• Re: Google/Reddit Collusi

    From Don Vally@1:135/363 to RON L. on Fri Aug 22 11:54:04 2025
    Quoting Ron L. to Aaron Thomas <=-

    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Life is too short to read bad books.

    I'm not much of a book reader but I agree. Reviews on books could save people a lot of time. I'd hate to reach page 100 just to find out that
    I'm reading a woke book.

    You'll see that it's work by page 10, for sure. :)

    But I don't want to pay $30 for a Woke book.

    I am a gun owner and was interested in reading about how the AR-15
    came to be. So I got a book called "The American Gun, the story of
    the AR-15".

    Good thing I picked it up at the library instead of reading the
    glowing reviews on Amazon (although there were some real reviews
    rated at 1 star, most of them were glowing).

    Within reading the prologue, I could tell this book was written by
    people who want to ban guns. The first part follows how Eugene
    Stoner came up with the weapon. The last 2/3rds are devoted to
    hysterical liberals who want to ban the bad things. One of the 1
    star reviews notes that "the writing is so slanted, they were
    suprised it didn't slide off the table when they set it down."

    If I would have went by the reviews and purchased this because I
    wanted to know more about the AR-15, it would have been a waste of
    money due to the liberal slant of the writers.

    Have a great day!


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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Don Vally on Sat Aug 23 14:45:06 2025
    Don Vally wrote to Dr. What <=-

    I am a gun owner and was interested in reading about how the AR-15
    came to be. So I got a book called "The American Gun, the story of
    the AR-15".

    You should check out the books by John R. Lott. Those were really good.

    And "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross. It's a long book, but riviting.

    Within reading the prologue, I could tell this book was written by
    people who want to ban guns. The first part follows how Eugene
    Stoner came up with the weapon. The last 2/3rds are devoted to
    hysterical liberals who want to ban the bad things. One of the 1
    star reviews notes that "the writing is so slanted, they were
    suprised it didn't slide off the table when they set it down."

    Good thing that the reviewers didn't use the term "woke nonesense" or you wouldn't have read those reviews at all.

    If I would have went by the reviews and purchased this because I
    wanted to know more about the AR-15, it would have been a waste of
    money due to the liberal slant of the writers.

    This why Amazon had the opportunity, and threw it away, to be a good place to find good books.


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