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I wouldnt appreciate that at all...good point

Its not going to work if he doesnt win the election and its highly unlikely he will win so no need to get too concerned ?

This would be a very good time to send a letter of complaint to your local Republican representative, even if you dont always vote for them

I mentioned I moved away from RDR2 Online once I hit level 100 but they have just released a whole new profession\role called a Naturalist and Im really enjoying it so I will continue playing RDR2 on and off but I am still getting into Daggerfall Unity and its as huge as I suspected and great fun

This plutonium comment cracked me up Putin said one of his daughters took the vaccine and she is fine ...what should scare us the most about that comment is have you ever heard Putin mention his kids in any interview ?

We in a similar situation in SA but economically much much worse ...and we dont have in the public healthcare sector accurate virus data and not all hospitals are honestly functional

That lady comes across as a spoilt, entitled and uninformed brat ....its called a virus lockdown and its specific, correctly, to her region, that is suppose to mean something. She must educate herself

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/russian-covid-19-vaccine-is-pandora-s-box-industry-body-warns So it appears Russia is publicly stating they have a " working " vaccine without evidence being globally confirmed and without proper clinical trials I hope it is a working vaccine as it benefits all of us but I have serious doubts without global corroboration

Unfortunately being suspended in SA public sector means you get full salary but you dont need to actually go to work. Its a disgrace as some people are suspended in SA for years The link below is relevant to police officers being suspended but it applies to other public sector people generally https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/suspension-with-full-pay-rule-worries-mthethwa

But Elerond lets not try to justify attempted murder on anyone ...it undermines the reasonable objective of where we are suppose to live in a society where we absolutely support the rule of law and order Any attempt to attack and or use violence against police needs to be condemned in the same way we criticize any police officer breaking the law, this is the same reason you may support BLM

Happy Womens Day for yesterday This is always a good time to reflect personally on oneself and ask if we are doing everything reasonably possible and logical to support and enable women in our lives

This made me laugh

Its my birthday today but the reality of the virus, the closure of certain venues and the fact alcohol has been ridiculously and illogically banned again in SA means my realistic choices to celebrate have been curtailed ....yet I have been able to plan a good week which includes A lunch on Saturday on an open area near the sea at an excellent seafood restaurant, this will be with my Cpt family. My stepmom has kindly offered to pay which translates to " its a good time to order anything you love eating but its normally a little expensive to normally justify paying for yourself " .....I can see meals like Lobster Thermidor , Abalone and imported whole Japanese crab in my future 🥂 https://www.harbourhouse.co.za/menus/ Then Sunday I have reconnected with a lady friend and we meeting for early dinner to catchup Today I have given myself the day off work and I will be gaming the whole day and will order "birthday celebration" meals for lunch and dinner

Before I start playing Divinity 2 I decided to do something very unusual for me and play a much older but very famous RPG, Daggerfall which I have never played before as I stopped PC gaming from about 1998-2005 so I missed out in certain classic RPG like Fallout1&2 Also I am also one of those games who embrace and invest in the advancement of modern games and I love the aesthetics, mechanics and structures of modern games.....Elder scroll games, Witcher series, RDR2. Modern games are great and offer us real and continued entertainment And sometimes the nostalgic allure of classic RPGs needs to stay in your memory because if you replay a classic game you must accept how your patience and view of certain gaming realities will have changed and you dont want to be unfairly critical of something that was amazing in its day but nowadays may be seen and more cumbersome than fun But of course the classic games can still be brilliant and I am playing Daggerfall Unity so it has lots of updates and graphic enhancements....its such a huge game and I am enjoying how little information you have in the beginning and how you just start in a dungeon. I am going to continue playing it and maybe I wont finish the final quest because the game is apparently super long but its a great way to see how classic RPG use to be made and I appreciate the details and depth

But Tik Tok is a security risk while under Chinese influence, if Microsoft buys it then it can be trusted to not corrupt the minds of our young children

Yes I was joking, sorry for the misunderstanding

So you and Gromnir are ethnically related, nice one It must be nice to have an automatic kinship and brotherhood with other forum members

" everybody "....thats definitely not going to happen and sets a very bad global precedent for other countries that also face immigration issues like the EU, Australia and South Africa

And I just finished Dishonored Death of the Outsider, I have always enjoyed the Dishonored franchise. I like the game mechanics and the narrative I ended killing the Outsider but I still dont understand who he was and why he did what he did but it was a great game anyway

Its quite a coincidence but after finishing RDR2 online I realized I miss the MMO experience and I have been seriously considering starting to play one again, Hurlshot mentioned the vastness of the LotRO and I have never played this MMO. I enjoy a large world where I can explore and maybe play on my own ...I join guilds if I make the MMO more permanent because I enjoy the social side....so I may be playing LotRO soon 🌎

I am laughing because its such a terrible description of a human being.....how do you justify that because it cannot have any real reasonable logic description Do the Aboriginal people still remember that as a offensive term or is it something people know is in the past?

That was a good read. But Malc what I dont understand is the protesters in the article talk about " not wanting Federal forces in there city " but they constantly provoke a reaction by damaging Federal property.....so why would the Federal agents leave? What am I misunderstanding because that doesnt seem like the behavior of people who dont want a reaction The mayor of Portland was on CNN and she is blaming Trump for the response as he is the one who has deployed the troops?

I wasnt aware of this thinktank, how does this align to the Guardian articles? But what is more interesting is you have confirmed what volo mentioned that the Guardian is a website that is known for some controversial articles. I didnt know this as I mentioned and I will be honest in SA these types of opinions would be challenged by people who dont accept this type of biased views on any race ....so we wouldnt consider this meaningful and or appropriate commentary

Of course he is doing that., it wouldnt be ktchong if he wasnt making these types of posts But I do find ktchong interesting because I have never met someone who consistently tries to suggest white people in a country like USA are actually the problem. And I would also argue he isnt trolling because he may really have an issue with white people and thats okay because I can have these debates without getting " offended ". Other members dont generally respond to him because they think he is trolling but sometimes he makes points that I have heard before so its not a waste of time for me to clarify where he is misunderstanding something But what disappoints me, as you observed , is he doesn't ever respond which normally would mean I shouldn't engage with him because that means he has no real interest in a debate ....but Gorthfuscious I am human and that means even I break my own rules in the interests of building better racial relationships, I should come to Oz and help you guys address racism right

A couple of weeks ago I posted that appalling, racist and inaccurate article written by an Arab women living in the UK from the Guardian where she basically was saying that white women who cry are seeking attention and its very false.....yeah right because suddenly if a white women cry's it cant be for any reason any other women She then proceeded on some tirade against white women being absolved of racism and how they need to be called out.....she is obviously insecure about her own race and gender and somehow thinks people dont know that any person can be racist....including white women.... In the same article she brings up how " Arab men are called sexist when its not reasonable or actually the reality" ....I remember thinking I wonder who she is trying to convince with raising that point. I worked extensively in the ME and I will never say " Arab men are sexist " because that is a generalization but in most ME countries women rights are very limited and women dont have the same legal rights that men receive under certain laws and crimes I was surprised that the Guardian would be fine with this type of article and I lost some respect for there overall subjectivity, not that I follow this website but its the principle ...then I went to the website today and noticed there are several articles that make the same uninformed and offensive comments about white people and things like " why are white people taking part in BLM protests " Here is the article that discusses the point " white people taking part in BLM protests are doing it for attention " and other similar comments. Its funny because I have never been able to read the minds of thousands of people and I would guess white people are taking part in BLM because they believe in the cause and think the police are being heavy handed.....but thats just me https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/26/portland-federal-agents-teargas-protesters-black-lives-matter