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I don't know enough about Symbol to know if he actually contributed to music or not, but IMO acts like the Beatles or Tchaikovsky "contributed" to music, and while it's OK to love an individual musician, I doubt if most made a "difference". Beyonce is apparently quite popular, but in 50 years no one will know who she was.

I doubt a half time show for a sporting event proves that a musician is actually great. That's where acts like Beyonce and suchlike appear.

Did you never see the fluffy bunny show on the BBC.? Great stuff- just lovable.

So kids kill themselves because there is only love on social media?

Wrong year. More like April 1940.

So you prefer a capitalist medical service where the rich get treated and the poor get to die?

Yes Starmer, return the NHS to the government where incompetent bureaucrats can meddle with it, steal the budget to use on the government wish list, etc. Perhaps he should just fix England NHS and not make the NHS worse than it already is.

Unfortunately, the Federal government ( like every western government ) has become bloated and corrupt, and there just isn't any easy way to destroy the inefficiency and sack the drones without a lot of screaming. It's like the NHS- get rid of 70% of managers and it would work 100% better, IMO. Far as social welfare goes, there are three parts to it- those that earned their assistance by a life of work and taxes, those that deserve assistance while things are tough through no fault of their own, and those that do not deserve any assistance but get it because of politics eg illegal immigrants, the lazy, the criminal, etc. IMO don't touch the first, tighten up the second to ensure that only the deserving get it, and scrap the third almost entirely. No fit person should ever get the dole for more than a short period while they look for work, and not at all if they refuse a job offer. Illegals- zero.

The list of domestic wins is a long one and I didn't want to post a laundry list , but yes, destroying DEI is a good one. If he deletes the Federal Education department and decimates every Federal department he's a real winner, IMO. The backstabbers have their vorpal blades out though, so he's not going to do it easily, or without a lot of screaming. I hope he stays the course.

Ask a Tibetan if they love the CPC. IMO the CPC deserves all the vitriol it gets.

We don't hate Chinese in China, just the ones in Thailand.

Great news for anyone that loves Thailand. The horde destroyed Maya Bay and ruined Koh Larn. I for one will not regret if the number of Chinese tourists returns to that in the 1990s, which IMO was the golden age of tourism in Thailand.

Back when the invasion in Kursk started I said that the Russians would likely cut off the supply lines and the invasion would fail. Seems it took a while longer to do so than I thought, but surrounding the occupying forces is a pretty good way to cut supplies, and without supplies an army is doomed. I don't envy the Ukrainains ( and even less if they are mercenaries ), and they best be hoping that the troops that taking them into custody are not some really PO guys from the back blocks of Russia that have seen many of their friends die at the hands of the Ukrainians.

I have no idea as to whom he was referring ( IMO the other posters on this forum that apparently claim to be military experts despite never serving, nor willing to leave the safety of their bedrooms and join the fight ) but while I'm not disparaging you personally, major is not very high level when it comes military strategy. Not much more than staff sergeant for an NCO. The really important ranks are colonel and above.

Thank you for that. There are many on this forum that tell lies about me, but when I call them out on it they never admit they were wrong.

I suppose one could call me a supporter of Trump, though I never was till Bernie got back stabbed, and it was HRC , which I could not accept. However, I have not been conned, so far. I knew what to expect and not been far wrong. On illegal immigration , NATO and the EU/ Britain, I agree mostly with what he's done so far. The rest, I don't really care about. The west's so called leaders needed taking down before they sank the good ship western civilization, and judging by the chaos in Europe he seems to be succeeding so far. All he needs doing now, is to end Ukraine war, and I'll give him a pass mark.

No thanks. His red beret was reasonably enjoyable, but I don't remember anything else he made being played. I'm way more a Chuck Berry fan than one that thought he was a symbol ( was he ahead of the movement to be whatever one wants to be, a cat a dog, the opposite sex, a symbol? )

Feels good, doesn't it!

especially after i emberessed (shamed) you about your 3rd separrate assult brigade lie AI created post.. Wrong poster. I don't know anything about 3rd separrate assult brigade so why would I comment on it, and I know nothing about using AI on here. That was a poster that is no longer contributing to this sub forum.

You lost me with the bit about Ukraine being innocent. C'mon man, take off the Ukrainian colored glasses and see reality. I don't care about Russia, never have, never will, I care about Ukraine the same amount. All I care about in that situation is stopping the killing, which is all for nothing. Russia IMO will keep what it has when the ceasefire starts, and Ukraine will go back to being the same corrupt country it was before. All that was achieved is making the 1% even richer. Ukraine has been losing it's young men for 3 years and the end result will be either an unstable ceasefire in place, or Russia getting most of what it wants. It's going to take years to rebuild Ukaraine, they lost the minerals to the US ( so the US is probably the real winner ), they lost the money the Russians gave them for using the pipelines, there are thousands of widows and fatherless children, They won't get to be in NATO, and perhaps not even in the EU. So, was it worth it, all that dying and destruction? After it's over, you get to go home, far away from Ukraine, but the Ukrainians get to live in a devastated country, that will have to deal with all the men that ran away. I don't envy them.

Can someone please explain why Prince was a "genius" Far as I remember he was a musician that put out a few nice tunes, but there is nothing genius about that. Successful musicians are not exactly a rarity.

Can't say he's had much if any effect in my corner of the world so far. The media bleat about him, of course, but they always have, so nothing to worry about. Which isn't to say that things won't heat up once he gets around to telling us to do a better job on the defense front. Something we have in common with Europe is that we are pretty financially embarrassed, due to loony leftie government policies in the past, IMO.

and you, of course, are not influenced at all by the media of your choice.

We can all be happy, even loony lefties that Harris isn't causing even more chaos around the world than Trump is. BTW, Trump wasn't elected to be just another do nothing much Washington drone. So far pretty much according to plan, except for Ukraine. Can't win em all.

Who cares what Jobs made. I phones are an overpriced phone that doesn't do anything necessary available at a lot less money from other brands. It's just a status symbol for the sheeple.