Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking

[Alex]

I thought it was Wednesday.

Pretty sure it is.

[Trevor]

I thought it was Wednesday.

Pretty sure it is.

It is here: almost Wednesday afternoon in fact.

[LilCerberus]

I thought it was Wednesday.

It is now.

[indianasmith]

Well, while it is nice to be home, I must admit, the weather in NYC was much nicer!
104 degrees Fahrenheit projected for this afternoon.

[Alex]

Glad you had a fun trip. Liked seeing the photos.

[ER]

I thought it was Wednesday.

Who was it then, just a look-alike?

[Alex]

I thought it was Wednesday.

Who was it then, just a look-alike?

I never fully trust Wednesdays. Especially around 14:34.

[Rev. Powell]

I thought it was Wednesday.

[Alex]

Aliens features the best chess move of all time.

Queen takes Bishop.

[Trevor]

Aliens features the best chess move of all time.

Queen takes Bishop.

Ouchies 

[ER]

People keep talking about how a civil war is coming to the United States, but I think we have been in a low-intensity civil war for a while now.

[Rev. Powell]

People keep talking about how a civil war is coming to the United States, but I think we have been in a low-intensity civil war for a while now.

I don't understand how the civil war is supposed to work. Am I going to ally with the neighbor to my right against the neighbor to my left? She's a bedridden little old lady, I think we can take her.

[ER]

People keep talking about how a civil war is coming to the United States, but I think we have been in a low-intensity civil war for a while now.

I don't understand how the civil war is supposed to work. Am I going to ally with the neighbor to my right against the neighbor to my left? She's a bedridden little old lady, I think we can take her.

I think I try to avoid politics anymore like you say you do religion, but I believe the idea is less about borders than ideology. Less about literal battlefields, I hope, than disruptive, divisive discord that has led to disunity and strife that well may deepen, and maybe flare into largescale violence. Frankly, Americans hate one another.

I was watching a discussion of this topic by a Canadian author, and the interviewer pointed out that a forgotten chapter of recent American history is the fact, for instance, federal sites like post offices were bombed by the hundreds in the late 1960s, yet the nation was still unified enough to see this as the work of a small number of discontented revolutionaries.

Now I think we've got such a deep divide among people who hold almost completely diametrical views on not only how a country should run, but what defines a country, that....well...I do wonder if we are not in some new form of civil war, that civil war have evolved/devolved into a new species of intra-societal warfare, and we're witnessing it.

For the record, I think you can take the bedridden neighbor too.

[Alex]

It would be nice to have a civil war for a change. All the ones I've experienced have been decidedly uncivil.

[Rev. Powell]

People keep talking about how a civil war is coming to the United States, but I think we have been in a low-intensity civil war for a while now.

I don't understand how the civil war is supposed to work. Am I going to ally with the neighbor to my right against the neighbor to my left? She's a bedridden little old lady, I think we can take her.

I think I try to avoid politics anymore like you say you do religion, but I believe the idea is less about borders than ideology. Less about literal battlefields, I hope, than disruptive, divisive discord that has led to disunity and strife that well may deepen, and maybe flare into largescale violence. Frankly, Americans hate one another.

I was watching a discussion of this topic by a Canadian author, and the interviewer pointed out that a forgotten chapter of recent American history is the fact, for instance, federal sites like post offices were bombed by the hundreds in the late 1960s, yet the nation was still unified enough to see this as the work of a small number of discontented revolutionaries.

Now I think we've got such a deep divide among people who hold almost completely diametrical views on not only how a country should run, but what defines a country, that....well...I do wonder if we are not in some new form of civil war, that civil war have evolved/devolved into a new species of intra-societal warfare, and we're witnessing it.

For the record, I think you can take the bedridden neighbor too.

I agree with much of what you say except for the idea that people have "completely diametrical views on not only how a country should run, but what defines a country." I think the two camps now hate each other over the pettiest, least consequential s**t, like pronouns and critical race theory. Divisions over things like immigration, abortion, gun control have always existed our entire lifetimes, but the two parties did not treat each other like mortal enemies over them. There are almost no Americans who actually want a fascist or Marxist state, but many, many people who are being deluded into believing that's what the "other side" wants.