putting a bullet into 1 of the 6 chambers, you are putting bullets into 3 of the 6 chambers.

I survived a death trap!

SJG

Humble Pie - For Your Love (1970)
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started 4 yrs ago
Front Room
Hairless Apes, competition for control of females
posted by
san_jose_guy

That and constant female receptivity had been the central theory in primate studies going back to the 1920's. Today all of this is being challenged.

Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
amazon.com

When this first…

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started 4 yrs ago
Political Discourse
Winning an election by a BIG LIE
posted by
san_jose_guy

In mid 2020 the leadership of the Democratic Party, my party, decided that if they ran on Universal Health Care, in a nation wide state by state general election, then they would lose.

The nations with…