Quote from: TDoS on Jul 29, 2025, 05:17 PMAnd when the "truth" is just a belief system...and shouldn't be followed? Now we are talking about what...religion? Cults? Or just raging ignorance on a particular topic, with those ahead of their times treated poorly until as time goes by....folks realize it was the herd that was full of crap?

Certainly a significant and devastating problem when applied to MAGA and El Trumpo.  Peak Oil is hardly worth a mention as failures of critical thinking go.  On the other hand,, the Big Ugly Budget Bill and supporting Israelii Genocide in Gaza are seismic faiures of critical thinking.

RE

Quote from: RE on Jul 30, 2025, 12:46 AMPeak Oil is hardly worth a mention as failures of critical thinking go.

Depends on who, and how many, fell for it hook, line and sinker. And with peak oil the answer was PhD's, enough to support legions of websites, and every one of them demonstrating a catastrophic inability to think critically.

Quote from: REOn the other hand,, the Big Ugly Budget Bill and supporting Israelii Genocide in Gaza are seismic faBig ugiures of critical thinking.

RE

Big ugly budgets are just typical political horsehit, employed by both sides against the other going back to at least McCarthyism. As far as supporting Israel and their happy destruction of Gaza....that mess I don't even know what to think. Hamas pulled the pin on October 7th, and gave Israel the excuse it needed, and the rest is just.....awful.

Quote from: TDoS on Jul 30, 2025, 04:37 PMAs far as supporting Israel and their happy destruction of Gaza....that mess I don't even know what to think. Hamas pulled the pin on October 7th, and gave Israel the excuse it needed, and the rest is just.....awful.

If you think October 7th was an excuse your brain is stuck in childhood.  But I'll take your comment as a hyperbolic attempt to relate the fact that it appears nobody in America seems to give a shit about Palestine.  Expressing what your really mean can be difficult.  So I will understand.

Sometimes telling right from wrong is not rocket science.  Perhaps this will help.  The guy in the upper right speaks.

180,000 deaths, 90% of which are innocent civilians. We're talking about schools bombed, hospitals bombed.  We're talking about kids being shot in the head. Gaza being the number one place in the world for child amputees because Israeli snipers try to ruin their lives and shoot them in the leg, shoot them in the arm.

He put down the little food he had, no box, just scraps: half a bag of rice and lentils he'd found on the ground, torn and scattered. And still, he thanked us. Thank you. This little boy had walked 12 kilometers just to get there. 12 kilometers.

Look at him. Kneeling, I watched as he set his meager food on the ground. Then he placed his frail, emaciated hands.  Dirty and skeletal on my cheeks.  He kissed me, and said again, "Thank you," in English. Then he gathered his things and walked back to the group.

Suddenly, pepper spray, tear gas, stun grenades. Bullets shooting at feet. The crowd panicked, and ran. The IDF was firing to control the people along the Morab corridor.  Shooting into the crowd.

Palestinians civilians dropped to the ground, wounded.

Amir wasn't one of them at first.  Amir had walked 12 kilometers for food, received nothing but scraps, thanked us for it.

And then the IDF shot him.

He died.

2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings

QuoteOn the other hand,, the Big Ugly Budget Bill and supporting Israelii Genocide in Gaza are seismic faiures of critical thinking.

When a cow wants to moo with the herd, any excuse will do.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jul 30, 2025, 07:30 PMIf you think October 7th was an excuse your brain is stuck in childhood. 

More like Netanyahu is as predictable as the Sun rising. October 7 was the perfect excuse, and he is running with it like a camper from a hungry bear right behind.