Firstly: the virus was not engineered. “The scientific consensus is that COVID-19 has a natural origin.” (
COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia)
Everyone knows, or should know, that the virus came from a lab in Wuhan China.
Secondly: Again: do you not care about the elderly?
Of course I care about the elderly.
So I happily closed down my business so that she could be safer.
How did closing down your business make your mother safer?
Well I guess you were so busy focusing on rioters that you missed the arguments of that vast majority of peaceful protesters the world over. BLM’s arguments are really not so hard to find, even BreadofLife managed, but here’s for you:
https://blacklivesmatter.com/
I'm disappointed you can't see the obvious. A group who actually cared about bigotry and hatred would call themselves, "ALL lives matter." A group calling themselves "Black Lives Matter" has decided to advocate for Black people as if "blackness" made them special. BLM inadvertantly or on purpose perpetuates the problem.
So when my Eastern German country-men toppled Lenin’s statues or when the Iraqi toppled those of Saddam Hussein that indicated “a hatred for the truth”? “A disdain for history”?
It depends. I'm not familiar with Lenin's statues but I did see a mob topple the statue of Saddam Hussein. If you are asking me whether a mob was thinking clearly and rationally when they pulled down the statue, I would say not. This seems like an emotional outburst by a few of Iraq's citizens, not the decision of a plurality who debated the issue and decided to remove a statue from a public space.
But, since you are not from the United States, I shouldn't expect you to understand our ways. The United States suffered a civil war, when brothers fought against brothers and entire families were split apart. After the war, the nation needed to heal. And for this reason, in order to make peace, Confederate States were allowed to erect statues to their war heroes and leaders. This was part of the price for reconciliation.
Now, after all these years later, if the formerly Confederate States decided, by a vote of the people or their representatives, to remove these statues to make room for the statues of other notable people, then okay. No problem. But we aren't talking about a rational decision by a group of thoughtful individuals. We are talking about the raw outrage of a mad mob of kids who were indoctrinated in hatred of America by teachers who also hate America.
Now I never learned anything about history by looking at a statue. I had to read books. So if you – like I do - deem the past and its truthful representation important, you better don’t re-elect Trump . . .
I haven't taken the time to research the article to see if what they say is actually the case. Given what I know about the President, I suspect the President has another agenda.
In the US, many of these Federal Programs have become corrupted by special interests and corrupt politicians. In order to fight systemic corruption in these Federal Programs, the President wants congress to change the laws so that these programs are held accountable for the money we give them. The President is not against libraries, he is against those who steal public funds for their own gain.
How do you face suffering, persecution or difficulties? By racism not being regarded as PC any more?
You don't seem to understand the issue. Racism is both a belief and an action. The government can regulate actions, but it can't change the human heart. Governments can make laws against acts of discrimination, but it can't change the human propensity to prejudice.
But BLM isn't about the grievances of black people; BLM is all about gaining power. That's it.
Of course not. Marx lived almost 2000 years later.
Don't miss the point. Jesus fed people but only a couple of times and he multiplied food from a few loaves of bread and some fish. Jesus didn't take food from one person in order to give it to another person. Jesus was NOT a socialist. His main focus was NOT on feeding the pour. Judus the betrayer was ostensibly concerned for the poor, but Jesus tells him.
John 12:7-9
Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial. 8 For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”
Acts 6:2
So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.
I’d just be intrigued to hear what your notion of Jesus teaching on the poor is. “All I can say to them and to you is get over it.”?
Again, don't let the point slip by you. I wasn't talking about injury or suffering. I was talking about being "offended", which some weak people think is suffering. The blacks aren't the only people with grievances; they aren't the only people being persecuted; and they certainly aren't the only people being tortured to death. But being offended IS something we all need "get over." Find a way to deal with being offended. Stop blaming other people for how you feel. Your feelings are your's to manage.
Never before has the US’s overall global standing been so low.
We no longer care about our global standing. We now care about fairness, which is why the President is demanding that Germany pay their share of NATO.
The “Deep State” is an invention of the tinhat-selling websites you seem to frequent.
You visit such websites do you?
As for the upcoming election: we can but hope that Trump and his gun-toting followers will accept its results, if Biden wins. Anything else would indeed be an insurrection.
Biden will not last the summer.
The Germans were in the position to wield influence on US-policy in 1945 when the CIA was founded? Now that is a tin-foil-hat-story that’s new to me.
Look for information on Project Rusty and General Reinhard Gehlen.
