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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[facilitatorn]

Wasted energy


https://www.foxnews.com/media/shutdowndc-chad-wolf-protests-home

No justice, no peace.

They say you can’t go home again. It’s true now for shitty fraud wolf.

We’ll be paying for his new lodgings at a trump branded property for no more than $2000 a night, but only to January when we’ll start paying normal federal prison rates for a long long time.

Keep marching.

[Kam]

I think it's good to ask yourself why you are giving money to Starbucks or Home Depot instead of a local merchant (if possible) or one more allied with your values.
On a national scale, why give our money to China or Saudi Arabia.

As for consumerism, a real problem is that kids are subjected to the marketing blizzard at a very young age, and it is very effective on them (to the annoyance of parents everywhere).  But when you grow up in such an environment, it becomes normalized and it can be hard to shake or look at critically.  One of the genius areas in America is marketing, making things sound impressive and desirable, and that you are worse off without whatever item they are touting.

One of my favorite examples, there's a German cereal called Chocolumpus with some generic cartoon animal on the packaging.  It looks like someone whipped that whole concept and ad campaign up in one afternoon on their own.   It's almost like admitting that's it's just cereal and not that important.  In the US, it's Count Chocula, or Frosted Flakes with Tony the Tiger, who has his own catchphrase and almost seems like an old friend by now.

Product marketing isn't about creating a product and then convincing people they need it.  It's about discovering an unmet need in the market and meeting that need.  In the cereal case there is as an actual market need for "convenient breakfast food kids can prepare" for themselves while mom and dad are off to work or sleeping late on saturday mornings.  So it makes sense from a marketing perspective to target certain of their products (typically the high sugar-sweetened cereals you describe) to children themselves.  There are some of the earliest advertisements a child will have targeted at them.  There's nothing inherently nefarious about the marketing of it, but this is where a society ideally would want some regulation to limit the sugar/corn-syrup content in all cereals.  This is an issue where a "free market" will damage the health of the society if un-checked by regulation.

Or, in a free society, parents will decide what sugar content of cereal is permissible by not buying the product or limiting the servings.

In a free-er society cereal makers wouldn't have to publish the sugar content on the box.  But thankfully we have regulations that require them to do just that in order for your argument to have merit.

[facilitatorn]

Winning.

I know you think you found your dick, but that’s actually a skin tag.

Master your disappointment and don’t give up hope. Soon you’ll be able to avail yourself of the public option and seek professional help without endangering your financial wellbeing.

[Echo4]

By the way, Ward, since you are fond of the AAP these days, they say the safest home for teens and children is one without guns.

[Echo4]

https://theconversation.com/americans-are-confused-about-food-and-unsure-where-to-turn-for-answers-survey-shows-82124

The full survey:
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/msu-food-literacy-and-engagement-poll

Americans are confused about food and unsure where to turn for answers, survey shows
More than one-third of Americans do not know that foods with no genetically modified ingredients contain genes, according to the new nationally representative Food Literacy and Engagement Poll we recently conducted at Michigan State University. For the record, all foods contain genes, and so do all people.

The majority of respondents who answered this question incorrectly were young and affluent, and also more likely than their peers to describe themselves as having a higher-than-average understanding of the global food system. The full survey revealed that much of the U.S. public remains disengaged or misinformed about food.

[REDSTATEWARD]

https://theconversation.com/americans-are-confused-about-food-and-unsure-where-to-turn-for-answers-survey-shows-82124

The full survey:
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/msu-food-literacy-and-engagement-poll

Americans are confused about food and unsure where to turn for answers, survey shows
More than one-third of Americans do not know that foods with no genetically modified ingredients contain genes, according to the new nationally representative Food Literacy and Engagement Poll we recently conducted at Michigan State University. For the record, all foods contain genes, and so do all people.

The majority of respondents who answered this question incorrectly were young and affluent, and also more likely than their peers to describe themselves as having a higher-than-average understanding of the global food system. The full survey revealed that much of the U.S. public remains disengaged or misinformed about food.

LOL!

[Echo4]

https://theconversation.com/americans-are-confused-about-food-and-unsure-where-to-turn-for-answers-survey-shows-82124

The full survey:
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/msu-food-literacy-and-engagement-poll

Americans are confused about food and unsure where to turn for answers, survey shows
More than one-third of Americans do not know that foods with no genetically modified ingredients contain genes, according to the new nationally representative Food Literacy and Engagement Poll we recently conducted at Michigan State University. For the record, all foods contain genes, and so do all people.

The majority of respondents who answered this question incorrectly were young and affluent, and also more likely than their peers to describe themselves as having a higher-than-average understanding of the global food system. The full survey revealed that much of the U.S. public remains disengaged or misinformed about food.

LOL!

As ever, you have nothing to support your position and pretend to laugh at things that suggest you are full of shit.

[Echo4]

[facilitatorn]

http://youtu.be/Dxbeo-TS0es

People are beginning to see the light.

If you listen to what this wealthy hog farmer has to say about trump, you can extrapolate what all of red’s former associates have been saying about him for years.

An error in the reporting has trump’s popularity among republicans at 90. It’s currently floating at 80 and below.

This is the decisive time.

Keep marching.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-campaign-2020-voter-suppression-consent-decree-1028988/

[facilitatorn]

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/25/white-too-long-review-race-trump-american-christianity

[bambu.]

By the way, Ward, since you are fond of the AAP these days, they say the safest home for teens and children is one without guns.

That's the law in Australia.

[bambu.]

Light planes should be banned.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.theweek.com/speedreads/927446/why-possibility-democrats-winning-back-senate-looking-stronger-than-ever

[bodiddley]

I can't imagine there is another country stupid or foolish enough to allow folks armed in military gear to assemble in public.

Maybe it's time to re-write the 2nd A to state that Americans have the right to a handgun for self-defense or a rifle for hunting, but that military weaponry such as assault rifles, automatic and semi-automatic weapons are not permitted.  And States are permitted to regulate the licensing and public display of legal weapons.

The Right would get the SCOTUS ruling in the Constitution so gun ownership would be a settled right, but heavy weaponry would be banned and states could regulate/limit public carry as they see fit.