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re: Books you think are most overrated?

Posted by nealnan8 on 11/12/25 at 7:00 pm to
Not sure if anybody on this board has read "To The White Sea" by James Dicky, but I ended up not liking the book because the protagonist turned into an unlikable jerk.
Because lesbians love handling pussies?
Oh, just off the top of my head - Trump pardons C. Zhao, Chinese billionaire who was charged with failing to report suspicious activity on his bitcoin platform which resulted in Al Queda and Hammas moving money through the platform.
He said that he did not know who Zhao was and never met him. So, who's running Trump now?
This board's favorite posts are when black people do something wrong.
Here is something to confuse your emotions: everybody riding that train was an illegal alien!
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US Goal---stop communist N Vietnam from taking over S Vietnam.
Result: communist N Vietnam took over S Vietnam.

Therefore: The US lost the war.
out

Correct... the simplest way to put this and the most accurate. People are hemming and hawing about our military killing more of them, and being hamstrung by politicians, blah, blah, blah. These are merely REASONS why we lost the war, but as you say, the US did not achieve it's objective (goal).
Me Chinee
Me play joke
Me make bridge go up in smoke
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sitting naked in a truck

The original truck nuts.
Why does the DOJ keep litigating things that were already exposed? There has been a ton of documentation that foreign interests gave money to the Clinton Foundation, and even books published about it. Proving that something was given for these payment is the harder part, as several administrations have passed on this.
It's right there, in the first line of the song- "The legend lives on from the Chippawa on down..."
Generally, I agree with you, but let me clarify my comments - artistic, verbal or written expression is a conduit of intelligence, not necessarily a sign of it.
My kids were 18 and 20 during Covid. They all got used to taking classes on-line. Now, those are here to stay because the teachers got used to them. This is a real negative for the future of education.
At school- "can I get my phone?"
30 minutes later- "can I get my phone call?"
Of course we lost.I have never heard otherwise, and any military historian will tell you the same. The US failed to achieve our objective, and we were driven out of S. Vietnam when Saigon fell.
Of course, the way we prosecuted the war was the reason.
And how many people did cameras and phone make unemployed?
I'm impressed with the way he keep his eyes looking downfield when he gets flushed from the pocket.
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songwriting has nothing to do w/intelligence, as springsteen illustrates

Come on,...in a generally sense, how one expresses themselves in any way- writing, speaking, etc, is a marker for one's intelligence. Not making a determination on Neil Young, but there is no better way to prove your intelligence than by the way that you express yourself.
The Exorcist.... Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells is fantastic.
I'm not buying into this mass migration of people from New York just yet. Mamdani cannot make laws by himself. The city council of New York passes the laws, and there are 51 city councilmen. New York will always be liberal New York. It may change some, but not much, regardless of what Mamdani said during his campaign.
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and any non-factual utterance results in abandonment of their position.

You are kidding, right? Trump wouldn't get past his first statement. The amount of bullshite that comes out of that man's mouth is astounding.