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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:12:07 -0800
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 10:56:26 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 1/5/2025 12:35 PM, john larkin wrote:
>
>> I'm blaming tribalism, and intolerance is a big part of tribalism. As
>> is racism. And professional sports. And music.
>> 
>> 
>>>> You are emotionally driven to believe that you are always right. That
>>>> attitude, emotionally selective blindness and hostility to ideas, is
>>>> toxic to electronic design. I guess that's why so few people are good
>>>> at it.
>
>Speaker Mike Johnson: "This landslide victory election was TOO BIG TO 
>RIG", still implying that anything was "rigged" the last time.
>
>> People are different.
>
>People are different, people change, but that operatives of the Trump 
>Party are non-stop lying SOBs is pretty much a universal constant. Other 
>types of politicians are known to lie as well, but it hardly seems as 
>fully necessary a condition for the job as the former.
>
>The lies being peddled are finally too silly for making out anyone who 
>doesn't take them seriously as a Nazi to be very effective.
>
>They probably do think it was a "landslide victory" and everyone 
>actually loves them, reminiscent of when Obama won by 5 million votes in 
>2012 and was one of the most unpopular presidents in history by the 
>winter of 2013. Americans are pretty fickle and that tends to be the 
>result of big-time lying to win elections..

Design some electronics. You'll feel better.