If I offended you this week Blu, and I know I did, I apologize. No golf is getting to me.they did not fail, because they did what their country asked of them....
I tried...but 'changing the subject' doesn't seem to work, even when it's Granite City related.
People are too busy convincing themselves that the lies they have been fed really are true, and need someone else to affirm it for them.
I'm truly sorry. If people would just -- Stay Home. Save Lives. They would all be heroes.. But no, they really think they are being oppressed, as if they even have a clue what oppression looks like. They think their freedom is being compromised, as if they ever knew what freedom meant in the first place.
I"m truly sorry, but people have to hear that little echo in their echo chamber, they get really sensitive when confronted by such things as facts.
SO I agree with your call to order and civility...but, I just don't think it will happen.
People don't realize that to truly be free, people actually have to GIVE something toward the common cause of freedom. Otherwise, one is free while the other is impressed. They'll never understand, ergo, they'll never be peaceful posters.
When you ban books before you ban guns, you've admitted that you're more afraid of children learning than you are of children dying.
This economy is hurting me deeply hanging on by a thread as the economy does not value my services until this is over. Actually it does, but ways of getting to the people are much harder now.
So I don't take that lightly. However, I'll have more serving to do than I can ever imagine when the economy opens back up. My gifts and talents will be needed in the future....so will everybody's.
Ahead of the economy, I value life.
Before this came on, everyone was deriding concepts of relief for the poorest of the poor, using the most disgusting terms toward those at the bottom of the economic ladder....using terms such as welfare rats...and even speaking with an obvious racist tone mimicking 'ebonics'.
Now that the shoe has dropped, it's time to deride anyone who would stand in the way of the check.
So now that things really have changed, maybe overall, looking at the big picture.... from a factual lens....not from the lens of Trumps Sphincter....or from Pelosi's ivory tower (can't stand her either.)
Looking it it objectively --- our society was not prepared for this.... Our only recourse is to throw trillions that we don't have into the problem - and to send away for emergency supplies that we don't have.
We could spend the rest of our lives throwing blame at each party - or defending the indefensible, for God knows what reason. But it doesn't solve anything.
Maybe in hindsight, it's good not to fire a pandemic response team. Maybe restructuring our economy and trying to balance budgets will shield us from the affects of deep recessions.
Maybe basic income will insure the well-being of all citizens....as money at the bottom quickly re-enters the economy. It's the money at the top that's retained and never goes anywhere, except to be invested to make more money.
What if these were all neutral concepts and did not have the emotional and dramatic weight to them?
These things will never fly.... but then when society is sick, truly sick and the economy goes with it -- then the working class become the poor....and the poor, they're just damn lucky if they don't up and die.
But if LIFE were the greatest thing we valued, how would our decision making be different?When you ban books before you ban guns, you've admitted that you're more afraid of children learning than you are of children dying.
Dee, have you stayed home this entire time? Have to admit I have not. Several trips to the grocery store and pharmacy. I went to Lowe’s twice. If you haven’t been out, you’re a better person than I am.
Anyone that has stepped out their door has taken the same risk, we aren’t really in a lockdown.they did not fail, because they did what their country asked of them....