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You've seen the ad where Amy Acton's mother called her daughter a liar. More than one thing can be true at once. Acton may be a liar and a whole lot more. Her mother may also have been abusive. -J

I know nothing about Amy Acton at all, nor do I know anything about her mother. When you see something this unusual, there is often a lot going on in the background that's unknown to viewers from the outside. What Amy says, or what her mother says, may or may not be true. Or there may be some truth to each position, or there may be much more we don't know. Whatever is the truth, I don't think we have enough information to know, just based on this ad.

We can stop the bird hands epidemic. If all men started saying "cawww, cawww" every time they pull out the bird hands, or even the chicken sound, women would become aware of it and stop. They especially hate being pointed out like that.

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People all around us are actual zombies, and we act like things are normal. People's behavior is NOT normal! Since "Covid," everyone "forgot" road rules. Every one of them. People walk into you in stores and keep going without a word. I almost just hit a woman on my country road jogging. She was on the incorrect side of the road (the right side, so she couldn't see me coming), AND she was looking at her phone AND she had earbuds in. This is every day. Every single day. All the time. It's making me angry and stressed, and my reaction is normal. None of this is normal. None of us remember Americans acting this way all the time before a few years ago. Why is this not a national conversation? The worst part is that millions of people know this, but they won't say it. And because they won't say it, it's "not real," and, therefore, will not be solved. I want to scream. I KNOW I'm not the only one who knows what normal is. -J

I don't know what to think of the many people who can see street riots, arson, the burning of historic buildings, and respond with "most of the place isn't like this. It was nice at the restaurant I was at." If even extreme violence on their street won't move them. . what? -J

If they had any sense--actually, if they had the WILL to protect these items--they would put the military to guard the building. But they don't. Why would we think they'd be motivated to remove the art? If they wanted to protect it, they would do so *in situ*. They would protect *the Louvre*.

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There is no hope unless someone(s) in countries like this remove politicians like this from power. This response isn't surprising. I hope the hopeful will now accept that the problem is their politicians, and that they are NOT going to stop. You will have to stop them. I don't know how you do that. Also, I don't think it's going to happen.

Some of my favorite memories are of going shopping at K Mart with my grandmother who would treat us to lunch at the cafeteria. -J

Answer your own phone because the call is coming from inside the house. "Deeply non-political." Oh, no, friend.

Who is this woman? I need to talk to her. That's more truth than I've heard spoken in years. -J

Had enough now that you'll stop calling them "migrants?" Or, do you need more?

No one in France is going to stop it. No one in control. Nobody in the European Union. This is what they wanted. They wanted massive destruction. Only thing is it’s gonna be rebuilt as a Muslim nation.

The French will not stop this. No one in Europe will stop this.

Back it up with lethal force or shut up. The time for this high-falutin' gab is over, Frog.

Stop asking such stupid questions now in this late hour-it's infuriating. It's been happening for years. Wake up. The question is "How could this not happen?"

What's missing is "I'm sorry I shot the messenger. I was wrong. I won't do that again. I won't treat the people who are more on my side as if they were stupid. I learned my lesson, and I'm sorry."

How else but with rage and grief is a body supposed to react to watching the world he knew be destroyed? What other emotions aside from mourning and fury can we expect? England is for the English, France is for the French, and so on in each country. But Europe and the UK are, in a sense, a part of the patrimony of an American. They are part of the West. America is a descendant, now a cousin, of England. France lent us help in the American revolution. Enlightenment ideas that built the modern West flowed between us. It's not like watching a distant star supernova; it is to watch your cousins' house burn while the arsonists laugh and your cousins stand there doing nothing but crying. It's awful. I'm from the 20th century. If you're younger, you won't be able to feel this the way people like me do. With a few years, you will feel something similar based on your own time. We're watching the last of the 20th century be destroyed deliberately with no one willing to stop it. The police clocked out, the guards went to sleep. Everything good, everything worth preserving, every piece of the past that acted as a base on which to build a hopeful future is being burned and shattered. Gleefully. There's no way to say this so that you really hear it for what it is; you only hear a cliche. But it's *real*, still. No one in my cohort or above could ever have imagined we'd live to see such times. This was outside the possibilities we could have imagined. Yes, we were foolish to believe in permanence, I know. But we did believe, and now is a time of deep sorrow, foolish though we may have been. You know how you saw the Statue of Liberty covered in sand in Planet of the Apes and thought, "compelling for a movie, but man, that could never happen." It is happening. It's not a movie. And it's terrible. -Uncle Josh

The people who started la Republique are the same kind of people destroying it today. Oh Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. It's been a joke since the Revolution. This IS the French Revolution.