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		By: pasarqq		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-681385</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 07:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think that what you wrote made a bunch of sense. But, think on this, what iff you adrded a little information? I am not saying your content isn&#039;t good.,
but what if yoou added a title to posxsibly get people&#039;s attention? I mean We are not on edge.
We are not afraid, off the dildo bomber - Greg Laden&#039;s Blog is kinda boring.

You could peek at Yahoo&#039;s front page and see how they create news headlines to get viewers 
interested. You might add a related vijdeo or a 
related pic or two to grab people interested about 
everything&#039;ve got to say. Just my opinion, it mignt 
bring your blog a little bit more interesting.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that what you wrote made a bunch of sense. But, think on this, what iff you adrded a little information? I am not saying your content isn&#8217;t good.,<br />
but what if yoou added a title to posxsibly get people&#8217;s attention? I mean We are not on edge.<br />
We are not afraid, off the dildo bomber &#8211; Greg Laden&#039;s Blog is kinda boring.</p>
<p>You could peek at Yahoo&#8217;s front page and see how they create news headlines to get viewers<br />
interested. You might add a related vijdeo or a<br />
related pic or two to grab people interested about<br />
everything&#8217;ve got to say. Just my opinion, it mignt<br />
bring your blog a little bit more interesting.</p>
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		By: Li D		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Li D]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2018 21:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658574&quot;&gt;SteveP&lt;/a&gt;.

Thank you for taking my request to respond seriously and attempting to alleviate my confusion. You have mostly done so, as well as prompted a certain amount of introspection into my own attitude towards others.

&quot;Overall, I want to understand why people are liberal or conservative.&quot;
I found this on the internet whilst looking for things to assist your goal. I hope it&#039;s of some value. Some of the studies mentioned  don&#039;t seem very um, sciency, ( i think theres some massive bias potential on the part of researchers due to culture, when assessing data and coming up with conclusions)  but that&#039;s up to the peer reviewers I spose. 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/

Myself politicaly, I&#039;m likely only a few missed meals and some light duress to be inclined to any position at all. What I feel or think is on very precarious foundations. In two weeks time I could be spitting on people with certain markings on their clothing, or standing in front of those that wish to spit, defending the marked.  Indeed, I could be the subjugated 3rd party with a brand but no voice.
( It&#039;s just occurred to me that there&#039;s great value in anonymity, (that may only be realised when its removed), and to be  forced to display a mark, on door, clothing, or body, is a terribly cruel psychological impost. There&#039;s something fucking awful about letters and numbers and symbols in old photographs and arseholes that would impliment such a system are highly culpable. )
I suppose what I wish to say is that political affiliation and action, for me, for you, isn&#039;t particularly deep rooted, as much as it might feel like it is and as much as things in the link make out it is.
Things can change externally and internally shockingly fast, and with great force. The line between callousness and empathy is so terribly fragile I don&#039;t dare to define my own position and strongly hesitate to define others, despite my sense of smell.
Thank you again for reply.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658574">SteveP</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you for taking my request to respond seriously and attempting to alleviate my confusion. You have mostly done so, as well as prompted a certain amount of introspection into my own attitude towards others.</p>
<p>&#8220;Overall, I want to understand why people are liberal or conservative.&#8221;<br />
I found this on the internet whilst looking for things to assist your goal. I hope it&#8217;s of some value. Some of the studies mentioned  don&#8217;t seem very um, sciency, ( i think theres some massive bias potential on the part of researchers due to culture, when assessing data and coming up with conclusions)  but that&#8217;s up to the peer reviewers I spose. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/</a></p>
<p>Myself politicaly, I&#8217;m likely only a few missed meals and some light duress to be inclined to any position at all. What I feel or think is on very precarious foundations. In two weeks time I could be spitting on people with certain markings on their clothing, or standing in front of those that wish to spit, defending the marked.  Indeed, I could be the subjugated 3rd party with a brand but no voice.<br />
( It&#8217;s just occurred to me that there&#8217;s great value in anonymity, (that may only be realised when its removed), and to be  forced to display a mark, on door, clothing, or body, is a terribly cruel psychological impost. There&#8217;s something fucking awful about letters and numbers and symbols in old photographs and arseholes that would impliment such a system are highly culpable. )<br />
I suppose what I wish to say is that political affiliation and action, for me, for you, isn&#8217;t particularly deep rooted, as much as it might feel like it is and as much as things in the link make out it is.<br />
Things can change externally and internally shockingly fast, and with great force. The line between callousness and empathy is so terribly fragile I don&#8217;t dare to define my own position and strongly hesitate to define others, despite my sense of smell.<br />
Thank you again for reply.</p>
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		By: SteveP		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658574</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2018 14:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I apologize to you LiD and to the right wingers whom I have offended time and time again. But I too am a mammal with reptilian antecedents to my behavior and I too revert to the primitive instead of the finer emotions. Here is what I meant. Overall, I want to understand why people are liberal or conservative.  When I was talking about  blunting of finer human emotions I was thinking about diseases like brain disorders, toxins in the environment, or simply infection.  By deficiency I meant that  not being in a healthy environment that nurtures thinking and positive emotions will most likely blunt finer emotions.  I meant that being in an environment that thwarts instead of nurtures healthy development is a deficient environment. By training I meant that when  you are undergoing things like basic military training, you learn to blunt your sensitivities in order to survive. Also, if your peers are racists, you are liable to be trained to be one too. Also, if you are trained to be aware of your own emotions instead of denying or blocking them, you are probably going to be a lot healthier.

Your critique of my angry rant was painful  to read but completely appropriate.  I will think for a while before I write next time. Thank you for your insight.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I apologize to you LiD and to the right wingers whom I have offended time and time again. But I too am a mammal with reptilian antecedents to my behavior and I too revert to the primitive instead of the finer emotions. Here is what I meant. Overall, I want to understand why people are liberal or conservative.  When I was talking about  blunting of finer human emotions I was thinking about diseases like brain disorders, toxins in the environment, or simply infection.  By deficiency I meant that  not being in a healthy environment that nurtures thinking and positive emotions will most likely blunt finer emotions.  I meant that being in an environment that thwarts instead of nurtures healthy development is a deficient environment. By training I meant that when  you are undergoing things like basic military training, you learn to blunt your sensitivities in order to survive. Also, if your peers are racists, you are liable to be trained to be one too. Also, if you are trained to be aware of your own emotions instead of denying or blocking them, you are probably going to be a lot healthier.</p>
<p>Your critique of my angry rant was painful  to read but completely appropriate.  I will think for a while before I write next time. Thank you for your insight.</p>
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		By: Li D		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Li D]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658468&quot;&gt;SteveP&lt;/a&gt;.

I really struggled to make sense of this. 
There&#039;s whole categories of emotions people with too much time on their hands have come up with as I found here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrasting_and_categorization_of_emotions

yet I&#039;m not really wiser. I don&#039;t know what finer and cruder emotions are. 
What I get from the comment is sense of caste. A whiff of that stench. It makes me, with my lack of education, my short term goals, my physical attributes due to early diet,  and a real lack of formal training on how to conduct myself in society ( No etiquette classes in the bush, no piano, no gin and tonics, no formal dancing, no bridge ) want to um, hmmmm, well I feel like retorting but I can&#039;t because I&#039;m so confused and unsure what exactly is ment.  I&#039;m not going to retort if it&#039;s unwarranted.
So I smell something but can&#039;t react to it due to uncertainty.
It&#039;s an awkward feeling.
I wish I knew exactly what the fuck you are on about. I normally understand everything written here ,being  fluent in English.
I don&#039;t understand and yet my nose dosnt lie. There&#039;s an odour.
Could you restate in a different way perhaps? Or at least expressly say yes or no to having feelings of superiority.
Then I can either retort or relate or even empathise.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658468">SteveP</a>.</p>
<p>I really struggled to make sense of this.<br />
There&#8217;s whole categories of emotions people with too much time on their hands have come up with as I found here</p>
<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrasting_and_categorization_of_emotions" rel="nofollow ugc">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrasting_and_categorization_of_emotions</a></p>
<p>yet I&#8217;m not really wiser. I don&#8217;t know what finer and cruder emotions are.<br />
What I get from the comment is sense of caste. A whiff of that stench. It makes me, with my lack of education, my short term goals, my physical attributes due to early diet,  and a real lack of formal training on how to conduct myself in society ( No etiquette classes in the bush, no piano, no gin and tonics, no formal dancing, no bridge ) want to um, hmmmm, well I feel like retorting but I can&#8217;t because I&#8217;m so confused and unsure what exactly is ment.  I&#8217;m not going to retort if it&#8217;s unwarranted.<br />
So I smell something but can&#8217;t react to it due to uncertainty.<br />
It&#8217;s an awkward feeling.<br />
I wish I knew exactly what the fuck you are on about. I normally understand everything written here ,being  fluent in English.<br />
I don&#8217;t understand and yet my nose dosnt lie. There&#8217;s an odour.<br />
Could you restate in a different way perhaps? Or at least expressly say yes or no to having feelings of superiority.<br />
Then I can either retort or relate or even empathise.</p>
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		By: SteveP		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2018 09:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven&#039;t seen the usual suspects defending Trump here. I think that they come here for the sadistic pleasure of hurting vulnerable people. The whole constellation of anal sadistic, regressive, fear driven behavior associated with Trumpism is completely compatible with cruelty. Perhaps they haven&#039;t figure out how to poke fun at  us over this and get away with it yet. Or maybe, the clarity of what their position stands for is starting to come clear to them.  Perhaps they know that they will suffer a loss of testosterone if the try to snipe at us today.

Trump has tapped in to the underbelly of what I would call primitive, regressive, reptilian emotions that poorly educated, unlearned, short sighted people are riddled with. The blunting of finer human emotions, through disease, deficiency, or training, and the celebration of the cruder ones is, to me, what characterizes the modern right wing person.  

The right wing is clearly off the rails. If we can&#039;t get them back on track, it spells disaster for all of us.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t seen the usual suspects defending Trump here. I think that they come here for the sadistic pleasure of hurting vulnerable people. The whole constellation of anal sadistic, regressive, fear driven behavior associated with Trumpism is completely compatible with cruelty. Perhaps they haven&#8217;t figure out how to poke fun at  us over this and get away with it yet. Or maybe, the clarity of what their position stands for is starting to come clear to them.  Perhaps they know that they will suffer a loss of testosterone if the try to snipe at us today.</p>
<p>Trump has tapped in to the underbelly of what I would call primitive, regressive, reptilian emotions that poorly educated, unlearned, short sighted people are riddled with. The blunting of finer human emotions, through disease, deficiency, or training, and the celebration of the cruder ones is, to me, what characterizes the modern right wing person.  </p>
<p>The right wing is clearly off the rails. If we can&#8217;t get them back on track, it spells disaster for all of us.</p>
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		By: dean		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;How is it that we have come to the point where adults acting like misbehaving children are running our country? Why do Republicans embrace an un-empathetic, cruel, taunting president?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The right has been working on setting up the current atmosphere since Reagan was in office and showed how efficiently racism, bigotry, and lies could be weaponized.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>How is it that we have come to the point where adults acting like misbehaving children are running our country? Why do Republicans embrace an un-empathetic, cruel, taunting president?</p></blockquote>
<p>The right has been working on setting up the current atmosphere since Reagan was in office and showed how efficiently racism, bigotry, and lies could be weaponized.</p>
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		By: SteveP		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2018 20:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So the Bowers monster was anti-semite. He was definitely a closed border Nationalist. 

I don&#039;t see many Republicans condemning Trump for his constant scapegoating.  

How is it that we have come to the point where  adults acting like misbehaving children are running our country?  Why do Republicans embrace an un-empathetic, cruel, taunting president?  

Make America Civil Again.  Vote Democrat.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the Bowers monster was anti-semite. He was definitely a closed border Nationalist. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t see many Republicans condemning Trump for his constant scapegoating.  </p>
<p>How is it that we have come to the point where  adults acting like misbehaving children are running our country?  Why do Republicans embrace an un-empathetic, cruel, taunting president?  </p>
<p>Make America Civil Again.  Vote Democrat.</p>
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		By: cosmicomics		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cosmicomics]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2018 20:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bowers entered the synagogue yelling, “All Jews must die!” He had a history of virulent anti-Semitism, and the killings could have been triggered by fears whipped up by Trump and his political and media allies. I&#039;m also wondering whether Republican attacks on George Soros played a role.

&quot;Several weeks ago, Mr. Bowers’s account posted a link to the website of HIAS, a Jewish non-profit organization, which was planning a shabbat ceremony for refugees in locations around the country. The caption read: “Why hello there HIAS! You like to bring in hostile invaders to dwell among us?”&quot;
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shooter-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting.html]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bowers entered the synagogue yelling, “All Jews must die!” He had a history of virulent anti-Semitism, and the killings could have been triggered by fears whipped up by Trump and his political and media allies. I&#8217;m also wondering whether Republican attacks on George Soros played a role.</p>
<p>&#8220;Several weeks ago, Mr. Bowers’s account posted a link to the website of HIAS, a Jewish non-profit organization, which was planning a shabbat ceremony for refugees in locations around the country. The caption read: “Why hello there HIAS! You like to bring in hostile invaders to dwell among us?”&#8221;<br />
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shooter-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shooter-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting.html</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2018 20:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658215&quot;&gt;cosmicomics&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;The logic behind Trump’s thinking is guilty if charged.&quot;

Yes, good summary. 
Still, I don&#039;t know about other locations, but here in West Michigan it is far too common to see people complaining about defense lawyers existing when articles about court cases are in the &quot;paper&quot;.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658215">cosmicomics</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;The logic behind Trump’s thinking is guilty if charged.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, good summary.<br />
Still, I don&#8217;t know about other locations, but here in West Michigan it is far too common to see people complaining about defense lawyers existing when articles about court cases are in the &#8220;paper&#8221;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2018 19:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The only problem:
– she was still at the firm that handled one defense case, but she did not work on it
– she wasn’t at the firm at the time of the other case”
https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658164

There&#039;s a far more fundamental problem that goes beyond any particular case. Central to a modern legal system is the presumption of innocence – even people accused of heinous crimes have the right to a defense. The logic behind Trump&#039;s thinking is guilty if charged. But this logic only holds for others. Trump himself has certainly hired more than his share of lawyers,  and his pardons have shown that political usefulness trumps guilt.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“The only problem:<br />
– she was still at the firm that handled one defense case, but she did not work on it<br />
– she wasn’t at the firm at the time of the other case”<br />
<a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658164" rel="ugc">https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/25/we-are-not-on-edge-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-dildo-bomber/#comment-658164</a></p>
<p>There&#8217;s a far more fundamental problem that goes beyond any particular case. Central to a modern legal system is the presumption of innocence – even people accused of heinous crimes have the right to a defense. The logic behind Trump&#8217;s thinking is guilty if charged. But this logic only holds for others. Trump himself has certainly hired more than his share of lawyers,  and his pardons have shown that political usefulness trumps guilt.</p>
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