Passionate Progressive

Can I defend it’s position on LGBT issues no.  But who is the US to call the kettle black?

Russia’s 20th century was turbulent with 3 foreign invasions and 2 revolutions – all of which reek havoc on demographics….After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church was restored – many in Russia consider…[Read more]

Been there done that.

the debris falls…..It’s all noise.  And while (sadly) I no longer have dogs, I can think what it must be like for people who have dogs, my cat and my birds……

@retiredliberal

between racial stereotype logos that perpetuate white supremacy and product ownership.   Uncle Ben’s is owned by Mars

and Aunt Jemima is owned by Quaker Oats.

@satan

and then you wouldn’t be offending the MIC….But then again, why not just call them the Washington Lobbyists and cover all the bases.

A friend recently told me she was ‘discouraged about the direction of the country’……I have to ask where she and the responders to this poll have been for the past decade+…We’ve been at war with countries that haven’t threatened us for almost two decades….Now that our government is inflicting the wars that it has been engaged in abroad on…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

one of Reagan’s ambassadors to Russia and the architect of detente had been an advocate of seeing problems from the other side’s perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_F._Matlock_Jr.

feed off a form of American exceptionalism as well as ignorance and illustrates the difference between the two perspectives employed by journalists that in an over simplified way may perhaps be characterized by the ‘national security’ lens vs. the ‘area studies’ lens.

For me the latter perspective – i.e., seeing it through a scholarship of langua…[Read more]

@mackmarkstein and the other two points are plausible

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is the operative word.