Sandy Larsen

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Perhaps then you just re-summarize here for us what it is "you've said above?" A copy and paste will do. Oh, I meant just this: I've never thought that commies were running the Oswald Project, or even just the young boy being cared for by those militant commies. I DO believe that he would become HARVEY Oswald after breaking up with his caretakers. We have very little knowledge to go by. But my guess is that the boy was a Russian speaking orphan who was somehow hooked with up the commies. I suppose they had high hopes for the boy also becoming a militant commie when he grew up. Sorry about my ambiguity in referring to it.

BTW, I don't recall if I mentioned this... I will have to get permission from the other admin members to make the changes I'm talking about.

Thanks for your feedback.

I'd be greatly surprised if you found my saying something much more than what I said above.

Maybe this would be better: WATER COOLER WATER COOLER - MAINSTREAM (For those who disbelieve alternative/MAGA facts.)

As I said earlier, our experience is that the alternative/MAGA people don't post in the thread dedicated to them. I think it's because they like convincing non-believers of their beliefs, rather than singing to the choir. Because of that, we might be able to eliminate their Cooler altogether. Just have these two: WATER COOLER WATER COOLER - MAINSTREAM (For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.)

Well, I'm pretty sure we will be using some segregation in order to please those who don't want to engage with those who they think believe obvious nonsense. That was the problem we had before. But we could promote the "one thread -- Free for All" that you speak of as the standard Water Cooler. In which case the names of the threads might be something like this: WATER COOLER WATER COOLER - MAINSTREAM (For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.) WATER COOLER - ALTERNATIVE (For those who believe alternative (e.g. MAGA) facts.) The top one is the standard Cooler for everybody.

Will you do me a big favor, Cliff? I'm trying to teach Ron Bulman the ropes. Would you ask him to help you? That way we can test my instructions, and at the same time train Ron. Thanks. I'll help out if Ron can't. But Ron's a bright guy and I think he'll have no trouble doing this.

Other than Harvey fake defecting to the Soviet Union, I don't know of any Soviet involvement. And I see no reason to believe there was such an involvement. Yes, of course. That's all anybody has to offer... their guesses. Yes. (Unless I'm forgetting something. Or if I missed something somebody posted.)

Matt, I've never thought that commies were running the Oswald Project, or even just the young boy being cared for by those militant commies. I DO believe that he would become HARVEY Oswald after breaking up with his caretakers. We have very little knowledge to go by. But my guess is that the boy was a Russian speaking orphan who was somehow hooked with up the commies. I suppose they had high hopes for the boy also becoming a militant commie when he grew up.

Maybe I should have qualified my "do whatever you want" comment with "as long as it doesn't break forum rules." You shouldn't have posted that.

Not in general. Believe it or not, we have a set of facts and a set of opposing non-facts. (Sometimes more than one opposing non-fact for a given fact.) And which one a given person believes is the real fact will largely depend upon his or her political leanings. This has long been the case to some extent, but became extremely common when Donald Trump was elected President in 2016. Trump is famous for referring to any news he doesn't care for as "fake news." Of course, if you're not a Trump follower, you will call it what it is... news, not fake news. Some people refer to the truly-fake news as MAGA news. I use the word "facts" instead of "news " because this phenomenon extends beyond what might be reported in the news. Having said that... Certainly there is some fake news reported by the mainstream media. But I, like many others, believe that the news from these sources is far more reliable than news from alternative news sources, most of which have a far-right bias. Here is a simple example: The mainstream media reports that the reason Donald Trump has four criminal indictments against him is because the evidence point to his being guilty. In contrast, MAGA news sites report that Donald Trump is the victim of false indictments because Democrats have weaponized the Justice Department against him in order to keep him from being elected.

Cliff, Check out this new Forum Tip & Trick I just posted:

This thread is for my Forum Tips & Tricks. It will gradually fade away from the front pages of the forum. (This post to be deleted.)