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Was Siddhartha Gautama liberal?

Bet this ideology question will get the MAGA spinners scurrying to their search engines. I don't expect any intelligent answers from any of them without a general understanding of Buddhism.

Some MAGA people are so brainwashed everything to them must be black or white. It's always in terms of absolute and nothing is ever a possibility to them. They hear the people on Fox News saying the word "liberal" and the people in the uneducated branch of the MAGA party immediately assume it's a political thing. Some have no grasps that liberal or conservative thinking can change depending on the subject.

Entry #312

Was Jesus a liberal?

Read something from ten years ago that sure makes it look like Jesus was leaning left.

"Conservatives and other uninformed individuals like to tag someone as "liberal" when attempting to make their point and portray the other person in a negative light. What would Jesus do? Be against health care for all citizens? I don't think so. What would Jesus do? Let the rich get richer and hope that they trickle down their ever increasing profits to the poor? I don't think so. Would Jesus be in favor of abortion? I don't think so, but neither are all liberals in favor of abortion, but conservatives insist that they are. Would Jesus be for mountain top removal of coal that pollutes water such that the residents cannot drink safe water? I don't think so"

That was written before someone wanted to build a wall "to keep those people out".

Entry #311

It appears some of the people commenting on Blogs missed the memo

" Blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly-accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, Blogs often reflect the personality of the author (the "Blogger")." 

Many Bloggers offer links to articles by others without agreeing or disagreeing to the opinions. A few people comment on the opinions and not the Blogger or why they presented that opinion. But there is a few that for whatever really believe it's necessary comment on outside opinions adding personal attacks with childish insults at the Blogger or someone replying.

Commenting on Blog entry is different than commenting on a message board thread where "attack the message and not the messenger" is the norm on most message boards. And unlike with most message boards, Bloggers can block someone from commenting on their entries for any reason. 

I'm sure someone with too much time on their hands will criticize these opinions and prove my point with personal attacks and childish name calling because it reflects their personality.

Entry #310

Right wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $4.1 million for lying about Sandy Hook

And Alex Jones must pay another $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. Wonder if thousands of gullible uneducated MAGA Kool-Aid drinker believed everything said by the sleaze-ball Jones including the lies he told about the Sandy Hook shooting?

"Jones, a prominent figure in American right-wing circles and a supporter of former President Donald Trump, had called the Sandy Hook massacre a U.S. government hoax staged using crisis actors to serve as a pretext for taking away Americans' guns."

Entry #309

He's back!

Mike Lindell says he has poured up to $40m into wave of lawsuits and a new movie as US experts warn of threat to democracy. He doesn't even know how the voting machines operate yet he's positive there was a fix. Two years later with hundreds of frivolous lawsuits by knowledgeable lawyers the only proof is a few Republicans voted for dead people and some in Michigan running for various offices submitted invalid registered voter signatures.

Someone please tell Mike there is a reason they call it "dope".

Entry #306

"Legally it (attempting to hang the Mike Pense and others) was trespassing 101."

And that's exactly what the Trump loving MAGA Kool-Aid drinkers want the gullible and uneducated to believe. Do these real charges look like simple "trespassing"?

Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon; carrying a pistol without a license. 

Entering and remaining in any restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly or disruptive conduct in the Capitol grounds or buildings; act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings; destruction of government property

These are just a few charges 329 people entered pleas of guilty for. On  January 13, 2022, the Department of Justice  unsealed an indictment against the leader of the Oath Keepers, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, and 10 associates, charging them with "seditious conspiracy," the most severe charge levied against any of the alleged Capitol rioters so far.

Entry #304

Only one MM ticket won the billion-dollar jackpot on Friday!

And probably the reason why those jackpot roll as much as the do. If a player bought just five tickets a drawing, it adds up to $300 just to play in a 1/2 billion jackpot. With 352,227,744 tickets sold, there should be just one winning ticket. And the 26 five number matches without the bonus number is about what should be expected with that amount of ticket sales.

I'm a jackpot hunter so I probably won't play MM again until college basketball season. IMO, the days of "a dollar for a dream" no longer exist. 

Entry #303

Trump did not have 10,000 troops ready to deploy on Jan. 6

According to his defense secretary Christopher Miller.

There is no record of former President Donald Trump officially authorizing 20,000 National Guard troops for the U.S. Capitol ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

The facts show "The District of Columbia asked the Army for help, and our National Guard responded."

And Pence — not Trump — asked Guard troops to help defend Capitol on Jan. 6

Entry #302