He asked a lot of questions. Some are rhetorical, like the daughter one. Like "how can you stand to look at yourself in the mirror?"
There certainly where some in there but if you thought the daughter one was then I guess that is the problem right there.
No. Clearly please don't assume I don't have children. Second don't assume I don't have nieces or nephews. Lastly, like I have said in my first post on this thread; please go back and read it if you are confused. Sorry if that triggers you.
Kinda explains the Russia love: It's funny: my Dad, who is a retired history teacher whose AOS was the Russian revolution, keeps quoting Lenin that "worse is better". That is, if you want revolution, you want the people to be really suffering. Seems like Bannon's ahead of him on that one.
Trump appeared on the Howard Stern show. Have you ever seen it on TV or heard it on radio? It's shock jock comedy, and very rude and crude. OMG, Trump said crude and rude things.
Definitely not trigger don't worry man. I actually like how you defend Trump over most of the Liberals going the other way. And I didn't assume you didn't have children. I have children myself. The question was do you have a daughter? I don't and you seem to be wanting to sidestep the answer which is all good. And of course almost everyone has neices or nephews. They are awesome as a side note! Here was what you posted that you would say: Instead of telling your child what to think, teach them how to think for themselves, by telling them the truth. My question is what is the part that says the "truth". What would you actually be telling this daughter in substitution for the shorthand you wrote?
It absolutely is from what I hear. I haven't personally but I have been told. I would bet my hypothetical 8 year daughter hasn't though and when she is 17 I bet she has (or something similar at least). You as a father of a daughter know there is much different ways you put things to your 8-12 year old daughter then you do to your 16-17 year old one.
My apologies then. My mistake, I misunderstood. And I guess I had more replies in this thread then I had originally thought. This is what I would tell my kid. "Sometimes people say stupid stuff that they should not have in the first place, people make mistakes and people learn from them." I would then expand on that, to cite other examples of this normal human behavior that happens to everyone, and inject a teachable moment in it. Ya know, like, realize what you said, realize you may have spoken before you thought, and realize you may have to apologize.
There you go. While I don't think I would answer it exactly that way to a daughter 8-12 (I think this is more appropriate to someone 15-17), I appreciate the response which is much more than anyone else bothers to give. It is good thing I don't have to decide at the spur of the moment (not actually having daughters and all). Hopefully HCP hasn't totally checked out of this sewage and will take a look at some point but to be honest I don't blame him if he doesn't (since the majority of responses have nothing to do with what he was asking about). No surprise of course. He should have known that going into it.
It's no exaggeration. How close we actually came to nuclear war with the USSR is scary. I don't know why anyone would deny that detente brought us much further away from nuclear war than at any time up until that point, and through the fall of the USSR. Global nuclear war between two powers with thousands of bombs would have meant the end of the world. I'll cite a very left wing source. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/26/1604312/-War-Closer-Than-Thought-In-Cuban-Missile-Crisis War Closer Than Thought In Cuban Missile Crisis
Here are 20 examples from 1956 on where nuclear destruction or catastrophe was avoided ...my experience tells me there are probably more than this we don't know about http://nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-is...dents/20-mishaps-maybe-caused-nuclear-war.htm
The daughter is the one who brought it up not the parent. So if your daughter would have brought this up you would have just walked away or told her we aren't talking about this honey?
"The man is rude and crude and those qualities are not to be emulated." I don't suggest those are good things to say, even on Stern's show, but Stern's show isn't my thing. 1st amendment, though. It is what it is.
Those weren't military confrontations where both sides had their finger on the trigger. Even so, detente still saved the world. A nuclear accident was less likely to lead to all out war, as long as the two sides were talking.
