No. Don’t worry about. Would be a complete waste of time
Let's make it worth your while. After all this is Center for Inquiry.
What’s the origin of the phrase ‘Son of a bitch’?
This expression is, of course, widely associated with the USA and, despite the worldwide spread of American popular culture, it isn't much used elsewhere.
Nevertheless, it isn't American in origin and owes its coinage to no less a coiner than William Shakespeare. He used something pretty close to it in King Lear, 1605: "One that art nothing but the composition of a Knave, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and the Sonne and Heire of a Mungrill Bitch."
It is likely that the expression was in use in England at the time and we don't have to wait long for the current wording of the expression to turn up in print. For example, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Coxcombe, circa 1625: "They had no mothers, they are the sons of bitches".
It's no worse than being called; "Son of an Orangutan". Trump sued Bill Maher over that and lost also.
I don’t know what you mean. No one is required to respond to every request for an argument. I try be neutral with the rules, enforcing civility, not taking sides.
It’s a case by case basis, which also includes posters posting history. It’s also why we give warnings and don’t ban people right off the bat. You @djtexas have been given more leniency than most, but that might not last much longer at this rate.
My (possibly) last word on the opening comments of this thread
Write4U’s comment was about DJTexas participation in the Big Lie. Regardless of my opinion, that topic is valid, people of all stripes are discussing it. Feelings on both sides are strong, each claiming the other is tearing apart the fabric of society, causing death and destruction.
It would require powerful moderation to keep that conversation civil and calm. I don’t have that much power, and don’t want it. This is a volunteer gig. I am not required to read every post or comment on every word.
What I can do is recognize members who regularly use name calling, post things that don’t contribute but simply denigrate others, and repeat talking points without adding analysis or data.
DJ’s words can be found all over the internet. W4’s posts are thorough and reference things I rarely see elsewhere. I’m fine learning that Biden is evil, or what Anil Seth says. The difference is, stating someone is evil vs using information and applying it to a topic.
All that said, I prefer everyone use G rated language. Also, when a new member joins and repeatedly does what I mention above, I’d prefer they be ignored most of the time. I understand each thread can have opposing opinions, giving the forum balance, but if the thread degrades to a shouting match, we can lock them, and if a member disrupts threads, we can ban the member.
All that said, I prefer everyone use G rated language. Also, when a new member joins and repeatedly does what I mention above, I’d prefer they be ignored most of the time. I understand each thread can have opposing opinions, giving the forum balance, but if the thread degrades to a shouting match, we can lock them, and if a member disrupts threads, we can ban the member.__ Lausten
Point well taken, Lausten
It was a momentary loss of intellectual control in view of the subversive nature of DJT’s posts. I cannot abide dishonest and misleading posters.
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The point is about lockdowns in the time of rising cases.[/quote]
It is the Republican State governors that resist any lockdown as well as holding back on the Federal living assistance, so that people are forced to go to work.
Biden respects State rights and hopes the Republican state governors will take sufficient measures to stop the spread of Covid. But they already have threatened to disobey any Federal interference.
Biden acts by the book and you complain, I advocate for stronger measures and you complain.
US faces resurgent COVID-19 catastrophe
For the past six months, the US government has focused its efforts on convincing the public that the pandemic was over, dismantling facilities for monitoring breakthrough infections, diverting funding for COVID-19 preparedness to fund the police, and enforcing the return to school.
The United States still has no centralized system of contact tracing, no program of mass testing, and no nationwide app for tracking cases, vaccinations status, and exposure.
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US faces resurgent COVID-19 catastrophe
For the past six months, the US government has focused its efforts on convincing the public that the pandemic was over, dismantling facilities for monitoring breakthrough infections, diverting funding for COVID-19 preparedness to fund the police, and enforcing the return to school. [/quote]
And it would have been over with if it had not been for the Republican BIG LIE, which deliberately sought to undermine Bidens outstanding planning and execution of vaccine availability and distribution. I f, as I recommended , Biden had declared a National Emergency (martial law), and mandated (instead of recommending) full vaccination for everyone, the pandemic would have been overand life could have returned to normal .
It’s the Republican subversion of the current duly “elected” government that is the single treasonous problem that faces the country. If you have listened to the neutral news channels, you’ll have heard that we came this II close to a coup.
If only a few republic States had officially declared that they were not satisfied with the election results, Trump would have still been President . That was the plan.
Trump wrote notes to several governors urging that they “should raise doubts about the vote count, then he would take care of the rest”. A clear invitation to conspiracy.
The only response to this disaster is a complete reversal of the present policy. COVID-19 must be eradicated. This means the emergency closure of all schools and non-essential businesses, together with the surging of trillions of dollars for testing, contact tracing, quarantine facilities, hospitals, public health staff, with the aim for totally eradicating the disease so that new variants do not develop
@djtexas Now you’ve said something I totally agree with, but it’s not going to happen, because large corporations and Big Pharma don’t give a damn about human lives. They only want the money and the more sick people get the more money they get. Greedy corporation get all the money from those running around like stupid idiots and Big Pharma get the money when they are sicker than dogs, possibly laying on their deathbeds. Then finally the gravediggers get paid. It’s all about greed for the stupid consumers who feeds the greedy corporations, until they are dead. Then no one will make any money.