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by Gunnar
Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:58 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Dear ajax, For your reading pleasure. Or not.
Replies: 53
Views: 4225

Re: Dear ajax, For your reading pleasure. Or not.

Res Ipsa wrote:
Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:49 pm
I would suggest that, if a person can't admit to being fooled, they aren't susceptible to reasoned argument.
Isn't that basically what I just said?
by Gunnar
Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:22 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Dear ajax, For your reading pleasure. Or not.
Replies: 53
Views: 4225

Re: Dear ajax, For your reading pleasure. Or not.

All the Bidens? Silly Russian dupe. You may feel like addressing ajax in that manner, but I suggest it may be better to stick to reasonable responses that insist on addressing the key issues. Ajax is not the only reader of this board, and others inclined to his views may (some at least) be open to ...
by Gunnar
Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: 2024 Election Campaign MEGATHREAD
Replies: 92
Views: 17013

Re: 2024 Election Campaign MEGATHREAD

Encouraging news! Biden Soars Ahead in New Poll as Trump Stumbles . A new poll released by Quinnipiac has President Biden leading a head-to-head matchup with former President Donald Trump by four points. In the latest poll, Biden leads Trump, earning 49% of the hypothetical vote compared to 45% for ...
by Gunnar
Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Replies: 34
Views: 2347

Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents

Shortly after Trump left office, a historian named Stephen Kantrowitz neatly summed up the reasons for considering him the worst: He combined "Andrew Johnson's fierce racism, Warren Harding's blithe corruption, George W. Bush's callow ineducability, James Buchanan's refusal to confront the mortal p...
by Gunnar
Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:23 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Replies: 34
Views: 2347

Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents

Shades, I’m not sure that the list isn’t accurate (or even “accurate”) for what it claims to be. It’s a ranking of US Presidents by professional historians. It doesn’t claim to be anything else. If you presented me with a list of the best Rock and Roll songs, as ranked by professional musicians, I’...
by Gunnar
Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:01 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Replies: 34
Views: 2347

Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents

Interesting take, Shades. I wonder why you put the word accurate in scare quotes. Because criteria that might make a former president look good to one person might be the very same criteria that makes a former president look bad to another. Hence why it’s no more possible to make an “accurate” list...
by Gunnar
Wed Feb 21, 2024 4:52 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Replies: 34
Views: 2347

Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents

Interesting take, Shades. I wonder why you put the word accurate in scare quotes. Anyway, if by "accurate," you mean accurate, I'd postulate the opposite. Generally speaking, in the age of the printing press, the closer we are to the time when the person served, the worse we are at judging the long...
by Gunnar
Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Replies: 34
Views: 2347

Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents

Is that the one where Mr. Shoot Somebody on Fifth Ave. takes his rightful place at rock bottom? Jep! That's the one! Click on the link and look at the various tables and scores. I found them very interesting. Most embarrassing to Trump, perhaps, is the fact that even William Henry Harrison (ranked ...
by Gunnar
Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:04 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: 2024 Election Campaign MEGATHREAD
Replies: 92
Views: 17013

Re: 2024 Election Campaign MEGATHREAD

Gadianton wrote:
Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:23 am
You could replace "The sudden death of Alexei Navalny" with literally anything else and his message would be the same.

"The long line at the bakery today has made me..."
:lol: :lol: :lol:
by Gunnar
Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:22 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Replies: 34
Views: 2347

Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents

Results of the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey This survey included widely respected historians and political scientists from a wide spectrum of political views from Democrats to independents, liberal to conservative. There was not as much disagreement between those of Democrat vs...