Maeve

Thanks. You too.

Oh. This thread has s lot of comments, it's hard to keep up. I wonder why no one's filed a bar complaint? Thanks for the correction. That's food for thought.

The first part, we agree. The J6 rioters were fascist insurrectionists, most certainly not Antifa or Black Bloc.

I don't agree about voting third or not voting is for her that I shall not name, but I'll concede it was not that long ago that I would have agreed. I've simply had a change in perspective.

The way anyone who disagree with the mainstream parties' are virulently attacked as being either "radical leftists/Communists" or inversely, "fascists/Russians/bots"...I can see where Blue Maga makes sense. I would hope you would take time to consider that. Cult of Personality doesn't just apply to Voldemort or the prosecutor. In Living Color and Disposable Heros of Hiphoprisy both addressed that in those exact words and in so many words, respectively, but it's been a multitude of years ago, with songs that were rather popular, at the time. Fred Hampton, MLK and other leftist icons (if one can consider MLK leftist) did, as well.

Although we agree on certain points, and disagree on others, I'm glad you engaged in conversation with me. I think it's been productive, and humanized us more for each other. I'll certainly continue to give your sentiments more consideration. I hope you do mine, as well. May you be happy and well. Brightest blessings for you and yours, sincerely.

Lol. Not at all

Edited; here you go https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc

They're the good guys.

The criticism was that Stein hired the lawyer.

I'm talking about Black Bloc, please reread what I wrote.

Yes. Maybe that's why even though I voted for Clinton, I still was sympathetic to Antifa and Black Bloc. Cognitive dissonance was loud. And I fervently hope I don't backslide.

My friend, when I bit the bullet and had FB for a couple of years to keep in touch with a loved one who only had phone service when they were by free Wi-Fi, there were Black Bloc groups on there that used FB groups for organizing action. Then Zuc shut them down, and notably not other equally controversial groups. Please.

Hi, I'm about five or six mobile device pages in their comments, now. Antifa most certainly can be violent, but it largely depends on circumstances, or maybe I'm conflating the antifa activists who also participate in Black Bloc, or maybe they've just calmed down a bit here in the USA since they first blipped onto my radar maybe 30 years ago.

At any rate, he seems to be more moderate than me since I have nothing bad to say about Antifa or Black Bloc, in my recollection of anything that's made news, but I could be forgetting stuff. Thirty years is a long time.

I haven't seen anything else that suggests antisemitism, so far, either. "So far" being key. I've been accused of RW talking because I'm definitely voting third party or not at all. I also definitely see his points, although emotion seems to have gotten the better of him. It happens. When I was leaning towards voting Harris, it got the best of me, and I made shill accusations too. Then the news and the photographs kept coming and kept coming. I was accused of being antisemitic when I started vocally criticizing Operation Razor's edge, too, relentlessly, and used to become upset and almost started speaking out. That's when a Jewish friend of mine pulled me aside and explained hasbara (it's not explaining, it's excusing the inexcusable, so yes, propaganda), and back then what was known as the IDF (Internet Defense Force). Mossad and USA right wing Jewish activists monitor media and real life, and quickly activate when criticism is detected. This was about the time people were heavily berating Noam Chomskey, JVP, Mondoweisse and the reform Jewish Temple clergy and members who spoke out against Palestinian genocide, and before the BDS movement began or maybe around the time it did, as antisemites and self-hating Jews.

Anyway, the word choice was terrible, I'm not that deep into his comments, yet. If I see others, I'll come back and correct myself. The first glance was a glance, but I plan to look through several more pages. Have a good evening and thanks again for your kindness to me.

Tiny dome home looks great, but I'm not sure how doing it right would work with my realistic budget within a realistic time frame, since we're in a weather race. For that cost, I could just move and get small place in a more climate-friendly area. The issue is my elderly parent is about 45 minutes away with good traffic flow and my child, partner and their business about an hour, and their partner's parents, siblings and children. My child has been settled for about eight years with their significant other so I don't look for it to be realistic to expect the whole family and family business to uproot and move, unless the realities of climate change become untenable, and that's certainly a possibility. But if that timeline is shorter than we imagine, that may well occur. Thank you so much for a great idea, and for reminding me to have a plan B and C.

Their wording could have been much better. I'm thinking "hasbara," but their wording was awful. But again, some people don't know what hasbara is. Yes, that's stretching it, I really should go look at their post history in detail.

Sorry it’s not the responsibility of the most vulnerable to take on power just so you can be comfortable in the middle class.

In Soc 110, we were taught that's exactly why there is a middle class: to serve as a buffer between the wealthy and the poor. The middle class is shrinking.