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PostFeb 04, 2025#226

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It’s funny, most conservatives I know will support or applaud a Democrat who has common sense/moderate views, like Gov Jay Nixon several years ago. (Cue the arrows at me now).

But the avowed leftists would never consider someone one the right. NEVER.

As for what Trump is doing with regard to Canada and Mexico, your pure hatred of the Bad Orange Man distorts all reason. And I can’t figure out why.

Is it lack of good parenting as a kid?

Lack of religion or faith in God?

Physical ugliness that led to a rough childhood?

Lack of friends?

Lack of a solid career? Aka, the St. Louis Syndrome. You know, stuck in a $85K job as a 35 year-old with zero balls to start a business

I feel for you guys. There’s a great world out there that’s not living in a bubble, staring at a computer pissed off ALL THE TIME.

Start a business! Make a move on a hot girl Friday night at a bar! Take a risk!
The problem with conservatives in America is that someone like Jay Nixon *is* a conservative in normal counties. "Leftism" doesn't exist in any meaningful way in America. The fact Harris and Biden were and are painted as "leftists" or "Marxists" by MAGA shows how far gone American politics are. Both of them are a moderate in the Canadian Liberal Party, British Labour, German SDP, etc. They barely are left leaning.

As for Donald Trump, no one outside of America thinks he's good at anything. They can all see him for what he is.

PostFeb 04, 2025#227

quincunx wrote:
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It'd be great to have more moderate Republicans like George HW Bush and Mitt Romney around, but they have mostly been driven out as RINOs. 

Moleg overrode 86 Jay Nixon vetoes, so no love lost there. Imagine if he raised taxes without Moleg approval.

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They've all been purged because that's what happens in authoritarian takeovers.

PostFeb 04, 2025#228

BTW wither is the guy I was banned for making a personal attack on.

Meanwhile he has half a dozen personal attacks in his comment.....where's Matt In STL?

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PostFeb 04, 2025#229

We all know Whiter St. Louis is a right winger.  

The issue is with how you deal with the matter at hand, not that he is typically mal-informed.  

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PostFeb 04, 2025#230

TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote:
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We all know Whiter St. Louis is a right winger.  

The issue is with how you deal with the matter at hand, not that he is typically mal-informed.  
So it's okay for the fascists to make insults and personally attack but if you shoot back at them, banned.

And you wonder why the fascists won? It's almost like liberals don't take out the garbage and ban you for calling it smelly.

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PostFeb 04, 2025#231

Again, it's very easy to ignore/block users on here. Only have to read their crap when someone quotes them. This site became more enjoyable once I blocked a few, specific users.

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PostFeb 04, 2025#232

Bart Harley Jarvis wrote:
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Again, it's very easy to ignore/block users on here. Only have to read their crap when someone quotes them. This site became more enjoyable once I blocked a few, specific users.
Creating echochambers is why we are where we are now. It's much easier to ignore fascists and act like they're not there. But now they're running the country.....

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PostFeb 04, 2025#233

Auggie wrote:
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Bart Harley Jarvis wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
Again, it's very easy to ignore/block users on here. Only have to read their crap when someone quotes them. This site became more enjoyable once I blocked a few, specific users.
Creating echochambers is why we are where we are now. It's much easier to ignore fascists and act like they're not there. But now they're running the country.....
Except in this instance, they're just trolls and you keep feeding them.  

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PostFeb 04, 2025#234

Auggie wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
We all know Whiter St. Louis is a right winger.  

The issue is with how you deal with the matter at hand, not that he is typically mal-informed.  
So it's okay for the fascists to make insults and personally attack but if you shoot back at them, banned.

And you wonder why the fascists won? It's almost like liberals don't take out the garbage and ban you for calling it smelly.
Sorry to hear you've given up already and assigned a W in the fascist column.  For all the pomp and circumstance I expected something more from you.
 
I give no quarter to anybody, and after 18 years of city living, HOA involvement, and membership on this forum I'm qualified.  I ask only for decency and civility, even though occasionally snarky myself.  When none is appropriated then they can expect the same, in a perpetual deluge, like online waterboarding.  Every single time you post, I will remind you of your blatant and unfortunate inadequacy, and why you find it necessary to seek validation for juvenile, uncorroborated perspectives by bullying other people from a keyboard.   Screaming "gaslighter" into cyberspace ether for every comment you don't like is unhelpful to civil discourse.

You know less than most here, as we have titans of private and commercial real estate, as well as other influential community members in active participation.  in the meantime, you've convinced people here that you know less than most, while weakening your candidate's position.  You are likely too self absorbed to realize that this board had 5000 members, and only a fraction actively post.   So while some persons here, like myself, are vocal in responding to your pithy commentary, you have reached a massive subsection of the low turn out electorate, and you should likely be rather embarrassed for the great harm you have done to Tish's campaign.

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PostFeb 04, 2025#235

Bart Harley Jarvis wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
Auggie wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
Bart Harley Jarvis wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
Again, it's very easy to ignore/block users on here. Only have to read their crap when someone quotes them. This site became more enjoyable once I blocked a few, specific users.
Creating echochambers is why we are where we are now. It's much easier to ignore fascists and act like they're not there. But now they're running the country.....
Except in this instance, they're just trolls and you keep feeding them.  
Again, the "trolls" are running the country. We are well past the idea that they're just "trolls". The reason they're in power is because liberals let them take power.

PostFeb 04, 2025#236

TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
Auggie wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
We all know Whiter St. Louis is a right winger.  

The issue is with how you deal with the matter at hand, not that he is typically mal-informed.  
So it's okay for the fascists to make insults and personally attack but if you shoot back at them, banned.

And you wonder why the fascists won? It's almost like liberals don't take out the garbage and ban you for calling it smelly.
Sorry to hear you've given up already and assigned a W in the fascist column.  For all the pomp and circumstance I expected something more from you.
 
I give no quarter to anybody, and after 18 years of city living, HOA involvement, and membership on this forum I'm qualified.  I ask only for decency and civility, even though occasionally snarky myself.  When none is appropriated then they can expect the same, in a perpetual deluge, like online waterboarding.  Every single time you post, I will remind you of your blatant and unfortunate inadequacy, and why you find it necessary to seek validation for juvenile, uncorroborated perspectives by bullying other people from a keyboard.   Screaming "gaslighter" into cyberspace ether for every comment you don't like is unhelpful to civil discourse.

You know less than most here, as we have titans of private and commercial real estate, as well as other influential community members in active participation.  in the meantime, you've convinced people here that you know less than most, while weakening your candidate's position.  You are likely too self absorbed to realize that this board had 5000 members, and only a fraction actively post.   So while some persons here, like myself, are vocal in responding to your pithy commentary, you have reached a massive subsection of the low turn out electorate, and you should likely be rather embarrassed for the great harm you have done to Tish's campaign.
The fascists are in power for the next 4 years at minimum. A man worth $250B is in the President's ear. They won the popular vote. The Democrats just picked a typical moderate to chair the DNC. Yes any reasonable person would assign a W to the fascist column. It sure as hell isn't a W for the liberal column.

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PostFeb 04, 2025#237

And btw, as someone involved in BB/BS and drives to north STL every 3 weeks to retrieve a 12 year-old out of Hyde Park. I hardly live in a bubble.

Take a risk boys!

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PostFeb 05, 2025#238

whitherSTL wrote:
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I feel for you guys. There’s a great world out there that’s not living in a bubble, staring  at a computer pissed off ALL THE TIME.
I'm glad you didn't spend the last few years staring at your computer pissed off that Democrats are electing radical leftist revolutionaries like *checks notes* Joe Biden.

PostFeb 05, 2025#239

Auggie wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
Bart Harley Jarvis wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
Auggie wrote:
Feb 04, 2025

Creating echochambers is why we are where we are now. It's much easier to ignore fascists and act like they're not there. But now they're running the country.....
Except in this instance, they're just trolls and you keep feeding them.  
Again, the "trolls" are running the country. We are well past the idea that they're just "trolls". The reason they're in power is because liberals let them take power.
The only power they have in the context of this forum is the power to occupy your attention.

The reason they're running the country isn't that people ignored them, it's that liberals have run the country into the ground for decades and pretend like everything is fine.

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PostFeb 05, 2025#240

We're going to spend $100Bs to rebuild Gaza? What happened to America first? And holy construction cost inflation. 

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PostFeb 05, 2025#241

^Yeah: "The Mideast Riviera".  

It's truly crazy some of the things that come out of that guy's mouth. 

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PostFeb 05, 2025#242

similar/same to Greenland (its about its resources)
Gaza its not about hotels condos homes whatever its about:
https://iacenter.org/2023/11/15/behind-israels-end-game-for-gaza-theft-of-offshore-gas-reserves/

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PostFeb 05, 2025#243

framer wrote:
Feb 05, 2025
^Yeah: "The Mideast Riviera".  

It's truly crazy some of the things that come out of that guy's mouth. 
It'll be Dubai in no time, lol.

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PostFeb 05, 2025#244

MarkHaversham wrote:
Feb 05, 2025
Auggie wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
Bart Harley Jarvis wrote:
Feb 04, 2025
Except in this instance, they're just trolls and you keep feeding them.  
Again, the "trolls" are running the country. We are well past the idea that they're just "trolls". The reason they're in power is because liberals let them take power.
The only power they have in the context of this forum is the power to occupy your attention.

The reason they're running the country isn't that people ignored them, it's that liberals have run the country into the ground for decades and pretend like everything is fine.
Since 1969, there has been a conservative in the White House for 32/55 years, or nearly 60%.

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PostFeb 06, 2025#245

Auggie wrote:
Feb 05, 2025
MarkHaversham wrote:
Feb 05, 2025
Auggie wrote:
Feb 04, 2025

Again, the "trolls" are running the country. We are well past the idea that they're just "trolls". The reason they're in power is because liberals let them take power.
The only power they have in the context of this forum is the power to occupy your attention.

The reason they're running the country isn't that people ignored them, it's that liberals have run the country into the ground for decades and pretend like everything is fine.
Since 1969, there has been a conservative in the White House for 32/55 years, or nearly 60%.
Democrats and Republicans (at least until recently) were both what most countries would call liberal. The modern Democratic Party keeps chasing the Republicans right, so are now well-entrenched as a center-right wing party. 

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PostFeb 06, 2025#246

Trololzilla wrote:
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Auggie wrote:
Feb 05, 2025
MarkHaversham wrote:
Feb 05, 2025
The only power they have in the context of this forum is the power to occupy your attention.

The reason they're running the country isn't that people ignored them, it's that liberals have run the country into the ground for decades and pretend like everything is fine.
Since 1969, there has been a conservative in the White House for 32/55 years, or nearly 60%.
Democrats and Republicans (at least until recently) were both what most countries would call liberal. The modern Democratic Party keeps chasing the Republicans right, so are now well-entrenched as a center-right wing party. 
The most liberal president in that period was Barack Obama, a guy who tried to cut social security, bragged about his deportation numbers and made expanding private health insurance his landmark progressive policy. There are like six Democrats you could charitably call "leftist".

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PostFeb 07, 2025#247

Very charitable interpretation indeed, since they're all basically just barely left of center. The Overton window in this country is absolutely cooked.

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PostFeb 07, 2025#248

Trololzilla wrote:
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Very charitable interpretation indeed, since they're all basically just barely left of center. The Overton window in this country is absolutely cooked.
A good rule is if someone calls the Democrats "Marxist" or "Communist" or "Socialist", they're not a serious person and their brains have been thoroughly scrubbed clean of reality.

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PostFeb 08, 2025#249

Sounds bad
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PostFeb 08, 2025#250

WUSTL's rate is 55%< so this is a 25.8% cut.
That's $150M based on it's 2023 NIH funding of $583.6M

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/washu-m ... h-funding/

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