Recent content by NYCBlueBlood

Pffffft, like billionaires pay taxes...

They would be happy to fix everything on this list... except "you people", would consider it impolite to exclude all non-white people from the services.

Trump taking credit is a running joke in India right now. Everybody I talk to there cracks a joke about it. I've already been hit with 4 or 5 wise cracks this morning about how "lucky" they are to have Trump's help.

Maverick 2 had dialog?

According to google AI, the Chinese J-10C is specifcally designed for air-to-air combat, while the F-16 is meant to be a more multi-purpose jet.

There are some surprisngly good whiskeys coming out of India these days... well maybe not coming out of India, but being produced and drunk there. Rampur is one you may be able to find and is quite good IMO. Indri and Amrut I've heard good things about, but have not gotten around to trying yet.

"Indians" is around 1.4B people, so there is no real way to say how they collectively see themselves. From what I know of upper middle class Indians in professional jobs, there is a pretty big sense of pride in being Indian. But when you get to the small village types, I have no real clue. There...

Modi has built/ consolidated his power by stoking the fires of religious tension. I'm no expert, but now seems like a terrible time to try and reunite the countries. I've heard a ton of stories from the Indian side of people having to leave all their earthly possessions behind as the fled...

This is one of the many reasons we need to resist the push by conservatives to break the barrier between church and state in the US. Religious nationalism is a dangerous thing. Modi has used it to create a lot of power for himself in India. While what he's done with that power has not been all...

I don't disagree with you... but in a lot of cases where women come forward they are just "slut shamed" and told their behavior was "asking for it." So at least he was put in a penalty box for a year.

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He argues for sport. He's not interested in having a conversation or learning/ exchanging ideas. He gets his kicks off of riling people up by constantly moving the goals posts... then pretending like there's something wrong with you for getting upset. You'll never "win" with him... as...

There were a lot more meetups before most of the women left the ZZL... don't know if women were the driving force for meetups, or if the men folk just sucked at organizing things... but it seemed like the two things correlated.

Don't worry. Trump will draw the hurricanes on the map for us...

I met MH in probably the most MH way possible... we had brunch at The Plaza. Monks and Pep were two of the posters I always thought would be most interesting to meet in person.