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Wow, I came here to say this.

And for a supposedly hands-off Creator, Iluvatar sure gets involved a lot. Not just at Mount Doom, but he raised Gandalf from the dead and did a bunch of other stuff that I forget.

GOLLUM

WAS

PUSHED

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/634373403/d-c-couple-killed-in-tajikistan-attack-were-biking-around-the-world-together

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/theater/19peac.html

“Accepting rides with strangers was crucial to the art performance’s success”

It is politics of The Other. To the conservatives, the ingroup is Americans and the outgroup is non-Americans. To the liberals, their ingroup is the conservatives’ outgroups and their outgroup are the conservatives. This is why you will see things like libs cheerfully go into dangerous locales to prove everything is OK. These are their ingroups! And then they get beaten, stabbed or run over and can’t understand what happened. To the people that live there, all Americans are definitely The Other to them, and thus are fair game.

I think everyone knows how The Other gets treated: you can do anything to them. They’re not people, so they are outside the law. That’s where the word “outlaw” came from, once you were declared an outlaw it was no longer a crime to do things like rob you or kill you. With all the things Trump can be criticized for (correctly), you see people calling him a piece of shit because he’s fat. Or Clarence Thomas or Candace Owens being called a house Ns. I mean, that’s the best you’ve got? You can’t pick up any of the problems they are clearly guilty of? No, it has to be one of these.

Lib take:

One person is accused of rape, which the other person denies - which means either one person is a rapist or the other is making up a claim bout rape in the middle of a presidential campaign and by extension derailing democracy in America and imperiling the lives of millions.

That means either Joe Biden is a rapist on the loose or Tara Reade is essentially a terrorist. Compassion for victims does not apply here - Tara Reade needs to provide detailed accounts of everything she’s done for the last 25 years and find some way of verifying this - or she needs to acknowledge she’s a liar and face the consequences. Joe Biden needs to provide double blind presentation of timelines and like you say, lets see where the chips fall. And if Tara Reade is lying, she needs to go to jail for decades.

Compassion for rape victims is one thing. Taking allegations seriously is one thing. We have a democracy under threat from a fascist president. Tara Reade is an adult and she needs to be treated like one AND she needs to act like one. Prove your claim Tara. The burden is on her.

In order for shame to work, you need to have respect for the person attempting to shame you. If you don’t, it just bounces off you. This is why a six year old calling you poopy pants gets laughed off.

It wasn't a "regional accent" it was an entirely different language. Remember that Doonesbury character that was introduced as being from the same village and being the only one who could understand him in his old age?

I've heard Mao speak Mandarin and it's bizarre. I can't imagine ruling a country without even being able to communicate with people. Imagine coming from Arkansas, speaking only Arkansasese, and only being able to talk to other Arkansans (who come from the same part of the state as you).

If you added Jill Stein’s votes to Hillary’s, Trump wouldn’t have won in 2016.

Jill Stein = Green Party