Actually, Palloy, I have come back here for mainly that reason. That I find it intolerable that no one is taking the threat of nuclear war seriously.
Not being sarcastic K, just puzzled. What does moving have to do with fearing nuclear war?
Isn't that akin to hiding in a closet of a house that's on fire? 
I am certainly not hiding in a closet, GO. I am avoiding Civil War. I am avoiding being shot or shot at either en masse or singularly. I am avoiding many many extremely distasteful goings on and putrid propaganda there of. I have here a pretty peaceful spot where people mostly share the traditional values I was brought up with. Of course with the US marauding the world conflagration could come anywhere. Some enemies have been expelled from here which is a good thing. I am mostly lying low leading a peaceful life. This is probably not my final destination. As far as Eddies warnings to Palloy I pretty much agree. I have never been for anarchic street violence and disorder nor for plain Jane terrorism even though that is what the US has plainly become. A terrorist state supporting terrorist groups. I do think that reaching people by the Internet and informing them if they are capable of reading which is more and more doubtful, is the best way. BTtW, there are stronger privacy laws in Europe than in the US. And as for patriotism, how can one be genuinely patriotic if ones country, it's majority population and most of its elites have lost all moral compass and sanity. It's time to pray. And I am.
A terrorist state supporting terrorist groups.
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As for patriotism, how can one be genuinely patriotic if ones country, it's majority population and most of its elites have lost all moral compass and sanity.
KK for the win.
Am personally haunted by the thought that "we" are the bad guys, and that rest of an outraged world will, in the fullness of time, get tired of taking our shit...
We've just elevated Torture Queen Gina Haspel to be head of the CIA, forever putting torture and black site activity out of the reach of whatever "justice" might obtain, although the idea, once written, seems ludicrous.
One of the people that was tortured at the Cat’s Eye prison in Thailand when Gina Haspel was running it was Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was picked up for suspected involvement in the U.S.S. Cole bombing in 2000. Nashiri was suffocated with water — waterboarding — subjected to mock execution with a drill and gun while standing naked and hooded, anal rape through rectal feeding, threatened that his mother would be sexually assaulted, lifted off the ground by arms while they were bound behind his back after which a medical officer opined that shoulders might be dislocated.
At Haspel's confirmation hearing, no Senator asked about these so-called unauthorized techniques — everyone was focused on the technicality of legal memos, and no one talked about all of the other things beyond waterboarding that’s done to these prisoners. The focus was on waterboarding, as if that was the sum of all cruel things. It is clearly not.
And the vast majority of Americans don't know or care. Hey, what are you trying to do? Fuck up a holiday weekend?