Culture Wars fought in the media.

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yeah, I be thinkin' that.

That's the result of living in Houston or any other US major city. I used to work there (Ochsner: which has many strange conspiracy theories surrounding it) but was thankfully spared by having to actually go there. City Dwelling living in the US is a nightmare although I understand Houston doesn't have the legalized feces dropping in the streets, decriminalized felonies or the huge tent towns of homeless and immigrants like California does. The infamous US meme of "Move away from the Cities" isn't said with a certain high degree of gravity. I've never lived in a big city, nor do I wish to visit one for any reason unless it's in Europe etc.

[Emil El Zapato]

That's the result of living in Houston or any other US major city. I used to work there (Ochsner: which has many strange conspiracy theories surrounding it) but was thankfully spared by having to actually go there. City Dwelling living in the US is a nightmare although I understand Houston doesn't have the legalized feces dropping in the streets, decriminalized felonies or the huge tent towns of homeless and immigrants like California does. The infamous US meme of "Move away from the Cities" isn't said with a certain high degree of gravity. I've never lived in a big city, nor do I wish to visit one for any reason unless it's in Europe etc.

I live about 20 miles outside of Houston but if I have to drive to work because of what I do, I have to drive 50 miles going and 50 coming back. Covid was the greatest thing to ever happen to me. But the U.S. being the U.S., is fighting tooth and nail (corporations) to keep their subjects driving to work. And that is in spite of all the data that clearly shows companies are more productive when people have an opportunity to work and actually live their lives, too. It doesn't matter to the CEOs because they get to smoke cigars, drink champagne, and trade wives, diamonds, and Cadillacs while the rest of the world slaves their lives away...F*ck them! Viva Zapata!

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I live about 20 miles outside of Houston but if I have to drive to work because of what I do, I have to drive 50 miles going and 50 coming back. Covid was the greatest thing to ever happen to me. But the U.S. being the U.S., is fighting tooth and nail (corporations) to keep their subjects driving to work. And that is in spite of all the data that clearly shows companies are more productive when people have an opportunity to work and actually live their lives, too. It doesn't matter to the CEOs because they get to smoke cigars, drink champagne, and trade wives, diamonds, and Cadillacs while the rest of the world slaves their lives away...F*ck them! Viva Zapata!

I understand the traffic in the suburbs in Houston isn't much better. Like the beltway in DC, a nightmare. DC has a somewhat decent urban transit system but I don't how far into the burbs it reaches. Mhy neice is able to take the rail in to the Smithsonian where she's interned at from College Park MD. My sister lived in Falls Church, VA and I could pick up rail there and go into the city. My other sister commuted from Maryland to the Pentagon, I thought she was out of her flippin mind. Considering how she drives I'm surprised she's still with us.

I totally concur these big cities and their enslavement to big corps has to be reined in. Detroit and Flint had a thriving urban transit system until GM bribed them out of it only to be left with their old decaying abandoned auto plants to contribute primarily to urban decay and pollution. People in rural areas need vehicles and its stupid to ask them to drive EVS (yep let's bring in the 500 ton harvest with a Prius) but why in the over trafficked cities? It's so gross and filthy and polluting.

Flint's lead / water issue has nothing to do with the water supply or the pipes. It's the abandoned auto plants ringing the city, and the area formerly known as Buick City, polluting the Flint River and the Flint and the State of Michigan will not hold them accountable because GM owns the state.So they make up some bullshit that its old homes with lead pipes in them when there's towns and villages across the state that have the same sort of plumbing and suffer no ill effect. That's why Detroit no longer has trolleys and rail service which was abundant and efficient until GM took over. Everyone who lives in the area knows it , all the politicians in Flint have their pockets lined to make sure it stays that way.

Most of these cities have Democratic leaders which attributes to the state of the shit hole cities but they have conservatives who let them get away it.

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I understand the traffic in the suburbs in Houston isn't much better. Like the beltway in DC, a nightmare. DC has a somewhat decent urban transit system but I don't how far into the burbs it reaches. Mhy neice is able to take the rail in to the Smithsonian where she's interned at from College Park MD. My sister lived in Falls Church, VA and I could pick up rail there and go into the city. My other sister commuted from Maryland to the Pentagon, I thought she was out of her flippin mind. Considering how she drives I'm surprised she's still with us.

I totally concur these big cities and their enslavement to big corps has to be reined in. Detroit and Flint had a thriving urban transit system until GM bribed them out of it only to be left with their old decaying abandoned auto plants to contribute primarily to urban decay and pollution. People in rural areas need vehicles and its stupid to ask them to drive EVS (yep let's bring in the 500 ton harvest with a Prius) but why in the over trafficked cities? It's so gross and filthy and polluting.

Flint's lead / water issue has nothing to do with the water supply or the pipes. It's the abandoned auto plants ringing the city, and the area formerly known as Buick City, polluting the Flint River and the Flint and the State of Michigan will not hold them accountable because GM owns the state.So they make up some bullshit that its old homes with lead pipes in them when there's towns and villages across the state that have the same sort of plumbing and suffer no ill effect. That's why Detroit no longer has trolleys and rail service which was abundant and efficient until GM took over. Everyone who lives in the area knows it , all the politicians in Flint have their pockets lined to make sure it stays that way.

Most of these cities have Democratic leaders which attributes to the state of the shit hole cities but they have conservatives who let them get away it.

It gets bad at rush hour, but generally not too frustrating, the locals get around ok using less trafficked streets. On the other hand, Aggie civil engineers can always make things worse.

In Texas, the politicians don't go for that 'woke' sh*t, public transportation? What's that?

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It gets bad at rush hour, but generally not too frustrating, the locals get around ok using less trafficked streets. On the other hand, Aggie civil engineers can always make things worse.

In Texas, the politicians don't go for that 'woke' sh*t, public transportation? What's that?

They have a point. The 'woke' shit is being dumb about stuff and doing it just to be doing it not to achieve an ends or a working solution.

There's no point in having abundant busses and routes if there's like one person on the bus which is hugely prevalent even in the not very major city closest to where I park at when I'm in Ohio. Vehicle restriction has to come first. Not to say they have to be banned but restricted and reorganizing infrastructure to make a bazillion vehicles more forgiving to the environment.

Take a cue from other smaller cities that have restricted vehicle travel within their confines. people want it they just won't admit it. If People don't have enough sense not to pack themselves in like sardines into a giant animal farm some sort of restriction has to take place. Big Cities are like pig farms, the traffic, sanitation and pollution are the primary concerns if things are to be at a bare minimum of acceptable living.

The worst of humanities problems take places in those sorts of cities. If everything, and I'm not talking about the population, were scaled back from farms to schools to living in numerous but smaller villages for those who can't live on a farm all these problems like homelessness would start to go away. Everything would be so much more manageable.
People sneer at the evils of conservative living but even out in the sticks we don't use our trucks, semis etc to get around unless we are going a distance or commuting use , Instead its golf carts, gators and atvs to pop up to the store, go to town, to church, or go visit or even hop on the pony to go run an errand.

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They have a point. The 'woke' shit is being dumb about stuff and doing it just to be doing it not to achieve an ends or a working solution.

There's no point in having abundant busses and routes if there's like one person on the bus which is hugely prevalent even in the not very major city closest to where I park at when I'm in Ohio. Vehicle restriction has to come first. Not to say they have to be banned but restricted and reorganizing infrastructure to make a bazillion vehicles more forgiving to the environment.

Take a cue from other smaller cities that have restricted vehicle travel within their confines. people want it they just won't admit it. If People don't have enough sense not to pack themselves in like sardines into a giant animal farm some sort of restriction has to take place. Big Cities are like pig farms, the traffic, sanitation and pollution are the primary concerns if things are to be at a bare minimum of acceptable living.

The worst of humanities problems take places in those sorts of cities. If everything, and I'm not talking about the population, were scaled back from farms to schools to living in numerous but smaller villages for those who can't live on a farm all these problems like homelessness would start to go away. Everything would be so much more manageable.
People sneer at the evils of conservative living but even out in the sticks we don't use our trucks, semis etc to get around unless we are going a distance or commuting use , Instead its golf carts, gators and atvs to pop up to the store, go to town, to church, or go visit or even hop on the pony to go run an errand.

Well, I suppose it could be looked at like that, but statisticians have estimated that within ten years Houston will be a parking lot. I would think that anyone with a modicum of common sense would recognize that as a problem and take action. One positive thing is that a high speed train is planned for Houston to Dallas. I would love to ride it.

But, in Texsas, woke is anything that doesn't involve kicking the homeless in the teeth.

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Well, I suppose it could be looked at like that, but statisticians have estimated that within ten years Houston will be a parking lot. I would think that anyone with a modicum of common sense would recognize that as a problem and take action. One positive thing is that a high speed train is planned for Houston to Dallas. I would love to ride it.

But, in Texsas, woke is anything that doesn't involve kicking the homeless in the teeth.

Houston is run by democrats and its a democratic majority. If they spent less time crying and blaming the Republicans that have no power to block them anyway, more would get done. It's like that because that's the way they want it.

[Emil El Zapato]

Houston is run by democrats and its a democratic majority. If they spent less time crying and blaming the Republicans that have no power to block them anyway, more would get done. It's like that because that's the way they want it.

I'm crying right now. Because Texas is so big on power from the bottom up (local -> state -> federal) they will squash anything that doesn't smack of their chief psychopaths...Governor and Attorney General. (Just acquitted on all of numerous crimes of 'influence peddling'.) The state took over a Houston school district because they weren't doing things correctly. And rest assured, it was the largest and blackest school district in the greater Houston regional area.

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I'm crying right now. Because Texas is so big on power from the bottom up (local -> state -> federal) they will squash anything that doesn't smack of their chief psychopaths...Governor and Attorney General. (Just acquitted on all of numerous crimes of 'influence peddling'.) The state took over a Houston school district because they weren't doing things correctly. And rest assured, it was the largest and blackest school district in the greater Houston regional area.

So the Democrats are scared of the dude in the wheelchair?

And if they stepped up and displayed a show of strength? I know that any township and incorporated city (Like Ann Arbor Mi and Oakland CA) can assume powers and make laws within their own confines like establishing charter schools well beyond the laws of the state. Or decriminalizing substances or laws. Why are they not doing that? Probably because they'd risk losing crying points.

And...

I'm sure they know if they made a show of strength they'd be labeled Nazis and haters because the precedent has been set to do that to anyone who steps up and takes a stand.

[Emil El Zapato]

So the Democrats are scared of the dude in the wheelchair?

And if they stepped up and displayed a show of strength? I know that any township and incorporated city (Like Ann Arbor Mi and Oakland CA) can assume powers and make laws within their own confines like establishing charter schools well beyond the laws of the state. Or decriminalizing substances or laws. Why are they not doing that? Probably because they'd risk losing crying points.

And...

I'm sure they know if they made a show of strength they'd be labeled Nazis and haters because the precedent has been set to do that to anyone who steps up and takes a stand.

The entire United States knows who has power and who doesn't. Could any liberal politician get away with what OrangeJesus has? No, an emphatic No.

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The entire United States knows who has power and who doesn't. Could any liberal politician get away with what OrangeJesus has? No, an emphatic No.

Do you have an example? I know the Democrats in Flint have gotten away from hiding the water contamination for over 40 years now. No one has ever given me an example of what he did. I suspect I won't get any specifics now.

Whatever Trump gets away with he was getting away with during his time as Democrat in NYC. Neither here nor there.

Just once I'd like to have a conversation with people who talk what should be done and how instead of making excuses why other people, presumably more powerful, better people make sure they can't do it.

This is an excuse to do nothing. An infection that has spread from the politicians to the voters. Everyone's a crooked poliitican now in their mind if not in reality. There is no point in having a majority Democracy and once they get into office they can do nothing. What is the flipping majority for? And all this flap and feather is just to keep people distracted and line pockets. Trump bull dozed his way through all that do 'we can't nothing and that is really what he is most resented for.

He blew the 'can't do anything about the economy, wages or jobs' fable out of the water and politicians are left with bald faces lying now when its been made apparent by Orange Jesus that you really can resurrect the economy. But instead the whiners and self victimizers want to focus on how his reach exceeded his grasp because it hides their impotency.

As the old Native American saying goes, Evil people won't destroy the world. The one's that watched them and made excuses for doing nothing will.

I might add if Trump committed constitutional abuses how exactly does that give Democrats the right to make a ballsed up hash of judicial proceedings against him? I've never seen so many flippin technicalities and lack of dewy-dill-eh-gencies in my life.

Unless it was on purpose. How do you eff up one legal proceeding after another an entire stream of them for nearly four years??!!!

Because he's of no use to them in prison.

Which is why he's resurrected every month, indeed meriting the term Orange Jesus.

[Emil El Zapato]

Prior to the 60's when Republicans were Democrats, crime was rampant, when the demographics of the parties changed so did the powerbase. By then it was too late, the damage had been done and the people left behind were tasked trying to make ends meet in whatever manner could be accomplished. The power and the money have always been in the hands of the conservative robber barons, whatever they choose to call themselves politically, the basic character has never changed.

Trump's time is up...but there will be a power void for the 3rd coming of the AntiChrist-False Profit power duo. Maybe they can be nicknamed ChrisPro.

You're not seeing the whole picture, I think you purposefully don't see it, but it is all out in the open now.

I suggest you watch a movie that will provide mucho insight on how the world goes around: "There Will Be Blood" One of my favorite movies of the last 20 years.

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Prior to the 60's when Republicans were Democrats, crime was rampant, when the demographics of the parties changed so did the powerbase. By then it was too late, the damage had been done and the people left behind were tasked trying to make ends meet in whatever manner could be accomplished. The power and the money have always been in the hands of the conservative robber barons, whatever they choose to call themselves politically, the basic character has never changed.

Trump's time is up...but there will be a power void for the 3rd coming of the AntiChrist-False Profit power duo. Maybe they can be nicknamed ChrisPro.

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You're not seeing the whole picture, I think you purposefully don't see it, but it is all out in the open now.

I suggest you watch a movie that will provide mucho insight on how the world goes around: "There Will Be Blood" One of my favorite movies of the last 20 years.

Why not attend a Ken Wilber workshop instead of watching movies? I've been around the block with him a few times and he seemed to think I had a good grasp of things.

I noticed that you didn't give me an example which is just as much as the bigger picture as anything else. That's corrupt way of doing things all on its own singular little example. Non one ever has, they are just repeating stuff they heard or saw. So you have no opinion you need to defer to a movie to think for you? You don't have an example you are letting a movie think for you? YOu meant that I can't see the bigger picture on the silver screen then.


Thanks for demonstrating my point. My supposition was correct. I got that much of the bigger picture correctly.

Trump's time is up,,,Lions, Tigers and Bears! . I've heard that as many times as I heard Niburu is going to crash into the moon, and we all going to sprout wings and ascend tomorrow.

Trump is about as morally corrupt as 85 percent of the undeveloped common US citizenry including yourself. And he gave them an opportunity to be triggered and butt hurt as they project themselves him because that is what they wait to do.

Why are you not in politics?

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Why not attend a Ken Wilber workshop instead of watching movies? I've been around the block with him a few times and he seemed to think I had a good grasp of things.

I noticed that you didn't give me an example which is just as much as the bigger picture as anything else. That's corrupt way of doing things all on its own singular little example. Non one ever has, they are just repeating stuff they heard or saw. So you have no opinion you need to defer to a movie to think for you? You don't have an example you are letting a movie think for you? YOu meant that I can't see the bigger picture on the silver screen then.


Thanks for demonstrating my point. My supposition was correct. I got that much of the bigger picture correctly.

Trump's time is up,,,Lions, Tigers and Bears! . I've heard that as many times as I heard Niburu is going to crash into the moon, and we all going to sprout wings and ascend tomorrow.

Trump is about as morally corrupt as 85 percent of the undeveloped common US citizenry including yourself. And he gave them an opportunity to be triggered and butt hurt as they project themselves him because that is what they wait to do.

Why are you not in politics?

Well, the truth is, I've had a few people offer me their vote if I were to run for President. One was a Republican....

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Well, the truth is, I've had a few people offer me their vote if I were to run for President. One was a Republican....

You're politicking here , might as well get paid for it.

The bigger picture. If we all have what is in the best interest for everyone, then we should not need the politics we are practicing today. The law should suffice, and what the law doesn’t not cover, then civic and social education (not politicking) should cover it. We don’t invest any time in our nation. We want our emotional needs which only serve us, to be fulfilled. That means we have to hate one person and venerate another. We don’t HAVE to it’s a choice.

Politics exist with the sole purpose of circumnavigating existing laws that serve everyone and create an equal playing field.

Politics, from the schoolroom to the workplace to the highest office exists to circumvent established laws, social norms and mores. Period. I experience it everyday.

Politics need not even exist, and understanding of the laws as they pertain to this nation should suffice. They should be respected by both parties. Instead, civics and the law has been replaced by politics with the goal of replacing laws that were placed with a specific goal in mind. The bigger picture is that goal. No one knows anything about the laws of this nation because they are impartial. And because they don’t feed some emotional lack inside people don’t like laws. They never think to ever change the law they don’t like; they just hate the people who are trying to obey the law.

For example. Why would someone want to drive on the wrong side of the road knowing full well that is endangers others? Because of politics, emotional greed and neediness. "I’m above the law." No different than the people they bitch about in DC.

The constitutional philosophy and laws of this nation are to result in the goal of a tranquil nation. Politics makes it anything but.

Trump may be nauseating but the hypocrisy surrounding him is equally nauseating. It's literally pot calling out the kettle.

Social justice is a means of being a corrupt politician without having bother to run for office.

Law is impersonal. Politics gives imbalanced people the opportunity to make it personal. Like you have demonstrated here. And sadly because of this emotional corruption we just can’t seem to function as a whole and reason we are not whole is because of politics. It’s an excuse to make enemies, of our fellow country men.

Exhibit A. This was a totally impersonal conversational and you had to make it personal you had to question my intelligence because you can’t help yourself, you went somewhere you couldn’t defend so you questioned my intelligence instead, and because politics is human nature unrestrained until we fix what is wrong inside of us. It’s a compulsion.
One cannot really cry about corruption when they do it themselves.