From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article <10gks0t$1kmd0$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Simon Clubley   wrote:   
   >[snip]   
   >How on earth can someone not know how to divide a fraction by two ?   
      
   I think this is discarding all nuance from a complex issue.   
      
   Much of what the Atlantic article described, for instance, is   
   due to the lingering fallout from the pandemic: an utterly   
   unprecedented event in our lifetimes.  Most kids entering   
   college now had their education (and much of their social   
   development) severely curtailed, due to circumstances affecting   
   that entire globe that were completely out of those kids'   
   control; or that of their parents, for that matter.  To ignore   
   all of that and basically declare, "Americans are igorant" is,   
   itself, ignorant.   
      
   >Oh, and the laugh was only a part of it. It was her inability to   
   >act in a way expected of a US president. I believe the phrase I used   
   >at the time was a lack of gravitas, plus her inability to conduct   
   >serious interviews without collapsing into word salad.   
      
   Oh please.  You regurgitated right-wing talking points at the   
   time, and now you bemoan that the orange stain won?   
      
   And you still did that, knowing full-well the alternative?   
      
   This is exactly the sort of shallow, smugly facile "argument"   
   that got the US into the mess we're in now.   
      
   >It appears some people are beginning to see through Reform, and we also   
   >have the first past the post system. I am hoping that's enough to stop   
   >him from gaining a majority, but our traditional parties (all of them)   
   >need to _seriously_ up their game.   
      
   The same is true in this country.  The Democratic party is   
   failing, utterly and miserably, as an opposition party.  But do   
   you know what does not help?  Having folks across the pond lob   
   these little jabs at those of us who understand all too well the   
   dire nature of the situation.  It's neither funny, when you're   
   in a situation where people are being yanked off the street and   
   disappeared into concentration camps while a non-trivial   
   minority of the population gleefully cheers it on, nor helpful.   
      
   >> It's very easy to throw stones, but not terribly advisable when   
   >> you yourself are in a glass house.   
   >>   
   >> At least stop adding these things as parentheticals onto posts   
   >> that _also_ carry technical content.   
   >   
   >Did you read the rest of the posting Dan ?   
      
   I did.  And I responded.  But I split my response to the   
   technical part of your post into another response, so as not to   
   conflate the two topics.   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
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