@EricLDaugh Try to understand. India does not do mass mailing of ballots with required signature matching. They have voter ID cards and a finger paint with in person voting on a designated day. Then again we are the bright ones. Remember. Doing things right.
I think even you would agree that there needs to be some intelligent discussion on the subject at hand. An expression of views, some opinion on where you stand. The crude verbals assaults are to intimidate people from expressing themselves. They are mostly juvenile and can be ignored for the most part. Then again they are in a way designed to cause a mob stampede targeting an individual and his/her safety.
It may be that it is a total illusion that we are not in a jungle free for all.
It is really very tiring to think that folks in DC are nincompoops bungling everything. Clearly they went into this knowing what they were doing disrupting the world economy and sowing chaos across the globe. The consequences we will see over the coming years will be very much part of the design. Collapse of Iran was always the bonus.
June 6th, 1944.
The English Channel is angry and half the men in the landing craft are seasick. Diesel fumes mix with saltwater and vomit while rifles are checked for the fifth or sixth time by hands that need something to do. Nobody talks much anymore because the jokes have all been told and the bravado has finally burned away somewhere behind the English coast.
You are nineteen years old and carrying more weight than youβve ever carried in your life. You donβt know it yet, but itβs the most weight you will EVER carry in this life. However long or short it may be.
Your rifle rests across your knees. Your life hangs from a few pounds of steel, wood, and training. Somewhere beyond the gray horizon sits a continent that has spent five years tearing itself apart, and in a few minutes you are going to step into the middle of it.
Across from you sits another kid. He canβt be much older than you. His jaw is clenched. His knuckles are white around his weapon. Neither of you says a word because there is nothing left to say.
Then your eyes drift toward his shoulder.
That red numeral catches your eye: β1β.
Youβve seen it a thousand times before. In barracks hallways, on training fields, in motor pools, and on long marches. It never meant much beyond belonging to the same outfit.
Now it means everything.
Because in a few minutes the world is going to ask something terrible of both of you, and there is comfort in knowing that whatever waits on that beach, neither of you will face it alone.
The historians will eventually reduce this day to arrows on maps and casualty figures. Politicians will give speeches. Journalists will write books. None of that exists inside the landing craft.
What exists is fear, and duty.
What exists is the understanding that courage was never the absence of fear. Courage was always charging into the maelstrom anyway.
The shoreline emerges through the smoke. You can see flashes now. You can hear the distant percussion of artillery. Men stop checking their equipment because there is no point anymore. Whatever mistakes were made are already made. Whatever prayers were going to be said have already been said.
The coxswain throttles down.
The boat grinds forward.
The ramp is about to drop.
Into the abyss.
Overlord.
@C_3C_3 It makes sense. Anyone living in America would know that in general overt racism has been on the decline. On the other hand with the actions of political operations on social media and elsewhere one would get a totally different perspective.
The methodology was building in California and was first placed in motion in the 2018 midterms when the entire OC delegations switched to Democrat. So this will be the 5th election this fall. The method and outcomes are well tested now. And Republicans have known about this throughout.
@McJuggerNuggets It could not be as traumatic as described because you chose to make this totally unnecessary post to make a statement. There is something terribly distasteful about this and your total shamelessness in taking a life.
@MorosKostas@ErinAstrosFan@stephen_richer Call it what you want. Democrats have a stranglehold and even with Rs controlling all of DC they cannot do anything about it. Not even trying to.