Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: SOS Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:57:29 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <7aa8eef0207cb2c651290e515f66f0b8@www.novabbs.org> <9218f1e545cc11e11ba2b7ea1a951028@www.novabbs.org> <8a79d3d0765df26750f720d21ac4e2a7@www.novabbs.org> <67b958f9$18$19$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <433q8l-5ms.ln1@anthive.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:57:36 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e76ac29932e342aa13d13cae0c3b4f2e"; logging-data="205490"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19J/jp76iS3Cwg4Ap7QJWlj" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/brBDbgtT8hXCDZdSOh6OzIA4ss= Bytes: 2906 On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:27:00 -0500, songbird wrote: >Graham wrote: >... >> Remember the words of philosopher Bertrand Russell, who said roughly >> this of how Fascism begins: >> >> "First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent." > > in modern culture i'd say that perhaps many of the intelligent >have decided that the noise of popular culture and media is not >worth the bother. > > in my own family most of them have no concerns about learning >or science and believe anything DJT says. > > when Covid started off none of them even asked me a single >question about what they were being told by their uninformed >friends and they made significant decisions based upon that >ignorance. > > it has not changed since then. > > i do vote and i voted against the nutjob, it was not a >resounding vote in favor of the candidate put forth by the >more progressive side but it was the choice i was given. >i sure hope for the next few elections they can find some >more moderate and coherent candidates with actual plans >other than just saying "we won't be like DJT". I'll never understand why a huge party as the American Democrats, with plenty of marketing experts, sociologists, psychologists en political scientists in their ranks, thought it was a good idea to present as their candidate a woman (1) of colour (2) with a woke reputation (3). That's asking wayyyyyyy too much of Americans. Any male, white, average man would have beaten Trump. -- Bruce