Hear the screams of center 42. Loud enough to bust your brains out. The opposition's tongue is cut in two. Keep off the street cause you're in danger - Rolling Stones
Sorry to hear you wouldn’t agree with ms ozturk , your statement ends my ever returning to your site. Call genocide what it is when you see it and not antisemitism because someone pleads for stopping the murder of women and children on while a state is on their way to to displacing 2 million people to seize their land. Netanyahu is a more blood thirsty Trump
I am still shaking from hearing the reports and seeing the photos of this crime. And , no, I am not going to just forget about it and go to a baseball game. That was highly inappropriate.
Honestly, give me a break. If you can find where I said what you just did, you can have my house. So that's your analysis here, that I named the column what I did, spent so much time on the issue...to just say, nah, forget about it? Or...maybe, I meant what I said, which was don't forget about anything just try to find positive things where you can so we don't all completely lose our mental health. Something necessary to have if one wants to keep fighting for what's right
Cliff, your segue from the horrors of one report to a cue of enjoying America’s pastime jars me with its irony and immediate juxtaposition within your consecutively posted vignettes. For what it’s worth, i agree with Rebekah’s statement. I’ll add that your, “Honestly, give me a break,” retort to your sensitized reader has a tone of dismissiveness regarding Rebekah’s comment. Your column has a Like button and a Reply button. Your readers are consequently free to hit the Like button, or not. Your readers are consequently free to hit the Reply button and leave a comment, or not.
I understand if a writer seeks only a one-way dissemination of their opinions, and isn’t seeking replies or comments upon said columns. Simply disable the Reply button in that case. (You might consider then also disabling the Like button unless only seeking affirmations are your goal.)
I grasp the concept of our carrying on with our lives regardless of the inhumanity shown by appointed (and shamefully confirmed!) members of the American government. I get that we still need to take breaths, take breaks from horrendous news, take walks, make dinner for our families, brush our teeth, and try to sleep soundly that we may have the strength and health to actually make a better world by loudly expressing our opinions on governmental abuse and relentlessly encroaching fascism.
I appreciate the sentiment of a parent, “Children, your mother lost her job today… She’s going to look for a new job, and money is going to be tight till then… You are very precious to your mother! Now, go outside, play and have some fun. Live your lives and we will get through this!”
Much as I detested his incompetence and gooey personality, I even agreed to a small point with Bush II after the attacks of September 11th; we, the living and the intact, needed to continue breathing and persevering instead of curling up into tight fetal positions in a basement corner, afraid to interact with our neighbors and help clear the country-wide damage to our minds and souls. Bush II was a buffoon, and not my idea of a leader… but on September 11th I still cleaned the litter box of my cats. I still enjoyed a glass of tap water; replenishing the moisture lost through my tears as video footage of the attacks was broadcast on repeat…
My asks are these:
Please consider the timing of your consecutive aired missives on this, the forum for your views.
Please be gentle with your readers if we choose to tap the Reply button and comment from our hearts.
Please attempt to understand the sentiment behind a reader objecting to the glaring incongruity of baseless governmental abductions and baseball gloves upon a single page.
Fair reply, Willie. I’m sorry if I seemed dismissive. Maybe a long day of some much more over-the-top attacks than that. I want critiques, I just didn’t think Rebekah accurately portrayed what I said.
Disagree w/ me, yes. But my point was to do the things that keep us sane, that can still create joy where we can, keep us emotionally sound, not go to baseball games b/c who cares. I thought the entire piece made that clear.
Hi Cliff - you did say it was a bad segue. You certainly steep yourself in this shit more than I do and I overdo it. That said, I am absolutely SICK over everything we have to witness.
She was there to get her “testosterone high” ! Just remember the COOL HAND LUKE MOVIE SCENE of the woman washing her soapy car? This is the same unfolding perversity unfolded in front of a cage of half naked men.
Thank you for posting this link. It was the first chance I've had to read the "offending" op-ed. I agree it is pretty benign, and certainly not justification for the atrocity the regime committed against the author. The thought that anyone in the United States could be snatched of a street and swept off to some prison, without any due process, is terrifying. I believe that the fear is the point. These are intimidation tactics designed to silence the rest of those who would speak out. I think they underestimate Americans resolve.
Wrote to both senators and my Congresswoman about this inhumane treatment and violation of human rights. Christy Noem is a horrible human being
Sorry to hear you wouldn’t agree with ms ozturk , your statement ends my ever returning to your site. Call genocide what it is when you see it and not antisemitism because someone pleads for stopping the murder of women and children on while a state is on their way to to displacing 2 million people to seize their land. Netanyahu is a more blood thirsty Trump
I am still shaking from hearing the reports and seeing the photos of this crime. And , no, I am not going to just forget about it and go to a baseball game. That was highly inappropriate.
Honestly, give me a break. If you can find where I said what you just did, you can have my house. So that's your analysis here, that I named the column what I did, spent so much time on the issue...to just say, nah, forget about it? Or...maybe, I meant what I said, which was don't forget about anything just try to find positive things where you can so we don't all completely lose our mental health. Something necessary to have if one wants to keep fighting for what's right
Cliff, your segue from the horrors of one report to a cue of enjoying America’s pastime jars me with its irony and immediate juxtaposition within your consecutively posted vignettes. For what it’s worth, i agree with Rebekah’s statement. I’ll add that your, “Honestly, give me a break,” retort to your sensitized reader has a tone of dismissiveness regarding Rebekah’s comment. Your column has a Like button and a Reply button. Your readers are consequently free to hit the Like button, or not. Your readers are consequently free to hit the Reply button and leave a comment, or not.
I understand if a writer seeks only a one-way dissemination of their opinions, and isn’t seeking replies or comments upon said columns. Simply disable the Reply button in that case. (You might consider then also disabling the Like button unless only seeking affirmations are your goal.)
I grasp the concept of our carrying on with our lives regardless of the inhumanity shown by appointed (and shamefully confirmed!) members of the American government. I get that we still need to take breaths, take breaks from horrendous news, take walks, make dinner for our families, brush our teeth, and try to sleep soundly that we may have the strength and health to actually make a better world by loudly expressing our opinions on governmental abuse and relentlessly encroaching fascism.
I appreciate the sentiment of a parent, “Children, your mother lost her job today… She’s going to look for a new job, and money is going to be tight till then… You are very precious to your mother! Now, go outside, play and have some fun. Live your lives and we will get through this!”
Much as I detested his incompetence and gooey personality, I even agreed to a small point with Bush II after the attacks of September 11th; we, the living and the intact, needed to continue breathing and persevering instead of curling up into tight fetal positions in a basement corner, afraid to interact with our neighbors and help clear the country-wide damage to our minds and souls. Bush II was a buffoon, and not my idea of a leader… but on September 11th I still cleaned the litter box of my cats. I still enjoyed a glass of tap water; replenishing the moisture lost through my tears as video footage of the attacks was broadcast on repeat…
My asks are these:
Please consider the timing of your consecutive aired missives on this, the forum for your views.
Please be gentle with your readers if we choose to tap the Reply button and comment from our hearts.
Please attempt to understand the sentiment behind a reader objecting to the glaring incongruity of baseless governmental abductions and baseball gloves upon a single page.
Fair reply, Willie. I’m sorry if I seemed dismissive. Maybe a long day of some much more over-the-top attacks than that. I want critiques, I just didn’t think Rebekah accurately portrayed what I said.
Disagree w/ me, yes. But my point was to do the things that keep us sane, that can still create joy where we can, keep us emotionally sound, not go to baseball games b/c who cares. I thought the entire piece made that clear.
Hi Cliff - you did say it was a bad segue. You certainly steep yourself in this shit more than I do and I overdo it. That said, I am absolutely SICK over everything we have to witness.
She was there to get her “testosterone high” ! Just remember the COOL HAND LUKE MOVIE SCENE of the woman washing her soapy car? This is the same unfolding perversity unfolded in front of a cage of half naked men.
"We are that country now. You know, the one you saw that report about on the nightly news. The one you once shuttered at the thought of living in."
Pretty sure you meant "shuddered". Have your editors do better.
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2YuS5ePavBJpkXw1iHR4ZGDd6GXUHsXsOSdTQ51zla8ga_8AdCR20sC7g_aem_EFXQBeSqXG-9O9Pt8Nmaeg That's the editorial she wrote. I think most people would think that's pretty benign.
Thank you for posting this link. It was the first chance I've had to read the "offending" op-ed. I agree it is pretty benign, and certainly not justification for the atrocity the regime committed against the author. The thought that anyone in the United States could be snatched of a street and swept off to some prison, without any due process, is terrifying. I believe that the fear is the point. These are intimidation tactics designed to silence the rest of those who would speak out. I think they underestimate Americans resolve.
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