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@RepAdamSchiff
To those who have been wondering how “collusion” might be charged, the Special Counsel has now given us a good indication:

But that only deals with the 13 Russian nationals... Rosenstein literally said no American or campaign person knowingly knew about these people’s intentions.

The ability to think is helpful, when interpreting language and writing. Roland Barthes probably would offed himself, rather than having to process the nonsense at hand.

There isn’t a short or long term change related to your post. It was an accurate observation but a complete dead end.

If what you mean is our culture likely to see the wisdom and superiority of a sustainable Agrarian, Localist world any time soon rather than the materalistic, technocratic, and urban culture they prefer than yes, that is likely a "dead end" right now.

Are you implying that some of our fellow posters are Russian cut outs?

IMO, sexual frustration is more of a factor.

The mass murderer who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was the subject of a social services agency investigation in 2016, because he was cutting himself and posting it on Snapchat.

I think there is something to be said for the fact all these shootings happen in the suburbs. The weapons capable of this kind of destruction have been around for a long time, they just "look" scarier now. So what has changed to make this happen more regularly? Primarily the one common denominator is that each one of the perpetrators came from a broken home, some with no father at all. All lack any kind of moral framework, which regardless of one's views on the "right" version of that (and I obviously have an opinion ), they all inculcate in the recipient a basic understanding of right and wrong. You had boys with no ethical oversight, overstimulated with violence in media/entertainment, and a deep resentment that have no way to process and it is a powderkeg. You add a soulless and anti-community suburb to that, it just raises it even further.

The whole Thomas Dewey/Horace Mann mechanized schooling concept is not good for the mental health of kids, especially of boys.

IMO, sexual frustration is more of a factor.

This is an underrated post. I don't think it's a coincidence that most of these shooters are 4chan /pol types that are almost certainly on the spectrum and are outcasts in school. There have been a bunch of manifestos, or what have you, that talk about frustration with girls dissing them, spurning their efforts to profess their feelings for them, etc. It's obviously not the only factor, but it certainly helps send these already mentally fragile guys off the deep end.

@PressSec
Unlike Obama, @POTUS isn’t going to be pushed around by Russia or anybody else. As he said yesterday: It’s time we stop the wild and false allegations that further the agendas of bad actors like Russia & unite as Americans to protect the integrity of our democracy & our elections

It was like a geriatric Fox News.

“I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal.”
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