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  • Sounds like "Anno Dracula" by Kim Newman.

    Dracula managed to kill Van Helsing and then married Queen Victoria. AS Prince Consort he's brought the undead to the Empire. There are vampire trollops who live no better than their 'warm' sisters, and great Lords.

    Fun book, and first of a series.

  • If it was an American idea we'd be doing it every year.

    No one thought it would be a great idea in the past.

    If it had been a popular idea Trump would have gotten it in his last term.

    I'm not going to reply again, because it's a stupid thing and I don't feel like talking about it.

  • And where exactly does he say that the only thing we should do is lash out mindlessly without any sort of strategy? If you show me somethign where he advocated barreling along without any sort of plan, I'll concede the point.

  • And that's what's so funny about you.

    You can't just say that I made a valid point and move on. You're so consumed with "winning" that you keep repeating exactly what I said telling me I am wrong.

    As long as we keep agreeing, I'll keep pointing it out.

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  • Reminds me of an old joke.

    A farmer's son is in jail. His father writes him and says that the horse died and he won't be able to plow the fields. The son writes back that he buried $10 million somewhere in the fields, but can't remember where it is. The next letter from the father tells the son that the FBI showed up and dug up everything, so now he can plant.

  • There's an old cartoon that sums up Trump in my mind. Man is being lead to the gallows. Dozens of cops are holding back the crowd that wants to tear him apart. "Oh, all right. I'll apologize."

    No matter what happens to him, he'll never admit that he did anything wrong.

  • Everyone thinks that the kompromat Putin has is something like Trump getting fisted or a golden shower party.

    I like to think it's Trump weeping about how his daddy never loved him, or something else that no one but a psychopath would be ashamed of.

  • My point was that it's better to be practical and take small steps than it is to be idealistic and make no progress, or even go backwards.

    I used Douglas and MLK as examples of people doing what they could, and you demonstrated that's exactly what they did.

    You even showed that King had avoided talking about Viet-Nam because he didn't want to upset President Johnson.

  • It’s not amazing, but actually kind of pathetic, how desperate you are to dodge the points i’m making.

    Literally every time you've tried to prove something you've ended up proving my point.

    In fact, you brought up Winston Churchill and the need for everyone to line up behind his leadership to beat the Nazis.

    And by bringing up Gaza you've done it again. Trump has tripled down on his support for Israel and the slaughter has only gotten worse.

    I wish I did as good a job selling my ideas as you have.

  • but you would have to assume that the advantage gained by not speaking on those issues outweighs the disadvantage from denying that justice being demanded. I’d say, in some recent cases, complacency and denial of justice have proven to be more disadvantageous than not.

    Again, you prove my point. A person could apply King's own words to show how he'd denied the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community.

    It's really amazing to me how you can keep on disproving your own assertations and still not notice it.

    Exactly the way King not speaking on Vietnam proves my point.

  • Lol, I guess if I wanted to be charitable I could acknowledge the point you’re trying to make, which is that civil rights activists like MLK knew that speaking on some issues could undermine the effectiveness of their agitation on other issues

    You keep showing I'm right, and keep making my point for me, but somehow you're so tangled up in yourself you can't actually admit it.

    And you've got your history wrong. King did speak out against Viet-Nam War.

    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/April-4/martin-luther-king-jr-speaks-out-against-the-war