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In light of that argument, white people in America should then be able to use, normally considered an epithet, "<deleted>" (edit: N*gg**), since it too has historic use lacking malice.

That's a fair critique. It did mention that he is ready for sentencing soon, so we know it is an old (new and old all relative here) case, since even entering a plea can take many many months in serious cases like this. And then getting to trial can take a number of more months. Then these sorts of trials themselves can be drug on for more months before getting to the point the article mentioned that this one is at. And since the article mentioned that it was in reference to things this imbecile did in 2021, it's safe to assume that this case is quite old. All that said, although I think the assumption should be that it's an old case, I definitely do agree with you that it takes much more critical reading, connecting of dots that aren't provided, and beyond what a news article should expect of a reader, to reach that assumption. Since by the forum rules, we aren't allowed to criticize the reporting or writing of articles here.... I'll just say that the "journalist" or "translator", whatever the case may be, was probably really trying hard and doing their best! I like your "google-fu"! lol I'll have to remember that one. Never heard that before.😂

Sorry it that was outside of your attention span and ability to comprehend beyond elementary school levels. Oh... wait... that would assume you graduated elementary school.... If you can't deal with reading more than a sentence or two, then move on and keep your toxic behavior in your head instead of spewing on social media. These kind of posts are exactly what are the bane of social media and devolution of social discourse.

If you were paying attention, you'd remember that the genesis of this thread was, "How do you take pornography out of schools?". Taking something out comes with a valid assumption that it was put into place to begin with. In recent times, this issue has made national headlines uncountable times with MANY viral videos of parents complaining to school boards all over the country regarding pornography being introduced, promoted, and taught to children by the school administrations and teachers. I have never once heard anyone refer to pornography being introduced and "circulated" in schools by children being some sort of problem beyond the typical childish behavior that has existed since the beginning of time and that it's some sort of "issue". NEVER. Therefore, the logical conclusion to make is that the inference is regarding the schools' introduction and promotion of pornography. I didn't distort any issue whatsoever. You seem to have difficulty grasping context in relation to content. If you wanted to switch context midstream and create a more specific context other than what already is existing in the conversation and public consciousness, then you need to do so, clearly and specifically, not with general statements. Your ideas of logic are elusive to me as is how you pretend to "engage brain before opening mouth", but you might do better to practice what you preach.

Interesting. Thanks for enlightening me. I had never heard before that the schools circulated pornography to the school children before, as they do now and even assign homework with pornographic books to children. I guess I hadn't kept up with the reality of the situation in thinking that school districts in the past didn't impose pornographic materials into the curricula making it, in some cases, required reading of the students, as some school districts have been revealed to have been doing lately. But, even if school officials or teachers widely circulated pornographic postcard sized pics to students in the 40's and 50's, I think you'll find that there is a MASSIVE difference between that and the pornography that the teachers and school districts have assigned to schools these days, with very explicitly graphic stories, with pictures. In particular, they prefer to promote homosexual pornography and to even explicitly encourage the students to explore for themselves what they are learning in the assigned homework. The kind of stuff you mention from the 40's and 50's is like kindergarten level compared to post grad university level pornography. Although, I admit that I had not heard of schools widely circulating pornography to their students in the 40's and 50's, I have EXTREME doubts that it bore any resemblance to the kind of pornography being assigned to students in these recent times. Sorry to say that I also doubt your version of events, unless you are meaning to say that kids got their hands on these pictures and passed them among themselves, that it wasn't from the schools. Of course, that sort of thing has likely been going on for millennia. But that isn't the issue and nobody is arguing or doubting that. That's why I took it that you were comparing apples to apples and meant that pornography was being distributed by the schools back then too and not making a vain attempt to compare apples to oranges.

It's not old news. The old news that you are referring to is the news that he was arrested. The news that is given here is that "Welton has pleaded guilty to charges of threatening a federal official in connection with their duties. His sentencing is set for July, where he could face a substantial prison term for his actions."According to the headline, that "substantial prison term" could be 10 years. I'd bet that if he didn't plead guilty that it would potentially and threatened to be MUCH longer. As opposed to calling it "old news", thus making it seem irrelevant, I'd call it a great followup story. Far too often it is only reported that someone was arrested, but it is never reported that they actually were punished or got off for maybe good or maybe stupid reasons.

Anyone remember that China won the bid over Japan for helping Thailand build their high speed rail? 🤔 I'm still is utter disbelief over that insane decision.

I haven't heard much of anything about Chiangmai. I'd expect a lot more damage in Chiangmai that Bangkok... it is less than half the distance from the epicenter. I don't expect the corruption in the construction industry are much different between the two. Anyone here know if Chiangmai is much different in damages? I'm out of town at the moment....

Amazing that dog is still alive... regardless of whether or not it is the owner who is at fault for not training and controlling his dog. I know that dog would not be around anymore after having found a tasty morsel of meat that didn't agree with him, if he were in my neighborhood.

Grok is a MUCH better friend. Makes Google look like an obstructionist.

Here we go again. Cue the meetings with new and amazing ideas to fix it....

Anyone else confused by this? I didn't read anything anywhere about him being deceived by anyone, just confusion and a lack of awareness to where he was going. What deception is this referring to? Did I miss something?

lol Yeah, the east-west thing always cracks me up too, when people rail against "the west" for all of the woes of Asia. The amount of building up that came to Thailand via the US in return for using Thailand as a base of operations during the Vietnam was MASSIVE. Huge infrastructure throughout the country was advanced and it continued for years beyond the war. Thailand advanced light-years ahead of others in the region from that... but oops, can't talk about that. Some other guy sitting on a fancy chair in a glittery building with a glittery robe and headpiece is the one who was so brilliant and magnanimous to improve the country so dramatically, all by his own wisdom, with eastern inborn knowledge, of course. Oops! again... don't tell anyone he was born in the west (while his dad was being educated in the west) and then he was educated in the west and lived in the west until just before his time came. Hmmm his son prefers to live in the west too! Wow... Oh well, just don't talk about it and pretend like the east has it all and the west is the origin of the inability to think, act, and develop.

If they've been tapping into Dutch expertise... that tap seems to not know how to turn off.... must be the wrong kind of tap!