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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Umm 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: India, Russia and China
Date: 09/03/25 5:47 AM
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"But when it comes time to get around to doing that, you don’t want to do anything that requires a difficult choice. You’d rather “wait it out” and hope that Putin just up and quits. Never mind that the Ukraine is being beat to sh1t every single day.

The main point of the 300-post thread was to see what the libs on this board were willing to do to get Putin to stop. The answer was and is…nothing."
- Dumbass Dope

People spent lots of time explaining to Dope what they believed should be done in Ukraine in that prior thread and all he got out of the more than 300 posts was "wait it out and do nothing".

How can any halfway intelligent person read that thread and come away thinking that is what was argued? It boggles the mind.

People say that I am insulting to other posters, yet what is more insulting, quickly calling a dumbass a dumbass, or having people spend hours and tens of thousands of words explaining their position only for the target to dismissively mischaracterize it as "wait it out and do nothing"? I think it is more insulting to have people waste their time and energy teaching a pig to sing.
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