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Comments by CJColucci in reply to Jaybird*

On “Open Mic for the week of 1/6/2025

Did your mind boggle when in the year of our Lord 1966 your parents (or grandparents or whatever) were moved to turn up something by Frank Sinatra or Benny Goodman? What's the generational flip of "Hey kids, get off my lawn!"

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I'm reasonably sure that the late President has no reaction at all to what went on at his funeral. He might have expressed some preferences before his death, but that's a different matter.

On “Multiple Wildfires Rip Through Los Angeles Amid Historic Winds

You must be new around here.

To be fair, after some internet sleuthing, it may be possible after the fact to find Some Guy Somewhere. In a country of 300-odd million people, some very odd indeed, there will almost always be Some Guy Somewhere.

On “Open Mic for the week of 1/6/2025

The Pizzagate gunman and Karma:

https://www.aol.com/gunman-pizzagate-hoax-fatally-shot-232144205.html

On “A Society of Shame Attached to Everything

There's the discussion that happened and the discussion that DD thinks he remembers.

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People shouldn't say things I don't want to hear. I, on the other hand, reserve the right to say what I damn please. And don't dare tell me I'm wrong.

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There's nothing you said in this thread that reads as a prediction. And the clip doesn't bear out what you now say was a prediction. Not that any of that matters. You'll just say something else.

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So you aren't making an argument on your own responsibility; you're just channeling the universe?

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You "think" that's the argument? It's your argument; you should know one way or the other.

On “Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take

It has been a while since I called you out for poor reading comprehension. You must have missed it.

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If you want to argue with someone who doesn't think we need cops in the subways, have at it. The voices in your head don't count. though.

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You're entitled to your own opinions, not to your own facts. And projection isn't just something that happens in a movie theater.

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Are you seriously suggesting that two incidents, none particularly serious, in over four decades is something to wet myself over? If so, why?

On “Meta Ends Fact-checking Program

And we saw how that worked out.

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Play stupid games. win stupid prizes.

On “Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take

Read his own stuff? Why should that be any different?

On “Meta Ends Fact-checking Program

I'm not so sure he likes Trump, who is aesthetically unappealing and, as we all know, Jaybird's politics are almost entirely aesthetic, as that he dislikes the people who dislike Trump. Again, largely for aesthetic reasons.

On “Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take

There is no policy of putting "more resources into making sure that women are not set on fire." There are policies that can reduce assaults and homicides generally, whether by normal or more exotic means, but they are expensive, require intelligence, and are unlikely to satisfy bloodlust.

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Why would you think a silly thing like that? Try re-reading.

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