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In the meantime for those terrified that peer pressure is forcing kids to want to identify differently than their birth assigned gender identity, it got me thinking about what is in the headlines every day of women attacked and killed every day around the world, one cannot help speculating upon The Screwfly Solution By James Tiptree Jr., first published in Analog. There has been a rise in men killing women in the modern-day world. Scientists desperately try to understand why this phenomenon is occurring and must do everything in their power to stop this before all of humanity becomes extinct. Sexism, Hate, Mental Illness: Why Are Men Randomly Punching Women? Conversation about the attacks on the streets of New York have centered on mental illness, but the offenses seem to have their roots in hatred of women. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/nyregion/new-york-city-random-attacks-women.html Femicide surge: the Cycladic figures found in the Aegean show a deep respect for the female body. How did Greece lose this? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/15/femicide-surge-cycladic-figures-greece Man punches child in Grand Central week after breaking woman's nose: police https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/grand-central-attacker-arrested-again/5318950/ Just 3 examples from the weekend.

Yes, or at the very least enabling them.

Wahhhhhhhht? Do even They known what They mean? Trump supporters echo pro-Palestinian ‘genocide Joe’ chant It’s unclear what they meant by it, as Trump has pledged similarly strong support for Israel https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/14/genocide-israel-gaza-iran-trump-biden/

This article illustrates, again, how the Ukraine war, on the Ukraine side, is quite different from how contemporary powers have conducted their colonial wars, i.e. Ukraine unlike Russia is not engaged in a grab for territory and resources. What it means when the mercenaries appear Elliot Ackerman’s new novel is “2054,” written with retired Adm. James Stavridis. This piece is adapted from an essay in the spring 2024 issue of Liberties, a journal of culture and politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/15/liberties-mercenaries-wagner-group-warfighting/ Sean -- I sent the full text of the piece to you via private message, thinking lots of bits in it would be of interest to you -- not necessarily informing you -- unlikely! -- but still of interest. It goes rather well, too, in places with Brett D's latest entries.

Outside the bubble opinion and pundits globally are thinking and saying otherwise. What make you of this?

Face it fella -- the Iranian is a much more savvy guy at war and politics than deaf bibi et al. Also, we're arguing over what was agreed/arm twisted/negotiated in way or another behind the scenes by all the actors in this -- action, so everybody's face is saved.

Pollution including hormonal and other enzymes saturating the environment has had dysmorphism effects in various amphibian and other species that have been studied. Girls are reaching puberty (though not emotional and intellectual maturity) years earlier than previously -- 10 and 11 are not unusual now, when up through much of the 19th century the age was at 15 - 16, and 13 was the age by mid 20th. That's not peer pressure.

Um, that's not what has been reported. The word about Iran and Hamas used is 'supported the group.' -- as the US supports the IDF. Iran didn't plan or attack Israel. The US didn't plan or attack Gaza.

Not to mention Russia and China having control over the extraction materials out of Africa that are necessary to a program. Including the 'merc' Wagner group. Not to mention vast 'private' capitalist business conglomerates. In the meantime I keep thinking that the machete geocide in Rwanda that lasted approximately 100 DAYS killed more people than died in our War of the Rebellion.

Exactly. For a SINGLE instance, Rwanda, didn't and doesn't have nukes. They did a million person genocide with machetes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why yes, these investors True Believers are exactly who and what They say They are. Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse Some Trump supporters who invested in his social media company have seen their share values plunge -— and see it as a test of faith gift link no paywall to the article that leads with a great big old foto of a guy cutting down a tree. https://wapo.st/4ayuwJl

The genie's out of the bottle. It's a globalized world and the genie cannot be contained by a few 'good' actors that, btw, the rest of the world views as a monster. Rome was hated by the rest of world. So was Great Britain by its colonies. The US is not different. It may be younger but it started far ahead of where Rome or GB did, with its weapons capacities. Any ideas otherwise, including that the US pop as a whole won't be rounded up and put into (labor/re-education) camps by the dominionists etc. is nothing but a fool and has never read the histories of what happened in those countries where the minority fascists and nazis took power.

Get a room then. It's damned boring after all these years.

Well, many agree, but . . . . well, you know. However, the story analyzes the enormous amounts that are taken out of the US budget to fund Israel and sell them armaments. Essentially we make big loans that Israel can draw upon whenever it wants, and even over draw, and then do with the money and the purchases just as they like. Israel gets the elephant share of US federal overseas aid money -- and interestingly, Egypt isn't far behind. A very interesting and illuminating story, of something that's been going on for over 3/4 of a century.

The freakin' white christian nationalist dominionist -- some of whom are on the SCOTUS. Where the eff have you been? They are all right out there blathering about making this nation a xtian nationalist state and if you don't think they'll massacre and have inquisitions, you are in lalalaland. They were here before rumpististo and they'll still be here when he's dead. But in between a whole buncha of us will have already been dead. Coz like murdoch and the ilks,s these guys do no die, they just keep dribbling their poison and their minions keep lickin' it up.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-much-of-your-tax-dollars-are-going-to-israel-and-ukraine

An obsession to compulsively trash where people live as a personal character defect does reveal personal character defects. Or some will say.

It's not clear at all. What do you think she was saying then? I'd ask her, but the response will be out of her own private Idaho, so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Own_Private_Idaho When we are being told for the last few days that a much larger expansion of the war in the ME is to be expected any moment -- no matter what the intent -- neither funny nor helpful. Big part of the problem, not a solution.

Well BREXIT has proven itself to an even worse catastrophe than everyone who knew better knew it would be so these jerkwaddies got nothin' but to try to rile up people with stupid hatreds about other stuff that isn't a problem either.

You miss the point that this was McCain's campaign anthem.

Has anyone ever run a data spreadsheet on the ratio of great, effective generals who are gay vs. those who were/are not? And I'm thinking here only of those history has left us a record of in terms of their preferences. Imagine ... how many gay successful warriors there have been / are who have kept their preferences to themselves. I mean really, here is just one part of life in which sexual or gender preference makes no difference to anything. Sheesh. Though of course, generally, people who are happy, fulfilled and living the life they want to live aren't particularly warlike. But then Hadrian, for example, came out of a time, a culture, a class, a family in which being a successful military fellow was what did make a lot of his ilks happy, fulfilled and was the life they wanted to live.

Assume you mean "Cornwell" not Cromwell? You decide -- first opium war in China: 1839 – 1842.

O ya, I bet!

The medications, the procedures effectiveness and outcomes increased, as in the medical world procedures and medications for everything improve over time from their first innovations. Even, at least for a while, the costs of all this also decreased, while becoming more accessible. In case somebody doesn't know this, for quite some time to have certain procedures to transition meant very expensive surgery and / or flying to a distant country and lengthy stay. All of this was a lot more expensive, particularly the flying parts back before the 80's. Tickets to Rio, wherw! In the last decades, at the same time more and more people learned that there was the ability to become what they'd always felt they were. For this latter blame the innernezes.

Glad they are having a good time!

Another Boeing whistleblower says he faced retaliation for reporting 'shortcuts https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244147895/boeing-whistleblower-retaliation-shortcuts-787-dreamliner