War Room Lounge v94: I'd need to ice up when I wasn't pounding cakes in that kitchen

[Fawlty]

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Mod Note: This thread is for general conversation and any other conversations to avoid derails in regular threads. If you find yourself going off topic in a thread, please quote the person's post, come in here, click "insert quote" and continue on in here. This is also still the War Room. Do not expect OT/Bare Knuckles rules in here.

 

[tonni]

I dreamt there was a man and he had a very small aquarium type thing with like a fairy in it? Or a sprite? I'm not a DnD nerd but anyway he put a grenade in the aquarium, with a string attached to the pin of the nade and the fairy. So when she tried to escape the nade would go off.

Then I dreamt of my dead dog but she shapeshifted into a coyote with googly eyes.

 

[Deleted member 484047]

I dreamt there was a man and he had a very small aquarium type thing with like a fairy in it? Or a sprite?

Easier to call them Fey, its a good catch all.

 

[tonni]

Easier to call them Fey, its a good catch all.

Oh yeah I knew I was forgetting something. Thank you Dirt Road Soldier, as always a great help and a man of honor.

 

[LMP]

In honor of the kick off to WW3:

 

[HockeyBjj]

Anyone here had re occurring dreams? I never had reoccurring ones, just the occasional super messed up dream/hallucination due to sleep paralysis.

Also, my sleep paralysis makes me safe from the WW3 draft. Suck it bitches.

 

[Gandhi]

I’m late to this but I think this inter generational stuff is a bunch of ......well .......stuff.

Seeing 911 or living under terror of global nuclear war. Each gen has its challenges and accomplishments. Gen X also had the horror of single parents and MTV which was a real deal breaker for me.

As far as boomers go, they only voted down the UHC in the USA so I’ll hazzard that an older cultural phenomenon is at play.

 

[TheGreatA]

What are the union membership rates in Finland?
Bernie would be centre-left (Labor) here as well, but in terms of the decline of union membership (fallen from 60% in the '50s to about 15% now in Oz, and a lot of the larger, white collar unions are unaffiliated anyway) and political power, the US has been at the front of the trend (I think they are at @10%). No surprise if that's no longer a strong enough platform for a presidential campaign.

The rates are falling, but 59% of employees are still members of a union. Compared to America's 10% (unless I'm wrong), this is obviously a massive rate, so the social democrat platform is obviously more popular here (and will remain popular for as long as unions hold power).

Where Bernie could strike is the lack of a sensible health-care and the problems that people have funding their education in the United States.

The fact is that market liberals, despite their claims to be in favour of equality and solidarity, don't really have a strong record overall on increasing people's level of social welfare. In Europe, they are almost always responsible for cutting it down. The labor rights and social welfare in Europe are where they are at, because of the dominion of social democrats, as well as conservative/moderate groups critical of overt capitalism. Market liberals, no doubt, are capable of increasing growth, and avoiding the worst depressions/over-spending, but not necessarily the most capable at sharing.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Anyone here had re occurring dreams? I never had reoccurring ones, just the occasional super messed up dream/hallucination due to sleep paralysis.

Also, my sleep paralysis makes me safe from the WW3 draft. Suck it bitches.

When I was in h.s. I used to have those loose tooth and inability to get away/ climb a staircase dreams.

 

[Trotsky]

@Fawlty Was the "it's hitting Trotsky hard" post an attempt at parody or what...?

Many people who pretend to be on the left are actually just right-light. I think you’re seeing a lot of people waking up to one such wolf in sheep’s clothing in this very thread.

I don't think a left-right argument is really relevant there, especially since the particular snag is confined to electoral politics, not policy.

@Sketch you just assume that Trots and Jake are buddies simply because the are on the "same side" politically.

Anyways, so how could I make this "list"? I have been trying, yet still cant seem to make this exclusive club.

Well, to the extent that you can be a buddy with someone on a message board, yes, JVS and I are generally friendly. Compare that to persons with whom I share the same or larger amount of political beliefs, like Ruprecht who doesn't like me and ultramanhyata who straight up hates my guts (but honestly may be somewhat of a misanthrope), and it's not a huge leap. Of course, you're responding to Sketch, who is just bored and desperate for both of our attentions.

Happy Birthday Greta she is officially 17
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50989594

Alan, you pop in with the weirdest, most random posts

 

[sickc0d3r]

@Anung Un Rama
I understand your position and that’s fine, you do you. I ain’t judging. Just offering another perspective. It’s not our fault politicians mostly suck, we gotta do what we can.

 

[Ruprecht]

The rates are falling, but 59% of employees are still members of a union. Compared to America's 10% (unless I'm wrong), this is obviously a massive rate, so the social democrat platform is obviously more popular here (and will remain popular for as long as unions hold power).

Where Bernie could strike is the lack of a sensible health-care and the problems that people have funding their education in the United States.

The fact is that market liberals, despite their claims to be in favour of equality and solidarity, don't really have a strong record overall on increasing people's level of social welfare. In Europe, they are almost always responsible for cutting it down. The labor rights and social welfare in Europe are where they are at, because of the dominion of social democrats, as well as conservative/moderate groups critical of overt capitalism. Market liberals, no doubt, are capable of increasing growth, and avoiding the worst depressions/over-spending, but not necessarily the most capable at sharing.

Yeah, the market liberal trends in privatisation, labour deregulation and regressive taxation (in our case a consumption tax, the "GST") aren't really known for holding back wealth polarisation (or shoring up the public safety net).

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

Anyone here had re occurring dreams? I never had reoccurring ones, just the occasional super messed up dream/hallucination due to sleep paralysis.


Also, my sleep paralysis makes me safe from the WW3 draft. Suck it bitches.

Yes...I have this dream...where I'm part of a unit/platoon. And we have limited resources, constantly on the march. Unclean

Every pit stop, or area we make camp for the night, all of the outhouses and toilets are filled to brim with feces and urine

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

@Fawlty Was the "it's hitting Trotsky hard" post an attempt at parody or what...?



I don't think a left-right argument is really relevant there, especially since the particular snag is confined to electoral politics, not policy.



Well, to the extent that you can be a buddy with someone on a message board, yes, JVS and I are generally friendly. Compare that to persons with whom I share the same or larger amount of political beliefs, like Ruprecht who doesn't like me and ultramanhyata who straight up hates my guts (but honestly may be somewhat of a misanthrope), and it's not a huge leap. Of course, you're responding to Sketch, who is just bored and desperate for both of our attentions.



Alan, you pop in with the weirdest, most random posts

In a fairness, @Sketch offered you an olive branch in the previous thread.

You should consider it

 

[Lord Coke]

@Fawlty Was the "it's hitting Trotsky hard" post an attempt at parody or what...?



I don't think a left-right argument is really relevant there, especially since the particular snag is confined to electoral politics, not policy.



Well, to the extent that you can be a buddy with someone on a message board, yes, JVS and I are generally friendly. Compare that to persons with whom I share the same or larger amount of political beliefs, like Ruprecht who doesn't like me and ultramanhyata who straight up hates my guts (but honestly may be somewhat of a misanthrope), and it's not a huge leap. Of course, you're responding to Sketch, who is just bored and desperate for both of our attentions.



Alan, you pop in with the weirdest, most random posts

My job consists almost entirely of research and writing which means most days I am in front of my computer all day. So I read a lot of random stuff because I get distracted and on occasion I come in here and share those things.

 

[Lord Coke]

Selective Service System website crashes amid questions and fears of another US military draft


https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/03/poli...P0LZYzCTfaE_hO5PByxAMwfQXc1tdc14rbMTeIfWp-YsU

 

[Anung Un Rama]

@Anung Un Rama
I understand your position and that’s fine, you do you. I ain’t judging. Just offering another perspective. It’s not our fault politicians mostly suck, we gotta do what we can.

Likewise hombre, I know I come off judgemental sometimes when I’m sharing my opinion, I hope you didn’t take it that way. Or even @Lowmanproblems . And Tbf sometimes I am being judgemental and sometimes I shouldn’t be that way, its the wrong thing to do

 

[Anung Un Rama]

@Fawlty Was the "it's hitting Trotsky hard" post an attempt at parody or what...?



I don't think a left-right argument is really relevant there, especially since the particular snag is confined to electoral politics, not policy.



Well, to the extent that you can be a buddy with someone on a message board, yes, JVS and I are generally friendly. Compare that to persons with whom I share the same or larger amount of political beliefs, like Ruprecht who doesn't like me and ultramanhyata who straight up hates my guts (but honestly may be somewhat of a misanthrope), and it's not a huge leap. Of course, you're responding to Sketch, who is just bored and desperate for both of our attentions.



Alan, you pop in with the weirdest, most random posts

I think it is. When you have people posing as progressives and deliberately moving people away from progressive candidates and towards candidates like Clinton it is relevant, and particularly relevant to the post I was quoting.

 

[sickc0d3r]

I’m late to this but I think this inter generational stuff is a bunch of ......well .......stuff.

Seeing 911 or living under terror of global nuclear war. Each gen has its challenges and accomplishments. Gen X also had the horror of single parents and MTV which was a real deal breaker for me.

As far as boomers go, they only voted down the UHC in the USA so I’ll hazzard that an older cultural phenomenon is at play.

Man, Gen X had it good, though. Mullets, Zubaz, peak Arnold, hair bands, paper porn, Eddie Murphy.

Millenials have the death of rock and roll to deal with. I mean, who’s left? Dave Groll maybe? Have some sympathy.

Likewise hombre, I know I come off judgemental sometimes when I’m sharing my opinion, I hope you didn’t take it that way. Or even @Lowmanproblems . And Tbf sometimes I am being judgemental and sometimes I shouldn’t be that way, its the wrong thing to do

Lol, not at all, all good. Do you even sherdog bro?

 

[senri]

@Anung Un Rama
I understand your position and that’s fine, you do you. I ain’t judging. Just offering another perspective. It’s not our fault politicians mostly suck, we gotta do what we can.

There is so much more we can do when we migrate inside The Nexus. We will do what must be done..... I can't wait when you go inside Mr. Sick....