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Interesting Facebook conversations

There have been many conversations on my Facebook/Meta timeline that you may find interesting. Here are the links to some of them. I'll be adding more as I find them.

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November 10, 2016 - An emotional discussion about daughters and abusive fathers inspired by a young woman whose father said, "It was a mistake for me to pay for your college. That's where you learned all this liberal shit." [55 comments]

September 19, 2017 - "Well, we knew in advance that Trump speaking at the United Nations would embarrass us. He did." [65 comments]

October 1, 2017 - "At lunch today, I made the point that many of my female FB friends seem to have been negatively affected by the Trump campaign and presidency more than males..." [123 comments]

October 17, 2017 - A discussion about misogyny, including how some women engage in it as well. [54 comments]

November 2, 2017 - A discussion about Hillary Clinton losing the 2016 election and how Bernie Sanders relates to that. [127 comments]

October 29, 2019 - "No matter how you feel about Joe Biden, isn't it an outrage that the Catholic Church is (again) trying to influence our elections by denying Biden Communion?" [26 comments]

October 14, 2020 - A discussion about abortion, Amy Coney Barrett, and more. [300 comments]

January 14, 2021 - "We long ago learned to denounce as predatory the casinos that lure in the elderly and watch with glee as Grandma and Grandpa pour lifetimes of savings into slot machines, a buck or two at a time. Patriotic media is the same scam, morally on the same plane as telemarketers selling magazine subscriptions." [27 comments]

October 6, 2021 - Conversation about the "Facebook whistleblower" and how Facebook issues are releted to other media like TV. [39 comments]

December 10, 2021 - "People are talking about Julian Assange today, with about half agreeing that he’s guilty and the other half thinking him a hero..." [110 comments]

March 20, 2022 - Discussion about the reasons for the Cold War. [32 comments]

May 9, 2022 - In a May 7 article in Time magazine, Eric Holder tells how he would fix the Court [22 comments]

May 10, 2022 - Discussion about a depressing tweet by Elizabeth Bruenig about us being at "the end of culture" [17 comments]

June 30, 2022 - Humor - "In a few hours, I'll be back to the husband who says crazy shit that is at odds with the talking heads on the TV." [6 comments]

July 5, 2022 - "One of the first things that turned me off to Catholicism, or Christianity in general, is the idea that the female ideal is a virgin mother -- not a generally attainable status for women, so you're always not quite good enough." [41 comments]

May 19, 2023 - "The clerk thought Oregon was a foreign country." [62 comments]

April 25, 2024 - A discussion about Ilhan Omar's 2019 remark, "It's all about the Benjamins, baby," [52 comments]

January 24, 2024 - An encounter at the supermarket with the “little woman” guy

May 15, 2022 - A video of a woman killed by police and discussion about it. [13 comments]

June 20, 2024 - I introduce the term Critical Masculinity Theory. [7 comments]

April 24, 2021 - Home schooling [20 comments]

June 24, 2022 - Voting for the lesser evil/Republicans who would have voted for Sanders [34 comments]

May 27, 2022 - Discussion of police cowardice in Uvalde school shooting. [24 comments]