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Odd that Socrates is claimed have said much the same thing around 400BC. He does seem to have been quoting something that had been around for a few hundred years even then.

"“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

Of course most strains of streptocci are penicillin resistant these days. A cephalosporin might be a better choice. Penicillin might be the traditional choice.

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Bill Sloman
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John Larkin

Inevitably.

Once people really accept the idea of reality as a social construction, the only thing left to argue about is whether it's going to be _your_ construction or _my_ construction.

Phil Hobbs

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Phil Hobbs

Kevin Aylward is the kind of right-wing lunatic who takes creeps like Jordan Peterson seriously.

In much the same way as Cultural Marxism and Globalism - as a right wing invention designed to let them demonise people they don't happen to like.

It may be inevitable that right-wing creeps go in for power plays, but there's no obligation to take them seriously.

Except that nobody sane imagines that reality is any kind of social construction. The various ways that people chose to look at it - and the extent to which they concentrate on particular aspects of reality - is very much socially determined, but society has ways of coping with domineering creeps with silly idea. Jeering at them is a good start.

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Bill Sloman

The race thing is being whipped up by the press and politicians and other power groups. They want and need racism and violent racial conflict as a power source.

White people are evil and kill black people. That's the story you hear everywhere, all day. One would think, from basics, that white perple would not propagate these dangerous fictions against "their own." But some white people derive differential advantage.

I see the same distortions with respect to China.

Tim Scott for president!

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jlarkin

It may be true that some politicians exploit racism and violent racial conflict. There's no need to whip it up in the United States of America today. History has delivered plenty of both. The Civil Rights movement definitely improved the lot of African Americans and native Americans but they are still a lot of them who aren't doing as well as their opposite numbers in the rest of the population through no fault of their own.

Some of them are. Quite a few of them are getting away with it.

What you actually hear about are attention-getting examples of it, which happen to sell newspapers.

They aren't fictions. They are attention-getting news.

John Larkin is white, and propagates a lot of nonsense. One has to wonder where his differential advantage is,

Neat trick. John Larkin is a gullible twit, and is prone to see what some propagandist or other has told him is going on, rather than paying attention to more reliable sources.

John Larkin thought that Donald Trump was doing a good job of being president.

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Bill Sloman

Hey SL0WMAN, Donald Trump wasn't doing a "good job" as president - he was doing a GREAT JOB. Now, Lyin' Biden is f****ng it all up. But, what do you expect from a demented, old geezer who really is just a puppet for AOC and Sanders?

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Flyguy

Yup, I agree: Tim Scott is clearly a rising GOP star. Especially as contrasted to that white dwarf, Lyin' Biden.

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Flyguy

What's left of the GOP, after the Koch brother's astro-turfed it with the Tea Party Movement - is a smoking ruin.

Donald Trump isn't any kind of Republican, but he was more appealing than anybody left in the party after the Koch brothers had got through with it.

In that context Tim Scott may be a "rising star", but "invasive weed" is probably a better description. The GOP eco-system has been degraded to the point where Trump is still pretty much all they've got.

Flyguy does seem to think that it is worth the effort to post lies about Joe Biden. Donald Trump's 2020 election campaign, demonstrated that it didn't work on enough of the American electorate to have a useful effect, but Flyguy is the kind of gullible twit who still hasn't got the message.

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Bill Sloman

President Scott would send a powerful, much needed message: our color is not our fate.

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jlarkin

Powerful, much needed, but incomprehensible. Worm food is not a color.

Presidents aren't messengers, they're administrators.

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whit3rd

President Obama already sent that one. Tim Scott sends another message, like pretty much every other surviving republcan. "It's okay to be stupid".

This doesn't worry Flyguy, who is proudly moronic, but should worry John Larkin, who can think - after a fashion - when his vanity isn't involved.

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Bill Sloman

Hey SL0WMAN, your RACIST comment exposes you for the TURD you are!

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Flyguy

Where is the "racist" comment? It's perfectly legitimate to dislike Tim Scott because he's a republican who appeals to republicans. The fact that he appeals to gullible twits like you and John Larkin is icing on the cake. When last I look neither "republican" nor "stupid" was any kind of racial classification.

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Bill Sloman

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