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hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:19 am She essentially uses the moronic defense that because the world isn't perfect we can't start fixing it unless we fix everything at once. It's the standard tactic of poser activists the world over.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 2:33 pm My rep weighed in:

Some lawmakers, including Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-Texas) questioned why the House was taking time to debate a nonbinding resolution dealing with atrocities committed 100 years ago when Congress had a lot left to accomplish in scant days before the end of the year, including preventing the government from shutting down when its spending authority expires Nov. 21.

“It remains unclear why we are urgently considering this resolution,” he said.

He did vote for it, though.

Your 11 Nays:

Baird
Brady
Brooks (IN)
Bucshon
Cole
Foxx (NC)
Harris
Meadows
Pence
Rogers (AL)
Thornberry

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 3:17 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:19 am She essentially uses the moronic defense that because the world isn't perfect we can't start fixing it unless we fix everything at once. It's the standard tactic of poser activists the world over.

Wait a minute, what about those Cro-Magnons who slaughtered all those Neanderthals? Why are you letting them off the hook?

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:39 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 3:17 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:19 am She essentially uses the moronic defense that because the world isn't perfect we can't start fixing it unless we fix everything at once. It's the standard tactic of poser activists the world over.

Wait a minute, what about those Cro-Magnons who slaughtered all those Neanderthals? Why are you letting them off the hook?

You offensive bastard! The proper term is “evolutionary challenged”!

Statement by President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day

Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. We honor the victims of the Meds Yeghern so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history. And we remember so that we remain ever-vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms.

Of those who survived, most were forced to find new homes and new lives around the world, including in the United States. With strength and resilience, the Armenian people survived and rebuilt their community. Over the decades Armenian immigrants have enriched the United States in countless ways, but they have never forgotten the tragic history that brought so many of their ancestors to our shores. We honor their story. We see that pain. We affirm the history. We do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated.

Today, as we mourn what was lost, let us also turn our eyes to the future—toward the world that we wish to build for our children. A world unstained by the daily evils of bigotry and intolerance, where human rights are respected, and where all people are able to pursue their lives in dignity and security. Let us renew our shared resolve to prevent future atrocities from occurring anywhere in the world. And let us pursue healing and reconciliation for all the people of the world.

The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today.

Grifman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:01 am So can this thread title now change?

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:37 am Erdogan is threatening to retaliate by declaring the USA's treatment of Native Americans a genocide (something that everyone except conservatives recognized long ago).

El Guapo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:49 am

Chris Grenard ain't 'round these parts no more, right? I guess we need a mod...

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:37 am Erdogan is threatening to retaliate by declaring the USA's treatment of Native Americans a genocide (something that everyone except conservatives recognized long ago).

Jaymann wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 10:22 am Chrisoc13:

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