1.? Was Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race a coup?
Perhaps not intentionally, but I bet it is capitalized on in a similar manner. All's fair in politics, love and war. A man gets ill and it is a weakness for the wolves to exploit! I do not think that the illness was artificially applied, but it was obviously exploited. I have seen a similar mentality at work in Trump's case and I have no doubt there will be extreme ad-hominem styling applied to Harris and Vance and the Democratic VP pick.??
It is justified by the field as shaking out a candidate's suitability and fitness to hold public office. This holds some merit, of course, but there is an approach that uses evidence to substantiate a related assertion and there are also more emotional, assaultive stances. It might be easy to blend and confuse one of the latter with a coup. Bloody arena, that political one!
In this case, there is half a chance that the replacement will successful carry the Democrats to victory, so if it was a coup, it was one internal to the party!
2.? Have labor saving devices eliminated the necessity to learn practical skills?
No. I find that one lifetime is not enough to learn all the skills I would like to learn anyway, but having an electric screwdriver or a nail gun means I can explore carpentry further and so I get more exposure?to related skills while also accomplishing things that would not be possible were I needing to spend months learning the proper way to manually drive a nail. In the end, I also learn that latter as a byproduct of being motivated by my accomplishments to do more of the same.
Calculators? Well, we needed to do mental math because we did not have them. Now we have?them--and also autos and can openers. If we lose them during Armageddon, there are plenty of references that can be used to return to manual math, but who is to say that would be the best course for humanity, or for me?
I follow a skilled young lady on FB who is a skilled knapper of flint and obsidian, a bone worker and wood carver. She also teaches wilderness survival with an emphasis on low-tech tools and primitive skills. Awesome way to revisit history and potentially?useful, even lifesaving, skillsets?ready to learn. It is a shame indoor plumbing, metalworking and refrigerators have eliminated our need to learn these things.
3.? Have you ever considered an act of violence against another person - no details please?
Yes? I am descended from omnivorous predators, bequeathed a human mind with human emotions and a human life filled with adversity and frustration. I consider this a normal?thought. I do not remember having actually planned a violent assault, but I do remember the occasional?daydream!
As an aside, I do not use violence as a tool to a goal except?in self-defense or the protection of others. This is not because I live by superior ideals, but it feels like a native values-driven attitude for me.
4.? Should all illegal immigrants be tested for communicable diseases before release into the general population?
Duh. As I travel?about the U.S., I am often greeted with campground signs admonishing me to avoid carrying firewood from place to place as it transports invasive species about. A simple attempt to regulate an obvious problem. I would place such testing in the same common sense?category.
5.? Was Russia releasing three American prisoners an election gambit to defeat Trump?
Perhaps not primarily, but I bet it is capitalized on in a similar manner. All's fair in politics, love and war. It was a good move and I am sure the?victory will be exploited by the Democratic Party. I cannot grudge that because it was an honest and laudable success.
