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[JohnH]

Are you permitted to post like this on the forum?

Why is your instinct to reach for censorship?

I am the one feeling censored, lol! We can have this back and forth all day! You want to skew news, go for it.

You have been free to share your opinion and make your case, have you not?

[JohnH]

I have watched the entire video. And Zelensky never interrupted...Vance instead did. Please post where you see Zelensky interrupting.

I don’t think you did watch an unedited version. It’s pretty clear that Z interrupted Vance first. He also called Vance an b*****d in Ukrainian. Z’s behaviors are out of line and war-mongering to the point of starting WW3.

Either you need new glasses and hearing aids or you’re deliberately promoting fake news. Either way you said nothing about joining the forum to try to play gotcha as a Democrat supporter. The folks here know where to find unbiased vids and info.

Post your raw video. As I have said before all the videos that I watched show Vance interrupting. And Vance lied...saying things like Zelensky campaigned for the opposition in PA when he visited a munitions factory in Scranton.

Saying I need glasses and hearing aids isn't appreciated.

… he went to a Democratic campaign event. I don’t think foreign leaders should be doing that.

[Southerner]

I don’t think you did watch an unedited version. It’s pretty clear that Z interrupted Vance first. He also called Vance an b*****d in Ukrainian. Z’s behaviors are out of line and war-mongering to the point of starting WW3.

Either you need new glasses and hearing aids or you’re deliberately promoting fake news. Either way you said nothing about joining the forum to try to play gotcha as a Democrat supporter. The folks here know where to find unbiased vids and info.

Post your raw video. As I have said before all the videos that I watched show Vance interrupting. And Vance lied...saying things like Zelensky campaigned for the opposition in PA when he visited a munitions factory in Scranton.

Saying I need glasses and hearing aids isn't appreciated.

… he went to a Democratic campaign event. I don’t think foreign leaders should be doing that.

Maybe he did. Who knows! The crooked media pushes this narrative. Did you hear the rumours?

[Ken]

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies says the law extends to AI imagery of child porn (or child porn using actors over 18 who look like children) because even if no minors were involved in the production, the distribution of such porn still fosters an environment in which the sexual exploitation of children is normalized.

... which is entirely a matter of freedom of speech for adults (assuming they're the ones running the AI software), and has nothing to do with children doing or not doing anything.

Free speech is not a universal and unlimited right.

Ah, interesting. So it WOULD be possible to outlaw pornography, then?

If that is the windmill you want to spend your life tilting at then go for it.

Maybe you can join forces with the other naïve folks who think if they just try hard enough they can get the US to look like Japan when it comes to firearms laws and firearm ownership. Which is theoretically possible too, just not very likely.

[Ernie]

Here's one thing that happens a lot on MN: two different people each think the other person is thinking this way, neither thinks they themselves are thinking this way. I think you and I had a little of this on the Early Writings thread.

I know it felt like a lot of assumptions were being made about my thinking that I wasn't thinking.
I am not aware that I was making assumptions about other people's thinking.

[Bootstrap]

Here's one thing that happens a lot on MN: two different people each think the other person is thinking this way, neither thinks they themselves are thinking this way. I think you and I had a little of this on the Early Writings thread.

I know it felt like a lot of assumptions were being made about my thinking that I wasn't thinking.
I am not aware that I was making assumptions about other people's thinking.

I think you may have assumed I was making assumptions about your thinking that I wasn't making. And sometimes that's what makes conversations hard on MN. People seem very concerned about what others think about them, more than whatever topic we are discussing. I get lost in all the questions of who is assuming what about who is assuming what about who is assuming what about whom.

It's a lot easier to just discuss the subject, providing information for or against a particular understanding. Assuming it's not about you or me.

[JayP]

I am still laughing too hard to write a reasonable response.

I think JohnH posted three times in a row. What talent.
He used to just argue with us, now he can do it all by himself.

The rare marooning you log in and don’t see a response by him on EVERY thread is such a nice day.

[JohnH]

I am still laughing too hard to write a reasonable response.

I think JohnH posted three times in a row. What talent.
He used to just argue with us, now he can do it all by himself.

The rare marooning you log in and don’t see a response by him on EVERY thread is such a nice day.

Thanks, JayP.

[Grace]

Board guidelines:
-Use I statements. Speak for yourself and don't decide what someone else is meaning to say or exaggerate what someone else posts.
-Do not state that someone else is wrong. State your own thoughts and opinions.
-Do not take another's statement and distort it to an extreme.

LOL...I won't even begin to count how many guidelines violations the prior post contains.

Just saying, so carry on.

[Valerie]

In my view, teachers should compliment Grace on her writing, even if not in agreement with content.

You would benefit from her example.

How kind. Temp pays Grace a deserved compliment and is met by an insult from a moderator ?
Last week you criticized Grace-
I’m used to being mocked for my typos but I sense some bias here.