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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 18:49:19 +0000
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On 07/01/2025 13:23, Pancho wrote:
> On 1/7/25 10:54, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 07/01/2025 03:52, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>>    Ain't gonna be MAGA
>>>    forever (GOP thinks it has four years to coast)
>>>    and soon enough the ultra-left will regain power.
>> I don't think so.
>> Ultra left can only thrive in an affluent society, but they have no 
>> idea how to create or maintain affluence.
>>
>> As poverty kicks in, people are more concerned over potatoes than 
>> pronouns.
>>
> 
> I don't understand that comment.
> 
Id rather have a sack of potatoes than be called by my correct self 
identifying pronoun...

> For "ultra left" substitute religion. Historical evidence suggests it 
> can survive and flourish in very poor societies. A combination of 
> authoritarian government and the ideology of a "moral" quality that 
> supersedes wordly possessions.
> 
It has to be the right religion though
A religion that simply takes all yiur wealth and prromises yuoi only 
hell if you get upset is not a keeper.


> Listening to the UK radio last night, a  Labour politician was being 
> questioned on whether Ed Milliband’s "Green new deal" was achievable, 
> realistic. Her response was that it was Labour's most popular policy. 
> Her metric for success was that it delivered Labour/herself political 
> power, and she was probably right, it does.
> 
She was of course simply lying.  Or else acknowledging that nothing her 
government has done is popular, and because it hasn't done anything 
green yet, they are not being lambasted by that.

It was [probably the Boy Buiggering Communist's radio anyway,

> I guess Germany is a little further down the "Green" path than the UK. 
> It will be interesting to see what happens in the upcoming elections. I 
> doubt we will see a significant correction.
> 
Wait and see.

> 

-- 
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow witted 
man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest 
thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly 
persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid 
before him."

    - Leo Tolstoy