LDSGator

Wit. You either have it or you don’t.

@JohnsonJones-Reagan could not get nominated in the GOP of 2024. He was conservative but not a flamethrower.

Greatest president in my lifetime.

Same. Still very pretty.

Very true. From the human side, trying to get others to convert or even listen to you is challenging. If you come across too strong, you’ll be looked at as a pious jerk. If you come across too soft, you won’t be viewed as someone dedicated to your cause. Believers have to walk a fine line.

@NeuroTypical

Don’t you have a Koala to feed down there? 😛

It’s complicated. Much more so than both sides want to admit. NPR knows who their audience is, and so does Fox. Neither side is going to go out of their way to show stories their audience doesn’t want to hear. NPR has a liberal bias in their reporting, but since we have 10,000 news sources, their power is virtually nil. So it’s not worth getting fussy over. Bernard Goldberg, himself no leftist, said it best. “Some conservatives think Al Roker is out to get them if he forecasts rain on the 4th of July.” If you are way far right wing (and yes, way far leftwing) you’ll make things up in your head or misread them to satisfy your own confirmation bias and reassure yourself that you are correct. It saves you from having to think or ask uncomfortable questions.

Two of my closest friends are women, and I totally agree. My wife is friends with them as well and we just had dinner with one of them and her brother on Sunday. I’m NEVER alone with a girl. It’s a combination of paranoia, common sense, and an understanding of our current climate.

Our side doesn’t do that either. Self critique is impossible when dealing with true believers.

This won’t satisfy every one of course, but it’s a good indicator of bias in the news.

The technology at the time really was impressive.

I was waiting for you to post my friend. The two comic book fans on the forum have to stick together!

Hahahahahahahahahaha

GI Joe was my thing and I still collect the comics. I don’t like the “Now I know” socially responsible stuff either. I found it silly, even as a kid.

They’ve always been pretty shady.

Very cool!

Is there a reason why Adam-God is of such great importance to you or am I missing something? Totally curious. I’m a convert and I don’t think I even heard about this doctrine until I joined TH. Never heard about it in church either.

We were listening to Destroyer on the way to Gainesville today!

LMBO!!!! priceless.

Lol!

And, to top it off, Big Brother starts in the summer and I’m glued to that show. Been a fan since 2001!

That’s right up my alley. Thank. There was a whistleblower for Madof that tried calling the SEC several times as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Markopolos

To be fair, I’m sure some people probably did see it coming, but it’s like a historic college football game-more people say they were there then actually were there.

When it comes to economic predictions, everyone became a prophet in 2009. I met so many people who “knew the economy would crash” and say they saw it coming. Oddly, their prophecies didn’t stop them from losing everything. Or warning the rest of us.