Then do something to change my mind.
For example, pretend you're the one that the desperate little Palestinian girl in the following video is talking to....
https://youtu.be/c4CnoqvI_bQ
...And when she points at the bombed-out rubble all around her and cries out,...
"...what do you expect me to do?...Fix it?...I'm only 10..."
...tell me "the precise words" you would say to her in order to "encourage" her...
(as per your aforementioned "foundational view")
...not to migrate, but to stay there so that she can work on the politics and economics of her own ̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶r̶y̶ open-air prison.
Again, tell me precisely what you would say to her (assuming that there would be enough time to talk before you were both blown to smithereens by another American made bomb).
Yes, and that's the problem we all have in that it is near impossible to see ourselves as others see us.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 5:08 pm Often, men are said to “project” their impressions of “darkness” from inside themselves.
I do not perceive myself as involved with dark sentiments or desires.
Only others can be the judge of that, not you.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 5:08 pm There is nothing “dark” in my sense of social policy vis-à-vis the immigration crisis of late.
Nah, there's nothing "personal" in applying the denigrating (pejorative) epithet "criminals" to such people.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 5:08 pm I have nothing personal against those who took advantage of the open borders.
It's just who and what they are, right?
Never mind that the biggest and most violent criminal on the planet (the U.S. government) may have destroyed the countries of those who "...took advantage of the open borders..." of America.
I thought you lived somewhere in South America.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 5:08 pm I have talked with numbers of them and understand their choices. (Note that I established my own residency here through legal means).
If you don't mind revealing the information, where, exactly, do you live? (I live in Michigan.)
Well, first of all, these aren't "rehearsals," no, this is the real show.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 5:08 pm You tend to really go off on these moralizing rehearsals!
Take it away, Bugs...
("...no more rehearsing and nursing a part, we know every part by heart...")
And secondly, if I tend to moralize over these issues, it's because it breaks my heart to see anyone - especially children - suffer due to the general idiocy of so-called "leaders" who are nothing more than self-serving, over-inflated bags of ego gas (some bursting at the seams like you know who).
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