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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: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: John Kirby gets it right, plus Kurt S
Date: 10/30/23 2:03 PM
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John Kirby, once you scrape away the nonsense he has to say because it's his job, you can still find the Navy Admiral underneath:

X (Twitter): Curtis Houck on X: "OMG I can't believe I'm saying this, but....go John Kirby? TV Globo’s @RKrahenbuhl: “So, besides saying that he doesn't have

TV Globo's @RKrahenbuhl: 'So, besides saying that he doesn't have confidence in these numbers, the President went further to say that innocents will die and that this is the price of the war. You also said that.'

Kirby: 'I have indeed.'

Krähenbühl: 'Don't you think this is insensitive? There's being very harsh criticism in about it. For example, the Council of American-Islamic Relations said it was deeply disturbed and call on the President to apologize. Would the President apologize?'

Kirby: 'No.'

Krähenbühl: 'And does he regret saying something like that?'

Kirby: 'What's harsh ' what's harsh is the way Hamas is using people as human shields. What's harsh is taking a couple of hundred hostages and leaving families and anxious, waiting and worrying to figure out where their loved ones are. What's harsh, is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon. I could go on and on. That's what's harsh. That is what's harsh and being honest about the fact that there have been civilian casualties and that there likely will be more is being honest, because that's what war is. It's brutal. It's ugly. It's messy. I've said that before. President also said that yesterday. Doesn't mean we have to like it. And it doesn't mean that we're dismissing anyone of those casualties each and every one is a tragedy in its own right...It would be helpful if Hamas would let [Gazans] leave....We know that there are thousands waiting to leave Gaza writ large and Hamas is preventing them from doing it. That is what is harsh.'

They say you should never start fights but should always finish one. Truer words have never been spoken. Kurt Schlichter weighs in:

townhall.com - Accept that savagery is the true nature of the world and deal with it

If you want an indicator of how lost Western civilization has become, go to your kids' school and check their rules on fighting. Most likely, you'll find out if two kids get into a fight, both get suspended, regardless of whether one was a punk bully who started it and the other was simply defending himself or some little kid. This is a moral disaster, of course ' violence in the defense of what is right is a moral obligation and a symbol of a greater rot within society.

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The West didn't start this fight, but it damn well better finish it, or they will finish us. Time to stop being soft. It's time to stop lying to ourselves. It's time to stop pretending that human nature took a 180° change a few decades ago and that we are not the same animals we used to be because now we have cars, airplanes, and Instagram.

We are the same brutal, cruel, and warlike creatures we have always been. Every headline, every act of hideous violence, and every pro-genocide cheer by the grad school sociopaths who fetishize Third-World savages, proves it. What we have to do is lift the scales from our eyes, understand the situation we are in, and accept it.
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